6th March 1997
This is a copy of an on-line page at Foundation Homepage (UK)

Please don't send emails asking for demo's, beta testing, specific release dates, CyberGFX or ECS support. I already get huge numbers of emails asking these same questions and I've already provided you with all the info that is available. The final version will not be available until September 1997 at the very earliest. Any more info will be shown here as soon as it is available. If you just want to email me with moral support then please do.

• ESC & AGA screen modes with 64, 128 or 256 colours.
• A standard A1200 with 4Meg fast ram will run the game at full speed in lowres mode (256 colours).
• The game will run with 1 Meg of Chipram and at least 1 Meg of any other type of memory (Fast ram recomended).
• CD Rom is the only format planned at this moment in time.
• Choice of screen modes including Lowres PAL, NTSC, Hires/Laced, DblPAL etc.
• Any Screen size from from 320x200 up to 640x480.
• One player Vs. one, two or three computer opponents.
• Two player split screen mode Vs. one or two computer opponents.
• Many One player missions and tutorial games.
• Custom game setup with different sized maps, enemies, startup modes, missions.
• The game uses a disk cache system to allow for many Megs of graphics, sound and data to be available at any time. The cache system is flexable so the more memory you have free, the less disk access will be needed. This system will make it possible to play the game with very low memory (2Meg minimum) while at the same time giving all the features of a high memory system.
• Many Megs of speech samples, sound effects etc.

Other gameplay features

Get instant info about any of your people such as.
• Name -- over 20,000 different names!
• Destination.
• Health, Morale, Age.
• Home Building.
• Place of work.
• His/Her Comments.
• What is he Carrying.
• much more...

Order any of your people to...
• Go Home.
• Go back to main base.
• Attack a Building/Person or object.
• Alter his destination.
• Stand guard.
• Rob, loot, steal.
• Many more commands...

Here are some more interesting features.
• Very unique quick building methods.
• Many different buildings to be invented during play.
• Almost every feature in the game can be researched/improoved.
• Advanced war strategies with full control over units.
• Enemy buildings and people can be stolen and buildimgs can be looted/torched.
• Diseases/Viruses/Spells can be created, cured, discovered, cast.
• Not all Characters of each type are the same, they change with age, experience etc.
• Keep track of each character from Birth to Death.
• Maiden and Peasants living in the same building will reproduce.
• Full control over the amount of workers, resources and people in every building.
• You decide who does what.
• It's possible to select 30 or more knights and send them in to attack 1 building or person.
• Inventions/ideas can be stolen from your enemy.
• Build a market place and buy resources from the enemy.
• Wizards are used to Magic Buildings, Trees, Rocks into place.
• Choose from a complex food chain system or a simple (but slower) Food factory system.

Possible features
I will do all I can to ensure CyberGFX support but it will all depend on how easy it is to impliment without owning a GFX board and CyberGFX. I have already had many emails pleading for CyberGFX support so I will do my best. I am considering Serial Link modes and also TCP/IP link modes but since I'm currently working on the game by myself, I have limits to the amount of extra features I can add. I will do my best to provide GFX board support.

Development
The above ideas will change while the game is developed but I can assure you that these features are only a small taster of what is to come. Please contact me if you have any ideas that you think I could consider for the game. I have already talked to many interesting people who have given me lots of kind support.

Foundation Map Editor

The Map editor for the game is no longer available on this page for the following reasons:-
• It no longer does the game justice since the project has progressed so much.
• Too many people thought the Map Editor was a demo of the game.
• Many people thought the Map Editor was some sort of indication of the progress of the game development.
• The "map file format" has changed.
• I expect to release a new Map editor for people to play around with soon.
• The screenshots that are on this page and the Foundation Snapshots Page (Local) give a much better idea of the games features/progress.
• The Map editor is still available on Aminet in the directory game/misc with the file name "FoundationEd.lha". If you haven't seen it already then take a look at it but consider it an early pre-game experiment.