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**************************************************************************** ******* ****** ** ** ****** ****** ****** ** ** ***** ***** * ** * ** * * ** * * *** ** * * ** * ** * * *** **** ** * * * **** *** **** * ** * * * ** * * * ** * * * * ****** * * ****** ****** ****** * ** ***** * * THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY THROUGH TIME.... *************************************************************************** (C)1993 Sceptresoft All coding and material: C.PARTRIDGE Playtesting: J.CAPSTICK, S.O'BRIEN, M.WARDELL J.PARTRIDGE, C.REEH, T.MOSS Extra thanks: M.PARTRIDGE, POLLY *************************************************************************** FULL DOCUMENTATION FOR PART ONE =============================== CONTENTS: 1. Introduction 2. Running the program 3. In-game controls 4. Tutorial 5. Stuck? 6. Other programs available 7. Address 8. Greetz, Miscallaneous MAKE ALL CHEQUES/PO'S PAYABLE TO C.PARTRIDGE ------------------------------------------------------------------ CORRECTION TO 'getting started' sheet , brief tutorial: For 'COMMAND' button - use the button underneath the OBJECT button, which has COMM written underneath it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION --------------- Welcome to TimeZoner! Timezoner is OPTIONAL shareware - donate money if you enjoyed it and would like to see some more. TimeZoner is a graphic adventure which uses a point and click interface to operate - this is explained later on. There is no part 2 to TimeZoner as yet, although if there is great demand for one, I may consider releasing it as licensware/shareware. If you have played and enjoyed part one and would like to donate some money (NOT compulsary) or would like to express your wishes for a part two, please write to: C.Partridge, Sceptresoft, 9 Westbourne Ave., Wrea Green, Nr. Preston, PR4 2PL 2. RUNNING THE PROGRAM: ======================= Simply insert the disk into the drive and follow the prompts! You need 1.5Mb of memory to run TimeZoner (I think). I would suggest clicking on Read_Docs before playing TimeZoner - it helps to know how to work the thing properly! There are also a few other programs included, such as screenshots of Zulu! - the best game ever, soon to come from Sceptresoft, a game that never was and an interesting pattern maker. COMPATIBILITY: -------------- TimeZoner has only been tested on the A500 and A1200 computers. It requires at least 1 Mb of RAM to run. HARD DRIVE ---------- To install onto a hard drive: 1. Boot up WorkBench on your hard drive. 2. Insert TimeZoner disk 1. 3. Double click on the disk icon and then the HD-Install icon. 4. Follow the instructions. TimeZoner will only run properly from hard drive if the assignment TZONE: has been made to the directory with all the data files in. This can be permanently assigned by altering the startup-sequence (or user-startup on kickstart 2.0 or greater). Consult your workbench manual for full details on doing this - you will need to type in something like ED S:USER-STARTUP to edit the script and ASSIGN TZONE: DH0:GAMES/TZONE to make the assignment. These lines vary according to your kickstart version and the pathname of the directory where your files are. The correct assignment statement is given to you after installation by the HD-Install program. 3. IN-GAME CONTROLS =================== After loading, there will be some brief lines of text, and the intro. screen will be displayed. Click the left mouse button once, and you will be on the menu screen, which gives the scenario and plays a nice little toon. Pressing SPACE starts part one, and pressing Q quits out of the game. Once you have pressed SPACE, there will be some more disk-whirring. (time for all you hard drive owners to feel smug) Then you will have started the game, and there should be a console at the top of the screen with buttons on it such as TAKE, DROP, EXAMINE, etc... TimeZoner can be controlled from the keyboard or the mouse - keyboard users simply need to type in the commands on the keys and press RETURN to enter a command. Clicking on these buttons with the left mouse button will place the appropriate command into the bottom window, as if you had typed it in on the keyboard (which you can also do). Clicking the right mouse button at any time will enter the command displayed in the window into the computer and the computer will act on that command and display a response. The RETURN key, the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON and the blue button on the console with a right-angle arrow on it all produce this effect. There are two CYCLE BUTTONS on the left of the console, with OBJECT and COMM written