ATTENTION PATRIOT OWNERS


PATRIOT is a new generation of game, and an ambitious simulation of a 
complex reality.  As such it is different from conventional wargames and 
requires a whole new approach for mastery.  You will find that PATRIOT 
echoes some of the less recognized aspects of modern warfare.  Just as 
the successful Commander does most of his job long before the first shot 
is ever fired, so too must the PATRIOT commander devote some time before 
the action starts to learning the conventions and controls of the game.

The Quick Start guide enclosed will walk you through the essential game 
controlls and the first scenario.  This introduction will take about 
thirty minutes of your time, a very brief period indeed when you realize 
that it takes thirty years to make a General Officer.  By completing the 
Quick Start and walkthru you will discover that the plans and 
contingency plans of a battle staff are just as germaine to PATRIOT as 
they are to a General Staff.  It is far easier to change plans, paths, 
and formations before "the band begins to play" than it is once the 
dance has begun.

Our development and testing processes have suggested numerous areas of 
future expansion, and we have recieved many great suggestions for 
enhancements from our testers.  Three-Sixty Pacific is responding to 
these suggestions and will incorporate many of them into a new version 
of PATRIOT.  Three-Sixty has not delayed the release of this product to 
incorporate these changes.  As such this upgrade will be provided to 
registered owners of PATRIOT at no charge when it becomes available.

PATRIOT System Requirements:

CPU				80386SX or higher.
Memory				4 MB (minimum)
Free Conventional Memory	610,000 Bytes (595 KB)
Free EMS Memory		        2,900,00 Bytes (2.76 MB)
HANDLES			        =128
Hard Disk Space			5.17 MB


Video Requirements

Card	SVGA with 512 KiloBytes VRAM, VESA mode 0x101 
(640 x 480 pixels in 256 Colors) Support (requires a VESA software 
driver on most systems).

Monitor	Capable of Displaying 640 x 480 x 256 Colors.

NOTE: This program is processor intensive; it will run quickly on high 
end 486 machines with a large cache, and more slowly on 386SXs.  Game 
speed is also dependent upon the size of the loaded Scenario, as the 
larger scenarios will be tracking in excess of 3,000 discrete units.

IBM XGA-2 Video Card Users:
	XGA-2 does not tolerate programs which (though VESA compliant) 
write directly to the hardware instead of utilizing BIOS calls.  Three-
Sixty Pacific, Inc. and IBM are working to produce a means of 
identifying the XGA-2 Card and re-routing all direct hardware calls to 
the BIOS.

Video Seven video card Users:
	"It was noted that during our testing of PATRIOT, that older 
models of the Video Seven brand video cards experienced difficulty in 
displaying VESA supported graphics modes.  This could be due to older 
BIOS version of the card and/or Video SevenĘs VESA driver.  Video Seven 
encourages owners of these older version cards and software to contact 
Video Seven Product Support departments at (510) 656-7800, between 8:00 
AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time."


DR-DOS Users:
	"During the testing of PATRIOT, DR-DOS 6.0 Users noted an 
incompatibility with the DR-DOS memory management driver EMM386.SYS.  
The manufacturers of DR-DOS are endeavoring to produce an updated 
version of this driver that will work properly with PATRIOT.  Contact 
DR-DOS Technical Support at 1-800-NETWARE (1-800-638-9273) for further 
information."


Installation:

	PATRIOTs Installation routine will examine the first available 
hard drive to ensure adequate space is available for installation, and 
will return to you a message concerning the available Disk Space, 
Conventional RAM, and Extended/Expanded RAM, as well as a list of the 
hard drives present.  If you choose to install PATRIOT on a drive other 
than "C:" the Install program will not check the destination disk for 
adequate available space.  You must check in advance that you have the 
5,417,235 Bytes (5.17 MB) required to install PATRIOT.  
	The user must either approve the default installation on drive 
"C:" or select a drive for the installation routine to continue.

VESA Driver:
	The PATRIOT installation routine will check for a loaded (as in 
currently running) VESA driver.  If it does not find a VESA driver 
loaded, it will offer you the option of testing your hardware and 
installing a VESA driver appropriate to the installed video card.  The 
installation routine will then inform you what card it thinks you have, 
and will tell you the name of the driver it has copied to your PATRIOT 
directory.  You will need to select the appropriate VESA driver and load 
it prior to running PATRIOT.  (a VESA driver is invoked by typing its 
file name or including it as an item in a BAT file.)

MS-WINDOWS Users:
	If your system came to you (from the manufacturer or seller) with 
Windows 3.0 or 3.1 pre-loaded, there is an excellent chance that there 
is no mouse driver loaded under DOS.  The installation routine will not 
run as a DOS Window, and will not run without a mouse driver.  The 
easiest solution is to FORMAT a bootable diskette.  The command FORMAT 
A: /S will format a System (bootable) disk.  You will then need to 
create a CONFIG.SYS file and an AUTOEXEC.BAT file by executing the 
EDIT.COM program under DOS and typing the following text (which appears 
in "quotation" marks to avoid confusion with explanatory notes) exactly 
as listed, and naming them (under SAVE AS) as listed:

CONFIG.SYS
"DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS"
"DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS 2900 H=128 RAM"
"DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\MOUSE.SYS"
"DOS=HIGH,UMB"
"FILES=20"
"BUFFERS=20"

This example assumes that your operating system files are in the 
directory [C:\DOS.]  If they are in a different directory, you will need 
to substitute the complete path to the appropriate directory in place of 
[C:\DOS].


AUTOEXEC.BAT
	"CD \PATRIOT"
	"[VESADRVR.COM]"
	"PATRIOT"

Where [VESADRVR.COM] is the VESA driver that the PATRIOT installation 
routine has installed, or the VESA driver you have been using.  You must 
also insert the complete path (if different from the current directory) 
where the file is located before the file can be invoked.

NOTE: If you do not already have a mouse driver installed on your 
system, you will have to install one.  Most pointing devices come with a 
disk that includes mouse drivers of both the MOUSE.COM and MOUSE.SYS 
varieties.  Only a driver ending with a .SYS tag may be loaded in the 
CONFIG.SYS file (as shown above), drivers ending in .COM or .EXE must be 
loaded in manualy or in a BATCH (*.BAT) file such as the AUTOEXEC.BAT or 
PATRIOT.BAT batch files.


