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ZZZZZZZ JJJJ ZZZZZZZ RRRRRR IIII SSSSSS KKK KK Z ZZ JJ Z ZZ RR RR II SS S KK KK ZZ JJ ZZ RR RR II SS KK KK ZZ JJ ZZ RRRRR II SSSSS KKKK ZZ J JJ ZZ RR RR II SS KK KK ZZ Z JJ JJ ZZ Z RR RR II S SS KK KK ZZZZZZZ JJJ ZZZZZZZ RRR RR IIII SSSSSS KKK KK Version 1.1 ============================================================================ Authored by Norman S. Zawisza ZJZ RISK is a classic game of military strategy. It's general versus general; fierce attacks against valiant defense; bold strikes and cunning traps. Risk is a registered trademark of Parker Brothers, Inc., and as such is protected by law. This game is not intended to enhance, replace or to detract in any way, from Parker Brothers original board game. This game is distributed under the shareware concept. The concept is that you forego all the fancy packaging and still receive high quality software, which you do not pay for unless you use! You are encouraged to give this software to your friends, other bulletin boards, user groups, etc. You are NOT allowed to modify the program in any way. The author retains all other rights to the program. If you enjoy the game, please send a $15.00 donation to: Norman S. Zawisza 167 North Main Street Perry, NY 14530 Along with your contribution, please tell me where you received your copy and any comments/criticisms you might have. In supporting Public Domain programs, we encourage authors everywhere to place more programs into the Public Domain and to strike a blow against overpriced software! The complete Turbo C 2.0 source code for the game can be purchased for a $35.00 contribution which includes: 1. A hardcopy of all the listings, fully commented and documented, along with the program flowcharts; 2. A 5.25" floppy disk containing the source code files and the necessary makefiles. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ------------------- The game has been designed to run on IBM and 100% compatible computer systems with 640K system memory and an EGA/VGA graphics card with least 256K of graphics memory. While the game can be run from a floppy drive, it is STRONGLY suggested that the game be placed on a hard drive and played from there. While this version of the game has been compiled to run on XT class computers and up, an AT class version, (which is faster and has a smaller executable size), can be obtained at NO CHARGE to registered users by writing to the above address. THINGS TO ALWAYS REMEMBER ------------------------- The object of the game is to eliminate your opponents by occupying every country on the board. The first player to do so wins the game and also conquers the world. The F1 key is ALWAYS the HELP key. If at some point in the game you don't know what to do, chances are, by pressing F1, you will receive any needed information. The F2 key is the Continent Information key. At the command prompt ("ENTER A COMMAND:"), the F2 key will show the player how many extra armies the player will receive if he/she owns the entire continent, and also which countries make up which continents. The commands are entered by using the FIRST LETTER ONLY of the desired command. See the COMMAND section for more details. When a player needs to select a country for any reason, the following will always be true: The selection process ALWAYS begins on N. Africa. Other countries can be reached by using the ARROW keys, (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT), to move the selection pattern to the desired country. The selection pattern will be either of three things; o When selecting an ATTACKING country, the selection pattern will fill the current country with 'a's; o When selecting a DEFENDING country, the selection pattern will fill the current country with 'd's; o When selecting a country for any other reason, (RE-ARRANGING armies, placing new armies, etc.), the selection pattern will fill the current country with a hatch pattern. The game board has certain sections devoted to certain tasks, or are always used to convey information to the player, (as the following diagram shows): --------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | AREA A | AREA | | | C | | | | | |-----------| | --------------------------| AREA | | | AREA B | D | --------------------------------------------------- AREA A: This portion of the screen is the game board. AREA B: This portion of the screen is used for all game messages and player input. AREA C: This portion is used to display statistics about the current player (whose turn it is). AREA D: This portion of the screen displays various types of information; specifically information about the current attack, current troop movements, country statistics during the selection process, dice rolls, etc. INITIAL SETUP ------------- When you first begin the game you can either retrieve a previously saved game, or you can start a new game. NEW GAME: To begin a new game, when you answer 'N' to retrieving a new game, the player screen appears and you are prompted to enter the number of players. There can be from two to six players. Any other response is ignored. Once the number of players is entered, you are prompted to enter each player's color. As colors are chosen, they are removed from the available list. After each player has been assigned a color, the initial country placements can be assigned by the game or by having each player pick