                     Space Pirates Demo
                      Crime Patrol Demo
                      
           (C) Copyright 1994 American Laser Games
                              
                              
                              
                              
1.   Introduction
American  Laser Games thanks you for your interest in  Space
Pirates  and Crime Patrol. The demos that are provided  here
are  a  VERY  small  sampling of the hours  of  fast  action
entertainment that these two games provide.

Each  demo  is  an  actual  working  segment  of  the  game.
Therefore, you are able to shoot the bad guys and  save  the
good  guys, just as you would in the real game. This  README
file contains information on getting the demos installed and
running  on your computer. It also has instructions  on  how
the demos are played.

Note that the demos support only double-speed CDROM drives.
If you have a only a single-speed drive, but you have 20M
of free space on your hard drive, you can still run the game
by copying "sp.lib" from the CD to your SPDEMO directory on
your hard drive.  Then edit "alg\spdemo\game.cfg" to
indicate that sp.lib is now found on your hard drive.  Similar
steps apply to running Crime Patrol, but replace "sp" with
"cp" in the preceding instructions.

The demos do NOT support the original 8-bit SoundBlaster.


1.1.   Space Pirates
In  Space  Pirates, you are a Star Ranger in the year  3030.
The  Galactic Council has commissioned you and other Rangers
like you to protect the Galaxy from the marauding privateers
that  plague  the outer reaches of the Galaxy.  These  evil
doers  are  constantly attacking colony ships in  search  of
booty.

While  enroute  to a routine check of a new  colony  in  the
distant  Eastern Arm of the Galaxy, you receive a  desperate
transmission  from Ursula Sky, the captain of Colonial  Star
1.  She is under attach from the Black Dragon, captained  by
the  most evil and dreaded pirate in all the Galaxy, Captain
Talon.  Talon and his crew have seized control of the  great
Star Splitter Cannon. With this cannon, they can conquer the
Galaxy.

You  are the only Star Ranger in the Sector. It is up to you
and you alone to save us all from total destruction.

Good Luck, Star Ranger...



1.2.   Crime Patrol
In Crime Patrol, you're part of various law enforcement teams,
ridding the world of various dens of criminals.  In the full
game, you start as a rookie cop, and progress to Undercover,
SWAT, and ultimately, Delta Force.  The fight scenes become
more difficult as you advance to the higher levels, with more
criminals who pop out more quickly.


2.   Installing The Demos
Each demo must be installed individually on your hard disk.
Install programs are provided on this CD.  First, make the
CD ROM drive the current drive. Then switch to the
appropriate directory. To change to the directory that
contains the Space Pirates demo, type

CD \ALG\SPDEMO

at the DOS prompt.

To go to the directory that contains the Crime Patrol demo,
type

CD \ALG\CPDEMO

at the DOS prompt.

In either directory, simply typing

INSTALL

at the DOS prompt will install the demo.


3.Running The Space Pirates Demo

3.1.   Starting The Demo
To  start  the  demo, make sure you are at the  DOS  prompt,

which usually looks something like this:

C:\>

If you are at the DOS prompt, simply type:

CD \ALG\SPDEMO

then type:

SPDEMO

The demo should begin.

3.2.   Starting The Game Sequence
The demo starts with a brief video explaining the setting of
the  game.  This  short  segment will  play  repeatedly.  To
actually  begin  playing  the game sequence,  position  your
mouse  over the MENU button in the lower left corner of  the
screen.

You will know your cursor is over the menu button because it
will change to the skull and crossbones Space Pirates logo.

With  the  mouse cursor on the MENU button, click  the  left
mouse  button. Whatever video is currently playing  will  be
replaced by a menu. The menu choices are:

NEW -  Starts  a new game (in this case, it starts the  demo
     sequence)
LOAD - Loads the last game that was saved.
SAVE - Saves the current game.
CONTINUE  -  Press this after you load or save, so that  you
     can exit the menu.
QUIT - I'll give you one guess what this does.

The  other menu choices set the difficulty level. These have
been disabled in the demo.


3.3.   Shooting And Reloading Your Gun
To  shoot your gun, aim the crosshair at a target and  click
the  LEFT mouse button. You will be allowed to shoot at  two
types of targets,  pirates and innocent bystanders.

You  are  able to shoot pirates only when they threaten  you
directly,  i.e. point a gun at you. If you hit a pirate  the
game  continues.  If you miss, or don't shoot  fast  enough,
they'll shoot you. As you might expect, this results in  you
losing a life.

An innocent bystander can be shot almost anytime. Of course,
the  Galactic Council and your boss back at Star  Ranger  HQ
generally  frown  on this sort of thing.  Consequently,  you
lose a life for shooting the innocent.

You are given 10 phaser blasts to shoot with. When those are
gone, you need to reload. This can be accomplished by moving
your  mouse  cursor to the RELOAD button in the lower  right
corner  of  the screen. You know that you are in the  reload
area when your cursor changes to a downward-pointing blaster
pistol.  If your cursor is in the reload area, clicking  the
RIGHT mouse button will fully recharge your blaster.


3.4.   It's Finished!
You get 3 lives to defeat the evil crew of the Black Dragon.
These  pirates  are armed to the teeth, so be  careful!  The
number  of  lives you have left is displayed down the  right
side  of the screen. When you die (my condolences), the demo
automatically  returns to playing the introduction  for  the
game.  If you want to try the demo again, you must  use  the
NEW button in the main menu.


4.Running The Crime Patrol Demo

4.1.   Starting The Demo

As with the Space Pirates demo, make sure you are at the  DOS
prompt, then enter:

CD \ALG\CPDEMO

and type:

CPDEMO

This will start the game in a mode which shows various scenes
from the game.

4.2	Starting the game sequence

To play the game, follow the instructions for Space Pirates.
Note that the difficulty buttons are operational for Crime
Patrol, although, since the scenario included with this demo
version is one of the rookie scenes, it's still pretty easy
to get through on the toughest level.
