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- W A N G L E
- is a Freewaregame
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- Copyright 1992 by Peter Händel
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- Before starting the Description of the game, I want to adress some lines
- to all the PD-Distributors and Software Publishers:
-
- If you want to distribute Wangle, you have to get my written Permission.
- You are not allowed to sell my Program on your own PD-Catalog or include
- it in Bookware. You may not distribute it with commercial Software or
- Hardware, you may not give it away as advertising Gift to get
- subscriptions for your magazine, etc. If you wonder why : I've seen all of
- it and I think that these people are stealing my mental property.
-
- Every Version of this Game contains an Entry in the Form of "This Version
- is only for XYX...', so everyone can find out, if you have got my
- permission to distribute this game. If anyone notices this Game on a
- PD-Catalog without a matching Entry, please contact me and give me the
- adress of the PD-Distributor.
-
- I'm sorry I have to touch this aspect again and again, but a lot of greedy
- People make money out of my work - I regard them as immoral.
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- The Rules of the Game:
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- After loading the Game, the Titlescreen will show up (this is the time to
- check, if the distributor stole the game). After pressing any mousebutton,
- you will see the main screen with a kind of Highscore, containing up to
- five Names and some additional Info (next level to play, number of moves
- up to that level). Klick one of the five Entries with the left Mousbutton
- and type your Name. If you click on one of the (existing) Entries with the
- right Mousbutton, the according Level will be loaded and you are ready to
- play this Level without typing your Name.
-
- The second change of concept introduced with this game is: If you finish the
- game, your scores will be saved automatically, so write-enable your Disk !
- The state af the game will only be saved, if you reached the second level
- and you don't have to go through the hassle of loading your last Score any
- more and you can't forget to save your Score any more.
-
- The aim of the game is to remove all of the colored Squares (red, green,
- blue, yellow) by grouping squares of the same Color into bigger Squares.
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- Wrong: #### Correct: ##
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- To move the squares: move the mousepointer above them, press the left
- mousebutton and drag in the direction the square should move, release
- the left mousbutton - thats all, the square should move until it reaches
- a wall.
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- If you managed to group 4 squares (2 by 2), the squares will be removed.
- In the lower left corner, you can see how many squares of the according
- color have to be removed to get to the next level, but beware: there are
- levels, in which some squares may remain on the board.
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- Gray squares are walls: you have to bypass them somehow, squares with
- cracks may only be passed twice by the colored squares, the third square
- passing such an area will be lost. And you can't place a colored square on
- it for a longer time: the crash will be immediate.
-
- Another gimmick are the light bulbs (dark and light ones). You may have
- guessed it: touch a dark one with a colored one and light will be off -
- you can only see the colored squares and have to touch a lighted bulb to
- switch on the light again.
-
- Finally, there is the magic Reproducer (Yellow with 4 red Triangels).
- Touch it and you will get another square on the opposite side of the
- reproducer - this square will have the same color. The reproducer will
- enable you to create new squares - it might be easier to produce new
- squares than grouping the existing ones.
-
- If movement of the squares seems to be to slow or to fast for your
- machine, edit the File "TIME" with any ASCII-Editor - bigger values of
- the number result in slower speed. So you have got the possibility to
- adjust your favorite Speed. A3000 = 10000 / A500 = 800.
-
- There is no Timelimit in this game - you have got all the time you need to
- complete your level without the possibility of getting angry because you
- would have finished the level in just about 2 Seconds - but then the Time
- expired ...
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- If you want to replay the level, press "Replay", if you want to quit, try
- "Quit", and if you click on "New Player, you get back to the main screen
- and can choose a new Player.
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- The Editor
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- Using the Editor should be intuitive, you click on the sqares and then
- place the Squares with your Mouse. Attention: you have to adjust the
- number of grouped Squares to remove, so if you've got 4 red squares that
- must be removed in a level, adjust the Number for red Squares in the lower
- right corner to 1.
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