Spear of Destiny Introduction Welcome to Spear of Destiny, a fast-action virtual reality adventure, where you're B.J. Blazakowic, the Allies' most durable WWII spy. Your mission is to fight through a heavily guarded Nazi stronghold and retrieve the Spear of Destiny. The controls are simple. Instead of slowing down the action with complex controls, the challenge of the game is in the gameplay. To survive Spear of Destiny, all you'll need is quick reflexes, a good sense of direction and a killer instinct. This manual is designed to explain your options and guide you through playing the game. Easy Install Before you begin Spear of Destiny, you must install it to your hard disk drive. Spear of Destiny's installation utility will place the necessary files to the drive you select. To install Spear of Destiny follow these steps: 1. Put the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive and be sure to exit out of Windows and be at the DOS prompt (C:>).. 2. Log on to your CD-ROM by typing D: (where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive) and press ENTER. 3. Type INSTALL and press ENTER. 4. Follow the on-screen instructions. To Run 1. Log on to your hard drive by pressing C: (where C is the letter of your hard drive) and press ENTER. 2. Type CD\SPEAR and press ENTER. 3. Type SPEAR and press ENTER. Getting Started After the title sequence, you'll be presented with the Options Menu. Use the arrow keys, mouse, or joystick to highlight a desired selection. Press the ENTER key, left mouse button, or Fire button to activate that option. The following is a list of options available to you. New Game You can choose from four different skill levels. Sound...F4 There are three types of sounds in Spear of Destiny. The program will automatically detect if your system is equipped with the appropriate sound board and default to the best settings. To activate or deactivate a particular sounds, highlight the appropriate selection and press the ENTER key. Control...F6 The Control Menu allows you to select and modify an input device for playing Spear of Destiny. In conjunction with the keyboard you may use a mouse, joystick or a Gravis PC GamePad. Load Game...F3 Press F3 to load a saved game. If you're in a game, you'll be asked to confirm your choice. Save Game...F2 Spear of Destiny's Save screen provides the Save game slots. To save a game, move to an empty slot (or one you don't mind writing over), type in a name and press the ENTER key. This option will not be available unless you are playing a game. QuickSave...F8 Use this option to save games faster and on the fly! Quickload...F9 Press F9 to quickly return to the last saved or (loaded) game. Change View...F5 Depending on the speed of your computer, you may wish to change the view area of Spear of Destiny. For example, reducing the view will increase the speed of the game. Quit...F10 Press F10 to quit from Spear of Destiny and return to DOS. A prompt will appear, asking you to confirm your choice. Controlling the Action The following is a list of controls and commands for moving and fighting within Spear of Destiny. Traveling The key to playing is learning how to effectively maneuver through the castle's passages. Once in the game, you'll need to move quickly in order to surprise guards and avoid others. Walking Use the up and down arrow keys to walk backwards and forwards through the dungeon. Run Hold down the right shift key and the up or down arrow key to run. Turning Use the left and right arrow keys to turn. Fast Turn Hold down the right Shift key and the left or right arrow key for fast turns. Strafe Press the Alt key and the left or right Arrow key to move from side to side instead of turning left or right. Arming Yourself Once you have more than one gun, you'll want to choose between firearms. The numeric keys 1-4 select a particular weapon. You cannot use the numeric keypad keys for this selection. 1=Knife, 2=Pistol, 3=Machine Gun, 4=Chaingun You start the game with only a knife and a pistol. Until you discover other weapons, pressing "3" or "4" will have no effect. Killing the Enemy To use your weapon, point it toward your adversary and press the Ctrl key. If you are using a machine gun or chaingun, you can hold down the Ctrl key for rapid fire. Doors & Pushwalls To open a door, move in front of it and press the spacebar. It is not necessary to actually touch a door before opening it. Locked Doors Several doors are locked and will require keys. The key that opens a particular door can be found somewhere on the same floor as the locked door. Using a key requires no additional commands other than the spacebar to open a door. Pushwalls The castle