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          ~ =-      |              Dawn of Aces               |    -= ~
              ---------     (c) Interactive Magic, Inc.    ---------
 
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       Requirements : Win9x, Pentium 133+, 16MB RAM, 25MB HD, DirectX
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       Supplier   : HUMMERS       :  Released   : October 28th, 1998
       Stripper   : HUMMERS       :  Game Type  : Flight Simulation
       Packager   : HUMMERS       :  # of Disks : 4 x 2.88M
 
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                              [ G a m e  N o t e s ]

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      Dawn of Aces is a mega multiplayer simulation of WWI air combat based
      on iMOL's successful WarBirds game engine.

      In 1914, merely 11 years after the Wright brothers made their first
      flight at Kittyhawk, the world plunged into war.  As the conflict in
      Europe ground towards a year long stalemate in the trenches, aviation
      became one of the primary means of seeing beyone the enemy's front
      and  of carrying the battle pas the desolation of No Man's Land.

      The task of these early pilots was to scout enemy positions, spot for
      artillery, carry out light bombing, and deny the use of the air to the
      enemy for those same purposes.

      At the start of the war, unarmed planes simply carried a pilot and an
      observer aloft on scouting flights.  WHen enemy aircraft passed each
      other nothing more than a wave was exchanged.  It wasn't long however,
      before pilots started bringing rifles to fire at enemy aircraft.
      These evolved into machine gun mounts for the observer, and then to
      single seat machines with machine guns mounted above or to the side of
      the propeller and, finally, to synchronized machine guns firing
      through the propeller of the ever more advanced aircraft designs.  The
      fighter plane was born.

      WWI has been called the first modeern war, with the introduction of
      weapons such as the machine gun, tank, and airplane.  The pace of
      technology, especially in the air, was oftehn the deciding factor in
      battle, with first one side then the other attaining a superior level
      of technology with which to overpower the enemy who had inferior
      equipment.

      The average life span of a pilot at the from was woefully short.  The
      aircraft were fragile, often experimental, and the pilots lacked useful
      devices such as parachutes.  Although many accounts recall the chivalry
      of the air, the war for the skies was a brutal and unforgiving business.
      Surviving and succeeding called for skill, daring, and no small measure
      of luck.

      The combatants were strict in awarding credit for downing an enemy
      plane.  Such a kill had to have been seen or confirmed by an independent
      observer.

      Obviously, such confirmation were lacking if the victory happened to
      take place over enemy territory.  A pilot who managed to down 5 enemy
      aircraft came to be known as an Ace.  These men were famous on both
      sides of the lines, and celebrated as heroes.

      In Dawn of Aces, you fly as a pilot for either the Allied or Central
      powers, and your mission is to actively seek out and shoot the enemy
      from the sky.  If successful, you gain awards, rank, and perhaps fame
      in the international community of pilots in this mega multiplayer game.

      If you fial... well... you have an advantage over such famous Aces as
      Richthofen, Lufbery, Fonck, Ball, Udet, Mannock, Voss, and 
      Rickenhacker... because you can just hit "Fly" again.

      Enjoy!



      RIPPED:

      - Direct X and LOTS of other junk


                      Boy this game compressed good!    - HUMMERS

 
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       Run huminst.exe to extract the game.  Afterwards, run setup.exe and ignore
       the error message about DirectX not being present (since it was ripped).
       Afterwards, run doa.exe or doad3d.exe for the Direct 3D version.
  

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                          [h u M M E R s  g R E E t S ]
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       Too tired to greet..... :)   Ah well, greets to EVERYONE out there!
       Enjoy this game! ;)

       If you have any questions about this release or are missing any disks,
       feel free to join #HUMMERS in EFNET and ask.  Don't push your luck, we
       don't hand out FULL games.... just up to 10% of the release size. =)
       And if you're going there to complain, don't even bother.  Remember, we're
       the nicest release group around!!!