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³                             - ORIGIN PRESENTS -                            ³
³                  Cutthroats setup.bat  (c) Eidos Interactive               ³
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³  Supplier(s) : ORIGIN USA            ³  Release Date : 19th September, 1999³
³  Cracker(s)  : rAR                   ³  Protection   : C-Dilla & CD Checks ³
³  Packager(s) : USUAL SUSPECTS        ³  Game Genre   : Real Time Strategy  ³
³  File Format : ACE                   ³  # of Files   : 1 * 2.88 MB         ³
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³  Requirements: W9x, Pentium 166MHz, 32MBram, Sound Card, DX6.1 or better   ³
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              Release Information and Installation Instructions
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  READ NOTES AT BOTTOM!!!!!!!!


  Game Notes:
  Loot and extort your way to infamy in the seedy world of the 17th century 
  Caribbean. Strike terror in the hearts of your victims: board ships, 
  ransom hostages and sack towns. The only rules are the ones you make. 
  
  Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas makes you the captain of a ship 
  bristling with cannons. Seek a Letter of Marquee and fight for King and 
  country as a privateer or become a ruthless pirate. Either way, remember 
  to ply your crew with rum and treasure or face a mutiny. Will you survive
  to retire a Pirate King? Or will you dance the hempen jig on Gallows Rock? 

  Game Features:

  -- Purest real-time strategy pirate game ever created.
  -- Massive background research and authenticity on subject matter.
  -- Sophisticated environmental variables such as wind and weather.
  -- Become the scourge of the seas as a blood-thirsty pirate or raid the 
     enemy in the name of King and country as a daring privateer the choice
     is yours
  -- Choose wisely, all of your actions have consequences in this 
     ever-evolving epic 
  -- Customize your fleet and armies as you prepare to fight on land and sea
  -- 6,000,000 miles of oceans and land to terrorize with over 70 ports to 
     sack and pillage!
  -- Prey on hundreds of intelligent non-player ships each with a different
      role in the world; including trading, convoy protection and the 
      dreaded pirate hunters!

  install notes:
      unace the game replace this setup.bat with the one you have and use it
      instead.

  NOTES

  WEll shit man we fucked up we admit it doesnt happen often but when it does 
  we admit it. However fucking up a small bat file is not even on the same 
  level as what pdm did. In our eagerness to bring you this great game I (ICE)
  sent the packer the wrong bat file. This was recently pointed out to us and
  as such would'nt turn the music back to wavs and a few other mp3 conversion 
  problems. However pdm didnt even know this and they didnt even bother to
  test ours when  2 (yes thats right folks a whole 2 HOURS later) they duped 
  us with a low quality inferior cheap imitation of a rip of this great 
  fun game ( views of game are authors).

  Why is it a cheap imitation you may well ask so im going to tell you

  1) they lowered the BIT rate of the mp3s to squeeze this game in the lame
  faction disk limit. Now they will argue that this is the recommended bit
  rate for that khz of wav but let me point out what that means. The
  RECOMMENDED QUALITY VS. SIZE this therefore means that for the sake of size
  quality is sacrificed which  can lead to such things as hissy sound
  (braveheart) and other such errors during playback.  We at origin felt that
  you the enduser should have the best quality nearest to the original as
  possible so we used a nice high bit rate to produce the best possible
  quality we could for you the end user where as pdm only seemed to care about
  one upping origin. Remember folks BIT RATE isn't KHZ.

  2) They did RIP movies they just used different terminology to us. You see
  to me reframing means to put in a different frame it doesnt mean to take
  just the first frame of a movie and use that this is what we did to some
  movies and what Paralame did to all the movies. Yes thats right folks they
  also removed needed in game battle anims which we very kindly left in for
  you the end user.

