INSTRUCTIONS

The Atlantis is the latest spaceship made by SOMERSET's first age
engineers. Never a ship has been made with such high security and
weaponry power standards.

But this incredible technological monstrosity is now on the enemy's
hands, deep in the ocean. From there, they have been preparing a large
scale assault to conquer the Earth, first objective in their plans to
conquer SOMERSET, and later on, the Universe.

You have been chosen to stop this, for your bravery and great skill.
The fate of the universe depends on you.

FX TRIPLE LOAD

Atlantis incorporates FX triple load: Three games in one. To be able
to gain admittance to each one of the levels you will have to complete
the previous one and obtain an access code. You must take into account
that all codes are unique: they depend on what you have done in that
level (what objects you carry with you, your score, and so on). All
the codes grant you access to the next lavel, but not all will let you
complete the game, as you may have forgotten to do something in one of
the previous levels. (Translator's Note: Yes, Dinamic was friggin'
evil).

FIRST LEVEL

A Kalgar ship will drop your latest model bathysphere into the
ocean. You will have to find the secret entry to the city, buried
under the bottom. SOMERSET, your planet, is peaceful, and hasn't
bothered to research weapon technology too much. Luckily, lasers are
also useful in medicine, and that does interest SOMERSET
scientists. It wasn't hard to adapt a laser for your bathysphere, and
another one for your handgun, so you will have an effective weapon,
more powerful than the P.O.U.S. (Predators Of Unusual Size), which are
very violent but not too smart. Regardless, you won't have to fight
the P.O.U.S. in this level, since they are inside the city, but with
the usual animals living in the oceans on Earth which, although
unarmed, are pretty dangerous. You will find the following varieties:

- Diverse little fishes: They're meaner than they look, but they are
  nothing against your bathysphere, and are easy to dispatch.
- Sharks and abyssal fishes: Careful with them. You will have to hit
  them twice with your laser if you want to kill them, and you won't
  be safe from them even inside the batysphere.
- Seahorses: Don't worry about them, they couldn't harm you even if
  they tried.
- Octopi: The most dangerous ones. Keep a safe distance.

OBJECTS: You will have the following objects inside your bathysphere:

- Handgun: To defend yourself when you can't be inside the
  bathysphere. Unlimited charges.
- Propellant: It will allow you to defy Gravity. Indispensable to
  reach places otherwise out of reach.
- Portable computer terminal: A great computer of small size. It won't
  be useful for this level, but you will need it later to connect with
  the Atlantis central computer.
- Mold: If you manage to find gold and a heat source, this mold will
  allow you to create special gold ignots, useful for activating a
  special security system inside the ship. PArt of your task is to
  find said gold and heat...- First aid kits: The latest advances in
  your planet's medicine will allow you to recover your
  energy. Remember that each kit can only be used once, so try not to
  waste them.

HELP AND SUGGESTIONS

You will finish the first level when you find the entry to the
city. The SOMERSET intelligence division thinks the entry is inside an
old sunk ship, at the bottom of an underwater grotto. You will have to
figure out how to get inside the boat. Look for a blunt object and
open a hole in the hull. (Perhaps a bone would suffice). Search the
whole level for objects. Not all objects are indispensable, but all of
them are useful. To know it, when you have done something "right" the
computer will beep accordingly. Many objects can be hard to find,
concealed with the background. To make finding them easier, when you
walk in front of an object, it'll be shown in front of you, while the
rest of the level is shown as behind you.

Oh! Something else. To enter the city you may have to move something
inside the boat around.

SECOND LEVEL

You will enter the city going through the protective dome. The city
covers the actual ship, and was useful for the SOMERSET inhabitants to
live with the earthlings without letting these know they had visitors
from another galaxy. It's not buried deep under the sea, and
completely flooded.

In this level you will face Korx, the most powerful mage in this
galaxy and the neighbouring ones, who, after being banished from his
planet due to his evil ways, joined the P.O.U.S. hoping to get revenge
on them. Korx prevents you from accessing the inside of the ship, so
you will have to find a way to destroy him. Your weapons will be
useless when you are close to him, and his powerful bolts will eat
away at your energy at great speed. Don't try to touch him, it'd be
the last thing you'd do. Noone knows how to destroy him, but it is
said that big things can only be defeated by small ones.

Besides Korx, the enemies you will be facing are:

- More little fishes: Like the other little fishes, they're not very
  dangerous, but don't let your guard down.
- Hammerheads: Of the shark family, just as dangerous as the other ones.
- Krangas: Inferior race. Too stupid to wield weapons, but brutes who
  can annoy you. Finish them off quickly.

HELP AND SUGGESTIONS

When you finish Korx off, and you have explored the city looking for
useful items, get inside the ship with Korx remaining magic.

There are some curious plants growing through the city, which you can
use to renew your oxygen and fuel. Don't waste them, this is an
endangered species, and can disappear completely sooner than you'd
like.

Remember that you can find objects in well hidden places, and
something seemingly useless now can be useful later. It is possible
that you can find things hidden inside other things...

THIRD LEVEL

You have finally managed to teleport inside the gigantic Atlantis
ship. A real labyrinth of corridors and lifts.