is full of secret passages that are concealed behind pushwalls. To reveal a pushwall, move against a wall and press the spacebar. The pushwall will then slide backwards, revealing the passage. Picking Up Stuff Through the fighting is fierce, there's always time to grab a few trinkets or helpful items. To pick up an item simply walk over it. you’re smart and will know if you need to take it. For example, if you're carrying the max. ammunition of 99 bullets, you can't pick up more ammunition by walking over it. Getting to the Next Floor Each floor contains at least one elevator. Once you find an elevator, press the spacebar to open its door. Then walk into the elevator and press the spacebar once again to activate the knife switch and move to the next floor. Key Commands and Shortcuts The following is a list of key commands used for playing Spear of Destiny. Action Key Pause Pause Key Boss (DOS) F1 Save F2 Load F3 Sound F4 Change View F5 Control F6 End Game F7 Quick Save F8 Quick Load F9 Quit F10 Weapon Selection Action Key Knife 1 Pistol 2 Machine Gun 3 Chaingun 4 Fire Ctrl Open door Spacebar Movement Keys Action Key Forward Up arrow Backward Down arrow Left Left arrow Right Right arrow RUN Shift + any of the keys above Strafe left Alt + left arrow Strafe right Alt + right arrow Your Current Status At the bottom of the play screen is a status bar which provides information important to the play of Spear of Destiny. Floors There are at least 18 known floors. The current floor is always indicated at the far left of the status bar. Score You can gain points by picking up treasure or killing. Every 40,000 points provide an extra life, so collect those treasures! Lives You start the game with three lives. If you die, you'll restart the current floor with a pistol and eight shots. You'll also lose the points you earned on that floor. Health When you start Spear of Destiny your Health is 100%. Each time you are hit, your Health will be reduced. Health is indicated not only in percentages, but also in a visual representation located on the status bar. You begin to look increasingly unheathly the more damage you take. If you Health is dropping, you can increase it by grabbing food or first aid. Ammo Your amount of ammunition is indicated on the status bar. You can carry a total of 99 bullets. Be sure to pick up the ammo left behind when you kill someone. Run out of ammo and you’ll be stuck using your knife. Key When you find a key, a representation of that key will be shown in one of the two small slots located to the right of the ammo count. Weapon A representation of the currently active weapon will be shown at the far right of the status bar. Getting Rewarded When you go to a new floor, a Bonus Screen will tally your performance. Hidden rooms located, ratio of kills, and percentage of treasure found will be calculated. Each 100% ratio provides 10,000 extra points. Also, if you beat the par times for completing a floor, you'll receive extra bonus points. Items To Pick Up Spear of Destiny is packed with items that you'll want and need. These items fall within four major categories: Healing, Killing, Treasure, and Special Items: Healing: Dinners = +10%, First Aid = +25% Killing: Ammo = 4, 8; Ammo Box = 25; Treasure: Cross = 100 points, Chalice = 500 points, Chest = 1000 points, and Crown = 5000 points. Special Items: Keys: Open locked doors and can be found on the same floor as they are needed. One Ups: (ball with image of man's face inside) = Full Health, 25 Ammo and One Life. Within secret rooms of the castle are items that give you the extra urge to keep fighting! Hints & Strategies If you are going to survive Spear of Destiny, you'll need more than a trigger finger. Don't Rush Into the Room! If there is only one entrance, let the Nazi guards come out at you. They'll often be nice enough to open the doors for you. Get at an Angle. It's never smart to run into a room. Guards are sometimes posted near the entrances and stay hidden until you move close to the door. Go up to the door, slide to the side at an angle, and pick the enemy off with less danger to you. Use the Keyboard and the Mouse Once you have the game down, try using the mouse and keyboard at the same time. The mouse provides better control for shooting and turning. Also, the Strafe mode is much easier using the second mouse button. Charge! If you run at someone and shoot them point blank, you are more likely to wound them. Plus, this will provide less time for them to shoot you. Every Floor Has Hidden Stuff If you explore carefully, you'll find extra health and ammo hidden everywhere! Be sure to collect as much treasure as possible. Remember that every 