ALWAYS PLAY USING YOUR PLAY DISKS, NEVER PLAY ON THE MASTER OR SAVE DISKS!! 

ALWAYS SAVE GAME TO END A SESSION. ESC BRINGS UP THE SAVE GAME MENU.
NEVER REBOOT THE SYSTEM DURING A SESSION BECAUSE IT WOULD LEAVE THE
STARFLIGHT FILES IN AN INCONSISTENT STATE.

Hints for Floppy Disk Users: You must copy the Starflight disks before you 

begin playing a game.  You will need four blank disks.  Use the DOS DISKCOPY 

command to make copies of both the Starflight A disk and the Starflight B 

Disks.  Label these disks PLAYA and PLAYB.  Label the remaining two disks 

SAVEA and SAVEB.

To play Starflight boot your machine with DOS and put the PLAYA disk in 

drive A.  If you have a second floppy disk (B Drive) put the PLAYB disk in 

drive B.  Now type STARFLT followed by the ENTER key.  Play will begin. 

Refer to play instructions contained in the package.   

As your Starflight adventure evolves the Starflight Universe evolves with 

you.  The result of this evolution will be referred to as the "game state". 
The game state is saved partly in memory, and partly on disk, and is not
saved entirely to disk until you use the SAVE GAME command.  
  
As a result the game state information on the disks is incomplete until you 

issue a SAVE GAME command.  At this point, the new game state is saved 

intact to the PLAY disks, but it is IMPORTANT to make a backup copy of this 

game state.  Use Diskcopy to make backup copies of both the PLAYA and PLAYB 

disks to the SAVEA and SAVEB disks.

To resume a game after giving a SAVE GAME command and backing up the PLAY 

disks to the SAVE disks, re-insert the PLAY Disks and type "STARFLT".

If you need to restore to a previous game state (because your crew got 

killed) use Diskcopy to copy from your SAVE disks onto your PLAY disks and 

then resume playing on the PLAY disks.
 
Using these precautions will ensure that you can always return to your last
saved game state.  NEVER USE YOUR MASTER OR SAVE GAME DISKS TO PLAY 

STARFLIGHT. 

Additional Hints for Floppy Disk Users:  We have left approximately 36KB 

free on the A: disk.  You may wish to consider putting a copy of your 

command.com and diskcopy.com onto your PLAYA and SAVEA disks to facilitate 

backups. Starflight requires the STARFLT.COM, STARA.COM, and STARB.COM files 

to run.  You may delete the .bat files and .txt files from your PLAYA disk 

if you need the disk space.

Hard Disk Users Only: There is an HDINSTL.bat file on the STARFLT A disk. 
This batch file installs Starflight on your hard disk.  It takes a parameter 

for the device ID of your hard disk. If your hard disk is device C: the
command "A:HDINSTL  C:" will install Starflight on your hard disk.  The 

batch file also gives additional instructions for saving and backing up game 

states on the hard disk.

Configuration Notes:

Starflight requires 256K will use up to 512K and directly controls both the 

keyboard and graphics.  It can be run from within or in conjunction with 

other memory resident programs.  If another program does not properly 

restore the graphics modes when it returns you to Starflight then typing ESC 

followed by 3 for "Change Display Configuration" will restore the proper 

graphics modes. 

Tandy 1000 users will get the optimal 16 color display mode with either RGB 

or Composite monitors.   

Game Play Notes:
 
If Starport gets destroyed then the game is essentially over. You can
continue play but the goal of the game is probably no longer achievable.  

The device called the Ellipsoid is refered to by some races as the Focusing 

Stone. 

If this page of text is the only one you got to read because the rest
scrolled off the screen before you could read it, try typing "README" to 

DOS.  This will display this file one screen at a time.