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v1.00 ─── T H E B O G E Y M A N ─── ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REQUIREMENTS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 486 or better (386 might work but it will probably be S-L-O-W !) Super VGA card and monitor Mouse & driver (Run MOUSE.COM !!!) Hard disk FILES: ~~~~~~ TB .EXE - Main program file TB .DOC - The Bogeyman instructions etc. TB .00n - Data files (n=1..8) ----------------------------------------------------------------- RDK .EXE - Main program file RDK .DOC - RDK instructions etc. RDK .INI - Customised setup for the Reel Design Kit RDK .00n - Data files (n=1..2) ----------------------------------------------------------------- GALLERY .EXE - A quick-viewer to see your *.RDF files GALLERY .DOC - Gallery instructions GALLERY .00n - Data files (n=1..2) ----------------------------------------------------------------- SAMPLE .PCX - A sample 64x64x256 color picture for RDK import SAMPLE .TXT - In-depth info on the SAMPLE.PCX and 'HOW-TO' stuff ----------------------------------------------------------------- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ORDER .DOC - The order file to order your registered version ! │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ----------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT! .DOC - Info on Fruit/Slot Machine History to date INTRODUCTION: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | IF YOU ARE NOT FROM GREAT BRITAIN (e.g. U.S.A.), YOU ARE PROBABLY | | NOT FAMILIAR WITH OUR 'FUTURISTIC' FRUIT MACHINES AND YOU MAY | | WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON, AS MANY TERMS USED IN THE | | BOGEYMAN'S DOC'S MAY NOT BE RELATIONED WITH 'FOREIGN' ;-) FRUIT | | OR 'SLOT' MACHINES ... IF SO PLEASE READ THE WHAT!.DOC FILE. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ This game is a state-of-the-art Super VGA Fruit Machine Simulator which equals itself with the modern fruit machines around in the 1990's in the UK. Who is The Shareware Cop (TM) ? The Shareware Cop (TM) is a policeman who pops up every now and then to say 'Hi!' and also to inform you that something you may have tried to do is illegal (!) ... until you register the game ! OK, so you may start to get irritated by him ... this is when you should register ... look on the bright side ... ... AT LEAST HE DOESN'T ARREST YOU ! OPENING SCREEN: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVALUATE : Press this to play a new game or play a previously retired game, selectable by pressing UN-RETIRE. UN-RETIRE : To play a previously retired game, you must first select it. Press this button, then, if any retired games exist, you are able to select which one you require by pressing the arrow buttons (^v) and then either √ or X to accept or cancel. LOAD .RDF : Press this to load in a different reel icon set. Use of this function is the same as UN-RETIRE. REGISTER : Press this to register the game and receive the full blown game. Press √ to print form, or X to cancel. EVALUATIONS: This is a counter informing you of the amount of current REMAINING evaluations left. It decreases by 1 each time you press the Evaluate button. You have five evaluations (of 10 spins/credits each) before the game automatically quits. THIS WILL BE REMOVED ON THE REGISTERED VERSION. GAME SCREEN: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ See 'GAME SCREEN BUTTONS' below for the individual functions of each button. Once you enter the game screen from the opening screen, you will get ten pounds to play with (your CREDIT). It is one pound a spin. If a button is flashing, you have the option to press it. For example, once you start to play, the Spin button will be flashing, press this to spin the reels. This will decrement your CREDIT by one pound. The Hold buttons may also be flashing, press these (if you wish!) before pressing the spin button to hold any of the three reels in place. After you have spun the reels, the fruit machine MAY decide to give you a few free nudges, the amount of nudges available will flash (1..4) and you MUST use these nudges up by pressing any of the six nudge up/down buttons (which will be flashing). You can only spin the reels again once these nudges have been used up. On certain places on the 3 reels, there will be a 'TBM' code over- laying certain graphics. This is an 'extra'. If you get three TBM's across the win-line (the middle row) you are then able to play The Bogeyman board game. You will note as you start to play the board game that the START square at the bottom right of the screen will have a yellow rectangle around it ... " YOU ARE HERE ! ". To move round the board (in a clockwise direction), press the dice. This will move you a number of squares (1..6). If this is a Money square (i.e. +0.10) or a Nudge square (i.e. +2 Nudges) or a Feature (i.e. The Burger Bar/Ten Pin Bowling/On The Rampage/Jackpot) you may collect any of these options by pressing the relevant square which will appear in the dialog box (The box with the STOP/TICK/CROSS buttons), 'Take Cash' / 'Take Nudges' / 'Take Feature'. If you 'Take Cash', the total CASH accumulated from the Cash squares you have landed upon will be added to your BANK and from there, you will leave the board game and resume normal play (Spin the Reels!). If you 'Take Nudges' the reels will shuffle and from there you have the amount of NUDGES the have accumulated as you have wandered around the board game... Nudge the best win you can. From there, you are returned to normal play (Spin the Reels!). If you 'Take Feature', you can play the feature you are currently on. ┌──────────────────┐ │NOTES ON