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- TITLE...................Diamond-Ice
- FROM....................STOSSER Software
- RELEASED................December 1996
- RELEASE TYPE............FREE "Commentware"
- GAME TYPE...............Platform Puzzler
- MINIMUM CONFIGURATION...1 Meg STFM with any TOS version
- A Joystick
- Falcon owners use Backwards
- ( Thats "use" and not "are" <Grin> )
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- PROGRAMMER..............Tony Greenwood
- GRAPHIC ARTIST..........Dean Chadwick
- SAMPLED SOUND...........Andy MacCallum
- PLAY TESTERS............Tom Lamparty
- ............Andrew Robertson
- ............Flinny (Falcon)
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- FEATURES
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- <> Enhanced sound on STe
- <> Enhanced sound+ on STe and Falcon that boast more than 1 meg
- <> Hard Drive Installable
- <> Fast 8 way scrolling
- <> No Disc Access during Game
- <> Save and Load Options
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- CONTROLS
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- {} Left Joystick........Move Left
- {} Right Joystick.......Move Right
- {} Fire Button..........Jump
- {} Joy Down.............Pick up object
- ..Drop object
- ..Move Cable Car
- ..Replenish Health (Nr Bottle?)
- {} Arrow Keys...........Look around the Play Area
- {} SpaceBar.............Options Menu
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- IMPORTANT RULES & THE ODD TIP
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- [] This Game does NOT need "Fixing" in any way to run on any
- machine,Falcon owners must use BACKWARDS and boot in ATARI ST
- Low Resolution at 8mhz
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- [] Do not use a Ram Disk with this Game on any machine as it
- will adversely effect the way the game runs
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- [] 1 Meg owners MUST boot from an Auto Folder,and boot clean,you
- should also remove the "FALCON.SAM" file from the disk and
- leave the disk un writeprotected to be able to use the Save\
- Load features
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- [] Floppy disk users with more than 1 meg of memory must ensure
- the game is on a disk formatted to at least 2:10:80,
- If downloaded from the Internet then you must format to at
- least this spec for the SAVE option to work, if you have this
- disk from a PD Library then it should be ready as is, Please
- leave un writeprotected for the Save / Load options, You must
- also remove whichever program you do not need, So if you can
- run the game without using the program named "FIXED.PRG" then
- delete it, or if you have to use FIXED.PRG then delete
- the ORIGINAL.PRG,Keeping both on disk will not leave you with
- enough Disk space for the SAVE/LOAD files,
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- [] If DIAMOND-ICE does not run,then replace the ORIGINAL.PRG with
- the FIXED.PRG and re-try, both should be on disk,and this will
- only need to be implemented if you have TOS 2.06 or a Falcon
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- [] Only remove the FALCON.SAM file if you have a One meg ATARI,
- this is true no matter what type of machine you own,
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- [] In the game,you can only drop objects at a Red Flag, The
- exception would be if you are using the object, you can try &
- drop it anywhere then.
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- [] Most of the charactors you meet in the game will give good
- advice, so ignore them at your peril,
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- [] This Game is "Commentware" and as such, we would realy expect
- you to write and let us know you appreciate our efforts, if
- not, then our incentive to write FREE software will be nil!,
- Feedback from you the user,Is the ONLY payment we ask for and
- thats not much surely, we will continue to make games for the
- ATARI ST as long as you tell us to.......
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- [] Pulling back the Joystick near a mobile phone will let you
- interact with it by way of a three choice menu, Choosing Count
- Cubes will return a figure denoting the amount of Ice Cubes
- you have collected, Toggle Music will allow STe and Falcon
- users to turn the Music on/off,this will have little effect on
- a FM, Reset Game will in effect have the same consequences as
- Dying,ie: the game will reload all files and reset all game
- Variables, ( A double check is first performed )
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- [] Pulling back the Joystick near a red bottle will not only empty
- the bottle but also replenish your health
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- ..ooOoo..
- OOoOO
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- Diamond-Ice is a direct follow up to Heartland, from the
- great response we had from that game ( Well done Mrs Samm from
- Luton, Officialy the first person to complete Heartland ) a few of
- you asked where the puzzle element was, well our intention was to
- make a fast and very uncomplicated easy to play platformer,I think
- we managed that, but you all thought it needed a puzzle element,
- so here we have it, Objects to find, pick up, carry and use, Along
- your travels you will meet Eskimos such as Eric & Ernie and Phil &
- Grant as well as grumpy or helpfull old men, Penguins and quite a
- few sarcastic Snowmen, There are things to figure out and traps
- you may fall into, don't expect an easy ride with this one,
-
- As you know, Sissy and Sassy have just succesfully found the
- thirteen Hearts Cards hidden around Heartland, but while they
- where having that adventure, some sneaky git has gone and nicked
- the set of Diamonds, But instead of hiding them all over the
- place, they have encased them in a block of DIAMOND-ICE dah dahh,
- Your mission should you choose to accept it <yawn> is to
- find the cards (this is quite simple) and then find some way of
- melting the Diamond Ice (Not so simple),
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- IMPORTANT NOTICE
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- Some of you will have recognised the main Charactor from
- the classic DIZZY series of games, We used this little chappy in
- Heartland and everyone commented they where so glad to see him
- brought back to life that we simply had to keep him for Diamond
- Ice,
- I must point out that we are in no way trying to take
- credit for the DIZZY Charactor or its Artwork, this was as far as
- we know the creation of Codemasters, we did try to contact them,
- but the information we recieved was that they had merged or been
- bought by another company, who in turn merged etc with another
- country and it would seem a nightmare to find anyone interested in
- the copyright holders, so we decided as No Person or Company
- should ever be making any profit from any STOSSER Software title
- as it's all FREE software then we could not be accused of anything
- underhand, and on both occasions we have entered all this
- information into the associated documentation, Thus STOSSER
- Software are prepared to take full responsibility for the use of
- the DIZZY sprite (that is presuming anyone wants to sue me for the
- 90pence in my building society account?)
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- The most important thing we can hope for is that you the
- user enjoys this game, and please do take the time to write and
- tell us, after all we took the time to create the game, for FREE?
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- Cheers....!ynoT
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- Tony Greenwood (STOSSER Software) 1996
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