their own countries. If the game does the selection, one army will be placed upon each country until the entire game board is filled. If the players choose to pick the initial countries, each player, in turn, places one army onto any unoccupied country until all 42 countries have been claimed. Regardless of which method is used to place the initial armies, once each country has one army on it, each player, in turn, places one army on any country that he or she already occupies. This continues until each player has placed all of his armies. These remaining armies for each player are placed (as outlined in THINGS TO ALWAYS REMEMBER above) by using the arrow keys to move the highlighted country around the board and pressing the ENTER key when you have reached the desired country. Area C of the game board (see above), will display all the necessary information needed to do this initial setup. RETRIEVED PREVIOUSLY SAVED GAME: To retrieve a previously saved game, you answer 'Y' to the 'Retrieve a new game' prompt. If there are any games saved, a list of the saved games will appear on the screen and the game will prompt you to type in the name of the game you want to use. If there are no games saved, the game will print a message to that fact. When you are entering the name of the game you wish to retrieve, the game won't respond until the RETURN (or ENTER) key is pressed. If the name was entered wrong, the game will print an appropriate message and asks you if you want to try to enter the saved game's name again. By answering 'Y' or 'N' to the prompt, the player can try again, or can go on to start a new game. PLAYING THE GAME ---------------- Depending upon the number of players selected, the initial number of starting armies varies as follows: o 2 players - each player gets 50 armies o 3 players - each player gets 35 armies o 4 players - each player gets 30 armies o 5 players - each player gets 25 armies o 6 players - each player gets 20 armies The original Risk board game has a different approach when only two players are chosen, but let's just call this poetic license!! On your turn, you try to capture opposing countries by defeating the opposing armies. Each of your turns consists of three steps, in the following order: 1. Getting and placing new armies 2. Attacking (optional) 3. Fortifying your position (optional) GETTING AND PLACING NEW ARMIES: At the beginning of each turn, excluding your first turn, you receive additional armies. You must immediately place these armies onto any one or more of your countries. You receive armies according to the number of countries you occupy, and the number of continents you control. COUNTRIES: Simply count the number of countries you currently occupy, then divide the total by three, discarding any fraction. The answer is the number of armies you receive, (example: 11 countries = 3 armies, 14 countries = 4 armies, 17 countries = 5 armies). You always receive at least three new armies on a turn, even if you occupy fewer than nine countries. CONTINENTS: A player can also receive armies for each continent he controls (to control a continent, you must occupy all it's countries at the start of your turn). To find the exact number of armies you receive for each continent and which countries make up each continent, use the F2 key at the command prompt, ("ENTER A COMMAND:" prompt). COMMANDS -------- The commands are entered by typing the first letter of the command ONLY. The entire command will be displayed when the player enters a command letter. The first letters of all the commands are unique, so illegal commands can be detected immediately. The ever-present command prompt, "ENTER A COMMAND:", asks for the players input, and the command will be spelled out completely after the prompt. By pressing the F1 key, a list of the valid commands will be shown. All the legal commands will be presented below, in alphabetical order. ATTACK - After placing your armies, you may attack if you wish. An attack is actually one or more battles which are fought with dice (in this case, pseudo-dice). The object of an attack is to capture a country by defeating all the opposing armies on it. To attack an opposing country, you must follow the following rules: o You may only attack a country that is ADJACENT to one of your own. Countries lying next to each other are adjacent. Countries connected by dashed lines are also adjacent. The game will not allow attacks on non-adjacent countries. o You must always have AT LEAST TWO ARMIES on the country you are attacking from. o You, the attacker, are allowed to roll one, two, or three dice, but you must have at least one more army on your country than the number of dice you roll. The more dice you roll, the greater your odds of winning. Also, the more dice you roll, the more armies you may lose. o The defender may roll either one or two dice. To roll two dice, he/she must have at least two armies on the country under attack. The more dice the defender rolls, the greater the odds of winning, (or losing). To start an attack, simply type the letter `A' at the "ENTER A COMMAND:" prompt. You are then asked to select the attacking country. As you move the highlighted country (see THINGS TO ALWAYS REMEMBER), AREA D of the game board will show the current country's information. When the attacking country is selected, the attack pattern stays on the selected country, and the player is asked to