Re: Game Manual
The printed manual in the CD edition is only a simple "get you started". The full up to date manual is the HTML one the game links to.
The CD version of the game comes in 2 flavours - with a boxed manual and physical CD, and a download-only of the CD game version. The latter is quicker, and avoids postage delays and costs etc, and possible customs dues (eg VAT).
You dont deselect units, some unit is always the current one. That's the way the game works. Use N and P to go to next and previous units, or use the HQ roster to go directly to another unit, if you dont want to click on it directly (and possibly mis-click). Go to the roster or HQ menu screen, click desired unit, exit roster and the selected unit is now the current unit.
By Alt-Tab, do you meant to alt-tab from the game in full screen mode to the windows desktop?. That works in all game modes, though if you are in the full-screen mode then with modern windows video drivers, they consider the 256 colour palette their property (because 256 mode is obsolete) and scramble the games palette on a task switch. In windows 7 and vista we also had to include a script to kill the windows explorer in order for it not to destroy the palette, as the "Aero" interface those had, assumes total control of the 256 colour mode. Windows 9 and later dont have aero desktop, so are less of a problem with full-screen 256 colour mode.
In windowed mode, the colour palette is a windows compatible one, so no palette scrambling occurs. When you have the full CD game, you have access to desktop resolution, whereby the game uses whatever resolution you have the windows desktop set up to. "Full screen" mode in its 256 colour palette is therefore no longer needed - but is provided for folks with old 4:3 CRT monitors. The free demo version only goes up to an 800x600 mode window size, but is adequate for evaluating the game.
cheers
Andy
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