Populous + The one and only 100%-Version Cracked by UNICORN in 1989 The short English Documentation Introduction: As a god.... You get your power from a number of people, who see you as a god, an immortal. The more the number of the people grow the greater are your abilities, the greater power lies in your hands. But there is another god in this world, an immortal who also has his henchmen who give him his powers and abilities. Between the two encampments inflames a rivality because this world is so tiny for so great and glancing rulers. To let your power grow without being disturbed by someone you must destroy the henchmen of the wrong faith and make the world your subject. TUTORIAL - an introducing game for testing your powers CONQUEST - Conquest consists of 500 defined worlds, one more difficult than the other. The first one is Genesis. If you have slayed the opposition, an other conquest on a more difficult world awaits you. The grade of difficulty is akin to the game-points you've reached. You can only raise up to the next world if you have solved the last one. With START GAME the game will be started, with NEW GAME you can input the name of a new world. If you play the Conquest-mode every time you are the Good God. Before you stay into another world you get some information about the land, the enemy and some other useful things. CAUTION: In the Conquest-mode the game parameters cannot be changed and the paintmap function isn't available. CUSTOM - In this Custom-mode you can change about more than 60 game parameters and own worlds can be inscenated. It is even possible to play with a partner via modem or datalink. THE COMMAND ICONS For on/off-switching of the commands you must click on the special icon. This icon will be displayed invers. GENERAL GAMEFUNCTION ICONS: With this commands you switch the general game functions. FX - Sound effects on/off ; 1 ; ; - Music on/off zzZ - Pause the game on/off 0 - Game preferences (general game options) One Player - Game against the computer Two Player - Game against player via modem Play Game - Continue game Paint Map - Paint mode for painting own maps - Place Good figure. - Place Evil figure. - Place trees and other plants. While pressing F3 the second time you get the selection of the plants. - Place Rocks. While pressing F4 the second time you get the selection of the rocks. - Delete object or figure from the screen. - Raise the Manna for the Good. - Raise the Manna for the Evil. - Mirror the landscape. - Delete landscapes from the scene. - Set the Good leader. - Set the Evil leader. - Lower the Manna for the Good. - Lower the Manna for the Evil. <1-4> - Select the landscape-type. Good - You take the control of the Good. Evil - You take the control of the Evil. Human vs Computer Computer vs Computer (Demo version for learning and try some actions) Conquest - Play the Conquest-game Custom - Play a user-defined game Game Options - 5 option-requester for the user. Water is fatal - All who sinks in water are dead. If you skip this option you can rescue the unwilling swimmer. Swamps Shallow - The sunken man in the swamp is dead, the lower swamp disappears. Groundless swamps will be there. Cannot build - No build options can be done. Build up/down - You can build up or down the landscape. In off-switched case you can only raise the landscape. Build near people/towns Save a Game Load a Game Move to Next Map Restart this Map Surrender this Game these options are self-explainable Game Balance - Left mouse button -> own game options - Right mouse button -> game options of the enemy Aggression - The higher this level the more aggressive the computer plays. Human players won't be affected. Rate - The higher the rate the faster grow the rate of the people, the towns and the Manna of the enemy. In maximal rate the computer is unbeatable. Message - In the 2-player-mode (via modem or datalink) you can send a short message to the other player. The message appears in a requester on the screen of the opponent. N/S/E/W Arrows - You can scroll your landscape in the given direction. You can also use the numeric pad for the scrolling in the direction of your choice. ? Query - The choice of this icon changes the cursor in a shield, that can be used to get information about people or towns. With the upper left corner of the shield you shall point on the destinated person or settlement and push the left mouse button. Then the shield shows you the following information about the person or the settlement: Quadrant 1: Here is shown the key of life for the Good Side and the skull as a symbol for the Evil side. Quadrant 2: The more primitive the settlement the more primitive the weapon. Fists and club are primitive weapons, sword and bows are pointing to a higher tech level. Quadrant 3: Here is shown the keeper of the shield, that means the person or settlement, on that the shield rests. Quadrant 4: The meaning of the display depends on the keeper of the shield. If it is a settlement, then the left (yellow) bar is the growth/power and the defensive bonus in opposite to a castle. The green bar shows, whether the building is close to be over- crowded ( in that case people would be set in front of the