CURRENCY │ └──────────────────┘ When The Bogeyman is started, it will try to find your country code from DOS. If it can, it will adjust the currency accordingly. This may work incorrectly if your system is not set for the correct country in the first place (See MS-DOS manual ... COUNTRY.SYS) ! FEATURE: TENPIN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here, you go bowling. It will randomly flash through several setups of bowling pins with a few missing each time. You must press the STOP button when there is quite a few left standing. You will receive five pounds for every pin left standing. (Maximum pay: 50 pounds). There is a repeat chance after this, press STOP again to see if you can have another go ... after a Non-Repeat, it will return you to normal play (Spin the Reels!). FEATURE: BURGER BAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here, the machine will offer you an amount of money for your burger! Each offer maybe different with up to three offers on the table. Press TICK to accept the offer or CROSS to refuse. If you turn down it's last offer, it will force you to sell at another price, usually a LOW one !!! There is a repeat chance after this, press STOP again to see if you can have another go ... after a Non-Repeat, it will return you to normal play (Spin the Reels!). FEATURE: ON THE RAMPAGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This feature will randomly flash up on screen various amounts of money. Press STOP to collect the money on-screen at that time. There is a repeat chance after this, press STOP again to see if you can have another go ... after a Non-Repeat, it will return you to normal play (Spin the Reels!). FEATURE: JACKPOT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This feature, if collected will give you 50 pounds. There is a repeat function after it !!! OTHER SQUARES: THE BOGEYMAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you land on this square, you must press STOP to find out your fate! OTHER SQUARES: MINE FIELD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Play this game like the popular 'WIN MINE' game. There are 16 places in the field (4x4 grid) and 4 mines lurk underneath. Press each button and if there is a mine under it, you lose and the run of the board game is over, ... it will return you to normal play. If there is not a mine under the button you pressed, a number will appear. This will inform you that 'x' amount of mines are situated around this button. Use your skill and judgement to clear the mine field. If you know that there is a mine under a certain button ... DO NOT PRESS IT !!! Once all the good areas are clear the machine will show you the mines which are left and credit your CASH/NUDGE accounts with a few points. Sort of a 'Well done Son' pat on the back. From here, you may continue. OTHER SQUARES: <<TURBO>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This will rush you round the board and eventually stop you on a certain square ... from here you carry on !!! OTHER SQUARES: GO TO START ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This will place you back at the start and remove any nudges/cash you have gathered on the way. From here, you may restart The Bogeyman board game by rolling the dice. OTHER SQUARES: WIPEOUT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This square 'real bad man'!!! DO NOT LAND ON IT !!! If you do, you will lose your CASH/NUDGES it will kick you off the board game and normal play will resume. HINTS: ~~~~~~ Here's one of the hidden features ... just to give you a taste for hunting! If some random nudges appear (1..4) then, if you cannot nudge a win, try nudging two of the same reel icons (or TBM's) onto the win line. If the HOLD buttons flash *DO NOT HOLD ANY !*, press spin and from two on the same win line there will appear three !!! GAME SCREEN BUTTONS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPIN - You may press this button to spin the reels when it flashes. This will also reduce your Credit remaining total by 1. COLLECT- Use this button to collect your winnings once you have run out of credit. You may also use this to collect any win-line spun instead of gambling. EXCHANGE-Use this button to exchange your winnings back into credit once your credit runs out (REGISTERED VERSION ONLY). Or use it to move from Gamble to the board game. CANCEL - You may press this to cancel any Hold buttons you may have pressed. This may also be used in other parts of the game. RETIRE - Use this button to 'retire' from the game and continue from the same point at a later time / date, using the UN-RETIRE button on the opening menu. SOUND - (Well a music sign) You may press this to activate/deactivate the musical tunes, and the various blips and bleeps. NOTE: The shareware cop's siren STILL sounds even when the sound is switched off! ;-) HELP - When this button is pressed, click on anything on the screen and you will get informative help on the individual subject. To find out what the Win-Line amounts are, click on any of the 3 reels. To de- activate help, press the help button again. £/$ etc- This is the currency button. Press this to change the currency. Options are: Pounds, Dollars, Yen, Pesetas, Francs, Marks, Guilders or Lira. (!!!) HI - Once you have spun/nudged a win, you may wish to gamble for a higher win. Press this to go 'higher' than what the dice shows (Maximum 6). LO - Once you have spun/nudged a win, you may wish to gamble for a higher win. Press this to try to roll a lower number than the dice shows at present. DICE - You may press this button once you get the three 'TBM' symbols on a win line. (You will then be playing on The Bogeyman board). NUDGES - When these buttons flash, you may nudge up and/or down the reels until you have no nudges left or you nudge a win. HOLDS - Press these three buttons to hold each reel as you wish when the red HOLD lights flash. YES(√) - You may press this 'YES' button to answer a yes/no question. For example: Do you want to sell your burger for £45 ? ... YES !!! STOP - You must press button to stop the feature in the message box ... however bad the result may be! You may also be asked to press this to 'continue'. NO(X) - You may press this 'NO' button to answer a yes/no question. For example: Do you want to sell your burger for £5 ? ... NO !!! