
                             Green Beret PC v1.00
                          Copyright (C) 2001 TDB Soft

                                June 25th 2001

                          www16.brinkster.com/tomber

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RESCUE THE CAPTIVES
You are the Green Beret, a highly trained combat machine.

Your mission:
      Infiltrate all 4 enemy Strategic Defense Installations and rescue the
      captives.

You are alone and facing immeasurable odds.

Do you have the skill and stamina to succeed?

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PLAYING THE GAME
Red alert!

Using the platforms and ladders advance through the 4 Strategic Defense
Installations:
      Missile Base, Harbor, Bridge and Prison Camp.

Use your knife to attack the enemy defenders who will kick, shoot and bite to
stop you.

Watch your step or you may become a human "Mine Detector". 

Dodge the bullets.

Avoid running into your enemies.

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CONTROLS
The Green Beret’s movements are controlled using a combination of the arrow
keys as well as the other keys listed below:

      left arrow
            move left

      right arrow
            move right

      up arrow
            jump/climb up

      down arrow
            duck/climb down

      left ctrl
            knife function

      "p"
            pause

      "esc"
            end/exit the game

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STATUS and SCORING
On-screen information shows lives remaining, current score and current stage.
You’ll find your status displayed at the bottom of the screen.
You begin your mission with 3 lives and gain a bonus life after completing each
stage.

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HINTS and TIPS
      avoid the bullets by jumping or ducking

      keep moving or you may have a lot of uninvited company

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GREEN BERET PARAMETERS
You may want to start Green Beret with the following (optional) parameters:

      -nosound
            enjoy the silence

      -slow
            if you think the game is running too slow on your computer, try
            this parameter, it will reduce the frame rate. If you are playing
            the game on a 386 machine, this is the standard mode

      -fast
            this is the standard mode unless you play the game on a 386
            machine, see above. If you feel your 386 machine is capable, you
            may try to use the "-fast" parameter. If the game appears to be in
            "slow motion", your 386 machine is not capable of using the "-fast"
            parameter. You will need to restart the game

      example:
            grnbrt.exe -nosound -fast
            this will run the game without sound, in fast mode

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
      386+

      256KB VGA card

      550KB base RAM

      1024KB extended RAM
      
      2MB hard drive space

      104+ keyboard

      MS-DOS


      optional:
      SoundBlaster compatible soundcard

      Windows 9x

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TROUBLESHOOTING
      question:
            "where is the sound???"

      answer:
            you must set the BLASTER environment variable so Green Beret can
            detect the settings of your soundcard. If you do not have a
            soundcard, setting the BLASTER environment variable won't help

      example:
            SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6

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NOTES
The PC version of Green Beret is a remake of the original classic Commodore 64
(C64) game, if you'd like to play the original version, download a C64 emulator
and the C64 version of the game.

Sound samples from the original C64 game were recorded by Thomas Bolhuis.

This game is programmed for MS-DOS and it will run best under MS-DOS. Of course
it will still run in a MS-DOS prompt under Windows.

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CREDITS
      code
            Thomas Bolhuis

      sound system
            Ethan Brodsky

      sound
            Martin Galway

      graphics
            Thomas Bolhuis

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CONTACT
Visit our homepage at: www16.brinkster.com/tomber.
Here you will find Green Beret updates and other TDB Soft programs.

Please send questions, comments, problems and suggestions to TDB Soft at
tdbsoft@crosswinds.net.
