Missions Of The Reliant Manual

a game by Michael Rubin version 2.2 ©1996 by Michael A. Rubin DoD Productions Please click the zoom box in the upper right for optimal viewing SalesAgent, Copyright © 1996 Release Software Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The Missions of Starship Reliant The Missions of Starship Reliant II "Greetings From" THE INTERPLANETARY ALLIANCE So, you think you have what it takes to be a starship captain? It takes a great deal of skill and concentration to become adept at one of the Alliance's most demanding positions. Accordingly, the rewards for the successful are great: honor, notoriety, and respect. For those who fail, however, there is only the eternal emptiness of space... Welcome to the upper ranks of the Alliance. Now comes your chance to prove your worthiness of the title of Starship Captain, at the command of one of the Alliance's most advanced spacecrafts, the IAS Reliant. Your starship is endowed with many important features: three torpedo bays, a high-energy laser cannon, shields, warp engines and, most importantly, four capable young officers. Your ability to orchestrate these many features will largely determine whether you succeed or fail at your command. The Alliance wishes you the best of luck. You will need it. Introduction The Missions of Starship Reliant II STARTUP INFORMATION What you need To run Missions! you need a color-capable Mac with a 13" or larger monitor running any version of System 7. Missions! requires at least 3.5 Mb of RAM as well. The following files should be present in the same folder: • The Missions! game application • Three resource files: Main.rsrc, Planet.rsrc, and Crew.rsrc If all four files are not in the same folder, the game will tell you and return to the Finder. You will need to turn 32-bit addressing on in the memory control panel on appropriate machines. Finally, your monitor needs to be set to 256 colors (8-bit). If it is not, an alert box will notify you of this and allow you to change depths, if possible. Startup After double-clicking the game icon, the title screen will present you with seven options: • New Mission will start the game and allow you to choose which mission to play. • Load Mission will load an old saved game. • About This Game will give you information about the game and credits, and tell you how you can register for the full version. • Register will begin the registration process using Release Software's AutoPay module, giving you access to the entire game. • High Scores will display the high scores for the three missions. • Preferences will allow you to reset key commands to your liking and adjust the speed of the game for your computer. • Quit will quit the game and…