DUST Demo Read Me

Thank you for playing the DUST Demo!

An interactive story set in a Western frontier-town in 1882, Dust is an
exploration-based narrative adventure with arcade features.  The 
setting is the town of Diamondback, a frontier outpost in the New 
Mexico Territory in the year 1882. As the story opens, the player 
wanders into town, having no money and no gun. Exploring the town and 
its various locales, the player begins to meet and converse with the 
town's various offbeat inhabitants. Perception and judgment are key as 
the player must adjust to an unfamiliar and volatile setting, learn the 
personalities of the townspeople, and elicit the friendship or help of 
the ones who might be trustworthy. Over the course of five days and 
nights, the player may become involved in a variety of confrontations, 
challenging predicaments, and, ultimately, a  battle of greed and destiny 
involving a trove of Spanish silver, a Native American schoolteacher, 
and her tribe's lost heritage.  

This is one of four demo's currently available for DUST.  The Blackjack, 
Target Range, Serpent Puzzle, and Slot Machine demo's allow you to 
experience several small aspects of the frontier town of Diamondback, 
New Mexico.  The full game has more than 35 talking characters, a fully 
navigable 3-D environment, dozens of puzzles, and an easy-to-use 
interface.  To order the full game, check with your local software 
retailer or call 1-800-GTE-TODA.


---- KEYBOARD COMMANDS -----------------------------------------

While playing the Windows version of Dust, you can use the
following keys:

    Esc                    Skip the current animation, or stop
                                 talking to the current character
    Ctrl+F1 / Ctrl+F2      Increase/decrease the brightness of
                                 the screen
    Ctrl+F3 / Ctrl+F4      Increase/decrease the redness of the
                                 screen
    Ctrl+F5 / Ctrl+F6      Increase/decrease the greenness of
                                 the screen
    Ctrl+F7 / Ctrl+F8      Increase/decrease the blueness of the
                                 screen
---- TECHNICAL SUPPORT ----------------------------------------

Before you begin the demo, we ask for your patience when starting 
and ending the program. Multiple double-clicks on the mouse button 
when executing the demo may cause the game to work improperly. 
Simply double click on bjacdemo.exe to start. Please don't double-click 
it a second time before it starts.  When you're finished playing, wait 
until you can click away the clear taskbar entry at the bottom of the 
desktop to make sure the demo has quit. When trying to run a second 
game immediately after the first game has ended please wait a few 
seconds before clicking on the executable file again.

If the screen is dark after quickly restarting, or you see only 
small rectangles, hit the Alt-Tab keys to switch back to the desktop. 
Then,  right click the mouse on the Blackjack Demo entry in the 
taskbar to close.

CyberFlix provides technical support via telephone, fax, America 
Online, and the internet.

Telephone:
    The CyberFlix Help Line is (423) 546-7846.  Customer
    support technicians are available from noon to 5 PM Eastern
    time to assist you with any problems you may have.  We also
    have an automated help service available day and night at
    the same number.

Fax:
    You may fax your questions to us at (423) 546-0866.  We will
    respond to faxes promptly via voice telephone or return fax.

America Online:
    Technical support questions can be sent via email to
    "CYBERFLIX".

World Wide Web:
    The CyberFlix Web server is www.cyberflix.com, and is
    available via the following URL:
        http://www.cyberflix.com

Internet FTP:
    A Mac and PC version of the demo is there, too.
         ftp://ftp.cyberflix.com

Internet Email:
    You can email your technical support questions to:
        support@cyberflix.com


Usenet:
    Peer-to-peer conversations about Dust are in the Usenet
    newsgroup:
        alt.games.dust

    Although we read this group and try to respond, we can't
    guarantee that we'll receive every message.  It's a great
    place to find gameplay hints, though.

Snail-mail:
    If you'd like to send us a letter, our mailing address is:
        CyberFlix, Inc.
        4 Market Square
        Knoxville, TN 37902

Distributed by:
GTE Entertainment

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These four demos are copyright 1995 Cyberflix Inc.  You may distribute them
freely for any non-commercial purpose. 

Dust and CyberFlix are trademarks of CyberFlix Incorporated.  Other brand
names are tradmarks of their respective companies. (c) 1995 CyberFlix Inc.
All rights reserved.
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