Wing Commander IV Mac CD Demo
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4/15/96

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Origin Systems, Inc. believes the information contained in this document is accurate and reliable. Origin Systems, Inc. reserves the right to update this manual at any time and without notice.

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This help file has been provided as documentation for Wing Commander IV. It details key commands, features, and the most common questions asked and their answers.

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Index

[1.0]    General Notes/Features
[2.0]    System Requirements
[3.0]    Macintosh Configuration
[4.0]    Install Program
[5.0]    Game Controls
[6.0]    Troubleshooting
         [6.1]    Questions and Answers
[7.0]    Miscellaneous
         [7.1]    Can I play the game from my hard drive?
         [7.2]    What files accompany the Wing IV Demo?
[8.0]   Origin Customer Service/Technical Support
[9.0]   Disclaimer

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[1.0]    General Notes/Features

Welcome to Wing Commander IV. This latest installment in the Wing Commander series puts you back in the shoes of the Terran Confederation's Colonel Christopher Blair, to investigate the skirmishes with our long-time allies, The Border Worlds.

This demo has a promotional trailer which loops endlessly or until the Escape key is pressed, at which point the Demo switches to gameflow mode. From gameflow, one can choose to fly the demo mission  or review the trailer. Upon completion of the Demo Mission or hitting  Command-X, the demo returns to gameflow.

When you select to fly the demo mission, you will be at the helm of  the Confederation Hellcat. The mission has a default time limit of 5  minutes. You start on the BWS Intrepid. Use A to take off from the ship,  or fly out manually by using + to increase your speed.

To autopilot to where the enemies are, press A once. You will see a view of your ship flying by on its way to the enemy. Once you reach the second action sphere, a pirate frigate and its escorts will be continually jumping in until the time limit expires, or you die.

The circular display with the red dots on it is your radar.  If you maneuver the ship so that one of the dots is in the center,  you should be able to see it in front of you. It will be bracketed by a red box. Maneuver each of the enemies into the crosshairs on the screen and fire. If you hit them, you will see a blue shield effect. Fire until their ultimate destruction!  You can also fire missiles at it using the Return key.

To exit the Demo, press Command-Q from gameflow or spaceflight.

Wing Commander IV features many new improvements over Wing Commander III.
These include :

o    Digital Music

o    Realistic textures for the spaceflight objects

o    Cool cockpit huds

o    New weapons/missiles

o    Improved movie player allowing the playback of 16-bit color/16-bit 
      stereo movies!

o    New explosion effects

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[2.0]    System Requirements

Wing Commander IV Mac CD-ROM Demo system requirements (which are absolutely needed to play the game) :

	System Recommendation - Minimum :
	
        PowerPC Macintosh
        6.2 MB of Available RAM 
        System 7.1 and up
        Double Speed CD-ROM Drive (300,000 bytes/second transfer rate)
        20 MB of free hard disk space

    System Recommendation - Optimal :

        PowerPC 604 Macintosh
        16 MB of RAM
        Quad Speed CD-ROM Drive (600,000 bytes/second transfer rate)
        20 MB of required hard disk space
        Joystick

Note:  The final system requirements have not been set.  Hopefully they will require less memory.

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[3.0]    Macintosh Configuration

The only Extension you need to run the Wing Commander IV Demo is Sound Manager 3.1.  This is available from Apple at their Internet Web site:  http://www.info.apple.com.

Turn off all other Control Panels and Extensions to get the most memory for the program.

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[4.0]    Installing the Demo

You can play the demo from either your hard drive or the CD.  To play from you hard drive, simply drag the "Wing Commander IV Demo" folder to your hard drive.  You must have an additional 20 megabytes of disk space to run the demo (this is needed for the virtual memory swapfile).

If you play from the CD, the loading times will be slower and there will be pronounced pauses in spaceflight as data is loaded from the CD.