select the defending country. Again, AREA D of the game board will show the current country's information. Once the attacking and defending countries have been selected, AREA D of the game board will show information about the two countries selected for battle. The game then prompts the player to enter the number of armies to use in the attack and the number of armies to use to defend. Enter these numbers at the prompts, (the backspace key does work), and hit the RETURN (ENTER) key to tell the game that you have entered the number. Once the number of armies has been entered, the game will `roll' the dice, and the results will be shown in AREA D of the game board. AN ATTACK CAN BE ABORTED BY PRESSING THE `ESC' KEY DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS ONLY. IF BOTH THE ATTACKING AND DEFENDING COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN SELECTED, THE ATTACK CANNOT BE STOPPED. To decide a battle, compare the highest die that each player has rolled. If your die is higher, the defender loses one army from the country under attack. If the defender's die is higher, you lose one army from the attacking country. Then, if each player has rolled more than one die, repeat the above procedure for the next die. IN CASE OF A TIE, THE DEFENDER ALWAYS WINS! The game will announce the results of the battle. As soon as you defeat the last opposing army on a country, you capture that country and must occupy it immediately. To do so, move in at least as many armies as the number of dice you rolled in your last battle. But you must always leave at least one army behind. During the game, every country must be occupied by at least one army. The game will prompt for the number of armies you wish to move into the conquered country. AREA D will show the attacking country information to help decide how many armies to move. You may end your attack at any time. You may do so by typing the TURN DONE command or the RE-ARRANGE command, (see below). If you don't want to attack on your turn, you don't have to. If you wish, you may just fortify your position (TURN DONE or RE- ARRANGE). TURN DONE - This command can be used to end a player's turn. Simply type `D' at the 'ENTER A COMMAND:" prompt. The game then prompts to see if the player would like to re-arrange any of his/her armies. To do this, move as many of your armies as you like from one (and only one) of your countries into one (and only one) of your adjacent countries. o In moving your armies from one country to another, you must leave at least one army behind. o No matter what you've done on your turn, you may end it with fortifying your position. You are not required to win a battle or even try an attack. To select the countries you wish to move armies to and from, the game will ask the player to select the countries (see THINGS TO ALWAYS REMEMBER). When the TO country and the FROM country have been selected, AREA D will show the information about the chosen countries. The game then prompts the player to enter the number of armies to move (any number between 0 and 999). THE RE-ARRANGEMENT CAN BE ABORTED BY PRESSING THE `ESC' KEY DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS. IF BOTH THE TO COUNTRY AND THE FROM COUNTRY HAVE ALREADY BEEN SELECTED, THE COMMAND CANNOT BE STOPPED. When the re-arrangement is completed, the current player's turn is completed and the next player starts his/her turn. QUIT - By entering `Q', players can terminate game play. The game will prompt the player "..are you sure?" and a `Y' response will terminate the game, and an `N' response will allow the game to continue. RE-ARRANGE - This command is almost identical to the `TURN DONE' command except that it is invoked by entering `R' instead of `D'. The only difference is that the player is not asked if he would like to re-arrange any armies. SAVE - By entering `S' the players can save the current game to a disk file so that play can be continued at a later time. There are two possible ways of saving a game: to a new file or to an already existing game file. o To save a game to a new game file, the game automatically generates the game file's name by the following convention: RG (for Risk Game) + MMDDYY + a numbered extension which corresponds to the number of games saved on the current day. For example, if on November 18, 1989, the game to be saved is the second one saved on the day, the game file will have RG111889.002 as it's name. o To save a game to a previously existing game file, the gamefile directory and all the current game files will be displayed and the player will have the chance to enter the game file name he/she wishes to save the current game under. The reason for this is because, as games are saved, they are usually forgotten about, and they tend to pile up and eat, eat, eat up your free disk space. The player is prompted for the desired method of saving the game, and when the save is completed, game play is continued. This will allow the game to be saved in various stages. This also makes a case for wanting to overwrite previously saved games with the current game. All the games are saved in a subdirectory named RISKGAME. This subdirectory is created underneath the directory in which the game is installed. You do not have to create the directory yourself, the game will take care of this. WINNING ------- The game is completed when one player owns all 42 countries on the board!!!