TOMCAT By John B. Graham Copyright 1994 All Right Reserved Edited By Shane R. Monroe 18-Oct-94 Here are the quick docs for this fantastic full motion video game! Some suggestion for VIDEO SPEED! 1) If you have enough RAM, uncompress TOMCAT there! You will not have a problem as far as Access Time! 2) I recommend you OPTIMIZE your Hard Drive then uncompress TOMCAT! as this will help Access Time GREATLY! But when you optimizing your Hard Drive make sure you know what your doing, and make sure you have backups! This can be a deadly action!! (I KNOW!) 3) There is a Program Called HYPERCACHE which is a intelligent disk cache program and will greatly speed up access time on TomCat! This program is available from Silicon Praire Software. 4) Between Video Clips, you will hear a Music Soundtrack, ME I don't hear it because of my HD Access Time OR RAM loads. So.. If you find you hear 2 or 3 sec of the Music SoundTrack, that's WAY too MUCH LOAD TIME! Optimize your HD or Copy TOMCAT to RAM.... ---HOW DO I PLAY TOMCAT?--- OK.. 1st screen you will come to, you will have to select a WayPoint. This is a way of telling your TOMCAT where to fly to. Since this is only a PREVIEW version there is only (1) ONE WayPoint! Did you select WayPoint one yet??? On the next screen you will need to tell your TOMCAT which Mig to engage! Move your crosshair to a mig and click your button to Lock onto your 1st Mig!! If you stall on your action you will soon find a blood thirsty pilot on your SIX! Be very careful when you select your MIG! Make sure the Mig is in the middle of your crosshair! Selecting bad can get you KILLED! Once you have selected your 1st Mig, quickly LOCK onto him with your AIMING crosshair, which will turn RED when you have a LOCK and "FIRE!" If you take to long for a LOCK the MIG will out FLY you then your looking at trouble! Remember, you only have so much TIME & WEAPONS! WARNING SCREEN! --------------- Ok listen up! The only time you will EVER get a WARNING is if there is a MIG on your SIX or a NICE DEADLY MISSILE RIGHT ON YOUR SIX!! There are only TWO ways to get you out of this!!!! 1st. If you have enough time, QUICKLY move your crosshair to the FLARE and press FIRE or Select ANOTHER MIG! By selecting another MIG you have a 50/50 chance of out flying HIM! This can sometimes be your ONLY option, because you only have so many FLARES! (Or you may not have enough time to GET to the flares! -Ed) That should be all you need to know for NOW! ENJOY!!! ((ABOUT ME & WHATS IN THE REGISTERED VERSION OF TOMCAT)) Why I decided to write a game like this, was because I could not afford a CD32 and the Amiga CD-ROM games were NOT Full-Motion-Video BUT for one! But I really could NOT afford a CD32 + The way Commodore is right now I'll just wait like everyone else in the world! One of my friends keeps rubbing his IBM-PC CD-ROM games in my FACE and telling me the AMIGA WILL NEVER PULL OFF FULL-MOTION-VIDEO! There are only so many things I can say back! The sad thing is, THE AMIGA COMPUTER CAN DO IT, BUT NO ONE IS DOING IT! So I decided to write one using Software... TOMCAT is not the only game I'm working on.. I'm also working on a Full-Motion Action Space game which should be released by 1995... I plan to stay with my Amiga Computer until my CHIPS turn to DUST! Even then I will buy another one.. So.. any questions??? GETTING THE REAL GAME Until January 15th, you may purchase TOMCAT from the address below. After this time, TOMCAT will be available EXCLUSIVELY from Better Concepts, INC. Call them at (800) 25-AMIGA for all your DUP and Shareware needs! Send $15 dollars (cashier's check or money order preferred) to: John B. Graham P.O. Box 38103 PierPont Station Charleston, S.C. 29414-8406 Call Dark Unicorn Production's BBS (TOMBSTONE BBS) at 803-863-0313 my Internet Address is virtuality@bix.com (I will reply to all mail) (( ENJOY MY AMIGA FRIENDS!!! )) HAPPY MIG HUNTING!