-- Wasteland QuickStart -- -- Blackstar 259 -- GETTING STARTED Insert the boot disk, turn on your computer, and the game will automatically load. You will then see the title screen with two options at the bottom: Start and Utils (Utilities). If you're new to Wasteland, press U to call up the Utilities Menu; otherwise, if you've played before, you can select S to start the game. To cancel any action that you've started, press . This applies throughout Wateland. USING TWO OR MORE DISK DRIVES When you're prompted to insert a disk, press 2 to use drive 2. Anytime you're prompted to insert a particular disk side during the course of play, you can type 1 or 2 to access that specific drive. Should you wish to schange the designated slot for you drive controller, press -S and a slot number (from 1 to 7). UTILITIES MENU To use any option, press the first letter: Copy This is the first thing you must do. If you don't make copies and play on the original disks, then the original disks will forever by altered. Select for a one- or two-drive system. You'll then see 1 2 3 4 Exit at the bottom of the screen. You need to make a copy of all four sides, so you must select eash number once. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the copying process. Press E to Exit when you're done. After you copy your disks, you can start the games. Do not put write-protect tabs on the copies you made. Restart Automatically Restarts your party near the Ranger Center. Use this command if you party is hopelessly stuck somewhere, or if you want to start the game over with the same characters. To Restart, save the game where you are. Then insert your boot disk, reboot, and select U for the Utils option. Select C to Copy, and copy all new disk sides on a separate set of disks. Select R for Restart and insert the old side 1 when you see the prompt "Please put side 1 in drive 1." Then insert the new copy of side 1 when you see "Please put destination Wasteland character disk in drive 1." Now you're ready to start over with your old characters --minus all the items and cash they were carrying. Print Prints all of your characters' statistics. Start Starts the game. You're asked "Use last saved game (Y/N)?" Choose Y if you want to start where you last saved the game with the Save command. Choose N and you'll start where the computer last saved the game (which happens anytime you answer "yes" to "Enter new location?"). With either choice, you'll be prompted to insert on or more disk sides. If you're new to the game, you'll start in the Ranger Center. TIME AND DISTANCE The maps in Wasteland vary in scale. The large desert map contains the various city maps, which, in turn, contain building maps or whole underground levels of sewers and hideouts. In combat, distances may seem a bit off for the map you're on, but these are tactical distances and are valid in combat only. Because of the differences in scale of the maps, time passes differently on them. Though a single keystroke on the computer will move you one space north in both the desert and in a building, the amount of time that each move takes is different. The game takes this into account for healing and deterioration purposes. Remember that time passes for characters in the main party as well as for any disbanded characters who are not moving. If you disband a character and send him off to find a doctor to help a wounded comrade, the seriously-wounded character will still bleed away. SELECTING OPTIONS Whenever you need to select an option, just press the first letter in that command (The one exception is unEquip; in this case press E.) Whenever you're selecting from a menu that appears along the bottom of the screen, you have two choices: 1) press the first letter of the command, or 2) use the left or right arrow keys to highlight the command, and press . Whenever you need to select an item, skill or attribute from a list, simply enter its number. To scroll through a list, you have three options: use the up and down arrows, right and left arrows, or I and K keys. An item or skill number with a "_" next to it (i.e., "6_"), marks the end of the list. MOVEMENT COMMANDS Use the following commands to move your party around: I Move up J Move left K Move down L Move right Spacebar Toggles view of party roster on and off RANGER CENTER When you're in the Ranger Center, you see the following options at the bottom of the screen: Create Creates a character. Delete Deletes a character. Start Starts you outside of the Ranger Center. NON-COMBAT COMMANDS At any time, except during combat, you can use the following commands by pressing the first letter of the option: Use Use a skill, item, or attribute. Enc Encounter --call up combat commands. Order Estalish a new party Order. Disband Disband --break up the party into two or more groups. This command is also used to permanently dismiss a Non-Player Character from your party. View Switch the View between two or more groups. Save Saves the game. Refer above for an explanation of saved games in Wasteland. Radio Radio in to Ranger Center to see if a party member has earned a promotion. -# Call up the Use command for a specific character. -S Use the first skill listed for the character in the first party slot. -R Reorder a character's skills or possessions. You must first select a character from the roster and view either the skill or possession menu before using this command. COMBAT COMMANDS When you engage in battle, you can choose from the following options by selecting the first letter of the commmand: Run Move party or individual character one space. Use Use a skill, item, or attribute. Hire Hire a Non-Player Character to join your party. Evade Evade an attack. Attack Attack an enemy. Weapon Change Weapons. Load/unjam Unjam and/or Load a weapon. -A Show list of encounter groups to attack. Will only work with player characters, not hired NPC's provided your foes are within range of your weapons. To speed up the combat message scrolling rate, press the up arrow or -K. To slow it down, press the down arrow or -J. VIEWING CHARACTERS Enter a nubmer from 1 to 7 to view that character's statistics. Here are some options that you can use while in this mode: From the first screen Pool Pool cash. Pools all the party's loot and gives it to the character you're viewing. Div cash Divide cash. Divides the cash evenly among the characters. From the second (Item) screen Enter any item number for the following choices: (When prompted Y/N, the Y will be highlighted. Press to accept this option). Reload Reload weapon. (Only shows if you choose an ammo clip that's appropriate for your currently-equipped weapon.) Unjam Unjam weapon. (Only shows if you use a jammed weapon.) Drop Drop an item. Trade Trade an item. unEquip Equip or unequip an item. -R Reorder items. From the third (Skill) screen -R Reorder skills.