                       UNEQUALLED COMBAT: THE GAME
                        Programmed and Created by
                         Jak Locke & Gregg Dantin

---THE GRID
After reading the newsbeam, you will appear on a grey grid with many other
green ships.  These green ships are icons for the enemy ships.  You can move
around on the grid by using the numeric keypad (but you cannot go diagonally
on the grid).  
On the grid, your object is to engage an enemy ship by moving into the same
square that it occupies.  Some ships are cloaked, that is, you can't see them
until you engage them, while others are decoys, which means that nothing will
happen if you engage them.  Any ships that aren't cloaked or decoys will be
regular ships.

---MOVES
In the top left corner of the screen is a number that will increase by one
every time you make a move.  If it reaches 200, the game is over.  You should
try to make your moves in the quickest path possible.  Depending upon your
skill level, it may increase by more or less than one with each move.

---ENGAGING A SHIP
Once you have engaged a ship, you have the choice of talking or fighting.  If
you choose to talk, the enemy will begin conversing with you.  You must choose
your response to his questions or statements.  All the conversations end in
combat, so the conversation is merely just to add to the depth of the game.
If you choose combat, you skip the formalities and rush right into the battle.

---BATTLE
You can move in all eight directions using the numeric keypad, and some battles
can only be won by taking advantage of your diagonal thrusters.  To destroy a
ship, you must get in range of it and use the fire button to fire your laser.
If you hit the ship's vulnerable area, the ship explodes and you have won the
battle, and then you get to proceed back to the grid to engage another ship.
If the ship fires and hits you, your ship will be destroyed.  Be careful when
you fight, because you only have ten lives.
Beware ships that cloak.  Look for their shots to find out where they are.
Also beware of skilled pilots who will not shoot until they are sure they will
hit you.  These are very dangerous if they are cloaked, as they will not fire
until it is too late for you to know where they are.

---THE GAME IN SHORT
After you beat so many of one kind of ship, you will proceed on to another kind
of ship to fight.  Each ship in succession is tougher to beat than the kind 
before it, so watch out.
After you beat enough ships, you'll get to fight D'Ma.  If you beat him, you
destroy the battle platform and beat the game.  It's that simple.

---FIGHTING D'MA
You will have to hit D'Ma's warship three times.  He will be firing three lasers
at you.  If you can blow out his guns then he will retreat.  When you fight him
again next to his battle platform, his guns will be repaired and you will have
to fight him again but this time, he will be cloaked.  This is the last battle
and it is VERY hard.

---AFTER YOU WIN
After you win, there's not much I can tell you except congratulations.

---TO QUIT
Just push "Q" when you're in battle.

--TROUBLESHOOTING
If you encounter some problems with Unequalled Combat, here's how you can
remedy SOME of them.

I TRIED TO DO SOMETHING AND I GOT THE MESSAGE "OUT OF STACK SPACE"!  WHAT'S
WRONG?
This is a programming error.  We're trying to fix it as best as we can.  This
occurs because the source code is almost too large for the QBASIC programming
language.  Just push Shift-F5 and don't try doing it again.

WHEN THE PROGRAM WAS LOADING, I GOT THE MESSAGE "OUT OF STACK SPACE".  I
THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THAT PROBLEM!
You thought wrong.  If this happens (it rarely does), just re-open the program
in QBasic.

I WAS PLAYING THE GAME, ABOUT TO WIN, AND THE GAME CUTS OFF AND A MESSAGE THAT
SAYS "OUT OF STACK SPACE" COMES UP.  WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY GAME?!
It's because of the revision that it does this.  To remedy this, all you have
to remember to do is not hold down any cursor keys while you play.  What I mean 
by that is, don't press down on a certain key for extended periods of time.
This should remedy your problem.

THIS IS GETTING ANNOYING.  WHEN I RAN THE PROGRAM, I GOT AN "OUT OF MEMORY"
MESSAGE. WHAT NOW?
Try rebooting QBasic and see if that fixes the issue.  If it doesn't, maybe it's
time to get more RAM?

MY GAME DRAWS THE STARFIELD, BUT THEN I GET THE MESSAGE "ILLEGAL FUNCTION
CALL".  SHOULD I CALL THE POLICE?
No, what it means is that one of our coordinate positions wasn't calculated
correctly (Greeeegg?).  Jot down what type of ship you were about to fight  
or what you were about to do and mail it to us.

I GOT THE MESSAGE "MODULE LEVEL CODE TOO LARGE" WHEN I WAS RUNNING THE PROGRAM.
That isn't even a question.

WHAT DO I DO?
This means that you've been adding too much stuff to our game.  Get rid of your
stuff and leave the game how it was when you got it!

BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN ADDING ANYTHING TO THE GAME!  DON'T GET TESTY!
Well, if you haven't been adding anything to the game then you've got a big
problem that I don't know how to solve.  I doubt if this will happen much.

I WANT TO SEE ALL THE SECRETS IN THE GAME!
Well, too bad.  You'll have to find out on your own.

WHEN I TYPE IN UNG TO RUN THE GAME, IT ASKS ME IF I WANT TO SEE THE STORY.
Okay.

I TYPE "Y", BUT IT GOES STRAIGHT TO THE GAME!!  WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
You must not have DOS Version 6 or higher.  Version 5 does not support the
CHOICE command that is used in the batch file.  If you REALLY want to see the
story, then type this at the C:\> prompt:
                                           QBASIC /RUN STORY.BAS
When you're finished playing the game, you'll have to manually exit the
program to get back to DOS.  To do this, push ALT, the down arrow, and the up
arrow, and then push ENTER.

I WAS PLAYING UNEQUALLED COMBAT AND SUDDENLY MY LIGHTS AND COMPUTER SHUT OFF,
ALONG WITH MY TV AND OTHER THINGS!  WHAT'S GOING ON??
You had a power outage, dummy.  Go whine to your power company, not me.

---IF THIS DID NOT HELP YOU ONE BIT....
If you have any problems that weren't covered, send us a note of what's wrong 
and we'll get back to you.  
				ADDRESS REDACTED
				BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHO LIVES THERE NOW

Have a good game and don't let D'Ma get the best of you.  Well, not too many
times anyway.
                                                                -JL
                                                                

