MASKEN 4 - READ ME
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by Thomas Jansson(toj82@hotmail.com)

MASKEN4 (c)1998-99 TOJSOFT

A full documentation of Masken4 is on TOJSOFT's webpage:
http://www.angelfire.com/co/toj82/tojsoft.html

VERSION INFO:
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Current version:  1.60

***VERSION INFO HAS MOVED TO 'PROGRAMMERS NOTE.TXT'***



-*-*-*-*-*-* FREEWARE *-*-*-*-*-*-*-

What you'll need
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A computer with Windows 95,a color display,a little memory
and about 2,4 megabytes of diskspace.


For best performance:
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* Set your monitor on 16 bit graphics in a 640x480 pixels.
* Turn of music(if it's going way too slow!). *NOT RECOMENDED*
* Turn of starbackground(this speeds things up quite a bit!).
* Turn of sounds(may be going a bit faster, I dunno?)
* Play with fewer masks(if you just play 2, then turn off the other masks).



How to install?
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Just unzip the files into your game directory.
No need to create a new directory for the game.
Just unzip it into <where-ever you want it> and run it.


PROBLEMS!?!?!
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I have no seen no bugs and it work well on all computers running
Windows 95 with a color display. WORKS WELL WITH WINDOWS98!!!


CONTROLS
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To begin a new game press	F8
To go to main screen press	F5
To pause a game press		P

*NOTE* You can change this keys if you want to...

PLAYER 1	W - up
		S - down
		A - left
		D - right
		CTRL - fire
		TAB - special

PLAYER 2	I - up
		K - down
		J - left
		l - right
		SPACE - fire
		Y - special

PLAYER 3	ARROWKEYS (up,down,left,right)
		SHIFT - fire
		RETURN - special

PLAYER 4	NUMPAD (up,down,left,right)
		NUMPAD 0 - fire
		NUMPAD + - special

OK - have fun!


SPECIAL ABILITIES
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You can buy your own abilities by selecting the checkbuttons in
Player Setup Dialog (Press rightmouse on the player to come here).
The more you buy the slower your mask gets. And you can only have four.

SOUND AND MUSIC
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The sound and music is played through your soundcard (SB, SBPro etc...)
Masken 4 "Auto Detects" your soundcard for you. It's compatible with
most(if not all) the soundcards on the market.

You can change the music by change "Music.XM" in "Sounds" directory.
The music MUST(?) be an XM file. You can send me an email if you want
some more music files.

SPEED
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You can control the GLOBAL speed in Options Dialog. It affects
everything in the application like the ammocoins, the scrolling text,
the masks speed, the stars speed etc...
 

QUESTIONS?
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Q: Will there be a Masken 5?

A: YES!!! LOOK FOR IT ON TOJSOFTS WEBSITE!!!

Q: How do you choose special abilities?

A: Right-Click mousebutton on the player and then select them.


Q: It's way to slow! What should I do?

A: Turn off music.(Music uses 31 soundchannels!).
   Turn off starbackground.
   Turn off players.
   Increase speed.


Q: When there are explosion the game stops for a short while.
   What's wrong?

A: Turn on fast explosions. The graphics may take a while to
   print. Turn off sounds.


Please email me for question on Masken 4...

toj82@hotmail.com

or try to NEW documentation(see top of document)


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MASKEN 4 - by Thomas Jansson (EMAIL: toj82@hotmail.com)
