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- Copyright (C) 1995 Caledonian Enterprises
-
-
- *** Notice to vendors ***
-
- This shareware version of Flasher II may be freely
- distributed via BBS's, disk copying, etc. Shareware
- vendors may sell this shareware version of Flasher II,
- provided that a fee of no more than $3 is charged in
- doing so. You are also required to recieve permission
- from Caledonian Enterprises prior to doing so. This is
- mainly to inform Caledonian Enterprises of your intent
- and to give us an idea of how our software is being
- distributed. Mail your request to:
-
- Caledonian Enterprises
- PO Box 7224
- Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7224
- Attn: Distribution
-
-
- **** Legalities ****
-
- USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS STRICTLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!
- CALEDONIAN ENTERPRISES IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR
- DAMAGES RELATED TO USING THIS SOFTWARE.
-
- *** Included Files ***
-
- ┌─────────────────────────┐
- │ FLASHER2.EXE ... 97,370 │
- │ FLASHER.DAT ... 240,340 │
- │ ORDER.FRM ....... 1,979 │
- │ FILE_ID.DIZ ....... 204 │
- │ FLASHER.DOC .... 10,466 │
- ├─────────────────────────┤
- │ 5 files 350,359 │
- └─────────────────────────┘
-
- *** How To Play ***
-
- Flasher II is an addictive and challenging game designed
- to test your memory. Simply repeat an ever-increasing
- sequence of colors in order to score points.
-
- At the Flasher directory, type FLASHER2 to begin the game.
- The program will check for a VGA card, mouse, and soundcard
- card. If your system does not have a VGA card or mouse, the
- program will exit you back to DOS. If your system does not
- have a soundcard, your sound options will be limited to the
- PC speaker. Flasher II uses the FM chip which is located in
- the same memory location on most (if not all) soundcards, so
- if you have one, it should find it. (Hey, it works on MY
- SoundBlaster...).
-
- Once all this is done, you will be prompted to click the mouse
- button to being the game. IT IS HIGHLY SUGGESTED THAT YOU RUN
- THIS GAME FROM YOUR HARD DRIVE. RUNNING IT OFF OF A FLOPPY DISK
- WILL TAKE A BIT LONGER WHILE THE PROGRAM READS THE DATA FILE.
- However, all data is read into memory prior to the start of the
- game, so once it is done, game speed is not affected not matter
- where you run it from.
-
- The mouse is used to make your selections as well as flipping
- through the intro screens. After the Caledonian Enterprises
- logo fades out, the title screen will appear and a few colors
- will be flashed. Click the left mouse button to go through
- the other screens until you reach the main menu.
-
- *** Main Menu ***
-
- The main menu screen consists of 5 options:
-
- PLAY GAME - Clicking this button will take you to the game
- options menu (See Option Menu).
-
- INSTRUCTIONS - Clicking this button will take you to the
- instruction screens. There are 15 pages of
- instructions explaining how to play the game, as
- well as explaining the option settings.
-
- REGISTRATION - Clicking this button will take you to the
- registration screen. Simple enough.
-
- HIGH SCORES - Clicking this button takes you to two screens.
- The first screen shows the highscores for the
- normal game. Click the left mouse button to see
- the highscores for the phase game.
-
- QUIT - This is easy enough to figure out, click this button
- to exit the game.
-
-
- *** Option Menu ***
-
- The Option Menu consists of 7 options:
-
- LEVEL - This option sets the level of difficulty for the game.
- There are three levels:
-
- HARD - This causes the game to increase the sequence
- of colors flashed by 3 colors at a time. You
- receive 300 points for each correct response.
- (Registered users only!)
-
- MEDIUM - This causes the game to increase the sequence
- of colors flashed by 2 colors at a time. You
- receive 200 points for each correct response.
- (Registered users only!)
-
- EASY - This causes the game to increase the sequence of
- colors flashed by 1 color at a time. You receive
- 100 points for each correct response.
-
- PLAYERS - This option sets the number of players in the game.
-
- VARIANT - This option consists of 2 choices.
-
- NORMAL - This option sets the game to 'normal' mode.
- Normal mode basically sets the game to flashing
- an ever-increasing sequence of colors.
-
- PHASE - This option turns the game into more of a
- challenge. You are forced to clear levels of
- of increasing difficulty and longer sequences.
- (Registered Users only!)
-
- SOUND - There are 5 sound options here:
-
- PC - This option plays sound out of the PC Speaker.
-
- SH - Shhhh.... This turns off the sound in the game.
-
- I - (Soundcard users only) Sets the sound to
- Stereo Sound I.
-
- II - (Soundcard users only) Sets the sound to
- Stereo Sound II. (Registered Users only!)
-
- III - (Soundcard users only) Sets the sound to
- Stereo Sound III. (Registered Users only!)
-
- SPEED - There are 3 speed settings for the game. Select 1
- for fast, 2 for normal, 3 for slow.
-
- START - Click this to begin playing Flasher II. (See The
- Game Screen)
-
- MAIN MENU - Click this to go back to the Main Menu.
-
-
- *** The Game Screen ***
-
- Selecting START from the Option Menu will take you to the
- game screen. Each game lasts for 3 rounds. The Round
- indicator will increment on each round. There will be a
- window on your screen which will read "PLAYER ONE (Click to
- Start)". Click your left mouse button to begin the game.
-
- The Status indicator will read "PAUSE" as it gets a new color or
- colors, depending on which level of difficulty you selected.
- Once done, it will display "WAIT" while it flashes the colors.
- When it reads "READY", you may begin to type in your response.
-
- The active keys are 1,2,3,4, and ESC. The keys are in the same
- order as the colors on the screen:
-
- BLUE = 1 RED = 2 YELLOW = 3 GREEN = 4
-
- Pressing ESC will cause a window to pop up asking you if you
- wish to exit the game.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- You are playing an EASY game (One color at a time).
-
- Red flashes on the screen.
-
- You press '2'. (Remember: RED = 2)
-
- You are correct and recieve 100 points.
-
- Then, red flashes again along with green.
-
- You press '2', then '4'. (RED = 2 GREEN = 4)
-
- Once again you are correct and recieve 200 more points (100
- points for each right response) for a total of 300 points.
-
- This will continue until you give a wrong response.
-
- *** ABOUT FLASHER II ***
-
- Flasher II is a major improvement over the original
- Flasher. The original FLasher was written in QBasic,
- used text graphics and PC SPEAKER sound. Flasher II
- was written in BorlandC and Turbo Assembler, features
- 256-color VGA graphics, mouse support, and SoundBlaster
- stereo sounds, as well as a host of user options.
-
- (QBasic is owned by Microsoft Corporation)
-
- (BorlandC and Turbo Assembler are owned by Borland
- International)
-
- (SoundBlaster is owned by Creative Labs)
-
- *** About Caledonian Enterprises ***
-
- Caledonian Enterprises was officially created in September
- 1994. Caledonian Enterprises is dedicated to providing
- low cost entertainment software. Lets face it, we all enjoy
- playing games, but we all can't afford $30+ to play them!
- We look forward to providing a host of games in the near
- future at low prices.
-
- If you have any questions or comments, we'd love to hear from
- you! Please write:
-
- Caledonian Enterprises
- PO Box 7224
- Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7224
- Attn: Eric McConnell
-
-