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                           Network Q RAC Rally 
                                               
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  In case this file does not help
   Technical support is available on our customer hotline (0625) 859333.



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Additional information
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  For your convenience a gear indicator has been added within the 
   Rev Counter, this is only shown if the head up display option is on.

  Gear change light. This is used to indicate when you should change gear,
   it has four modes:
                    Green     Change down, RPM very low.
                    Dull      Normal state.
                    Red       Change up, Approaching the red line.
                    Flash RED Over-revving!

  Only ANALOGUE joysticks are supported by Rally.


  When it is raining or snowing you may use F12 to toggle to weather
   effect on the windscreen.


  It is possible to change the release time of the opponent cars by typing

        RAL 25

   Where 25 is the number of seconds between cars being released,
   this is in the range of 5 to 120 seconds, The number is not actually
   necessary and if omitted, Rally will use it's default of 30 seconds.

  It is not actually possible to go directly to a stage, however if you
   save the game regularly this will not be a problem!


  To disable the menu and intro. music type either:

        RAL M
    or
        RALLY M

   on the command line, this will not affect sound whilst driving!


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Joystick options
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  These options are used on the command line

  JP        Use Gamepad type control


  JD        Doubles read range of joystick, this may solve
             unable to calibrate errors if your joystick calibration
             range is too small.

  JS        Slow reading of joystick, uses an old slow technique to 
             read the joystick, this may help calibration problems.


  JX??
  JY??      These options are for "multi" joystick controls, for example
             flight simulator controls. JX controls the steering reading.
             JY controls the throttle/brake reading.
             For example use  JXAX if you want to use the X range of
             "Joystick" A on your controls to operate the steering of the car.

             A command line may look like this:
                        RAL JXAY JYBX

             Consult your control information for further details of
             joystick assignment.


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Sound Support
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  Sound will not be available without Expanded memory (EMS).
   See below for further details.

  As documented in the manual, Rally supports ADLIB, SOUND-BLASTER
   and the SOUND SOURCE.

  All of the sound types play 4 channels of sound, however this requires
   a considerable overhead for your PC's processor. It is therefore
   possible to select which channels you prefer, to ensure that Rally
   always performs as smoothly as possible with your system. The controls
   are documented below.

	CTRL + F1 Toggle Channel 1    Engine
	CTRL + F2 Toggle Channel 2    Turbo
	CTRL + F3 Toggle Channel 3    Speech+Sound effects
	CTRL + F4 Toggle Channel 4    More Sound effects

   This configuration will be saved when you quit Rally.
   The music on the main menu is not affected by your choice of channels.

  Sound Blaster PRO users. Both the music and in game sounds are in
   stereo, so for best results do not use mono headphones or speakers as
   only two of the channels will be heard.






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Memory considerations
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  Rally requires at least 580Kb free memory at the DOS prompt.
   If you have DOS 5.00 or above you can check your available memory
   using the DOS command "mem", see your operating system documentation
   for further details of this command.

  If available, Rally will take advantage of UMB's.

  Sound will not be available without Expanded memory (EMS).

  The ability to roll your car is not available without EMS.

  Here are some sample configurations for Rally to use. These will give
   you UMB's and EMS.

      EMM386 Memory manager

	in CONFIG.SYS

	DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
	DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
	DOS=HIGH,UMB

      QEMM386 Memory manager

	in CONFIG.SYS

	DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM
	DOS=HIGH

	in AUTOEXEC.BAT

	C:\QEMM\LOADHI /LINK






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Game performance
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  Considerable degradation of game performance will be apparent
   if Rally is run with your PC's TURBO switched off (i.e. low speed).
   This degradation will be even more pronounced if you are running
   the game with one of the sound options on.






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Default game configuration
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  Many of the game options are stored in a configuration file, you
   may, however wish to revert to the default configuration. This is
   possible by simple deleting the RALLY.CFG file.

  Default configuration is:
        All game options ON
        Textured road    ON
        Textured ground  ON
        Beeper sound     ON






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Potential pitfalls
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  Disk cacheing programs.
   Whilst it is allright to use Rally with READ disk caches (Those
   that cache all disk reads), it is inadvisable to use WRITE BEHIND
   disk caching as the disk cache may not get an opportunity to write
   out it's data until Rally is finished. This only really affects the
   disk operations.

   SMARTDRV.EXE users.
   To find out what sort of disk cacheing you have type:

                     SMARTDRV /S

   This will give information about the current status of smartdrv.

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                  Disk Caching Status               
      drive   read cache   write cache   buffering  
      --------------------------------------------  
        A:       yes           no           no      
        B:       yes           no           no      
        C:       yes           yes          no      
                                                    
     

   If your status looks a bit like the one above, then type:

                     SMARTDRV C

   This will disable the write behind cacheing but enable the read cacheing.
   Your status would then look like this:

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                  Disk Caching Status               
      drive   read cache   write cache   buffering  
      --------------------------------------------  
        A:       yes           no           no      
        B:       yes           no           no      
        C:       yes           no           no      
                                                    
     


   For further information consult your operating system documentation.

   If you experience anything odd try deleting RALLY.CFG to restore the
    default configuration.

   If the introduction animation does not play correctly this may be due
    to a either selecting SOUND SOURCE or ADLIB without the relevant
    hardware.

   If the mouse pointer does not move in the menus, this is due to either
    SOUND SOURCE or ADLIB having been selected without the relevant
    hardware. Keyboard operation will still work so it is possible to
    deselect these.
    














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