40,000 points will provide you with an extra life. You'll need it! Necessary Items Aren't Hidden The Nazis may be rude hosts, but they would never hide anything necessary to escaping. Elevators to the next floor can be reached through the normal passages. Don't Be Too Proud to Eat with the Dogs! After taking too many bullets, it's a wise idea to get help from anywhere. Eating dog food maybe humiliating, but it will provide a small boost to your health. Use the QuickSave! The QuickSave!, (F8 key) and QuickLoad, (F9 key) is an easy method of improving your survival rate. Conserve Your Ammo Although it's fun to hold down the Crtl key to spit bullets everywhere, you should try to restrain yourself. Conserve ammunition and make your shots count. Don't Attack with a Knife If armed with only a knife, don't rush into a room that is full of guards and expect to come out alive. Spend your time looking for hidden rooms which may provide more ammo. The only thing that separates a brave man and a dead man is a well-placed bullet. Secret Floors Within the castle are secret floors which can only be reached from hidden elevators. Be sure to examine every possible hidden passage for the location of these elevators. Secret floors are extremely dangerous, but yield tremendous reward. Troubleshooting Memory Problems If you run Spear of Destiny and get an "Out of Memory" window, there are few things you can do. Remove TSR (resident) Programs If you change your AUTOEXEC.BAT to not load TSRs, they won't take up memory that Spear of Destiny needs to run. We recommend temporarily renaming your AUTOEXEC.BAT to AUTO, and your CONFIG.SYS to CONFIG. Then re-boot your computer and restart the game. Load DOS High If you have at least a 286 computer and extended memory, plus DOS 5.0, you can load DOS into high memory. Simply put "DOS=HIGH" in your CONFIG.SYS file. Refer to your DOS Manual for further details. Other Ideas Spear of Destiny will use XMS (extended memory) and EMS (expanded memory) if available. If you have and EMS card or a 386 computer, check your system manual for information on how to make this available. Sound Problems A sound board is not required, but is recommended for playing Spear of Destiny. If you are having sound problems here are a few ideas that may assist you! Sound Blaster Address When you installed your Sound Blaster or Sound Blaster Pro, you may have needed to change the default addresses in order to resolve possible hardware conflicts. Spear of Destiny can work with non- standard Sound Blaster settings. However, the program needs to know these settings. To enable the program to obtain your settings, set the "BLASTER" environment variable to contain the appropriate information. To do this either include the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or type it on the command-line before running Spear of Destiny: SET BLASTER=AxxxIxDx. Axxx represents the address of the Sound Blaster/Sound Blaster Pro. For the Sounds Blaster, it's either A210, A220, A230, A240, A250 or A260. For the Sound Blaster Pro, it's A220 or A240. Default is A220. Ix represents the DMA channel used by the Sound Blaster/Sound Blaster Pro. D0, D1 or D3 are acceptable values. Default is D1. Try the default values first. If one of the values is out of the acceptable range, the program will Quit, indicating which of the values wasn't acceptable. Please refer to your Sound Blaster manual for details. Sound Blaster Pro Volume You may need to adjust the volume coming from the Sound Blaster Pro. You can do this by adjusting the volume wheel or adjusting the volume on whatever you have the Sound Blaster Pro attached to, or by using the SBP-SET program that came with the Sound Blaster Pro. If you use the SBP-SET program, see the SB Pro User's Manual for details on how to use SBP-SET. Sound Blaster and Gravis PC GamePad Problems If you have a Gravis PC Gamepad, a second joystick card and a Sound Blaster, it is necessary to set the jumper on the Sound Blaster card to "On" so that you are using the joystick port on the Sound Blaster. Refer to your Sound Blaster manual for details. Technical Support If you require further assistance in running Spear of Destiny, call our Technical Support department at (905)-857-0020. For the fastest possible assistance, have Spear of Destiny running when making your call. id Software is a group of programmers, designers, artists and musicians with the goal of providing cutting edge games, both in software technology and design. Chief Operating Officer - Jay Wilbur Software Engineers - John Carmack & John Romero Master of the Pixel - Adrian Carmack Creative Director - Tom Hall Art & Manual Design - Kevin Cloud