  3) Finally and foremost the pdm release was done simply to put the release
  inside the outdated obsolete faction rules. Why do i say this? Well many
  reasons but here are the 2 main ones. 

  i) When the FUCKTION was formed mp3 was not a used format for ripping games
   so this means that there are no actual rules relating and as such no real 
   ruling about mp3 can be made.
  
  ii) All founding members of the FUCKTION are gone for various reason's and
   this means that the fucktion is not longer really a viable organisation
   since one of the rules clearly states that one of the founders must invite
   another group. Thus no founders no new members which makes the fucktion an
   elitist organistion used as a lame attempt to put origin down and thus
   affecting you the end user.

  So in conclusion why did we break the fucktion limits? well simple we arent
  part of the fucktion and we feel that the fucktion and as such felt it was
  better to bring the enduser a near complete high quality version of the game
  as opposed to a low quality inferior dupe like PDM.  So NUKE PDMS and KEEP
  ours as ours is as i have stated clearly the one to have!!!!

                                                                -Limey's R us 

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                        ORIGIN News & Application Information
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   ORIGIN is now recruiting and on the lookout for store suppliers. If you
   have a fast connection, live on the East coast and happen to live near an
   Electronics Boutique, Babbage's, Best Buy, or other store that sells
   software, and can be available during the day to supply. Do not worry
   about your skills, if you can fit the bill we shall show you the rest.
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

   We are also on the lookout for individuals connected in any way with the
   distribution process of new software, whether it be software companies,
   store/shops, distributor,publisher, game magazine, tech support for
   software publishing houses or hell, even if you're like us, regular
   software shop junkies who pay daily visits to your local Electronic
   Boutiques or what have you and want to have some good competitive fun.
   We always reimburse the full retail cost of any originals because we
   know that you don't get something for nothing.We're definately
   interested in what you may have to help contribute to the success of our
   team.
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

   ORIGIN is on the lookout for an ftp site in TAIWAN, SINGAPORE, JAPAN,
   KUWAIT, HONG KONG, SAUDI ARABIA and SOUTH KOREA to help spread our
   releases to the FAR EAST and the GULF STATES.
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

   We are also currently looking for several PROVEN crackers and trainer
   makers to join the team. Can you do SAFEDISC/C-DILLA or SECUROM
   protections? What about quality trainers?
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

   ORIGIN is on the lookout for FREE hardware suppliers. If you work
   for a company/companies in the hardware industry and have access to some
   GOOD hardware of any type, you may just be the person we're looking for.
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

   We are currently looking for a couple of T3 MINIMUM shellboxes to help
   out the team. Massive giggage is not required, but helpful of course.
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

   We're in search of people who can phreak in Europe, BB elite we want you!
   Contact us NOW! Use the contact information below.

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                   ORIGIN Headquarters & Distribution Sites
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                  ****       CZHQ                Czech Republic
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             Recoil, Sub0, Sinna, Teacher, Tharizdun, The Dark Knight,
                         The Driver, The Tentacle, X-Con, 
                      and our great North American Division.

                              ORIGIN Senior Courier
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                                 ORIGIN Couriers
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                Mr. Pumpkin, Nailz, Redman, SacX, Siward, Slick,
                                Stigma, and Xtase.

      Note:
      ORIGIN is NOT accepting courier applications, so please don't waste
      our time and yours by telling us what a great trader you are. Unless
      you can do something else as outlined in the application details above
      of course!

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                              ORIGIN Member News
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  Origin welcomes Grym, an old friend into the Ranks this week!  Good to have
  you with us!!! Read the News and Infomation above on how to get into ORIGIN
                       your #1 PC game  releasing group ;)

  ORIGIN Group Greetz:
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  CORP, Radium, Paradox, BMI, and all those we forgot.

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          "RZR MEMBER: razor is so gay there are no crackers online!
           ORIGIN: why does RZR have something?
           RZR MEMBER: yes Cutthroats from our shop supplier!
           ORIGIN: your lucky, we need game shop suppliers :(
           RZR MEMBER: well you get more games than us :\
           ORIGIN: thats becuase most of the REAL old rzr ppl are in ogn now
           RZR MEMBER: the supplier says "i wont be in rzr much longer" :(
           ORIGIN: nothing new there then, but thanks for the infos!"
