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SOFTWARE CORPORATION
AMTEX Software Corporation takes this opportunity to acknowledge the
following people for their contribution to TRISTAN:

Program Design .................. ..G. S n o w m a n

Programming ........................ G. S n o w m a n
.............................................. S . O w e n s
Game Art Work ..................... Lund Frost
Technical Documentation .... ..Li sa Moore,
.............................................. G. S n o w m a n
Package Design ..................... Mandy Kadey Schneider,
.............................................. Josef H. Vanveenen
Package Manufacturer.. .......... Al Smith
Product Testing.. .................... I. Gelyk, L . M o o r e , G. S n o w m a n ,
.............................................. F. Tetsuya, P. Zuuring, L . Dickson

TRISTAN
 TRISTAN (c)1991 by AMTEX Software Corporation and LittleWing. All Rights
Reserved. No part of this program may be reproduced in any
manner without written permission of the producer. Tristan is a
registered trademark of AMTEX Software Corporation and Little Wing.
SUPERSCORE is a registered trademark of AMTEX Software Corporation.

TRISTAN
Welcome to TRISTAN, a digital solid state Pinball simulation.
TRISTAN’S realistic sound, ball action and scoring possibilities will
bring you hours of excitement and satisfaction.

AMTEX Software Corporation has endeavored to make T R I S T A N as

user-friendly as possible. AMTEX Software Corporation recommends
that you familiarize yourself with T R I S T A N by reading this
manual.

A game registration card is included in this manual.

Please send it in to qualify for technical support. The
A
serial number is located on the inside front page.

AMTEX Software Corporation would like to ,

thank you for purchasing TRISTAN.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. PINBALL THROUGH THE T E A R S .......................................................... 6
2. TRISTAN FEATURES ........................................................................... .8
3. PINBALL FUNDAMENTALS ............................................................... 11
4. MACINTOSH .................................................................................... 14
- System Requirements
- Installation
. Operation
. Error Messages
5. PC 2 0
. System Requirements
- Installation
- Operation
. Error Messages
6. VALIDATION NAME5 26
Bally
- Chicago Coin
- Data East
- Gottlieb
. stern
. Williams
7. HIGH SCORE RECORDS 3 0

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 1. PINBALL THROUGH THE YEARS
Pinball traces its roots from BAGATELLE. a game where balls are shot into a playing field covered with
pins of varying values. The players had to manually count up their points as balls rolled down the
inclined plane, bouncing off pins and nail fences on the way.

In the early 1920’s, coin operated Bagatelle tabletop units had found their way into Bars and Saloons of
the period. It is not surprising that such a cash cow machine would be popular in Chicago, considering
its colorful history In fact, the game became so popular that the majority of manufacturers centered
there. David Gottlieb, an early pinball innovator, was attracted by Chicago’s central location, and the
availability of small manufacturing industries. He started the Bingo Novelty company in Chicago, and
introduced Baffle Ball, the world's first successful pinball game. During the depths of the depression.
over 50,000 Baffle Ball games were sold for $17.50 each.

Growing numbers of manufacturers joined the battle, but a select few began to dominate the new
industry. Gottlieb’s distributor got into the action with BALLYHOO. It was so successful that Raymond
Maloney changed the name of his company to BALLY. These and other popular manufacturers are
reflected in TRISTAN's validation code as a tribute to their ingenuity and popularity.

The 1930’s saw the introduction of the solenoid kicker which ejected a ball and simultaneously rang a bell. CONTACT was the first game to use
this sound which in later years would evolve to become an exciting, integral part of the action and attraction of Pinball.

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Henry Mabs, a Gottlieb engineer, experimented with a bat like device to kick the ball back up into
the playing field. This baseball inspired concept was introduced as FLIPPER in a 1947 game called
HUMPTY DUMPTY. This innovation was so dramatic that all other manufacturers had flipper
machines on the market that same year. By the 1960's pinball was fighting to retain interest, with
only Gottlieb and Williams surviving as manufacturers. A burst of new, very colorful background
animations, sounds, mushrooms. bumpers and scoring possibilities were introduced DARTS was a
completely repackaged machine with a streamlined look and even featured a drink and ashtray
holder. Later MULTIBALL options and complex scoring possibilities brought players back.

By 1975, pinball was back in action. PINBALL WIZARD, by THE

WHO and subsequently the movie TOMMY, reminded an entire
generation of their forgotten fascination with the game.

