User Guide

Welcome to Wing Commander Academy. The following
includes quick installation instructions, for users
familiar with the process, and a more detailed, step-by-
step guide to installing the game. If you experience any
difficulty, consult Troubleshooting (pp. 3-4). To
avoid compatibility or memory problems, please take a
moment to confirm that your machine matches the
system requirements. Remember, you may safely quit
and start over at any time!
Note: Wing Commander Academy has been fully
tested with the Double Space disk compression utility
that shipped with MS-DOS version 6.0. We cannot
guarantee the compatibility of our games with other
disk compression utilities.
1 . Turn on your computer and wait for the DOS
prompt. Some machines boot directly to W i n d o w s ,
or a different shell environment. Be sure to exit your
Windows or shell program, and install directly from
the DOS command prompt (C: \ > ) .
2 . Insert Disk 1 of Wing Commander Academy into a
floppy drive.
3 . Type the name of that floppy drive (A: or B:), then
press ↵.
4 . Type I N S T A L L and press ↵.
5 . When prompted, follow the instructions in the
installation program.
For more details, see Installation Menus, below.
Help with the installation process is available at any
time by pressing F 1 .
A 2 meg machine is required. (However, we
recommend 4 megs of memory to play W i n g
Commander Academy.) A minimum of 5MB hard drive
space is required. By typing M E M at the DOS command
prompt (C:\>), you can see how much memory is
available on your computer. The game needs 586K
(600,064 bytes) of DOS memory available (3rd line
reported by mem) and 800,000 bytes of available EMS
m e m o r y .
Some sound cards require additional EMS memory.
Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro and Ad Lib require
no additional EMS memory. Using a Roland card
requires 848K (868,352 bytes) of available EMS
memory (total, not additional). When you use a
Roland card for music and a Sound Blaster (or Sound
Blaster Pro) for speech, you must have 913K (934,912
bytes) of available EMS memory (total, not additional).
Note to 2 meg owners: If you have a 2 meg machine, you
will not be able to free enough EMS memory to use both a
Sound Blaster Pro and a Roland. You must choose between
the Sound Blaster Pro and the Roland.
The installation process is menu-guided. Use ↑ and ↓
to select among the options on each screen, then press
↵. If the install program detects a condition that will
prevent installation (e.g. not enough disk space), the
program will stop and notify you of the nature of the
problem. You must fix the problem before installation
can succeed.
Main Menu
After an introductory screen, the main menu appears.
From here you can select an install option:
Install the game. This option attempts to install the
game onto the hard drive or drive partition you specify.
Change the hardware configuration. Run this option
of the install program any time you change the
hardware configuration of your machine after W i n g
Commander Academy has been installed, so that the
game can use the new configuration. Once you have
given the specifications and have verified that they are
correct, you are finished. You can now exit the install
p r o g r a m .
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