                This game is cool because I supplied it.
                                             -SM

Your Objective
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Ages ago dinosaurs roamed the face of the earth trying to survive nature's
elements and catastrophies.  Meat eaters, egg eaters, and plant eaters all
struggled against each other for survival.  Eventually they became extinct,
and we are left with their fossilized remains.  Now you have a chance to find
out if you can survive Extinction.

Starting a New Game
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Start a new game by double clicking on the Extinction game icon.  (When you
have finished a game, start a new game from the file menu.  If you want to
stop a game and save it for later, choose Save As from the File menu and type
in a name.)  When the window shown below appears, you can select a new game
(or load a previously saved game).  If you start a new game, a dialog box will
appear, allowing you to select a level of difficulty.

The game opens with four windows entitled Gene Pool, Dino Corral, World Map,
and The World.

The Gene Pool randomly generates dinosaurs and eggs.  You will want to quickly
build herds of dinosaurs by dragging and dropping dinosaur icons from the
Gene Pool into the Dino Corral.  Be sure to place eggs in the Dino Corral so
you can use them later to increase the size of the herds that are already in 
The World.

The Dino Corral is where you will build your herds before placing them in The
World.  Each square in Dino Corral represents a potential herd.  Stack 
dinosaurs of the same species into a square of the Dino Corral to create a 
herd in preparation for placing them in The World.  Then click and drag your
herd into The World.

In general the World Map shows in condensed from what is included in The World
window.  This helps you remember where your herds are and gives you a 
reference point so you can quickly find them in The World window.  This is a
great reference tool as you play the game.

Most of the action of the game takes place in The World window.  This is where
you will place your herds, avoid meat and egg eaters, and try to survive
Extinction.

Points
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Automatic scoring is kept and added, depending on the decisions you make
concerning your herds.  Try to use dinosaurs that actually existed during a
time period.  (Example: If you are playing in the Triassic period, use 
dinosaurs that lived during that time.  You will receive 1,000 bonus points
for each of the Triassic dinosaurs that survive the Triassic period.)  Points
can also be increased by surviving meat eaters, having growing herds (see
Herds), and how much time has passed (see Time).  Of course, highest scorer
wins first place in the Dinosaur Hall of Fame.

Time
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Total time for the game is 30 minutes.  Near the top of the screen under the
menu bar is a ticking time line which is comprised of three time periods: the
Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.  These were real time periods which
occured during what is known as the Mesozoic Era.  In the game each time
period lasts 10 minutes.  As each time period passes, the level of difficulty
increases.  You can pause the game by choosing Pause from the File menu.

Herds
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A herd consists of two or more dinosaurs of the same species.  You can have
more than one herd of the same species in The World.  When you first start
the game, you can place up to four herds in The World.  A bonus herd is given
when you advance to a new period.

To increase the size of a herd in The World, you must first click, drag and
drop an egg nest from the Dino Corral on top of a herd.  (Don't worry if you
have several egg nests in the Dino Corral, only one will be placed with the
herd.)  With an egg nest now placed with a herd, you can add dinosaurs of the
same species (drag and drop from the Dino Corral) to that herd to increase its
size.  If you wish to increase the herd size again, just repeat this method.

Important: Keep the Dino Corral as full as possible, because if a catastrophe
occurs or a meat eater eats a herd, you will have the opportunity to replace
that herd.

Predators
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The dinosaurs that you play with are plant eaters; the dinosaurs the game
generates are predators (meat and egg eaters).  You'll want to stay away from
the predators - the meat eaters will consume as much as they can eat in one
sitting.  A Tyrannosaurus Rex, being a large meat eater, will quickly consume
a small herd of Fabrosauruses (small plant eaters), it will take him longer
to consume the herd.  Watch out for the egg eaters, too, because they will go
after as many eggs as they can eat.

Catastrophes
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A catastrophe can randomly occur at any time during the game.  These
catastrophes are based on the theories of why the dinosaurs became extinct.
The catastrophes cane be Disease, Insects, Supernova, Magnetic Shift, Flood,
and Mammals (which eat all eggs in The World).  (Example:  If a herd dies
because of an insect catastrophe, it is because the insects have eaten the
plants that the dinosaurs eat, causing the herd to die of starvation.)

If a catastrophe or meat eater destroys one of your herds you can replace it.
However, if you do not replace it immediately, your herd is considered 
extinct.  The extinct herd will still be counted as one of your possible
herds in The World.

If your herd was destroyed by a catastrophe or eaten by a meat eater, you will
need to drag and drop a herd (of any species) from the Dino Corral to any
location in The World.  If you don't have any herds to drag from the Dino
Corral, be sure to have some next time!

