Here's the long and the short descrptions about this game...

Short:

UNRAR the game to a HD, it will create its own paths, namely SF3000 and
KRISALIS.CD - edit the SF3000V1.08 and SF3000V1.15 files in the KRISALIS.CD
DIR to reflect where you put the game, there are 2 entries right at the top
of each file that need altering, and move the MASTER.LST to the ROOT of the
HD you un-rar'ed to.

Change to the SF3000 dir and run STAR.EXE - the game is currently configured
to use a SB16 on P220, IRQ5 and DMA5, you can press shift when prompted and
change this easily.  The reason for the sound already being setup is that if
it is not, the game thinks it is not installed and takes you thru a tedious
install program - no big deal, but simply reconfiguring the sound card is a
lot simpler.

Thats it, it should work


Long:

A while back, Hybrid released v1.08 of the game (which worked), then some
unknown group released v1.11 of the game (which didn't work) and also released
an animation addon.  I am still using Hybrid's 'crack' as it seems to be a
TSR rather than a code crack, which as it turns out, is great.  Now, the
3DFX patch will not work with v1.08, it requires v1.11, and there appears
to be no patch to upgrade v1.08 to v1.11, so this non-working release of
v1.11 came in handy after all!  I used Hybrid's crack to make up a working
v1.11 and then copied the v1.15 (3DFX) file over to the dir - at first, it
did not work.  I read the original HYBRID.NFO file and read that part of the
original protection was an animation check, so I copied the .SMK files from
the anims addon pack to the SF3000\MOVIES dir and that seems to get it going.
I replaced one of the anims with a smaller one, simply to save space, the
anims are nothing special anyway.

The reason for there being 2 SF3000Vx.xx files in the KRISALIS.CD dir - v1.15
is self explanatory, but the Hybrid crack wont seem to work if the SF3000V1.08
file is missing, it goes into the setup program again.  The MASTER.LST file
that you have put into the ROOT dir seems to be unneeded, but nevertheless,
thats where it created it, so what the heck.

If enough of you #3dfxwarez'ers want the missing anim and the breifing speech,
I will organise it, but only if there is an overwhelming urgency for them.

Best of luck, and happy gaming.

[Fubar]
