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- * Copyright 1993 by John Preston All Rights Reserved *
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- Welcome to the JBPSnakeGame! This game is based on an old time favorite
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- that I have played on machines ranging from UNIX or VM mainframes down to
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- my still running RadioShack model I. I hope you will enjoy this port as
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- much as I do! John Preston of Amiga DEPOT BBS (319)385-7412
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- ------------============= RULES: =============------------
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- There are four basic rules to the game:
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- 1) Don't run into the wall
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- 2) Don't run the snake across it's own tail.
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- 3) Don't run the snake backwards (try to make it swallow itself :).
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- 4) Score as many points by hitting the numbers before they dissapear.
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- ------------============= DIRECTIONS: =============------------
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- The Directions are simple.
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- 1) When you first start the game you are brought to the main menu where
- you have three selections to choose from.
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- [A] is Alltime High Scores. This shows you the 15 best scores.
- [P] is to start the game.
- [Q] is to quit the program.
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- 2) To move the snake press the numbers 4,8,6 or 2. These correspond to
- the directions Left, Up, Right and Down. If you have a NUMERIC KEYPAD
- on your computer make sure it is in numeric mode (for you MSDOS types)
- and use the KEYPAD because it is easy to control the snake if you do.
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- UP
- 7 8 9
- LEFT 4 5 6 RIGHT
- 1 2 3
- DOWN
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- 3) You only need to press a direction key once to start snake moving. The
- snake will continue to move at a rate of about 3 characters per second
- at 14400 baud. If you wish the snake to move faster simply press and
- hold the number corresponding to the direction you wish to move. But
- look out! At slower baud rates and large modem buffer sizes, you can
- cause the modem to buffer many keypresses and thus get the snake moving
- so fast that you cannot get it to change directions in time!!
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- 4) If you wish to quit the game at any time press CTRL-C and you will be
- taken back to the main menu where you can press Q to exit.
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- 5) If while you are playing the game you should get some lines noise or the
- modem or terminal program drops characters, you may press R to REDRAW
- the screen. This is a BIG problem with MSDOS machines running at 9600
- and above when using the program QMODEM or TELEMATE if the machine is
- 16mhz or less.
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