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- GNCIPHER - CHALLENGES FROM THE CRYTO
-
- GNCIPHER is a game produced for the Atari ST line of computers as
- SHAREWARE. We encourage you to give it to friends, neighbors, and even
- your enemies. Please post this program to as many bulletin boards and
- computer clubs of which you are a member or an assocaite so that it will
- become widely distributed and enjoyed by all.
- It may be freely copied and distributed for evaluation.
-
- In brief, GNCIPHER is a phrase decoding game which is mouse driven and
- comes with a large library of pre-entered phrases called CIPHER
- CHALENGES. Cyrptography is a very difficult challenge, even with simple
- letter replacement as is the case with GNCIPHER. You will find that
- some of CIPHER CHALLENGES vary from the easy to the extremely difficult.
-
- GNCIPHER is distributed in an ARC file containing 4 files:
-
- README this file
- GNCIPHER.PRG the GNCIPHER program
- GNCIPHER.HLP the GNCIPHER HELP file
- GNCIPHER.DAT CIPHER CHALLENGE phrases (game data)
-
- All the files, except README, must be located in the same directory in
- order for the game to operate. GNCIPHER will not run when any file is
- absent.
-
- The CIPHER CHALLENGE phrases included in the original ARC file are to
- the best of our knowledge all in the public domain. There are 500
- phrases from famous, infamous, and otherwise unknown people. Quotations
- are taken from famous Americans like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
- Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin. Other quotes
- are from Greek and Latin philosophers, cultural groups (e.g. Polish,
- Italian, etc.), world religions (e.g. Moslem, Confusism, Christianity),
- near modern politicians (e.g. Eisenhower, Coolidge, Marx), and literary
- wits (e.g. Mark Twain). The complexity and possible alien nature of the
- authors names would exceedingly complicate the CIPHER CHALLENGES, so
- they have been omitted for brevity. For those interested in finding the
- source of any given quotation or phrase, a good book of phrases at a
- local library may be the best resource.
-
- GNCIPHER has been carefully tested for a long time before release for
- public consumption and has no known errors. If you should find that
- GNCIPHER fails in some way, we suggest that you may wish to find another
- copy to check whether one of the files has in some way become
- corrupted. We welcome all comments concerning our SHAREWARE program and
- would encourage you to write to us using the address below and as
- displayed in the GNCIPHER program.
-
- Given the extensibility of the GNCIPHER.DAT file, we encourage you to
- only distribute new GNCIPHER.DAT files (containing extra phrases) which
- you are certain do not infringe upon any copyrights. Many interesting,
- amusing, and pithy comments exist which you may wish to draw upon. One
- limitation which exists in this version of GNCIPHER is that the
- GNCIPHER.DAT file can only contain 750 phrases. This limitation is
- enforced to ensure that GNCIPHER is able to load all the phrases into
- memory on an Atari 520ST. We expect that most people will likely choose
- to try the 500 supplied phrases before trying to add more.
-
- Please remember to register your copy of GNCIPHER. More information on
- registration is contained in the GNCIPHER program itself.
-
- The Good News Software Co.,
- 605 Ritson Road North,
- Oshawa, Ontario, CANADA
- L1G 5R5
-