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-* SIMANT *-
From Maxis/Broderbund Software
Quick Docs Typed By: Night Vision/AFL
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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"
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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.
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REQUIREMENTS
1MB RAM to run in low resolution
2MB RAM to run in high resolution
NOTE: Supports AmigaDOS 2.0 features