Your arrival will activate the security system installec by the
Bragancians, which will shut two hatches: the one connecting with the
central computer room, and the teleportation room. Nevertheless, there
is a third access you can use with your bathysphere (which, being a
series X-9000 model, can also work as a small airship). The
P.O.U.S. overlooked this access because of their size, bigger than the
SOMERSET inhabitants' one, as they can't fit through it.

Your first task is to open the access to the computer room. This one
is connected to a genx rays detector. The gold ignots that you should
have obtained in the first level will allow you to load the genx rays
cannon (if you can find it), but you will have to figure out how to
make the ray hit the receptor. For this you could use a cleverly
placed reflective object.

When you finally enter the computer room, use your computer terminal
and you will open the second security hatch, which will let you move
the bathysphere out of the teleportation room. All that is left is to
use its robotic arm to connecto to the central computer and send the
automatic flight activation sequence.

Meanwhile, you will have to keep using your laser weapon. You will
only find two kinds of enemies, but you'll see how you don't really
need more.


- Bragtroy Robots: Highly accurate killing machines. They can reach
  places the Bragarcians are incapable of due to their height. They
  carry a laser gun.
- P.O.U.S. Soldiers: They are a repulsive race, experts in the art of
  killing, armed with more powerful weapons, and willing to chase you
  until death.

HELP AND SUGGESTIONS

Despite the fact that the ship is not flooded, the gas it contains
cannot be breathed by you. You will have to reload your oxygen in the
several deposits you will find through the ship.

It's a good idea to get an ID card to call the lifts, otherwise you
will have trouble moving around the corridors.

To make the robotic arm in the bathysphere work you will need this to
have enough fuel. There are several ways to refill the fuel, most (but
not all) related to objects collected in previous levels.

Lastly, remember that even if you have reached the third level, you
may not be able to finish if you didn't do everything you had to in
one of the previous ones.

(Like, for example, if you don't have the two gold ignots for the genx
rays cannon).

INTERFACE

- Oxygen: Keep an eye on it. SOMERSET inhabitants explode when they
  don't have enough oxygen.
- Fuel: If you run out, you will have to get out of the bathysphere
  and look for more.
- Objects: You can carry up to nine objects inside the
  bathysphere. The three shown on top are the ones you will carry when
  on foot, and of these, the central one is the one you will use when
  pressing the appropiate key.
- Score: You will find your score on the left, and the high score on
  the right. You will score points for destroying enemies, doing some
  special actions with objects, and advancing levels.
- Energy: The energy bar will get darker from top to bottom, as your
  life enrgy diminishes. When it's low, you can recover it with a
  first aid kit (if you have any left and you carry it with you).

CONTROLS

 ACTION         ACTION          KEY      JOY
BATHYSPHERE    SINFOLDIO

Left           Left              O       <-

Right          Right             P       ->
                                          ^ 
Up             Jump              Q        |
                                         |
Select         Select            A       v

Shoot          Use Object       SPC       *

Leave          Take/Drop/        M        M
Bathysphere    Enter Bathysph.
               Boat...

POLYLOAD SYSTEM TAPE

Atlantis has a new, revolutionary loading system, thanks to which you
will be able to play a simple Master Mind while the program loads. The
objective is to try and guess a four number code (each number from 1
to 8). You have six tries. After entering a code, the computer will
pring an asterisk for each correctly guessed number, and a cross for
every correct number in the wrong position. The code can have several
identical numbers.

On top of that, thanks to the Polyload system, if there is an error
while loading, you won't have to start from the beginning again. When
an error happens, the border will turn red. Rewind the tape a little
bit and press PLAY. If the border is still red, you haven't rewound
the tape enough, or you haven't adjusted the tone and volume controls
correctly. If the border turns green, let the tape play. When the tape
reaches the error point, the burder will turn black and the load will
continue.

NOTE: The POLYLOAD system is not available for MSX computers.

SPECTRUM DESIGN TEAM

PROGRAM:           Pablo Ariza
GRAPHICS:          Jose A. Martín
                   J. Carlos Naranjo
LOADING SCREEN:    Débora, Gina y Rubén
MUSIC:             Jose A. Martín
INLAY:             Enrique Ventura
POLYLOAD SYSTEM:   Pablo Ariza
SCRIPT AND DESIGN BY CREEPSOFT
PRODUCED BY VICTOR RUIZ

LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

SPECTRUM 48K. +
1. Connect the EAR jack to the EAR jack of the tape player.
2. Rewind the tape to the beginning.
3. Adjust the volume to 3/4 of maximum.
4. Type LOAD "" and press ENTER(INTRO).
5. Press PLAY on the tape player.
6. The program will load automatically.
7. If it doesn't work, try again with a different volume setting.

SPECTRUM +2
1. Select with the cursor the 48 BASIC option and press ENTER.
2. Follow the instructions for the SPECTRUM 48K + (Remember that the volume is already adjusted for the SPECTRUM +2)

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WARRANTY

DINAMIC guarantees all their products against any failure or
manufacture, recording or loading defect. The warranty ends the day
the product is discontinued and the stock is emptied. This program is
made following the highest quality technical standards. Please, read
the loading instructions carefully. If you have any difficulty making
the program work and belive the product is defective, return it
straight to:

DINAMIC. PZA DE ESPAÑA 18 TORRE DE MADRID 27-5
28008 MADRID

We will return a new copy of the program by mail free of charge.
© 1989 DINAMIC Y CREEPSOFT