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Christopher G. Gunn
3174 Hawthorn Street
San Diego, CA, 92104
(619) 283-0472
Gopher's Garden is not for sale through retail facilities. It is distributed
as shareware on an "I trust you" basis and is not in any form to be considered
public domain or free. Considerable effort went into creating the program and
I'm retaining full protection under the copyright laws. However, I also want
you to be able to share my games with your friends. So, please feel free to
hand on as many copies as you would like, as long as you include the original
BAT file and all of the document files.
There are no set prices for my games. I leave their value up to you. If you
are going to use Gopher's Garden for your personal enjoyment, whether you got
it from a software distributor or a friend, please mail a check to me at the
above address. Your donation towards each programs creation is appreciated.
In exchange, I'll add your name to the list of those eligible for updates,
contests, and additional games. For example, I hope soon to have a joystick
added to many of them. I'd also like your comments and suggestions. If you
wish, you may use the registration and order form by typing PRINT SHAREME.REG
at the DOS prompt.
Like all of my games, Garden is designed for full color with high resolution
displays and should run on most PC's and work alikes. Gopher's Garden is
compatible with the MDA, CGA, and EGA display adapters. The built in mouse
support should work for any mouse. If you have any problems, let me know.
There is a provision for disabling the game sounds if you prefer the game to
play quietly.
Unlike most games, you can't see your opponents in the garden. All you can
track is the damage being done to the flowers and occasional piles of dirt
that appear. If you're fast, you can get the gophers before they eat all of
your flowers. Fortunately, the cursor does let you know when you are on top
of one so you can hit it with the <SPACE> bar or the left mouse button. Move
carefully so you don't crush the flowers. They cost you points if you squash
them or one of the gophers gets them. Each time you score over 2,000 points,
you will have more flowers and, of course, more gophers for the next game. If
you play well you can increase your score during each round.
You can play Garden with a mouse but you may get better scores with the cursor
keys. The corner keys on the number pad will let you move diagonally.
If you send me a screen print of what Garden or AxTrons says when you've
reached the top scoring level, I'll send you a ShareGame disk of your choice
at shipping and handling cost.
You may copy the Gopher's Garden files into any directory on hard disk or
another floppy. The only real requirement is that all of the files associated
with the game, except for its BAT file, must be in the same directory. You
may activate the program directly, with a BAT file, or from ActMenu. If you
put Gopher's Garden on your hard disk, you may have to adapt the BAT file for
your system.
Good luck, and let me know if you enjoy Gopher's Garden,
Chris
P.S. You can disable this message by removing the 'TYPE' and 'PAUSE' entries
from your personalized BAT file. Please retain the original BAT file if you
are going to pass Garden along.
Press <Ctrl-C> to quit or