Omega 3.x Subtheming

I am quite new to drupal and definitely new to omega. I use for developing a Windows Server 2003 and I have been unable to make drush work (something wrong with rsync) and I switched to manual subtheme creation.
From what I read in omega 3.x the base theme is called alpha and the omega theme is using the alpha theme. The problem is I can't follow the instructions in http://omega.developmentgeeks.com/documentation/subthemes/creating-omega... because file template.php in starterkits do not have actual php code and file theme-settings.php is not present. The specific files are in the directory of the alpha theme.
Has anyone any idea on how to manually create an omega 3.x subtheme?
Thank you in advance.