                           HINTZEN, VERWOHLT GbR
                                'JoyTrick'

                             Marienkirchweg 3a
                               48165 Mnster
                                  Germany

         Tel.: 0251/232295 (Mon-Fri from 4.30pm) *** Fax: 02501/3125




1. Starting the game
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  To start N.o.B.I. - Racing (PD-Version) just double-click NR_PD.PRG!

  Now you can choose one of the listed functions:

  1. Start: One Player                             F1/Fire-Button
  2. Start: Two Players                            F3
  3. List Highscores                               F4
  4. Change Options                                F5
  5. Quit N.o.B.I. - Racing                        ESC

	N.o.B.I. - Racing runs in the following resolutions:

  1. ST-High                  (640*400 Pixels - Monochrome, 1 MB RAM)
  2. ST-Medium                (640*200 Pixels - Pseudo-Monochrome, 1 MB RAM)
  3. TT-Medium/Falcon 030 VGA (640*480 Pixels - 16 Colors, 2.5 MB RAM)
  4. FALCON 030 TV-Interlaced (640*400 Pixels - 16 Colors, 2.5 MB RAM)


  It is possible, to run N.o.B.I. - Racing from a Hard-Disk, as well.
  Just copy all files from your flex-disk to your hard-disk! Remember,
  you have to copy all files! You may suppress the loading of the SAMPLE-
  Files and/or the MUSIC-Files by renaming the files 'SAM_OFF.CFX' and/or
  'DMA_OFF.CFX' to 'SAM_OFF.CFG' and/or 'DMA_OFF.CFG'.


2. How to play
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  It's very simple: You control your snake (Alfred) thru more or less
  difficult mazes in order to reach all objects. You have to avoid to let
  Alfred byte itself and to run time to zero.

  That's all?

  No, to get lots of points, you have to be very fast and -playing the
  bonus-levels- very clever. Find out what is to do to get most points
  in that bonus-levels.

  You can use the Fire-Button, to quit most of the info-screens
  (for example: 'Get Ready', 'Game Over', 'Counting the Time-Left-Bonus')!  


3. Controlling the Snake
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  To control Alfred, you may use a Joystick or the Keyboard. The hot-keys
  for Keyboard-Control are:

  - The Cursor-Keys (press two corresponding keys to move diagonaly)
  - The left Shift-Key (this is the Fire-Button)!

  Alfred is always on his way. He stops, if he hits a wall directly and
  if there are two possible directions to continue, only. This means, that
  Alfred will turn at corners by himself, in that case that there is only
  one possible direction to move on. Always remember this!


4. Two-Players-Mode
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  Here two players can compete with each other. If the current playing
  player looses a snake the player-change is 'performed'.

  If one player plays much better then the other one, they should use the
  'Player-Change after (X) continueous solved Levels'-Option to have the
  program to control the player-change! Even, if the current playing player
  has not lost a snake, he will be forced to hand the Joystick to the other
  player if he had solved X levels in a row: "Forced player-change"!


5. Bonus-Levels
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  N.o.B.I. - Racing contains of 6 different 'normal' Bonus-Levels and of 2
  different so called 'High-Speed-Chase Levels'.

  - Normal Bonus-Levels

    This levels are to be solved after every fifth level (5, 10, 15, ...).
    Here you can win different prices: Lots of Bonus-Points, Extra-Snakes
    and sometimes even Game-Continues! Try, to get them all.

  - High-Speed-Chase Levels

		In between every package of 10 levels (1 to 10, 11 to 20, ...) there
		will be one High-Speed-Chase. To get into them you have to solve
		the 'survival-level' without loosing a snake. These 'survival-levels'
		are anounced by a special sign: a) A whistle (c. 3 seconds long), if
		the Sound-FX's are ON, or b) a special screen 'Prepare for Survival-
		Level...', if the Sound-FX's are OFF.


6. How to configure N.o.B.I. - Racing
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  You can change the following options:

  a. Soundeffects (ON/OFF)
  b. Volume for Soundeffects (low/high)
  c. DMA-Music (ON/OFF)
  d. Volume for DMA-Music (low/medium/high)
  e. Player-Change after (X) continueous solved Levels
     (see Chapter 4. for explanation)
  f. Start-Level for Player 1 (Level 1 to Level 10)
  g. Start-Level for Player 2 (Level 1 to Level 10)


7. The N.o.B.I. - Racing (PD-Disk)
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  You should find on the The N.o.B.I. - Racing - Disk:

  +- NR_PD.PRG         The Program (ST/STE/TT/FALCON 030)
  |
  +- DMA_OFF.CFX
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  +- SAM_OFF.CFX
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  +- WICHTIG           NOTICE in German
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  +- NOTES             You are reading it
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  +- NOBI_R.PAC        The data-file
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  +- NOBI_R.SET        The options-file (may be deleted)
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  +- NOBI_R.HSC        The highsore-file (may be deleted)


8. Some other good PD/Shareware-Games
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  You should find the following games in many PDL's and Mailboxes.

  THRILLER N.T. (released in 1993)

  - Action-Packed Puzzle-Game for 1 player with 100 Levels!
  - Runs in Monochrome, only!
  - German, only!

  SHOCKER 1 (released in 1992)

  - Action-Packed Puzzle-Game for 2 players with 200 Levels!
  - Midi-Connection for 2-Players-Mode!
  - Runs in Monochrome, only!
  - German, only!

  SHOCKER 2 (released in March 1994)

  - Action-Packed Puzzle-Game for 2 players with 200 Levels!
  - Midi/Modem-Connection for 2-Players-Mode!
  - Runs in Monochrome and 16 Colors
    (640*480 VGA - TT/FALCON 030 / 640*400 TV-Interlaced - FALCON 030)
  - German and English!
  - Available in COMPU-SERVE, too!
  - This is realy a blockbuster-game!

  N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm (released in October 1994)

  - First Puzzle-Game with a Snake (for 1 player with 50 Levels)!
  - Runs in Monochrome and 16 Colors
    (640*480 VGA - TT/FALCON 030 / 640*400 TV-Interlaced - FALCON 030)
  - German and English!
  - This is realy a blockbuster-game!
  - You'll love that game!

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Good luck and lot of fun

The Authors: M. Hintzen and J. Verwohlt