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If the sound or video is choppy, select software rendering instead of hardware.
- Right-click to access inventory, saved games, camera, and options menu.
- The Options menu can also be accessed by pressing ESC.
- Photos and saved games can be deleted if desired, to reduce clutter.
- On my system, it was impossible to switch between applications (Alt-Tab) because on return to the game, the video was no longer functional. It is possible that some video cards will allow switching between applications without disturbing the video.
- Caution also, pressing Alt F-4 quits the game instantly, without the option to save. It's a good way to get out if the game locks up, or the video stops working correctly, but you would have to revert to your latest save.
- I strongly recommend the Full Install option, if you have enough space on your hard drive. Using the minimum install will result in LOTS of disk-swapping.
Here's a tip for keeping your inventory organized: Throughout the game, you will pick up six disks, several scrolls, many skulls, and lots of other items.
They go into your inventory adjacent to whatever item is left-most at the time. (Only five items are visible.)
To keep the scrolls and skulls together, roll the inventory left or right
until a similar item is at the left end of the visible items.
It's not really necessary to do this, but it helps to be organized.
You begin where Riddle of the Sphinx left off. (I wish I had been able to play ROTS, but it kept crashing in the tent, and I eventually gave up.) Gil explains what happened, and points out that the second scroll predicts the end of the world since a comet is expected to collide with the earth. It is up to you to prevent the destruction of everything by locating six precious disks that will be used to power up a giant laser and intercept the comet.
You can look in the ark if you want; despite
Gil's warning, it's safe.
Enter the crawl space, and find your way into the chamber
containing a pyramidal obelisk decorated with six skulls, the
Sacred Disk locked in place at the top, and four cobra-levers
surrounding a central stone.
There are just two things to do in this chamber:
Solve a puzzle to get the disk; and locate and take two scrolls.
Open the central stone and reveal a large scroll with a diagram of the obelisk at the right, and a long sequence of glyphs at the left. Beneath the obelisk you can see four red symbols, apparently assigned to the four cobra-levers.
The solution to this puzzle is found by reading the inscriptions in the correct order. See the vertical columns delineated by the red lines? Start at the top-left of the leftmost column, and read that column left-right-left-right etc., from top to bottom. Then the second column, etc.
To figure out the solution, look for any of the four symbols
associated with the levers. Look at the first symbol in the
second row. That matches the first red symbol. It appears once.
Write down "1".
Look at the first and second symbols in the sixth row, and the
first symbol in the seventh row. They match the third red symbol.
Since there are three of them, write down "333."
Don't be fooled by look-alikes; the very first
symbol is somewhat similar to the third red symbol, but it is not
the same. Likewise, the very last symbol looks like the second
red one, but it is different.
The complete solution:
1 333 4444 333 2 1 44 3 2 3333 1111 3333 4 1 222
Pull the cobra-levers in this sequence, and you will hear the mechanism unlock. Look up and take the Sacred Disk.
Look on the ground, to the left and right of the obelisk, and open the scroll-cases. Take the scrolls. They will help solve the final puzzle in the game.
Exit the chamber, and find your way outside.
Go toward the front of the Sphinx, under the scaffolding and
around to the front.
Climb the ramp, cross the top of the scaffold, and enter Gil's
tent.
(If you played "Riddle of the Sphinx," the tent looks
familiar.)
You can examine the top of the desk, but there is nothing
therefor you.
You will need to return here later. Go to the helicopter.
Enter the 'copter and open the inventory. See the cards? They are
site-passes. Hover the cursor over them to more easily read them.
You can visit any site for which you have a pass. I recommend
going to Stonehenge first. Give Humph the card.
To get here, you must return to the Giza Plateau, and retrieve the final pass-card from the desk. Also read the letter from Gil. Return to the cute li'l red helicopter and have Humph take you to Santorini. You arrive by multi-engine seaplane. That Humph - what a versatile guy!
Go to the rear compartment of the plane, and read another letter from Gil. Behind you on a shelf, is some diving equipment. Put it on, open the door, and hop into the ocean. Dive until you come to a round building and a pyramid. If you wish, have a look in the round building - this will be the final task, placing the Omega Stone. To find the Stone, go into the Pyramid.
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Remember, the reason we are here is to save the world. There is a meteor hurtling through space on a direct collision course with Earth, as predicted by the Atlanteans thousands of years ago. It's up to you to control this mechanism precisely, so as to fire the laser and demolish the object before it reaches earth.
Entering the Pyramid, discover a round apparatus, with receptacles for six round objects. It's not hard to guess what those objects are, but caution is highly advised. If you place the six discs into the apparatus, and have any of them in the incorrect slots, the laser will fire incorrectly, and miss the incoming meteor. Bye-bye, Earth. Look up, and study the image on the wall:
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The glyphs match the ones found on the device at your feet, but they are easier to see. To decipher them, study the various scrolls. Notice some of the scrolls have a wavy border around the central glyph, and some have a fretwork border. Those are the ones you need. Find a scroll which has one of the glyphs centered within the fretwork, and identify which tribe of Atlantis it represents. Then you can place the six disks.
Starting as before, at the bottom left, and going clockwise around to the bottom right. place the disks in this order:
Chichen Itza, Easter Island, Devil's Island, Atlantis, Stonehenge, Giza.
The platform obligingly opens, and you have the Omega Stone in your possession. Take it, go to the round building, and place it on the front of the cylindrical vat full of crystals. They energize, but not quite enough. Not to worry, the helicopter arrives with the Ark of the Covenant, which provides sufficient power to discharge the laser and blast the incoming meteor to smithereens. The world is saved, and Gil delivers the Epilogue, tying the story together, not only with the past, but hinting at yet another sequel.