next to them. If you keep clicking on these with the left mouse button, they produce a different output each time; cycling through the available objects and commands. The buttons labeled 1-5 are the RUCKSACK buttons and represent what you are carrying in your rucksack. Clicking on these outputs the name of the object held to the window at the bottom. The ? button performs an inventory of all objects in the rucksack. The best thing to do to understand what each button does is to click on the command cycle button (has COMM written next to it) until HELP is displayed in the bottom window. Then press the right mouse button. A menu will appear. Type 1 on the keyboard for on-line help and press RETURN. (note: pressing 2 and RETURN lists all the commands and 3,RETURN asks for a HINT) You should now be in ONLINE HELP mode. Clicking on a button at the top now results in an explanation of that button's function. Do this until you are familiar with all the controls, and then press the right mouse button to return to the game. You now have two choices: try it all out for yourself, or go through the small tutorial later on in this document. The choice is yours! ------------- HINT Smart users will have already noticed the HINT function. I hasten to point out that this function is only put in for people who are REALLY REALLY REALLY BADLY stuck on the game and haven't got a clue what to do. Please don't abuse this function, or you will complete the game in about an hour and won't really enjoy it or get any satisfaction! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! -------------- 4.FULL TUTORIAL =============== Load up TimeZoner. Press the left mouse button when the intro. screen appears, and then press space when the menu screen appears. You should soon have started the game. Click once on the button marked TAKE. Now move to the object cycle button (Has OBJECT written above it) Click once on here. The lower window should read 'Take Pot'. Click again on the button. The window changes to 'Take Floor' Keep clicking until the bottom window says 'Take Crumpled Message' Now press the right mouse button to execute the action. You have just taken your first object! Feels good, huh? Let's check that you are actually carrying the message. Click once on the button marked '?'. This is in the bottom right of the button console. The bottom window will then tell you what is in your rucksack, and there will be the message! Now to read the message itself. The best way to do this is to use the EXAMINE button. Click once on this button. The lower window now says 'Examine'. Now let's use the rucksack buttons to add the name of the crumpled message to the command in the bottom window. You have just picked up the message, so it will be in location 1 in your rucksack. Click once on the button marked '1' (near to the ? button) Now the window says 'Examine Crumpled Message'. Good. Press the right mouse button once, and there is the message in all its glory! Once you have read it, put it down by clicking once on 'DROP' and once on rucksack location 1. Press the right mouse button, and you will drop the message. Just as you examined the message in your rucksack, so you can examine it in the room without taking it first. Click on EXAMINE, and then click the OBJECT CYCLE BUTTON until the display reads 'Examine Crumpled Message' again. If you pressed the right mouse button now, you could view the message again - BUT DON'T. Let's use another button - the one with an 'X' on it. Click once on the 'X' button. The command in the window disappears! This button deletes all of the current command, and saves you from having to press backspace several times to delete it. Click on the button marked with an up arrow on it. (^) Click again. And again. Watch the command output in the window. This button goes back through your previously entered commands and lets you re-execute them or edit them. Clicking on the down arrow now goes back through them until you reach the current line again! Click the down arrow until there is no command output in the window. Click continually on the COMMAND CYCLE BUTTON (underneath the OBJECT CYCLE BUTTON) and watch the output. This button cycles through all the less-frequently used commands such as MUSIC OFF or QUIT. Keep clicking until you reach 'MUSIC OFF'. Press the right mouse button. Now click on the button again until you get to 'MUSIC ON'. Press the right mouse button. This demonstrates the use of this button. That's the end of the tutorial. You are now on your own! Enjoy the adventure... 