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Please update this part if necessary). Q) Why does the Shareware Cop's siren still sound when you turn sound off ... !!! A) Annoying isn't it ?! Please register to turn it off !!! OTHER REEL DATA FILES AND WHERE TO GET THEM: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you wish to acquire any further *.RDF files, you may log on to the Batcave BBS which has a special area for all the *.RDF's in the world. Also, if you have made an .RDF file, you may wish to upload it to this area for other people throughout the world to share, here's the info ... BBS : The Batcave SysOp : Batman (>"<) Phone : (01942) 670947 for UK or (+0044)1942670947 for World. Area : The Mad Doctor Dubsticles Games. THANK-YOU ! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Many thanks to all of you who registered Marble Mayhem ... This game is dedicated to you! Without your support, this game would not exist! PS. The little girl on the opening screen of RDK is Hannah Frances Wood, my daughter who benefited from 50% of your registrations. The other 50% was put to post/disk costs and to my 'Buy Woody a new PC' fund. Thanks also to all my ßeta testers, without their help, this game would probably have more bugs in it than an Indiana Jones movie! The strawberry on the opening screen was not my design, I just thought I would like to mention this ! Thanks to Jordan Hargrave for creating a great SVGA 256 BGI driver. COPIES: ~~~~~~~ You may distribute this shareware to as many other persons as you wish, but a copy fee of no more than £2.50 or USD $5.00 may be charged. Please keep the RDK.* included with the main Fruit Machine Simulator files when copying them for other people. PROBLEMS? ~~~~~~~~~ If you have problems, please MAIL me at the Batcave BBS ! WINDOWS: ~~~~~~~~ Arrrggghhh! Don't Swear! No, seriously folks, running The Bogeyman/ RDK/ Gallery under Windows slows the programs down CONSIDERABLY so that playing the game isn't much fun anymore !!! CLOSE WINDOWS BEFORE RUNNING THE BOGEYMAN !!! THE MOUSE! ~~~~~~~~~~ People who try to program under DOS in SVGA mode (shareware authors for example) and try to use a mouse may find that the graphical mouse cursor will not appear. This is a problem of certain mouse drivers. Although Logitech mouse drivers do have an additional overlay for this. (Well done Logitech!). I have had to program my own SVGA mouse overlay to couteract this problem as not all users of The Bogeyman have (great) Logitech mouse drivers!!! If you find any problems or have any comments about this software, please inform me at the address in the Order Form file. Or give me a tinkle, Stephen Wood, on The Batcave BBS (>"<) ... (see above). HOW TO REGISTER: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This group of programs is shareware for evaluation purposes only. If you wish to use them after a 30 day period, please register using the Order Form provided in ORDER.DOC. WHY SHOULD I REGISTER? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - You will receive a personalised registered version of The Bogeyman on floppy disk (with a posh printed label!) which includes: - Elimination of the startup and ending delays in TB / RDK / GALLERY. When you type TB [Enter] it will take about a second or two (DX2/66) to load straight into the Opening Menu and when you press ESCAPE, the DOS prompt should appear almost instantly ! - The Bogeyman will not quit after 5 games (as this Shareware version does!). - It'll get rid of the Shareware Cop for good! ;-) - Once you run out of credit you can exchange whatever you have won directly back into credit, allowing you to make MILLIONS !!! - It'll clear your conscience and allow you to play-till-you-drop! - The profits made will go to a worthy cause ... MY KIDS! - You won't feel as depressed if you lose all your money on this fruit machine !!! Just keep pouring more in !!! - You will help the shareware market stay alive ! So ... instead of going to the Pub one lunchtime for a beer and binge on the slots, stay in and register! ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ****** H U R R Y ! R E G I S T E R N O W ! ****** │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ The first 50 people who register The Bogeyman will also receive │ │ a free registered version of Marble Mayhem, another great game │ │ by T H E M A D D O C T O R D U B S T I C L E S ! ! ! │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ STATISTICS: ~~~~~~~~~~~ This game took me about 10 months to program. Not all the time of course, just lunchtimes, weekends and a few red-eyes thrown in for good measure. Woody. DISCLAIMER: ~~~~~~~~~~~ Use of this program acknowledges this disclaimer of warranty : "This program is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness of this program for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages directly or consequential, which may result from the use of this program." In other words, Don't Come Grumbling To Me (DCGTM) ! apart from that ... Enjoy ;-)