The 80’s saw Pinball reach new heights with fanciful graphics,
super sounds, electronic scoring and control implementations. “ri

Building on this amazingly exciting history, AMTEX Software

Corporation & LittleWing have collaborated to bring the first real PINBALL
SIMULATION to the computer screen. ALL the popular innovations such as
Multiball, Double Scoring, Time features. great Sounds and Surprises are
included. Colorful graphics and super realistic ball motion make T R I S T A N another benchmark in the
on going saga.

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 2. TRISTAN FEATURES:

EXTRA BALL
Knock out all 3 drop targets at the upper left to turn on the EXTRA BALL light. Shoot over that light to
get your extra ball.

MULTI BALL
Knock out second set of drop targets to turn on the LOCK light. Shoot ball into LOCK to get second
ball into play. To release locked ball, second ball must pass through the SCORING LANE which is on
the left of the game board. During multi ball play. JACKPOT light is on and field score multiplier will be
increased. Shoot ball over JACKPOT light and quickly score extra millions.

DOUBLE SCORING
Pass your ball through all three upper vertical lanes to get DOUBLE scoring into action.

T R I S T A N BONUS
Knock out all 4 drop targets on the left side of MAGIC and T R I S T A N BONUS lock light comes on.
Shoot ball into T R I S T A N BONUS kickout hole to get your bonus.

MAGIC COMPLETE
Knock out all 4 drop targets on the left side of MAGIC five times to completely light up MAGIC.
JACKPOT light comes on. Shoot the ball over JACKPOT light and watch the MAGIC.

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TRISTAN playing surface

TRISTAN
 TRISTAN”’ MILLIONS
During multi ball play T R I S T A N BONUS scores into the millions.

SUDDENDEATH MlLLlONS
This feature is time limited, and allows you to score millions by shooting through the SCORING LANE
under certain conditions. Unlimited millions are available if you can keep shooting through the SCOR-
ING LANE within the time frame. Good Luck!

BONUS MULTIPLIER
Knock out all four drop targets on the right to increase your BONUS MULTIPLIER from T R I S T A N
BONUS kickout hole.

COLLECT BONUS
Knock out all four drop targets on the right to turn light on COLLECT BONUS kickout on left side. Shwt
ball into COLLECT BONUS while light is on to collect your bonus.

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3. PINBALL FUNDAMENTALS
Pinball is not a game of chance, it is a game of skill. The falling ball obeys
the laws of physics. The player has three ways of influencing the ball:
1) the plunger, 2) the flippers, and 3) nudge. By mastering these basic
skills, you can play T R I S T A N well, consistently taking full advantage of
multi-scoring possibilities.

Some Pinball fundamentals follow for the uninitiated. Fig. 2

Lesson 1 - Defense Basics:

Figure 1. Double-Flip: The ball is coming from the right side. You can hit
the ball more easily by following figure 2 than by following figure 1.

You have to watch the ball carefully and build good defensive actions to I I
keep the ball in the playing field.
Fig. 3 n
Lesson 2 - Positive Defense:
Figure 3 - Deflect Pass: Keep the right flipper up and make it touch the
ball. The ball changes its direction and you can hit the ball with the left
flipper.

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 Figure 4 - Pass Flip: When you judge that there is not enough contact with
Fig.4
the right flipper for the Deflect Pass, you can flip the right Ripper to get more
contact.

Figure 5 - Reverse Pass Flip: This is used for situations similar to those using
the Pass Flip. You have to judge which action is the most effective in each
case.

Figure 6 - Beat Down: Be careful with the

Pass Flip and the Reverse Pass Flip since not
enough contact with the ball causes this
situation.

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Lesson 3 - Defense for Offense:
Fig. 7 0
Figure 7 - Dead Flipper Bounce: When you want to hit the ball with the left
Ripper, you can keep the right flipper down and make the ball bounce to
the left.

Figure 8 Holding Lift: This is very useful for getting the ball to
go through the Return Lane.

Figure 9 - Deflection Post Transfer: It is useful when

Fig. 8 0
you want to hit the ball with the other flipper.

Lesson 4 Nudging

If the ball rests on an edge, nudging will

dislodge it. Nudging also speeds up the Fig. 9
ball if it coincides with a bumper.
If you combine both flipping and A
nudging, the ball will have more A
power. Nudging also helps save a
ball that is destined for the gutter.

