                        Thunder Strike Manual
                       (c) 1997 Marc Schneider
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1) REQUIREMENTS
2) INSTALLATION
3) SETUP
4) GETTING STARTED
5) THE STORY
6) MENUS AND OPTIONS
7) PLAYING
8) SHAREWARE vs. FULL VERSION
9) PROBLEMS
10)CREDITS
11)CONTACT


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1) REQUIREMENTS

* 486-50 or faster PC
* approximately 10 megabytes of free RAM
* approximately 16 megabytes of hard disk space
* VGA graphics capability

Optional:
* Sound card
* Joystick


2) INSTALLATION

Copy TS.EXE into the destination directory. Start TS.EXE for self extracting
of all needed files.
After the successful extracting you can delete the file TS.EXE .


3) SETUP

Before playing Thunder Strike, you need to run the SETUP.EXE program to
configure the sound and controller settings.


4) GETTING STARTED

To run Thunder Strike after you have run the SETUP program, all you need to
do is type TSTRIKE.


5) THE STORY

We have the year 3241. You are flying in your space ship through the
space near the planet KIJANIUM. After checking your ...

I hate these stupid game stories. So if you want a story, please invent
one by yourself.


6) MENUS AND OPTIONS

Please start the game and check the menu and the options. You can adjust
some settings of the game.


7) PLAYING

Your goal is to destroy as many enemies as you can. If you reach a score
which is high enough you can input your name for the highscore list.

The waepons which you can use are changig automatically by collecting
different signs.

I would say, play a little bit and you see what happens !


8) SHAREWARE vs. FULL VERSION

The shareware version includes the first from entire 8 levels !
Thunder Strike is nearly a one man project, so it was not possible for
me to add more levels. Sorry !!

For ordering the full version please see the ORDER_X.TXT file.


9) PROBLEMS

Soundblaster 16 problems
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If your soundblaster 16 setting makes problems, please try soundblaster pro
or Adlib.

No smooth animations
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If your PC is not fast enough for smooth animations with sound and music on,
please try to deselect the music.

Running with Windows
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Thunder Strike does not run under Windows. Please start Thunder Strike only
under DOS !
If you use Windows95 please restart your PC in MS-DOS mode. You can set
this in the properties for the application.

Memorymanager errors
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If your memorymanager works not correct, please remove him from the
CONFIG.SYS file. Thunder Strike don't need a memorymanager.
If you use Windows95 and restart your PC in MS-DOS mode, then choose
your own start-configuration, where only a SET to your soundcard settings
is needed.


10) CREDITS

    Bob Reganess: level background graphics
  Marc Schneider: the rest


Thunder Strike use the DIGPAK/MIDPAK soundlibrary of John W. Ratcliff
General MIDI patches (c) 1994 The Fat Man and K. Weston Phelan


11) CONTACT

You can contact me via e-mail.

e-mail: 100570.3332@compuserve.com
e-mail: M_S_E@bigfoot.com
homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/M_S_E


I hope you have a lot of fun while playing Thunder Strike !


Marc Schneider 7/20/97


