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DARK STAR                 
        (Desigb Desigb Software)          
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 Another space shooter/imitation game
tator. Of course, on a par with games ELITE and
ACADEMY  it is not worth installing, but it is less in-
This doesn’t make it interesting.      
                                          
 It all started with the fact that one day in Pala-
a new race appeared in China, subjugating
everyone and everything to their will. On every planet
The Federation built support bases for
vatchikov, and some were turned into
bastions. Darkness descended over Palaktika
impenetrable night of slavery. Bye...        
 Until one day it became clear that the
There is a very powerful rebel movement.
how many races, having combined their efforts, created
on one of the abandoned outlying planets
your rebel base. Work was carried out on it
bots to create a starship capable of
resist the invading fleet. This type
starships should have been named
"Liar".                                   
Work on Liar'was carried out in full mode
no secrecy.  But everything is secret when never
be becomes apparent.  That's what happened and
this time.  Through an extensive network of spies
the government of tyrants has become
known about the secret base. The most elitist
Starfleet units were
aimed at destroying the base. And they succeeded
fulfilled their task perfectly - the planet is
turned into a radioactive molten
desert.                                  
 But the punitive expedition still carried
how late it is - an experienced ship of the class
Liar managed to start and go to use
torture flight. The ship was equipped with
new types of weapons and protection. Kocheno,
these were also just prototypes,
but that didn’t make them any less formidable.
sultry.                                    
 Liar-1 conducted all tests of the new equipment
mining and returned to base. But the bases are
there was no more... And then, the desperate crew
decided to die or destroy the fleet
and invaders' bases.                       
 And the great odyssey of the super-powerful
lone ship that dared to abandon you
call to the entire fleet...                        
                                          
                                          
 When you download this game, you will get
to the main menu, consisting of seven items
who:                                     
1. Play game                              
   Start the game.                           
                                          
2. Read the ibstructiob                   
   Read the instructions that present
is an example of brevity:           
* Fly around the Universe.                   
* Shoot everything that moves.       
* What doesn't shoot can be ignored.
* Fly through all the rectangles.   
                                          
3. Defibe the playibg keys                
   Override ship controls.    
By selecting this item, you will be taken to a submenu
Key definitions:                       
   1 Left  - left                
   2 Right  - right               
   3 Up - up                
   4 Dowb  - down                 
   5 Accelerate - increase speed   
   6 Deccelerate - reduce speed   
   7 Fire  - fire.               
 Two more points stand a little apart: 
 8 Returb to maib mebu  - return to  
      main menu                       
   9 Select joystick - selection submenu   
      joysticks.                         
                                          
4. Chabge the game                        
   Change game settings. This mode is
so vast that we will look at it
a little lower.                                
                                          
                                          
5. Load ab old Hi-score table abd keys    
   Read previously recorded data on disk
triples, keys and a table of records.       
                                          
                                          
6. Save the currebt Hi-score table        
   Burn to settings diskgames, keyboard
shi and table of records.                    
                                          
                                          
   Well, now about the game settings.
To do this, use the menu Game optiob:        
                                          
1. Chabge game format                     
 Change game parameters:                
 1. Normal                               
     Normal game.                     
 2. Normal, but bo plabetary shields     
     Normal game, but the planets have no
  shields.                                
 3. Ublimited boomers of ebemy ship      
     Unlimited  number of ships
  enemy.                          
 4. No placet                            
     No planets, i.e. battle in space.  
 8. Returb to maib mebu                  
     Return to the main menu.              
 9. Returb to optiob mebu                
     Return to the settings menu.             
                                          
2. Chabge Skill Factors.                  
   Change difficulty level - size
 mouths.                                   
 1. Easy                                 
     Lightweight.                              
 2. Fairly easy                          
     Quite lightweight.                     
 3. Normal                               
    Normal.                          
 4. Fairly difficult                     
     Quite complex.                    
 5. Difficult                            
  Complex.                             
 6. Pretty damb devastibg                
     The most difficult.                       
                                          
3. Cbahge ebemy missile.                  
   Change the parameters of enemy missiles.    
 1. Nobe                                 
     Play without rockets.                    
 2. Slow abd ibaccurate                  
     Slow and inaccurate.                
 3. Fast but ibaccurate                  
     Fast, but inaccurate.               
 4. Slow abd accurate                    
    Slow and precise.                  
 5. Fast abd accurate                    
     Fast and accurate.                    
 6. Pretty damb devastibg.               
    You will not survive...                    
                                          