5. STUCK? ---------- You're stuck? Shock! That's normally the only reason people ever read the manual, so that's why I included this section. Pointers in the right direction =============================== Try each one of these solutions to solving your problem: 1. Most problems benefit from a fresh approach. Go away for a while, and then come back and try again. You may find you suddenly realise what it was you were doing wrong before. 2. Perhaps the solution requires a less-frequently used command. These can mostly be accessed by clicking on the COMMAND CYCLE BUTTON. If you can't find anything in there, use the HELP command and then press 2 and RETURN to list all the commands that TimeZoner supports. The solution HAS to be one of these commands!! 3. Ask a friend - two minds are definitely better than one, and different people have different methods of solving problems. 4. As a LAST RESORT - use the HELP command and type in 3 and RETURN on the keyboard. This will give you a fairly unsubtle hint as to what to do next. 5. If the hint didn't help - explore ALL the rooms. Maybe there's a room you didn't even know existed! (Many people miss the pantry in part one) 6. Check out ALL the objects. Most of them have a use of some sort, although there may be a couple of red herrings in there somewhere. 7. If you have looked through all these solutions and NONE of them work, you'd better write to me for help. Write to: TimeZoner Hints, Sceptresoft, 9 Westbourne Ave., Wrea Green, Nr. Preston, Lancs., PR4 2PL enclosing a FULL description of your problem. 6. OTHER PROGRAMS AVAILABLE FROM SCEPTRESOFT - PAST AND FUTURE: =============================================================== 1. RadBench ------------ Annoyed the slow loading speed of your Workbench.? Do you have a meg. of memory? Do you hate having to swap disks just to perform simple CLI commands such as deleting files or copying files? If the answer to 2 or 3 of these is YES - you need RADBENCH. RadBench speeds up WorkBench loading times on a 1.3 machine by 70%, and a similar amount on a 2.0 or 3.0 system. Imagine never having to wait for WorkBench again. After you have run RadBench, simply reset your computer and WorkBench will load WITHOUT any floppy disks! Any CLI commands are in RAM already, so no disk swaps are needed! Get RadBench today - the smarter way to speed up your A500, A500+, A1500, or A600. Only £2.00 from Sceptresoft or available from all good public domain libraries. (shareware) 1/8/94 - latest version of Radbench is version 1.7. 2. Lock-Out ----------- If you have problems with people meddling around with your hard drive whilst you're not around, you want to keep a tab on people who use your system, or you simply want a neat front-end to your hard drive system - LOCK-OUT IS THE ONE FOR YOU! One of the only Hard Drive security systems available for the Amiga, Lock-Out provides many many features, including: o- Multiple users o- Different read/write access to HD for different users. o- Logs users and times o- Message Board for notices to users o- User identities and passwords supported. o- Workbench 2 style interface o- Launchable scripts for different users o- Upgrade to version 3 (licensware) with a huge amount of better features! So, go on. Treat yourself to Lock-Out version 2 - available as public domain from all good libraries - version 3 is licensware and is available from the address below for £4, featuring many many many more features such as e-mail, enhanced user facilities, program launch, menus, etc, etc - version 3 is so much more advanced I can't begin to explain it! (or your money back!). 3. Zulu! ======== COMING SOON FROM SCEPTRESOFT - the ultimate in arcade action! See intro. and screenshots on this disk! Point and click arcade/strategy action - command the British army and fight off thousands of invading zulus! Features: - multiple weapons and units - horrifying sound effects! - Colourful and detailed graphics - Action packed scenario integrated into gameplay - Fully hard-drive installable Available as licensware from all good pd libraries or direct from Sceptresoft for £4 from early 1995. 7. ADDRESS ========== Here's where to write to with any bug reports, orders, problems or just for info.: SceptreSoft, c/o C.Partridge, 9 Westbourne Ave., Wrea Green, Nr. Preston, Lancs., PR4 2PL Make all cheques/PO's payable to C.Partridge 8. GREETS ========== Greets to: Chris Reeh, Jim Lad, Mark Wardell, Stu O'Brien, Dave Gee, Jenny, Mum + Dad, Mick Tomkins, Polly, Big Tref. (alias Mr. Moss), SpaceBalls (4 their excellent State of The Art demo.) Nico Francais, Teijo whatsisname (MED) My fave. coders: phenomena, L.S.D, Enigma, BudBrain, XTC // // ============================================================= \\ // LONG LIVE THE AMIGA! ANOTHER GREAT PROGRAM FROM SCEPTRESOFT \X/ ===============================================================