NOTE: R9 and R9a are slower at times than previous versions. This is partially due to some functions having had buffer underflows or overflows, which had additional checks added to fix them, or were rewritten in c++. The BC 3.1 compiler is not very good at optimizing things. The terrain-filter (to let you see a felisian planet's terrain types) is slow also, and starmap3 may have some slowdowns which seem to not exist in the (incomplete) windows port. The other problem is that the DOS version simply doesn't have access to enough memory to cache things which really ought to be cached.

This NICE package is intended to be extracted into a new folder (if this is the full package) or into your Noctis folder (if this is the update package). After you've extracted this, you run Noctis with "Normal Go!.exe" or "Alternate Go!.exe". The Alternate one launches a NIV build which needs a little less conventional memory than the Normal one, but you shouldn't need to use the Alternate one unless you can't run the Normal one.

See 'troubleshooting.txt' if you have trouble running Noctis, or doing anything in particular in Noctis. If troubleshooting.txt doesn't help you, then feel free to ask on the Noctis forums at http://anywherebb.com

Press F1 in Noctis to get a list of key-shortcuts and such. The key-shortcuts are different in space and on planets.

The 'extended' menu contains mostly additional options right now, which let you enable/disable new features, etc. If you're using the Alternate Go! then some of these options will need to restart Noctis when you change them (and they'll do so automatically). Specifically, if you change Temperature or Flying Lander, a restart is required. If you ran Noctis through the Normal Go! or Old Go! then no restart is necessary (but that requires more conventional memory).

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 each select one of the five main menus (In the original noctis, they were 5/r/d/x, and in the pre-merge fixed-NIV e opened the 'extended' menu).

Check out 'fixes.html' for a list of fixed bugs, new features, and known bugs.

Have fun!

- Shadowlord & Megagun