DICK TRACY: THE CRIME-SOLVING ADVENTURE Quick Start Card Dick Tracy for Amiga This Quick Start Card contains details on loading and playing the game on your Amiga. For complete details on game play and goals, see the Police Procedure Handbook. Equipment You Need o Amiga 500, 1000, 2000, 2500, 3000 o 1 Meg of RAM o 3.5 inch disk drive Getting Started Before you do anything else, write-protect your original disks so you can't accidentally copy over them. You can do this by moving the tab on the upper right corner of the disk so you can see through the window. Hard Disk Users 1. Turn on your Amiga. 2. Insert Dick Tracy Disk 1 in the main floppy disk drive (df0:). 3. Double-click on your hard drive's icon to open its window. 4. Click on the Empty drawer to select it. 5. Pull down the Workbench menu and select Duplicate. 6. Select the drawer you just made (called copy of Empty), pull down the Workbench menu, and select Rename. Replace copy of Empty with TRACY for the new drawer name and press Return. 7. Double-click on the Shell or CLI icon. 8. Type COPY DF0:#? DH0:TRACY and press Return. 9. Repeat step 8 with Dick Tracy Disks 2 and 3 inserted in the main floppy disk drive (df0:). 10. When the copying is complete, type ENDCLI and press Return. 11. Dick Tracy is now ready for you to play from the hard drive. Floppy Disk Users 1. Insert a Workbench disk in the main floppy disk drive (df0:) and turn the computer on. 2. Remove the Workbench disk. 3. Insert Tracy Disk 1 in the main floppy disk drive (df0:). 4. Click once on the Tracy Disk 1 icon to select it. 5. Pull down the Workbench menu and select Duplicate. 6. There will be a series of requesters asking you to exchange disks. Insert the disk that the requester asks for and select Continue or Retry until the copying of the disk is complete. 7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 with Tracy Disks 2 and 3. 8. Do not write-protect the copies of your disks. 9. Store the original disks in a clean, safe place. Starting The Program 1. Hard Disk Users: Double-click on the TRACY drawer and then double- click on the Dick Tracy icon. Note: If you have only 1 Meg of memory, press Ctrl-D while Workbench is loading (which is right after you turn on the power to your Amiga computer). This prevents the Workbench program from loading, which leaves enough memory for the game to run properly. To start the program, type CD DH0:TRACY and press Return. Then type TRACY and press Return. Floppy Disk Users: Insert Dick Tracy Disk 1 in the main floppy disk drive and then turn on the computer (if your Amiga is already on, press Ctrl-A-A to reboot the computer). 2. You're asked the time a criminal committed a crime. Using the Criminal Code Wheel, find the mug shot of the criminal on the outer wheel. Line up the gun on the inner wheel with the mug shot and then find the crime on the inner wheel. Above that crime is a window with the time that the crime occurred. Enter the time and press Return. You must use the number keys on the main keyboard; the number keys on the keypad will not work. -= FUCK THAT: SKID ROW CRACKED THIS MUTHA =- 3. After you enter the correct time, you see the introduction screen. You can press Return to continue to Headquarters or wait for the program to automatically continue. Controlling The Game Keyboard If your keyboard is not responding to input, press Ctrl-K to activate it. Driving ------- North | ___________ | | | | | 7 | 8 | 9 | |___|___|___| | | | | West-- | 4 | 5 | 6 | --East |___|___|___| | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | |___|___|___| | South To drive Press the arrow key in the direction you want to travel. The longer you hold the arrow key down, the faster the car will travel. To change lanes While holding an arrow key down in the direction you want to travel, tap on the arrow key pointing in the direction of the lane you want to switch into. For instance, if you're driving north in the right lane and you want to switch into the left lane, you would hold down the up arrow to travel north and then tap the left arrow to switch into the left lane. To stop Press the arrow key opposite of the direction you're travelling. The faster you're travelling, the longer you will have to hold the key down to come to a complete stop. To shoot Press spacebar. To turn siren Press Return. on/off To enter a Stop the car in front of any marked building and then building press Return. On Foot ------- Move up | Jump left ___________ Jump right \ | | | | / | 7 | 8 | 9 | |___|___|___| | | | | Move left-- | 4 | 5 | 6 | --Move right |___|___|___| | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | / |___|___|___| \ Kneel left- Kneel right- * After you pick up a pick up clue* | pick up clue* clue, press Return Move down to continue. Joystick If your joystick is not responding to input, press Ctrl-J to activate it. Driving ------- Joystick Up: North Joystick Down: South Joystick Left: West Joystick Right: East To drive Move the joystick in the direction you want to travel. The longer you hold the joystick in a direction, the faster the car will travel. To stop Press the joystick opposite of the direction you're travelling. The faster you're travelling, the longer you will have to hold the joystick in that position to come to a complete stop. To shoot Press spacebar. To turn on/off Click joystick button to turn siren on; press Return siren to turn siren off. To shoot With siren on, click joystick button. To enter a Stop the car in front of any marked building and then building click joystick button. On Foot ------- Joystick Up: Move up Joystick Down: Move down Joystick Left: Move left Joystick Right: Move right Joystick Left Diagonally Up: Jump left Joystick Right Diagonally Up: Jump right Joystick Left Diagonally Down: Kneel left/pick up clue* Joystick Right Diagonally Down: Kneel right/pick up clue* *To pick up a clue, kneel down and then click the button. To move Tap the joystick to turn in that direction. Hold the joystick down in the direction you want to walk; keep holding the joystick in the position and Dick Tracy will eventually run. To shoot Click joystick button. To enter a Stop in front of a doorway and click joystick button. You building will enter areas that you have access to. Selecting opponents from game screens To advance to Press Return or click joystick button. next screen To select game Highlight an option by pressing the up/down arrows or screen options pushing the joystick up/down and then press Return or click joystick button to select the option. To select Rogues' Use the up/down arrows to move between the criminal Gallery options mug shots, the Criminal File, and the Crime File. Use the left/right arrows to move a new mug shot under the magnifying glass, review the clues gathered from a criminal's hideout (under Criminal File), or review the clues gathered from a crime scene (under Crime File). Other keys used in the game Ctrl-B Toggle background music on/off. Ctrl-E Toggle engine sound on/off. Ctrl-J Use joystick. Ctrl-K Use keyboard. B Plant or pick up bug. To plant a bug, press B while in a criminal's hideout. To pick up a bug, position Dick Tracy over the bug and press B. L Load a game. P Pause game; Dick Tracy goes on "code seven." Press any key to resume game. R Go to Rogue's Gallery. S Save a game. Q Quit game and return to DOS. Saving And Loading a Game Saving o Press S to save a game. (Floppy disk users: When you're asked to insert a Save Game Disk, insert a blank, formatted Amiga disk.) o Enter a name to save the game under and press Return. You current game will be saved under the name you entered. Loading Press L to load a game. You go to the "Tracy checks his files" screen, which shows the names of the saved files in the lower right corner. Press the up/down arrow keys to scroll through the file names and then press Return to load the game and resume where you left off.