door). If it's a walker then the bar reflects his power. At all there are three bars, from which only two are visible at the same time. If the right orange bar is filled, a little notch appears on the left bar and the right bar disappears. If both orange bars are filled, the display on the yellow one and on one orange bar changes, where the principle is very akin, only the values are a little bit higher. A human being with filled orange and filled yellow bar owns a great strength. If the display references on one fighter, then the bars show the relative strength of both opponents. The longer blue and red bars close to the shield are showing the population. The miniature-shield adheres on the settlement or on the person. When the shieldkeeper meets a settlement, person or enemy he gives the shield to this next being. ICONS FOR INCLUENCE These commands are present for causing the henchmen for handlings or move- ments. Go to the Papal Magnet: The henchmen will be arranged for going to their immortal being who moves anew to the Papal Magnet, where the first one who touches this relict will be the new leader. Settle: The walkers will be moved to the grassy, uncrowded plains. If a walker finds a nice place, he will built the greatest possible settlement. Gather together: Causes the henchmen to search for other people or settlements to join together to a greater and more powerful being. Fight: You set the signal to hold sight for enemies and destroy them wherever you find them. If there are no enemies in the neighbourhood they only settle on a good place. ZOOMICONS With this icons you can cause your henchmen to go straight to the place where you show them on your map. Zoom to Leader of Papal Magnet: Left mouse button shows the leader on the map. If no leader is present, then the papal magnet will be shown. Right mouse button -> papal magnet. Zoom to Knight or Settlements: Left mouse button shows the knight on the map. If there are more knights present then click it more times. Right mouse button -> settlements. Zoom to Battle: With every pressure straight on the left mouse button there will be shown the next current battle. Zoom to Shield: Left mouse button shows the keeper of the shield. If no such person is present nothing happens. ICONS FOR GOD-AKIN INPUTS These are the same elements as on the Manna-bar in the upper right corner. All this handlings cost a specified rate of Manna. - Raise and lower land - Place Papal Magnet If the leader dies or is announced to a knight then the Papal Magnet auto- matically moves to this defined place. - Earthquake - Swamp - Knight Only your leader will be announced to a knight. He then automatically tries to destroy the enemy wherever he finds him. - Volcano - Flood Raises the ocean-level 1 step. - Armageddon Global catastrophe. Both Papal Magnets will be moved to the center of the world. All people must follow the magnets and if they meet the opponents, they fight till one opponent is destroyed. To reach the destination, the control over the whole world, you must do two things. Increase your henchmen and destroy your enemies. TWO PLAYER GAME For the 2 player option you must link two computers via modem or datalink together. Condition for this game in the 2-player-mode is, that both players own a ORIGINIAL-exemplar of Populous (according to the ORIGINAL manual). I think that you can squeeze the ORIGINAL 100%-version of UNICORN's Populous in your computer, too (according to this ORIGINAL UNICORN Populous documentation!!). Connection via Datalink mode: - join the two computers via the serial interface (serial cable). - choose Custom mode of Populous - klick on the Game Setup Option - option Two Players - then the requester 'Startup Serial' appears. - Baudrate is 9600. If you wanna have an other Baudrate then set it yourself. Connection via Modem: - join every computer via serial interface (serial cable) to a modem and connect this one to the telephone. - call your partner via telephone, start on both machines the game and choose the game option - Custom Mode -. - klick on the Game Setup Option - option Two Players - then the requester 'Startup Serial' appears. Klick the Datalink button. It changes then to the Modem button. - Set the Baudrate. - Klick the SEND LOGIN BOX to connect your system with the other system. - One player shall send 'ATD' and RETURN the other player shall type 'ATA' and RETURN. Otherwise Connections refer to the manuals of your modems. START THE TWO PLAYER GAME: - Choose the good/evil players with the buttons 'I am good' or 'I am evil' - if you create own worlds than use the 'Mirror Landscape Option' to create two equal worlds ( both computers must load the same world). - For connection klick the button 'Connect Me'. You get the message 'CONNECTION MADE' if the connection was okay. - in two-player-mode it is impossible to choose 'Loading a Game' or 'Conquest Mode'. - use Pause-Icons for pausing the game. - you can try an dialog with your opponent using the Message-Icon. Write in your message and these words disappear on a requester at your opponents side. The whole crew of UNICORN wish you a nice game-play with this hack Happy Hacking and Bye.. ..... signed UNICORN