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LOADING THE CASSETTE TYPE RUN" FOLLOWED BY ENTER INTRODUCTION This exciting graphics adventure has been specially developed for the seasoned adventurer. It features advanced 'real' English command decoding and superb graphics, together with load and save facilities. THE STORY You are the captain of the space patrol cruiser galaxy While on routine patrol, you recieve a distress signal orginating from a previously unknown planet. Your mission is to investigate the source of the signal. A word of warning though; your mission is fraught with danger and things may not be all they seem. Be prepared for the unexpected. This is the first of the adventures in the galaxy series. GIVING INSTRUCTIONS. COMMAND SYNTAX. Full use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepostions is not allowed, where relevent to the game, as in standard English usage but note the following. 1. If you make a mistake in the command line, before you press ENTER you can delete part or all of the line using DELETE. 2. The command decoder will understand simple verb and noun commands if you wish, but you will have to be specific if the ommision of an adjective could be ambiguous, eg. Imagine there are two buttons on a piece of equipment, a red one and a green one say. Obviously just saying PRESS BUTTON' would be sufficient.You would have to say PRESS THE GREEN BUTTON' or PRESS THE RED BUTTON'. 3. You are allowed to omit the word 'THE' if you wish. SPECIAL COMMANDS In addition to the words in the adventure vocabulary, there are some special commands which can be used on their own. These are as follows. 1. 'HELP' or 'H' This command will give a help message, where appropriate. 2. 'INVENTORY' or 'T'. This will give you a list of the objects that you are carrying. 3. 'LOOK' or 'L'. The location description will be reprinted. If there is a picture associated with the location, it will also be displayed. 4. DIRECTIONS COMMANDS. These commands can be given in full eg. 'NORTH' or abbreviated to the first letter eg. 'N'. 5. SAVE This command is used to save your current position and status on tape. 6. LOAD. This command is used to restore your previous position and status from tape 7. QUIT. Used if you have had enough. You will be given the option to save your current satuts and position. GRAPHICS Many of the locations that you visit have pictures associated with them. On your first visit to the location, the picture will be displayed, together with the location description. To continue, press any key. If you have already visited the location, no picture will appear, unless you use the 'LOOK' command. GOOD LUCK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Retyped in 2014 by hERMOL Visit my website at http://CPCRULEZ.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |