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TIEFLY (c) by Matthias Krenzel
Version 1.3 01/12/97

Welcome to TIEFLY - The patch that allows you to fly Imperial Ships in X-Wing, now including shuttles & transports.

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I wrote this patch to allow X-Wing owners to experience a different point of view. Flying the Imperial Ships (especially the unshielded Tie-Fighters) offers a totally new challenge. This patch can assist squadrons that use both X-Wing & Tie-Fighter (like Lightning Wing) or squadrons that perform Alliance undercover mission. But it can also provide excitement for members of the top Alliance squadrons (like flying the original mineracing in a T/F <eg>).

I have to thank Chris "Electro" Schock, Corsair Leader. Without his help, I wouldn't have been able to come up with this.

This page will tell you how to install and use the patch. This is a somewhat complicated process becuase several files have to be modfied. YOU SHOULD READ THIS ENTIRE PAGE BEFORE YOU TRY TO RUN THE PATCH YOURSELF.

Files Distributed With This Patch

The files that you should have are listed here along with a very brief description:

How to Install the Patch

Follow these steps for installing the mission:

• UnZIP the file tiefly.zip into a subdirectory of your XWING or XWINGCD directory. This directory MUST be called TIE. When you unzip the file, all of the files listed above will be created.

• Make absolutely SURE that the BLIGHT.OVL file in your XWING or XWINGCD directory is the one that came with the game. For the mission to work it must be the standard file. If you use XWING DISK version, you must have installed the B-Wing Tour of Duty expansion disk.

• Change your active directory to the TIE subdirectory.

• Type: INSTALL and press return for the disk version INSTALL x: and press return for the CD version, replace x with your CD-Rom drive.

How to fly Imperial Ships Once Installed Using X-Wing Disk

If you have X-Wing on diskette, once the patch is installed you can just run X-Wing and fly a custom mission that includes an Imperial Ship as the Personal Craft (as an example see the included mission).

How to fly Imperial Ships Once Installed Using X-Wing CD

If you have X-Wing CD you will need to take some extra steps after the installation. To fly Imperial Ships you *must* use the XCD utility (XCDR.ZIP is available in Library 15 of FSCOMBAT on CompuServe or in the Lightning Wing Library). If you have the unregistered version I highly encourage you to register your copy of XCD, since Matt Hart should be compensated for his effort. If you have not registered and have not downloaded XCDR.ZIP since July 10, 1995, you should download it again. Playing these missions will be *much* easier with the new version and I do not include directions for using the older version.

1. Change directories to the directory where XCDR.COM is located.
2. Type: XCDR c:\mission\tie.xcd and press return
3. Run XWINGCD and fly the included custom mission.

Included custom mission

The custom mission included is merely an example, I didn't spend much time on that one. Future releases will include a custom mission for each Imperial Craft.

Running own Custom Missions with this patch and X-Wing CD

If you create your own custom mission to run with X-Wing CD and this patch, your XCD file *HAS* to include the following two lines:

BLAST.LFD,TIE.LFD
BFLIGHT.OVL, TIE.OVL

Without these two lines, the patch will not work.

IFF signals in custom missions

Please pay attention to the IFF designation of the personal vessel. All Imperial Craft will default to Imperial (doh!), so if you don't change the IFF signature to Alliance, Rebel fighters with assignments like "Attack all Enemies" *WILL* attack the player! This makes for some interesting *real* undercover missions <eg>

Known limitations

Like similiar patches for Tie-Fighter (like the one from Michael "Vyper" Stauber) you can only use cockpit art which is already included in the game. Recently I found out how to include the original Tie Fighter cockpits in X-Wing. However, since the cockpit art is copyrighted material, I can't distribute them with this patch, so you're stuck with the Rebel Fighter cockpits. My default selection is using the A-Wing cockpit for the T/F & the T/B, the X-Wing cockpit for the T/I and the T/A and the Y-Wing cockpit for the Gunboat. Since all cockpits only support one pair of projectile weapons, but the T/B has missiles *and* torpedos, only the concussion missiles get displayed properly. You have to keep track of the torpedos yourself. Unfortunatly, there is no workaround in sight.

Bugs

This test has been throughly tested with the CD and the disk version (with both expansion disks). Since the disk version is known to be much more unstable, you might experience flaws depending on your configuration. If any bugs prove to appear frequently, please send me a detailed report.

Problems, Suggestions, Comments & Custom Missions

If you can't get the patch to work, contact me via e-mail. I would also like to hear feedback about the patch. If you have trouble designing a custom mission featuring Imperial Craft, I'm available for help. I also would enjoy looking at Custom Missions based on this patch, so if you think you made an interesting one, please send it to me.

Future releases

One of the next versions will be able to patch the FLIGHT.OVL of the original disk version (without the B-Wing add-on). Also a Custom Mission for every Imperial Ship is planned.

Disclaimer

This patch is not authorized by LucasArts in any way. In addition, neither LucasArts or Matthias Krenzel can be held responsible for any damage.

Copyright

This patch is freeware, so no registration fee is required. However, the patch is still copyright protected, so you're only allowed to spread this patch unmodifed as a whole (TIEFLY.ZIP). If you would like any modifications, please e-mail me.All Copyrights for the game X-Wing and X-Wing CD are of course with LucasArts.

E-mail address and places where you can get this patch (and updates, custom missions, etc.)

I can be reached via CompuServe: MRKrenzel
Internet: mrkrenzel@compuserve.com

If you're a CompuServe member, pay a visit to the Flight Sims Combat Forum (GO FSCOMBAT). It is the origin and home of the oldest X-Wing & Tie Fighter online organisations.

Patch history

Version 1.3 01/12/97 flying shuttles & transports are now possible

Version 1.21 01/10/97 minor readme changes

Version 1.2 09/25/96 updated e-mail addresses & future release news

Version 1.1 08/23/96 changed Tie Advanced specs to those of "Tie Fighter" slight changes to readme.txt WRT T/A, cockpits & future relases

Version 1.0 08/04/96 first public release