============================================================================== -* SIMANT *- From Maxis/Broderbund Software Quick Docs Typed By: Night Vision/AFL ============================================================================== OPENING WINDOWS RIGHT AMIGA E - EDIT RIGHT AMIGA M - MAP RIGHT AMIGA B - BEHAVIOR CONTROL RIGHT AMIGA C - CASTE CONTROL RIGHT AMIGA H - HISTORY RIGHT AMIGA I - INFORMATION RIGHT AMIGA T - STATUS OPTIONS AND SPEEDS RIGHT AMIGA G - AUTO TRACK RIGHT AMIGA J - MUSIC RIGHT AMIGA K - SOUND EFFECTS RIGHT AMIGA P - PAUSE ON/OFF RIGHT AMIGA # - (#=SPEED, 1=SLOW..4=FAST) FILE FUNCTIONS RIGHT AMIGA N - NEW GAME RIGHT AMIGA O - OPEN GAME RIGHT AMIGA S - SAVE GAME RIGHT AMIGA A - SAVE AS... RIGHT AMIGA Q - QUIT CHANGING VIEWS RIGHT AMIGA Y - YARD RIGHT AMIGA 5 - HOUSE RIGHT AMIGA 6 - STRATEGIC RIGHT AMIGA 7 - GRAPHIC RIGHT AMIGA 8 - SURFACE RIGHT AMIGA 9 - BLACK NEST RIGHT AMIGA 0 - RED NEST YELLOW ANT CONTROLS 1 - RECRUIT 5 2 - RECRUIT 10 3 - RELEASE 1/2 4 - RELEASE ALL X - EXCHANGE 0 - LAY ALARM TRAIL YELLOW QUEEN CONTROLS 1 - DIG HOLE MISCELLANEOUS KEYS TAB - Toggles the edit and map windows to the front ALT - Allows click-and-drag movement of the terrain in the edit window SHIFT-CLICK - Enters Yellow Ant commands in the map window SPACE BAR - Stops Yellow Ant if moving, centers on Yellow Ant if not moving CURSOR KEYS - Scroll terrain in the edit window DELETE KEY - Puts experimental tools into "remove mode" ============================================================================== OBJECTS OF THE GAME There are 3 ways to play SimAnt: Quick Games, Full Games, and Experimental games. In Quick Games you are a black ant colony competing with a red ant colony for food and territory. Your goal is to defeat the red ants and take over your home turf - the local patch of ground in the backyard. Your task will be complicated by marauding spiders, voracious ant lions, torrential rains, crusing human feet and merciless lawn mowers. In Full Games you must take over the entire backyard section by section. Then take over the house and drive out the humans. In addition to hordes of red ants and other pests, you will face the chemical death of inescticides In Experimental Games, you are a human playing and experimenting with ants. Your tools let you build walls and barriers to run ants through mazes, add food, add ants, dig of fill in holes, test ants' reactions to various trail marking and alarm chemicals, and play with insecticide. In addition, there is a Tutorial Mode that walks you through the basics of life as an ant. ============================================================================== REQUIREMENTS 1MB RAM to run in low resolution 2MB RAM to run in high resolution NOTE: Supports AmigaDOS 2.0 features