Chip: Die 66 BEsten Computer/Chip_Special-66_Computer-Spiele_auf_CD-ROM.iso/denk/quark/quark.hlp

Text File | 1991-05-04 | 5KB | 156 lines

Quark
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%(c) 1991 Daniel Egnor
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     Quark is a strategic battle of wits played on a PC computer.
     It is played with 32 pieces per player on a 16 by 16 board.
     Two people may play, one player may play against the computer,
     or the computer may play itself as a sort of 'demo'.  At the
     beginning of the game, clicking on the red and blue bars at the
     right of the screen will toggle the respective players between
     human and computer control.  To begin the game click on 'Ok'.
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     When it is your turn the mouse pointer will be the color of
     your pieces, red or blue.  You may then rotate your pieces
     or issue several system commands.
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     Clicking the left button on a piece you own will rotate the
     piece 90 degrees to the left.  Clicking the right button will
     similarly rotate the piece 90 degrees to the right.  The middle
     button, if present, will rotate the piece 180 degrees.  You may
     not alter your opponent's pieces in any way.  Any number of
     pieces may be rotated.
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     When you are done rotating your pieces click on 'Ok'.  This will
     signal the end of your turn.  'Exit' quits the program and
     returns you to DOS or whatever.  'Reset' places the board in its
     starting configuration.  'About' displays this screen.  'Save'
     places the game on disk for later recovery with 'Reload'.
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     The objective is to capture all of your opponent's pieces.  When
     this happens a message will be displayed.  Click on 'Ok' to start
     a new game at that point or 'Exit' to quit.
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%Daniel Egnor
%102 Enfield Center Rd.
%Ithaca, NY 14850
[e-mail] on Internet .. until July 1991.
%[73707,3340] on Compuserve  --  or [phone] voice phone.
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%Click on 'Ok' for the rules of the game ...
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Rules
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     When you are completed rotating all of your pieces and click on
     'Ok' each piece of yours will do something depending on what the
     square immediately adjacent to it in the direction the piece has
     been rotated to point towards is: a piece pointing at a blank
     square will move into it.  If a piece is pointing at a piece of
     the same color or at the wall the piece will do nothing and stay
     where it is.  All of the following pieces will not take action:
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     If it is pointing at a piece of your opponents' it will attack.
     Pieces' strengths in attacking are exponential; from darkest to
     lightest, the strengths are 1, 2, 4, and 8.  When the sum of the
     strengths of all the pieces of yours which are pointing at a
     particular enemy piece are greater than the strength of the
     attacked piece the attacked piece disappears.
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     A stalemate (the others are valid captures by Blue)
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%Click on 'Ok' for more information ...
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Stuff
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     There are two strength indicators at the right side of the
     screen.     The simplest are the red and blue bars with the
     controller (human or computer) written on them.  These bar
     graphs range from all red or blue (at the beginning of the
     game) to all grey (when that player has lost).  These bars
     merely represent the combined strength of all pieces still
     owned by each player.
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     The box above the strength bars initially contains eight
     pieces for each of the four strength levels and both players,
     thus representing the 32 pieces initially owned by each
     player.  As pieces of various strengths are captured the
     appropriate pieces will disappear from the right of the rows
     of pieces, thus giving a diagram of the quantity and type
     of pieces owned by each player.
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     The indicators may be used to compare strengths-'see who's
     winning'-or to easily determine which, if any, pieces were
     lost during a turn.
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     Quark uses 4 files: QUARK.EXE, QUARK.HLP, QUARK.INI, and
     QUARK.SAV.  QUARK.EXE is, obviously, the main compiled
     program.  Incidentally, Quark was written in Turbo Pascal 6.0
     (tm) by Borland.  You're reading what's in QUARK.HLP now.
     QUARK.SAV is the file updated when you click on 'Save' and read
     when you click on 'Reload'.  QUARK.INI is the initial config-
     uration of the board.
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     To make your own initial configuration, first put both players
     to 'human' and move things around until the board is as you
     would like to have it start.  Click on 'Save', then 'Exit'.
     In DOS, rename QUARK.INI to QUARK.OLD (in case you want it
     back); then copy QUARK.SAV to QUARK.INI.  When you then reload
     Quark it will start with your initial configuration.  Of course,
     that big gothic 'Quark' in the middle of the board may cover
     part of it up, but that's just cosmetic.
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%Click on 'Ok' to return to game ...
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