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 5.PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
TRISTAN PC is designed for IBM compatible machines with an 80386 or 80486 CPU running at
16 Mhz or higher clock speed. It requires two megabytes of RAM (see below). More memory
will be required if running Tristan under the Windows environment. Tristan will run in 16 colors
on a standard VGA card with a color monitor. The 256 color version requires a super VGA card
with at least 512k of memory and a monitor capable of 256 colors and 640 x 480 pixel
resolution. TRISTAN uses one and a half megabytes of hard disk space. A mouse is supported
but not required to run the game. Both sound Blaster and Ad-Lib sound cards are supported as
optional sound sources.
Memory Configuration:
PC memory can be confusing so here are a few pointers if you aren’t sure what EMM is or how
you get it. All PC computers running DOS have a base size of 64Ok. That is the magic amount
of memory these systems can easily use, everything above that number gets complicated. On
a DOS system with an 80386 processor any memory above 640k is extended memory. A
computer with two megabytes of RAM has 640k of main memory and 1384k of extended
memory. Extended memory can emulate expanded memory, (EMM) by using an EMM
emulator. Tristan requires one megabyte of free extended memory, or EMM, EMM is faster.

Starting with version 4.00, DOS includes an EMM emulator called EMM386.EXE. There are
many third party emulators, two popular products are QEMM and 386MAX. EMM emulators
usually have to be installed in the config.sys file.

In addition to the extended or expanded memory Tristan requires 500k of memory free below
the 640k line when using EMM, and a minimum of 560k free for extended memory.

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To install TRISTAN onto your hard disk:
Insert the disk labeled TRISTAN Installation into a floppy drive then switch the default to that
drive. For example. place the disk into drive A: then type A:[Enter] to switch to the A: drive.
Now type Install [Enter] and follow the instructions in the installation section.

Steps for Windows installation:

1) Start windows
2) Select a program group to place Tristan in and open that group.
3) Choose New from the File menu.
4) Select Program Item in the New dialogue box and choose OK.
5) The program item properties dialog box will appear.
6) Enter Tristan in the description field.
7) Enter C:\TRlSTAN\TRISTWIN.EXE in the command line field.
Note: If Tristan is not installed in the directory C:\TRISTAN then substitute the correct
directory into the command.
8) Choose OK.
9) The Tristan icon will appear in the selected group. Double click on the icon to play Tristan. ,

Steps for OS/2 Installation:

Tristan runs as a DOS application in a DOS compatibility box under OS/2. Installing Tristan is the
same as on a DOS machine. The only difference to be aware of is that you must tell OS/2 to
allocate at least one megabyte of either expanded or extended memory for the DOS box which
Tristan will run in.

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 The configuration screen appears after installation and can also be invoked by typing SETUP in your
Tristan directory. Tristan configuration allows you to make some hardware selections and to define
keyboard equivalents for the pinball controls. Follow the directions in the configuration screen to
customize T R I S T A N for your system.
Once Tristan is on your hard disk:
The first time you start T r i s t a n a f t e r i n s t a l l i n g i t on your hard disk, the following dialogue box will appear
on your screen.
I ADglrtratlon I

Please fill in both your name and serial number and then click ‘Register’. The serial number is on the first
page of the manual. If you have filled in the first dialogue box correctly. the following box appears.

However. if a mistake was made while registering. either or both of the following boxes may appear

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The game validation dialogue will now appear. this dialogue appears each time you start Tristan. Refer
to Validation Names to find the correct name.

If you have not entered the correct name. the following dialogue will appear

Clicking ‘OK’ will allow you to retry the validation dialogue. Clicking ‘Cancel’ will exit the game,
‘Demo’ will begin a self-operating demonstration.
If you type the correct name, including spaces, you will get the opening window which looks like this.

After the opening screen appears, Tristan will spend a short time loading. To cancel loading and return
to DOS, just hit the Escape key.
 OPERATION
The game surface appears as soon as Tristan has successfully been loaded. The scoring panel at the
bottom right will cycle through the high scores and credits. If you wish to bypass this section. simply hit
any key on the keyboard, or click the left mouse button. After a complete cycle or on any key press. the
following icon window will appear.

T h e icons operate as follows:

Exit will return you to DOS
Stamp allows you to register your high score
Speaker toggles the sound on/off
Numbers Allows the number of players to be set. see the multi-player feature below
Ball begins a new game or restarts a paused game

To pause a game in progress. just click the left mouse button or press F2 and this icon window will appear.

Tristan simulates typical pinball features by assigning the left Shift key as the left flipper button. the right
Shift key as the right flipper button, and the Enter key as the plunger knob. The Space bar nudges the
game, (careful. too much nudging causes TILT!) ‘Note: All of these keys can be redefined, see the
system configuration section.

When a high score is achieved. the left and right flipper buttons are used to select characters and the
space bar is used to enter each character. The left Ripper starts at the end of the alphabet and the right
Ripper starts at the beginning. When you finish entering your name. either click the mouse button or
space t o the end of the line.

