            ********** FREEWARE DEMOVERSION 1.0 **********

ATTENTION: Please, start your computer with CONTROL key. Better will 
be switch off your accelerators like FX, Nemesis, FT/20, Skunk, 
because they can cause problem and crash of the game. 

	INTRODUCTION OF THE POWER UP GAME

	The Power up is race car game destined for Atari Computers ST, STE
and Falcon with minimal 1 Mbytes of memory. The game uses a many types of atari
hardware as a blitter, yamaha sound chip, dma sound and 5 hardware music cards.
It works in low 320x200 points resolution in 32 colors with any TV or color
monitor !. Whole game is coded in MC68000 code!!!
	The parameters of the game are set in tabular menus. Players can
choose type of the game from four variants. In two players game is used
the split screen. 


	GAME INSTRUCTIONS


 ACTIVE KEYS IN MENUS:

      arrow up or down: moving up or down
   arrow left or right: selecting item or counting parameter down or up
                 enter: selecting item
                 space: selecting item
                   esc: to go back to upper menu
  ctrl+right shift+"p": input password

  controlling by joy (at no-mouse connector) is identical to keys

	Every track can have password, which is defined by track editor.
If you would use password to skip some tracks, then please type combination
ctrl+right shift+"p" in any menu.


 HARDWARE SETUP:
  
        music: yamaha mono, ste stereo (25kHz, Falcon 50kHz), replay
               microdeal, replay professional, replay playback, MV 16
               and prosound designer
music quality: low, medium, high and ultra
        sound: yamaha fm (chip sounds), yamaha mono (digital), ste stereo
      blitter: on, off (where present)
   turbo mode: quick scrolling for Falcon only
  screen size: normal or small for slow normal ST


 GAME OPTIONS:

	All settings can be saved. By the help of option menu can be set
parameters of game as player names, type of the game, difficulty (tracks),
selecting own track by track selector,... Setting-up of the keyboard
control in advanced options menu is very important.
 
  keyboard: red .. red car is controlled by keyboard and with first joystick
             (first joy is at no-mouse connector), blue car is controlled by
             second joystick (normal setting)

            blue .. blue car is controlled only by keyboard and red car is
             controlled by first joystick (for two-players game with only
             1 joystick)     
		
	If you would use your own track, then please set up track type to
own ("tracks: own") and select track by track selector. (This selection is
possible only at full version.)


 TRACK SELECTOR ACTIVE KEYS:

          esc: canceling
 shift+return: chosen file is veryfied !!!!!!! (OK!)
       return: choosing file
       arrows: moving of the cursor and selecting strip
 shift+arrows: quick moving of the selecting strip
  ctrl+arrows: moving to top or bottom 
	  tab: cursor moving to directory selection
     ctrl+"A": active is disk A
           F1: to go to up directory
           F2: reread directory


 ACTIVE KEYS IN RESULT LISTS:	 

                   esc: skipping of the further result lists
 any key or joy moving: next result list

 ACTIVE KEYS IN GAME:
                   esc: end of the game
                   "p": pause
   arrow left or right: turning car
            arrow down: brake
        shift+arrow up: gear shifting up
      shift+arrow down: gear shifting down
            only shift: neutral gear (constant speed)
              none key: cars accelerate automaticly
 joystick:
            button is equal to shift key
            directions are like arrows                 

     joy left or right: turning car
                  down: brake
             button+up: gear shifting up
           button+down: gear shifting down
           only button: neutral gear (constant speed)
           none action: cars accelerate automaticly


	TROUBLESHOOTING ADDENDUM
       
  a) On old Atari with TOS 1.0 may be some problems with loading files 
      during playing of the music ("Read file error !, *.MAP). Solution of
      this problem is setting up music quality to low.
  b) Memory is overflow. Power up need minimal 1015 Kbytes of RAM memory
     (1Mbytes Atari, free memory is 9 Kbyte). You have to eliminate some
     resident programs as accessories, drivers,.... In case 1Mbytes with
     harddisk (harddisk driver in memory) you have to run game only from
     floppy disk.
 

	COMERCIAL INFORMATION

	This is limited version. The full comercial version contains a lot
of tracks in five different graphics, comfort track editor for own tracks
, more music and graphics.
	Price of full game with the track editor is 250 Kc for Czech republic
and 20 DM for foreign customers.
	If you want to buy the Power up or to become a dealer, please contact
us at address:

	 Mr. Karel Rous
	 Fisova 22
	 Brno 602 00
 	 Czech republic
	
 	 tel.: 042-05/571 682
	 E-mail:CICHON@RTIME.FELK.CVUT.CZ programmer's team
	 E-mail:xsumbe00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz distribution
	 NeST:90:1200/5.2
	 FidoNet:2:421/16.11


                                                      Team of authors
				                                          
                                programming: Marek Cichon, Martin Hejral 
                                   graphics: Jiri Suchanek, Petr Pokorny
                               distribution: Karel Rous
