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Welcome to Scapeghost from:
Level 9 Computing,
PO Box 39,
Weston-super-Mare
AVON BS24 9UR
ENGLAND
If you're stuck, please write, enclosing a self-addressed envelope and a
stamp (or 4 international reply coupons) for our Scapeghost cluesheet.
PC Scapeghost HAS...
VGA (Video Graphics Array) colour pictures;
MCGA (Multi-Colour Graphics Array) colour pictures;
EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adaptor) colour pictures;
CGA (Colour Graphics Adaptor) colour pictures;
CGA/MGA (Monochrome Graphics Adaptor) black-and-white pictures;
40 or 80 column text-only display;
picture compression;
picture cache to avoid unnecessary disc loads;
edit previous commands, by cursor keys, backspace and delete;
SAVE/RESTORE to disc;
RAM SAVE/RESTORE in memory;
UNDO (take back moves);
CONTINUOUS DEMONSTRATION. Just before selecting the screen format press
Alt R. (i.e. type MENU and press return. Hold down 'Alt' and press 'R',
then press one of 'A' through 'K' then press RETURN.) You can pause the
demonstration by pressing Alt R again.
COMPATIBILITY. The adventure interpreter on this disc also works with
our previous games. For Knight Orc, Gnome Ranger and Time & Magik, copy
your original, delete AINT.EXE and replace MENU.EXE, MENU.TXT and
PALETTE.PIC by the new ones. For Lancelot and Ingrid's Back! copy your
original, delete AINT.EXE and replace MENU.EXE and MENU.TXT by the new
ones. (This allows previous games to be upgraded for screen modes not
available when those games were released.)
HARD DISCS. Scapeghost is supplied on floppy disc, but we are pretty
confident that it should work on other disc drives too. (No promises!
This is a free extra feature, so it's not a bug if the game won't work
on your peculiar disc drive.) Just copy the game, file-by-file, into one
directory.
DISPLAY MODES. Because PCs and PC clones are a varied bunch, Scapeghost
presents a menu of eleven display modes. The following advice should
help you decide which to use. Please read it from the top:
* If your PC only has the Monochrome Display Adaptor (MDA), use mode (A).
* If your PC has VGA graphics use mode (J).
* If your PC has MCGA graphics use mode (K).
* If you are using a TV and just want 40 column text, use mode (B).
* If your PC has EGA graphics, use the EGA mode (G). EGA colour graphics
are not supported by early MSDOS versions.
* If your PC has EGA graphics with a CGA display, use mode (H) or (I).
* If your PC has CGA colour graphics, use mode (D) or (E).
* If your PC has MGA graphics, or it supports CGA graphics that you want
to use for b&w, use the MGA mode (F).
* Otherwise, use mode (C), 80 column text.
* Some modes may not work on less compatible PC clones because the
graphics board is accessed directly. If you have problems, try each
mode in turn, rebooting between 'attempts'.
GRAPHICS. Many products only support one of the PC graphic modes; e.g
providing pictures if your PC has EGA graphics, but otherwise providing
a text-only game. But Scapeghost displays pictures in five major
graphic modes: VGA, MCGA, EGA, CGA and MGA.
Obviously, there is not enough room on disc for five complete sets of
graphics, so they are stored as compressed EGA pictures. If a picture
is displayed in CGA mode, it is expanded to use the bigger CGA pixels,
and its colours are converted to the CGA palette. If it is displayed in
MGA mode, the picture's colours are replaced by shaded areas of
black-and-white.
When you are using colour CGA graphics, press TAB (the key may look like
an arrow hitting a wall) to switch between picture and text. When the
picture is displayed, press cursor keys to slide the visible area around;
TAB, returns to the text. This display mode uses the 'Low-Resolution
Colour Graphics Mode' (160x100 pixels) which is not implemented on some
CGA clones.
COPYRIGHT. Please remember that Level 9 games are protected by copyright
and take a long time to produce, so only make one copy, for your own use,
to keep only as long as you have the original game.
Happy Adventuring!