Volcanoes
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Watch out when your herd is near a volcano; it can trigger an eruption.
However, that's not all bad if you think fast and move quickly.  Think of 
those big meat eaters that chase your herds and swallow them up for a
midnight snack.  If you can lead those predators near a volcano, stay very
briefly and then quickly move on, an eruption could fry that overgrown meat
eater or even a fast running egg eater.

Dino Fact Bar
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Across the top of the screen under the time line is the DinoFact Bar.  Click
on one of the dinosaur buttons to reveal basic information about it (name,
diet, size, time period in which it lived).  This is a great tool to refresh
your memory if you forget some of these facts.  During the game, it will be
important to remember which time period a dinosaur lived in, its size, and
what its diet consisted of.

Dinosaur Database
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Dinosaur Database is an on-line source of useful information about prehistoric
life.  It is devided into five catagories: Where To See Dinosaurs, Theories
and Controversies, Did You Know?, Glossary of Terms, and Dinosaur Bios.

On the DinoFact Bar is an educated owl icon that you can click to start the
Dinosaur Database.  The database will open with the following catagories.

Where To See Dinosaurs
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This category supplies information on where you can go to see dinosaur 
exhibits, either in museums or in the field.  If you click on the button
labeled "Where To See Dinosaurs," a secondary window will open, and you can
click on any country in the world.

If you click on the United States you will be presented with a map of the 
United States.  You can click on any state to see what dinosaur attractions 
are available.

For example, if you click on Utah, a map of Utah will appear, with attractions
represented.  Click on attraction, and a secondary window opens to give you 
information about that attraction.

Theories and Controversies
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Clicking on this button will produce a list of topics about which there is
disagreement:  the color of dinosaur skin, the texture of dinosaur skin,
flying dinosaurs, warm-blooded, life spands, intelligence, and more.  
Clicking on any of the topics will produce a secondary window that contains
a three paragraph condesation of the essentials of the controversy.  Many of 
these paragraphs contain terms highlited in blue; you can click on these to 
read a definition.

Did You Know?
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Clicking on "Did You Know" maximizes the Database window (makes it cover the
entire screen).  When you are finished, clicking on "Done" resizes the window
and returns you to the Contents window.

"Did You Know?" includes such interesting topics as "Dinosaurs with the 
Longest Names," "Longest Dinosaurs," and "Smallest Dinosaurs."  "Dinosaur
Filmes" is a chronological listing of filems in which dinosaurs play a 
signifigant role.  Just click on a topic to see a secondary window presenting
the information.

"The Fabulous Fifty" presents statistics about fifty selected dinosaurs in the
form of tables.  For example, if you click on the topic "Fabulous Fifty:
Ornithischians Sorted By Weight," a secondary window will open to a list of
Ornithischians in ascending order of weight (surprise, surprise :p ).  The
list gives (in parentheses) the meaning of each dinosaur's scientific name.
You may also be interested in finding out the "Wingspan of a Flying Dinosaur."

Glossary of Terms
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"Glossary of Terms" lists hundreds of terms related to dinosaurs.  Click on
any entry, and a secondary window will open to show you a definition or 
commentary on the term.

Dinosaur Bios
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"Dinosaur Bios" contains information about hundreds of dinosaurs.  Click on 
the dinosaur Bios button, then the Search button, to open a search window.
Either scroll through the alphabetical list of names or begin typing in the
name of a dinosaur.  When you have found your topic, click on it, then choose
Show Topic, and select Go To.  The biographical information sheet on that
dinosaur will appear.  There a hundreds of entries giving the out-of-date
name of a dinosaur; clicking on the name will cross-reference you to the
accepted name (e.g., clicking on Brontosaurus will produce the entry for
Apatosaurus).  

You can also use the browse buttons to scan backwards and forwards through
the biographical information sheets alphabetically, one by one.  You can also
print out the entries for a dinosaur, along with the silhouetted image of the
dinosaur.

You can capture the information (including difficult spellings) by copying it
to the clipboard and pasting it into a word processing application.  by doing
so, you can excerpt large blocks of information for reports.

Just click on Edit in the menu bar and choose Copy.  A small dialog box will
appear with all the Bio's text.  Highlight the portion you wish to copy, and
click on Copy again.  The information will be copied to the Clipboard, and
from there, it can be pasted into a word-processing application.

At the bottom of each Dinosaur Bio is a silhouette of the dinosaur and a six
foot tall human, both scaled to a grid.  Because of the amount of information
in each Bio, you will have to scroll to reach the silhouette.  If this is
inconvenient, you can click on the View It button as you read, to produce a
popup window that displays the silhouette.  Click anywhere to return to the
Bio.  You can print the Bio and silhouette by clicking on the Print button
in the menu bar.

            PHOENIX '94: SHADOW MASTER IS GOD.  WE WORSHIP HIM.
