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                             Vegastrike 0.4.3
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Welcome to Vegastrike!

First of all, a big thanks to Ludwig from the lokisetup icculus.org mailing
list.  Without his patience and help, we wouldn't have been able to get these
installers done :-)

For detailed instructions on how to play, see the manual available from our
webpage:

        -->  http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net  <--

For any technical questions, workarounds or bugs, see our WIKI resource:

        -->  http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/  <--

or visit our forums:

        -->  http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/  <--



--- System Requirements ---

    * Hard Drive Space (note: to install the game, /tmp must have enough room
                        to extract the data)
          o ~240 MB (No music)
          o ~300 MB (With music)

    * Absolute Minimum Requirement (read: technically possible, but don't
                                    bother)
          o Processor: Pentium I 200 MHz or Apple G3 400MHz
          o Video card: 3d card with 16 MB of memory (although it will work
                                                     without a 3d card too)
          o Screen color depth: 16 bit
          o RAM: 256 MB
          o Swap space: ???
          o HD: As above.

    * Reasonable Minimum Requirement
          o Processor: Pentium III 500 MHz
          o Video card: 3d card with 32 MB of memory, and HT&L support
          o Screen color depth: 16 bit
          o RAM: 384 MB
          o Swap space: 512 MB
          o HD: As above.

    * "I want to play Vegastrike at a decent speed and framerate" Requirement
          o Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz
          o Video card: 3d card with 64 MB of memory, and HT&L support
          o Screen color depth: 16 bit
          o RAM: 512 MB
          o Swap space: 512 MB
          o HD: As above.

    * 3l337 Requirement
          o Processor: x MHz, where x -> infinity as 3l337ness -> 1
          o Video card: for (long i=0;i<this_year.length();i++)
                            {newCard(i,USD(500));}
          o Screen color depth: 32 bit
          o RAM: 4096 MB
          o Swap space: Real men will hot-plug new memory modules as needed.
          o HD: I mirror Sourceforge.net, can you?

© The Vegastrike Project 2004