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ERROR MESSAGES
Tristan requires DOS version 3.2 or later.

Tristan requires a color VGA to run.

Not enough free system memory

Not enough free extended or expanded memory

Tristan requires 1 megabyte of available expanded or extended memory to run. Check that
there is at least that much memory physically in the machine, the DOS 5 MEM /C command
performs this check. If the memory is present and Tristan still won't run, then check if other
applications such as Microsoft’s Smartdrv are using the memory.

Couldn’t find image resource file.

Couldn’t find sound resource file.
Tristan must be run with its directory as the current default directory If this doesn’t fix the
problem, then try r e i n s t a l l i n g Tristan from the master d i s k .

Image could not be successfully loaded.

An image has been damaged. by reinstalling from the master disk.

Protection system could not be successfully loaded

Tristan protection has been damaged, try reinstalling from the master disk.

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 6.VALIDATION NAMES:
POPULAR PINBALL GAME NAMES USED TO ACCESS T R I S T A N

BILLY Bally 1956 BALLS-A-POPPIN

Bally 1931 BALLYHOO Bally 1957 CIRCUS
Bally 1933 BLUE RIBBON Bally 1958 USA
Bally 1934 SIGNAL Bally 1959 BALLERINA
Bally 1935 BANKER Bally 1960 BEAUTY CONTEST
Bally 1936 BUMPER Bally 1961 ACAPULCO
Bally 1937 MERCURY Bally 1962 FUN SPOT ‘62
Bally 1938 TURF SPECIAL Bally 1963 MOON SHOT
Bally 1939 CHEVRON Ball; 1964 BONGO
Bally 1940 PROGNSS Bally 1965 BULLS EYE
Bally 1941 FLICKER Bally 1966 BAZAAR
Bally 1942 ATLANTIC CITY Bally 1967 R O C K E T Ill
Bally 1945 VICTORY SPECIAL Bally 1968 DOGGIES
Bally 1946 SURF QUEENS Bally 1969 TEN PIN
Bally 1947 BALLY ROCKET Bally 1970 KING REX
Bally 1948 EUREKA Bally 1971 VAMPIRE
Bally 1949 CHAMPION Bally 1972 FIREBALL
Bally 1950 GRAND STAND Bally 1973 ODDS & EVENS
Bally 1951 BROADWAY Bally 1974 BIG SHOW
Bally 1952 PALM BEACH Bally 1975 AIR ACES
Bally 1953 DUDE RANCH Bally 1976 FLIP FLOP
Bally 1954 BIG TIME Ball; 1977 NIGHT RIDER
Bally 1955 CROSSWORDS Bally 1978 POWER PLAY

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 1952 WHIZZ KIDS
1956 BLONDIE
1962 SUN VALLEY
1963 FIRE CRACKER
1964 ROYAL FLASH
Bally 1984 GRANNY & ME GATORS Chicago Coin 1965 HULA-HULA
Bally 1985 FIREBALL CLASSIC Chicago Coin 1966 FESTIVAL
Bally 1986 LADY LUCK Chicago Coin 1967 BEATNIKS
Bally 1987 KARATE FIGHT Chicago Coin 1968 GUN SMOKE
Bally 1988 BLACKWATER 100 Chicago Coin 1969 ASTRONAUT
Chicago Coin 1970 BIG FLIPPER
CHICAGO COIN Chicago Coin 1971 HG
I HSCOREPOOL
Chicago Coin 1933 BABY LELAND Chicago Coin 1972 CASINO
Chicago Coin 1934 KNICKER BOCKER Chicago Coin 1973 HEE HAW
Chicago Coin 1935 BASE HIT Chicago Coin 1974 DOLPHIN
Chicago Coin 1936 CUE Chicago Coin 1975 OLIMPICS
Chicago Coin 1937 BALL PARK Chicago Coin 1976 HOLLYWOOD
Chicago Coin 1938 ALPS
Chicago Coin 1939 BUCKAROO DATA EAST
Chicago Coin 1940 ALL AMERICAN DATA EAST 1987 LASER WAR
Chicago Coin 1941 BOLA WAY DATA EAST 1988 SECRET SERVICE
ChicaqoCoin 1946 SUPER SCORE DATA EAST 1989 PLAYBOY
Chicago Coin 1947 BERMUDA
Chicago Coin 1948 CATALINA GOTTLIEB
Chicago Coin 1949 GRAND AWARD Gottlieb 193 1 BAFFLE BALL
Chicago Coin 1950 FIGHTING IRISH Gottlieb 1 9 3 2 PLAYBOY
Chicago Coin 1951 THE THING Gottlieb 1 9 3 3 BIG BROADCAST

