Starting the Game
After the CD has been inserted, double click on the CD icon and then double click on the “Dragon’s Lair”
icon. When Dragon’s Lair is loaded, the options screen will appear. Use the cursor keys to set the
various options and then press ENTER to begin playing Dragon’s Lair.
Dragon’s Lair requires a minimum of 4Mb RAM. If you do not have enough memory available, a message
will be displayed and Dragon’s Lair will not be loaded.
* Note that even if you have 4Mb RAM, but you have a 150K/s CD-ROM drive, slow processor, or
select 12 frames per second, there may still be pauses in the animation.
Frame Rate
If you select AUTO for the frame rate, Dragon’s Lair will look at your hardware to determine the best
frame rate for your system before playing. If you select 12 for the frame rate, your computer will be
forced to play Dragon’s Lair at 12 frames per second (which may be beyond the capabilities of your
computer). Slower hardware that is forced to play at 12 frames per second will have side effects like
pauses, speeding up, or even loss of sound. If you select 6 for the frame rate, this will force your
computer to play Dragon’s Lair at 6 frames per second. This will skip every second frame and
animation will not look as smooth as 12 frames per second with fast hardware.
Fine Tuning Your System
Fine tuning your system can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to complete. This will create a
file to hold your configuration, the ‘System Folder’s Preferences’ folder called “Dragon’s Lair
Preferences” so you will only have to do this once.
The reason for fine tuning Dragon’s Lair to your system is to determine, based on your processor, video
card, and CD-ROM speed, how much of each scene the game needs to prebuffer in RAM before it begins
playback. If you don’t fine tune Dragon’s Lair to your system, it may cause pauses in the animation.
If you change hardware, delete the Dragon’s Lair Preferences file in the Preferences Folder and fine
tune Dragon’s Lair to your new system.
Controls
To control Dirk the Daring using the keyboard. press SPACE for FIRE/SWORD button; ‘8’ for UP; ‘2’
for DOWN; ‘4’ for LEFT; ‘6’ for RIGHT. You may also use the cursor keys to play the game. Press teh
ESC key or the ‘Q’ key to end the game.
Performance
For optimum performance, you should have a 68040 processor, a 300 K/s CD-ROM drive or better
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and 8Mb or RAM or better (although not all are necessary to achieve peak performance). The single
biggest factor determining performance is the CD-ROM data transfer rate - a 300K/s drive is strongly
recommended.
After starting Dragon’s Lair, the demo will automatically begin. To start playing the game, simply
press the SPACE bar. You will know the game has started when you see Dirk walking across a
drawbridge in front of the castle. The bridge has a hole in it and several purple tentacles will appear.
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