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[5.0]    Game Controls

   CAMERA CONTROLS
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   F1              Switch to Cockpit View
   F2              Left View
   F3              Right View
   F4              Rear View
   V               Rear View in MFD
   F5              Chase Camera
   F6              Object View Camera
   N                Navigation Map
   [                 Zoom in (F6 and Navmap)
   ]                 Zoom out (F6 and Navmap)
   Left Arrow       Pan Left (F6 and Navmap)
   Right Arrow     Pan Right (F6 and Navmap)
   Up Arrow         Tilt Up (F6 and Navmap)
   Down Arrow     Tilt Down (F6 and Navmap)
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   NAVIGATION MAP CONTROLS
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   S               Toggle Stars
   G               Toggle Grid
   C               Center on Player
   N               Select Next Waypoint
   P               Select Previous Waypoint
   [                Zoom In
   ]                Zoom Out
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   SPEED CONTROLS
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   -                      Decrement Throttle 5%
   +                      Increment Throttle 5%
   Delete              Set Throttle to 0
   \                      Set Throttle to Max
   Tab                  Afterburners (while held down)
   ~                     Toggle Afterburners
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   WEAPON CONTROLS
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   G               Select Next Gun Mode
   F               Full Guns
   E               Drop Decoy
   M              Select Next Missile Mode
   B               Full Salve of Missiles; Launch all missile hardpoints
   Ctrl-S       Engage Smart Targeting
   T               Select Next Target
   R               Select Next Turret on Current Target
   Y               Select Closest Target and Match Speed
   L               Lock Target
   Return       Fire Missile
   Space        Fire Gun
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   COCKPIT CONTROLS
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   A               Autopilot
   S               Bring up Shield Display
   C               Bring up Communication Display
   D               Bring up Damage Display
   P               Bring up Power VDU/Change System
   [                Decrease Current System by 5%
   ]                Increase Current System by 5%
   SHIFT-[     Set all systems equally
   SHIFT-]     Max power to selected system
   CTRL-]       Lock current system (toggle)
   0               Cycle through VDUs (Video Display Units)
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   MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS
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   Command-Q             Exit the Demo
   Command-F             Display Frame Rate
   Command-R             Change Screen Resolution
   Command-T             Change Texture Detail
   Command-P             Pause Spaceflight
   Command-J             Activate Joystick Controls
   Command-K             Activate Keyboard Controls
   Command-M             Activate Mouse Controls
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   KEYBOARD CONTROLS
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   Up Arrow                         Pitch Up
   Down Arrow                    Pitch Down
   Left Arrow                      Yaw Left
   Right Arrow                    Yaw Right
   >                                      Roll Left
   <                                      Roll Right
   Shift & Above Keys          Doubles rate
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   MOUSE CONTROLS
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   Up                                  Pitch Up
   Down                              Pitch Down
   Left                                Yaw Left
   Right                              Yaw Right
   Button                            Fire Gun
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[6.0]    Troubleshooting

If the game crashes inexplicably or there are sound and video glitches, it is probably because the game is still in development and not all of the bugs have been worked out.  Sorry.

[6.1]    Questions and Answers

Q : I get the message "Malloc returned nil". What does this mean?
A : This means that the program has run out of memory.  Try giving the program more memory by changing the numbers in "Get Info" window.  To do this, select the file "Wing Commander IV Demo" in the Finder.  Choose "Get Info" from the "File" menu.  Increase the number in the "Preferred Size" box.

You may also need to free up more memory on your Macintosh.  This can be done by quitting all open applications and restarting your computer with as few Extensions and Control Panels as possible.

Q:  Why do my movies start and stop?
A:  The movies pause because data cannot be transferred from the CD-ROM drive (or hard drive)  to our game at a sustained rate. The following may be attempted to help alleviate movie pausing.

Try a different movie playback setting. Small Size, Good Quality, and 256 colors are options to allow you to view the movies if your machine is not fast enough to play them normally.

For example, if you are using 16-bit full screen, and the movies are pausing, try 16-bit with Good Quality, 16-bit Small Size, 256-color full screen, 256-color Small Size, etc. until you find a combination that you are satisfied that has no pausing during playback.

Q : The game runs slow on my Macintosh.  How can I make it run faster?
A : Try changing the screen size (Command-R) and the texture detail (Command-T).  Turning off music will help a bit as well.

[7.0]    Miscellaneous

[7.1]    Can I play the game from my hard drive?

You can play the demo from either your hard drive or the CD.  To play from you hard drive, simply drag the "Wing Commander IV Demo" folder to your hard drive.  You must have an additional 20 megabytes of disk space to run the demo (this is needed for the virtual memory swapfile).

[7.2]    What files accompany the Wing Commander IV Demo?

GAMEFLOW.TRE    			            Wing IV Data File
GLOBALS.IFF     			               Wing IV Data File
LANGUAGE.TRE    		            	 Wing IV Data File
MISSIONS.TRE    		                Wing IV Data File
MOVIES.TRE      		              	 Wing IV Data File
Read Me!	       			                 This file
WC4LANG.IFF      			             Wing IV Data File
Wing Commander IV Demo		 The Demo program

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[8.0]    Origin Customer Service/Technical Support

If you would like to contact Origin Technical Support, please call 512-434-HELP (4357) M-TH 9:00am to 1:00 pm, 2:00pm to 5:00 pm, F 9:00am to 1:00pm, 2:00pm to 4:00pm.  All times are Central Standard Time (CST).

    Internet at support@origin.ea.com. 
    Internet Web site http://www.ea.com/origin.html. 
    Our BBS number is 512-346-2BBS (2227). 
    AOL : Mail to ORIGINCS.

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[9.0]    Disclaimer

Please remember that Wing Commander IV is still in development.

We have not completed our optimizations or our debugging of the final product. If the game crashes unexpectedly, please bear this in mind.

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Thank You for checking out our Demo! We hope you enjoy it! We just want you to have fun...

The Wing Commander IV Macintosh Development Team at Lion Entertaiment