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 Gottlieb 1934 REGISTER G o t t l i e b 1964 GIGI
Gottlieb 1935 TURN TABLE Gottlieb 1965 SKY LINE
Gottlieb 1936 LONG SHOT G o t t l i e b 1966 MASQUERADE
Gottlieb 1937 MISS AMERlCA Cottlieb 1967 KING OF DIAMONDS
Gottlieb 1 9 3 8 MULTIPLE RACES Gottlieb 1968 ROYAL GUARD
Cottlieb 1939 TRACK RECORD Gottlieb 1 9 6 9 FOURSEASONS
Gotilieb 1940 BIG SHOW Gottlieb 1970 STOCK CAR
Gottlieb 1941 SCHOOL DAYS Gottlieb 1971 STAR TREK
Gottlieb 1945 STAGE DOORCANTEEN Cottlieb 1972 ORBIT
Gottlieb 1946 SUPERLINER Gottlieb I973 JACK-IN-THE-BOX
Gottlieb 1947 HUMPTY DUMPTHY Gottlieb 1974 BIG SHOT
G o t t l i e b 1948 LADY ROBIN HOOD Gottlieb 1 9 7 5 WIZZARD
Gottlieb 1949 TELECARD Gottlieb 1976 GOLD STRlKE
Gottlieb 1 9 5 0 SELECT-A-CARD Gotilieb 1977 SOLAR CITY
Gottlieb 1 9 5 1 MINSTREL MAN Gottlieb 1978 SINBAD
Gottlieb 1952 ALL-STAR BASKETBALL Gottlieb 1979 TOTEM
Gottlieb I953 FLYING HlGH Gottlieb 1980 ROLLER DISCO
Gottlieb 1954 GREEN PASTURES Gottlieb 1981 VOLCANO
Gottlieb 1955 TWIN-BILL Gotilieb 1982 ECLIPSE
Gottlieb 1956 GLADIATOR Gottlieb 1983 Q*BERT'S QUEST
Gottlieb 1 9 5 7 FLAG-SHIP Gottlieb 1984 ALIEN STAR
Gottlieb 1 9 5 8 WHIRL WIND Cottlieb 1986 GENESIS
Gotilieb 1959 QUEEN OF DIAMONDS Gottlieb 1 9 8 7 ARENA
Gottlieb 1960 WORLD BEAUTIES Gottlieb 1988 DIAMOND LADY
Gottlieb 1961 FOTO-FINISH
Gottlieb 1962 EGG HEAD
Gottlieb 1963 GAUCHO

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STERN Williams 1963 TOM TOM
stern 1977 STAMPEDE Williams 1964 OH BOY
Stern 1978 STARS Williams 1965 PRETTY BABY
stern 1979 DRACULA Williams 1966 EIGHT BALL
stern 1980 ALI Williams 1967 MAGIC CITY
stern 1981 FREEFALL Williams 1968 SMARTY
stern I982 DRAGONFIST Williams 1969 CABARET
Stem 1984 LAZERLORD Williams 1970 FOUR ACES
Williams 1971 DIPSY DOODLE
WILLIAMS Williams 1972 STARDUST
Williams 1945 FLAT-TOP Williams 1973 SWINGER
Williams 1946 SUSPENSE Williams 1974 LUCKY ACE
Williams 1947 AMBER Williams 1975 STAR POOL
Williams 1948 STORMY Williams 1976 TOLEDO
Williams 1949 TUCSON Williams 1977 LIBERTY BELL
Williams 1950 DNAMY Williams 1978 LUCKY SEVEN
Williams 1951 SHOO SHOO Williams 1979 FLASH
Williams 1952 BALL Williams 1980 BLACK KNIGHT
Williams 1953 SILVERSKATES Williams 1981 JUNGLE LOAD
Williams 1954 THUNDERBIRD Williams 1982 VARKON
Williams 1955 PETER PAN Williams 1983 WARLOK
Williams 1956 TIM-BUC-TU Williams 1984 SPACE SHUTTLE
Williams 1957 GAY PAREE Williams 1985 COMET
Williams 1958 TOP HAT Williams 1986 HIGH-SPEED
Williams 1959 TIC-TAC-TOE Williams 1987 BIG GUNS
Williams 1960 GOLDEN GLOVES Williams 1988 CYCLONE
Williams 1961 METRO Williams 1989 EARTHSHAKES
Williams 1962 JOLLY JOKER

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