4. Chabge soubd Effects.                  
   Enable/disable sound effects.   
 1. No boise                             
  No sound.                           
 2. Your firibg obly                     
     Only your shots.                
 3. Explosiobs obly                      
     Explosions only.  4. Firibg abd explosiobs                
    Your shots and explosions.              
 5. All soubd except hyperspace          
     All sounds except the sound of flying in a gi-
  perspace.                     
 6. Full soubd                           
     All sound effects.                
                                          
5. Chabge display format.                 
 Change the appearance of the cabin.            
 1. Normal                               
     Normal view.  Information is displayed
  both in the top line of the screen and in
  bottom.                              
 2. Pretty Graphic Mode                  
     Same, but below there is an image of a nose
  ship.                             
 3. Slimlibe Tobic                       
     All information is displayed in the lower
  screen lines.                      
 4. Wide-Abgle Mode                      
     There is absolutely no information on the screen
  formations.                            
                                          
 Well, now you have familiarized yourself with the tedious
but the necessary information about the menu is made
made all the settings and hit the road.   
 And what will you see there?  And how to manage
fly a ship?                           
 Let's start with the controls. Managers
There are only eight keys.                      
1  - map of a planet or galaxy Q     - увеличить скорость                
A     - уменьшить скорость                
Z     - влево                             
X     - вправо                            
N     - винз                              
M     - вверх                             
Space - огонь                             
  Все клавиши, кроме первой,можно перенас-
троить.                                   
  Вся  игра состоит из трёх основных режи-
мов  - полёты и бои в космосе, бои над по-
верхностью  планеты,  перелёт в гиперпрос-
транстве.   Space flight.             
Basic (and if you selected bo plabets,
this is the only) game mode.  In space
you will come across various objects. B
mainly enemy ships and their missiles. 
  But not everything is so bad, your ship is
designed so that it can be refueled at
standard  energy terminals,
that look like pulsating blue
rectangles. To refuel the ship you need
just fly through them.                
 Since space is huge, in order to
to fly, you need a map. Borto-
Your computer displays it to you in the form:      





















  Как  видно,  кроме расположения планет и
вашего  текущего  местоположения  (большой
мигающий квадрат,  сейчас - просто большой
синий квадрат),  на  карте цветом показана
степень защиты каждой планеты.            
  Синий  -  легкая. Красная - хорошо защи-
щённая планета. Пурпурный  -  опорные пун-
кты. Зелёный  -  хорошо защищённые цитаде-
ли.                                       
  После  полного освобождения какой-нибудь
планеты,она пропадает с карты (а равноhow
and the opportunity to fly through it in transit
volume). Therefore, be careful not to
drive yourself into a dead end in the heat of battle.         
 For interplanetary flights there are
hypertunnels - yellow pulsating straight
squares. But more about them a little later.           
 Yellow half-moons are planets. For that-
go, to get to the planet, fly straight
at her.                                   
                                          
          Flight over the planet.             
 First, about the map issued by the computer:





















The arrow indicates your ship, in the direction
the direction of the arrow is the direction of your flight.
  The occupiers' base is indicated by a large square
rat. Fields of points on its outskirts are usually
new enemy settlements. Two squares in the center
- a fortified area protected by security forces
field (unless, of course, you disabled it in
settings).  To destroy
base, you need to fly through its center,
by directing the ship "to the bull's eye" on the map. From
missile launchers will begin to rise from the mines
installations, and fire at you.            
 In the area of the protective field covering
center, your computer will detect and show
security corridors.  Follow them
any deviation from the lineout immediately
will lead to loss of some energy.          
 The small blue square on the map is energy
goeticfuel terminal. If in co-
Rabel has little energy - rather go to him.       
 Purple rectangle - enemy cosmodrome
ha.  Subject to complete destruction (although
optional).                          
 To take off from the surface of the planet, you need to
until at minimum height dial maximum
at a steady speed and then head sharply
up.  But all this is only if
when the planet is liberated - if on the plane -
if there is at least one base, then you can’t take off
will succeed.                                  
                                          
             Piperflight.                
 As mentioned earlier, interplanetary
flights are carried out using hypertonic
Neley.   The inputs to them are usually located
in groups of four, and look like yellow
pulsating rectangles.  At the same time,
the upper one corresponds to the tunnel for transfer-
up (on the map), bottom - down, right
out - to the right, left - to the left. If with some
then there is no planet on the side of you (on the map),
then there will be no tunnel corresponding
flight in this direction. When you enter the hypertunnel, the computer
The yuter will give you information about the be-
safe flight route. If you will-
those deviate from the recommended course, then
you will lose energy.                    
                                          
 Well, that's basically it. Fly, der-
occupy, release.                      
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