User Guide

SPECIFIC HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

DoubleSpace

Strike Commander has been fully tested with MS-DOS 6.0’s DoubleSpace disk

compression utility. We cannot guarantee the compatibility of our games with other disk

compression utilities. You might want to add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS

file to free more DOS RAM (base memory):

DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\DBLSPACE.SYS /MOVE

Thrustmaster Weapon Control System

The DIP switch settings on the Weapon Control System for Strike Commander are

switches 1, 2 and 6 on. All other switches should be off.

CH GameCard III Automatic

The CH GameCard III Automatic requires a program to be run whenever the machine

boots up. This program is called CHJOY3.EXE. Please be sure that this program runs

before calibrating joysticks in Strike Commander, or unpredictable results will occur.

You may want to add the following line at the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT:

CHJOY3.EXE

DOS 5.0 SMARTDRV.SYS

Strike Commander does not support the SMARTDRV.SYS that comes with some versions

of DOS. It does support SMARTDRV.EXE which comes with Windows 3.0 or better.

Bus Mastering Hard Drive Users

If you’re using a bus mastering hard drive controller card (you’ll probably know if you are),

and if the game text and graphics are garbled, add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER

SB16/Wave Blaster and CH Flightstick Combination

Due to a hardware conflict between the joystick port on the Creative Labs’ SB16/Wave

Blaster combination and the CH Flightstick, General MIDI music will not be heard when

the Flightstick is connected to the SB16/Wave Blaster joystick port. Another

manufacturer’s joystick or another joystick port must be used to receive the General

MIDI music. Contact the respective manufacturers if you have any further compatibility

questions.

General MIDI

Strike Commander CD has joined the next generation of sound quality with its support of

the General MIDI standard as defined by the MPU-401 instruction set. At the time of

publishing, only a few cards support MPU-401. These cards include the Roland SCC-1

and RAP-10 and the Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 and ASP 16 (both of the latter with

the attached Wave Blaster daughterboard). Other manufacturers have already released, or

are planning to release, sound cards that use the MPU-401 instruction set. However,

sound cards that use a memory-resident program (TSR) to emulate MPU-401 may not

work with this software.

Note that some General MIDI cards offer digitized speech or sound effect capabilities.

Strike Commander CD will only use those sound cards that carry the OPL2 FM chip for

digitized speech or sound effects. As in the case of the Roland RAP-10, customers will

need to use a second sound card, such as a Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro or 100%

compatible sound card, for digitized speech and effects. Review your sound card

documentation or contact the manufacturer if you have any questions.