The Hunter II . Documentation
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Run the game always from START.BAT!!!! |
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Game made by a Finnish 15 year older Santeri Hakoniemi. I apologize of my
bad language, but hey c'mon I am a Finn.

The Hunter II is an prouduct of Triangle Software. This game
is freeware and freeware only. There is no fee charged upon
this game, and by the freeware laws you are not allowed
to charge anykind of fee from this game.

 Table Of Content
        
        1.      What is The Hunter II?
        1.1.    What new does this game include from the The Hunter?
        1.2.    What is the main audience of the game?
        
        2.      System Requirements
        
        3.      How to play                   
        3.1.    Tips to improve the gaming perfomance
        3.2.    Who is the best?
        
        4.      How to use the campaign editor?
        4.1.    Tips on how to make good campaigns
        4.2.    Changing campaign

        5.      Troubleshooting FAQ

        6.      Contact
        6.1.    Versions + other important thingees
        6.2.    The Hunter III release date


1. What is The Hunter II?
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        The Hunter II is an shooting game viewed from the up.perspective. 
        The Hunter II is sequel to one of the greatest QuickBasic 4.5 games
        The Hunter. This game does include much of gore and violence, this
        has been added to the previous game. 

1.1. What new does this game include from The Hunter?
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        * Not only shooting, go through action.filled campaigns
        * You don't have to kill aliens with a flame thrower, you can 
          massacre them with a chaingun
        * Play with your friend through campaings and make new records
          in custom game!
        * Redefine keys to what supports you the best!
        * Nice speed.changing ability
        * The alien AI is one of the best seen in Qbasic!
        * View the credits scroll screen (though only one make: Santzo:)
        * Read the exciting mission briefings and be fully aware of what
          do you have to do in the mission.
        * JAW.DROPPING VGA graphics! Unbeliviable light effects + other 
          graphics!

1.2. What is the main audience of the game?
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        The main audience is young QuickBasic programmers who can take clear
        of the source and those who doesn't believe in the power of 
        QuickBasic. Well this should prove what it can do

2. System Requirements
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    Minimum requirements:

        With this computer set the game wasn't so enjoyable to play. It did
        run very slow and painfully, and also without sounds. And whoa the
        load times....
                
                486DX2/66 mHZ
                8 megabytes of RAM
                VGA screen
                586k conventional memory
    
    Recommended system:

        With this computer set the game runs like a dream. Even on two player
        game and with the great sounds.

                P166 mhz
                16 megabytes of RAM
                VGA screen
                590k conventional memory
                SB pro
                Windows 95 (I think it improves the game! :O)
   

3. How to play the game?
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        It is very simple. With the default keys you move the guy around
        with arrows and move forward with the up arrow. If you press left
        once the guy turns 1 degree left and right the same thing etc.
        With up arrow the guy will move forward, and guess what happens
        with the down arrow? :D. Well anyway you shoot with enter and try
        to kill the aliens and complete the mission given to you. 

3.1. Tips how to improve gaming perfomance
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        - Try to avoid massgroups of aliens, they do do much of damage

        - Try to collect the aliens in one big group. This way it's much
          easier to kill them

        - Playing with two players do some plans like: other guy runs
          the aliens and you shoot them. They don't have much sense.
        
        - Avoid corners.

3.2. Who is the best?
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        The game includes a TOP 20 highscore list. You can compare who is
        the best.. The only thing that sucks is that 2 player and 1 player
        modes are in the same high score list.

4. How to use the campaign editor?
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        This is what probably keeps your attention on this game a little
        while longer. A campaign editor. With this editor you can make
        your own campaigns including up to 50 levels. The editor is
        really easy to use. Just input the required stuff and the level is
        ready...simple as that!

4.1. Tips on how to make good campaigns
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        Making/Editing great campaigns is depended with everyones own taste,
        but it's good to use all the advantages of the editor and make
        the campaigns as different from each other as possible.

4.2. Changing campaign               
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        Changing the campaing is as simple as can. Just press F1 in the
        game and choose the campaign you want...e-z.

5. Troubleshooting FAQ
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        Why doesn't the sounds work eventhough I have SB?

                It may be that you don't run the game from START.BAT or
                your SB doesn't support playing midi's. Try to change
                the SB setup from SETUP.EXE

        The program says something about memory?

                Try to free up conventional memory by changing CONFIG.SYS
                or freeing some programs from the upper-memory.

        The game runs really slow...

                BUY A NEW COMPUTER!!! Or you might try to change the 
                speed from optioms.

6. Contact
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        E-Mail: Griffon@Myrealbox.com
        Homepage: Not ready yet...:D

6.1. Versions + other stuff
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        1.03
                - Moved files into own subdirectories
                - Deleted few not needed files
                - Optimized just a little bit
        1.025
                - Added SETUP
                - Added NOSOUND ability
                - Fixed the surviving mission bug


        There shouldn't be much bugs anymore, but there are always some..
        there ain't such game that doesn't have bugs.

6.2. The Hunter III release date
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        The Hunter III will (or should) approximately come out on the end
        of December just before the Qlympics '01

        Thanks for reading this information...contact me and see ya in inter-
        net....

        hope ya enjoy the game!
