Installation Guide

Requirements

To install all of the files you will need approximately 3.5 Mb of free space on your hard disk. If you don't install the documentation for Fastgraph, you'll only need 2.5 Mb of free space.

Files on the Disk

Table I.1 shows the files you will find on the disk.

File	Description
EXC.ARJ	Example programs from the Fastgraph User's Guide
FGE.ARJ	Fastgraph Game Editor program and data files
FGESRCE.ARJ	Source code for Fastgraph Game Editor
FGLIGHT.ARJ	Fastgraph/Light libraries, driver and utilities
HEDGE10.ARJ	Game: Hedge Row with source code
INSTALL.EXE	Installation program--run this first!
LEVEL.ARJ	Level Editor and source code from Chapter 6
MAKEFONT.ARJ	Utility to make a character font header file
MANUALS.ARJ	Fastgraph User's Guide and Fastgraph Reference Manual
ORDER.FRM	Order form for Fastgraph and special offers
PALETTE.ARJ	Palette matching and reduction utility
QF.ARJ	QuickFire demo
READ.ME	Release notes
RIPPER.ARJ	Tile Ripper program with source from Chapter 4
TOMMY.ARJ	Game: Tommy's Adventures
TOMSRCE.ARJ	Source code for Tommy's Adventures
UNARJ.EXE	Unarchiving program

Table I.1: Disk Files Most of these files are stored in an .ARJ format. These files were archived using Robert K. Jung's ARJ program, and the individual files may be extracted from the archives using the UNARJ.EXE program which is included on the disk. While you should be able to unarchive any of the files without difficulty, I recommend that you run the install program to unarchive all the programs into convenient subdirectories.

Installing the Game and Support Tools

To install all of the source and executable files for the game editor and the actual game, place the Action Arcade Adventure Set disk in drive A (or drive B depending on how your system is set up). Next, move to the drive, switch to the root directory and run the installation program. Here are the three commands, you'll need:

 
A: 
CD \ 
INSTALL 

Subdirectory		Description
\FG\EXAMPLES\		Fastgraph example programs
\FG\FGE\		Fastgraph Game Editor
\FG\FGESRCE\		Source code for Fastgraph Game Editor
\FG\HEDGE\		Hedge Row game with source code
\FG\QF\		QuickFire demo
\FG\TOMMY\		Tommy's Adventures game
\FG\TOMSRCE\		Source code for Tommy's Adventures
\FG\UTIL\		Tile ripper, level editor, palette matching program and makefont utility

In addition, the Fastgraph/Light files are installed in the \FG\ directory, including the FGDRIVER.EXE program, the various utilities and documentation for Fastgraph. The Fastgraph/Light libraries are installed in the appropriate library subdirectory. The install program will suggest a default choice which you may override. For example, the install program may suggest the subdirectory C:\BORLANDC\LIBRARY, but you may prefer to put the Fastgraph/Light libraries in another subdirectory, such as C:\LIB. I recommend you put the Fastgraph/Light libraries in the same subdirectory where your compiler usually looks for libraries.

Similarly, the install program will suggest an appropriate subdirectory for the Fastgraph header file, for example the C:\BORLANDC\INCLUDE subdirectory. If you have questions about library and header file paths, refer to your compiler manuals.

Running the Game

Before you do anything else, you'll probably want to run the game, Tommy's Adventures, that we'll be creating in this book. Go to the \FG\TOMMY\ subdirectory and enter this command:

 
TOMMY 

That's it. If you need help playing the game, read the instructions in Appendix A.