  ______ _            _                 _   
 |  ____| |          | |               | |  
 | |__  | | ___ _ __ | |__   __ _ _ __ | |_ 
 |  __| | |/ _ \ '_ \| '_ \ / _` | '_ \| __|
 | |____| |  __/ |_) | | | | (_| | | | | |_ 
 |______|_|\___| .__/|_|_|_|\__,_|_| |_|\__|
 | |  | |      | |   | (_)                  
 | |__| | ___ _|_| __| |_ _ __   __ _       
 |  __  |/ _ \ '__/ _` | | '_ \ / _` |      
 | |  | |  __/ | | (_| | | | | | (_| |      
 |_|  |_|\___|_|  \__,_|_|_| |_|\__, |      
                                 __/ |      
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| Elephant Herding                                                           |
| Made by Sebastiaan Jansen                                                  |
| http://thandor.net                                                         |
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Elephant Herding is a small text-based multiplayer game, in which you have to
move all the elephants into the cage. However, the elephants are afraid of you
and will move away from you.

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| How to play?                                                               |
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Two versions of Elephant Herding exist:

 - Multiplayer on one PC:
 Start HERDING.EXE and the game immediately begins. One player can use the 
 A-W-S-D keys to move around, the other player can use the regular arrow-keys.
 
 - Multiplayer on two PC's over IPX-network:
 In order to play over IPX-network you have to load up the corresponding net-
 work drivers for your network card. An example would be (in the right or-
 der): load up LSL, PNPODI and then IPXODI. In this example 'PNPODI' is a 
 specific ODI-driver for the NE2000-compatible chipset. Using network cards 
 like 3Com you probably need other drivers. After loading the drivers you can 
 start 'HERDINGS.EXE' and press '1' to act as server or press any other key to
 act as client. Keep in mind that the slowest PC should run the 'server' role 
 in order to get the best performance. A 286 is recommended to play Elephant 
 Herdings over IPX, however a 8MHz XT will work but slows down when multiple 
 Elephants are moving.
 
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| System Requirements                                                        |
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8088 running at 8MHz with monochrome graphics adapter. IPX-compatible network
adapter is needed for multiplayer over network (HERDINGS.EXE). When playing
over network, a 286 is recommended.

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| Performance counter                                                        |
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This will only work with 'HERDINGS.EXE' (the IPX-network version): To activate
a performance counter press the F1-key. It will display the game-tics. Higher
game-tics mean better performance.

To increase performance, make sure your PC is running optimal and is able to
read/write ASCII characters as fast as possible. Depending on your hardware
configuration you can increase display speed by using 'TheFast Version 1.06'
Screen Display Speed Up Utility. The utility is available for download on
http://thandor.net.

