Pascal Super Library/Pascal Super Library (CW International)(1997).bin/TURB_VIS/TCYBER25/CYGAME.ZIP/CGHELP.TXT

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.topic NoContext=0
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 ▒        CyberGame         ▒█
 ▒ (C) 1994 Steve Goldsmith ▒█
 ▒   All Rights Reserved    ▒█
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CyberGame is a multi-level 'invaders' type arcade game using
character sprites.  All menus are accessed by pressing
Alt+highlighted letter.  For example, the "File" menu is pulled
down by Alt+F.  You can also access the menu by pressing F10 or
clicking the mouse on the desired menu item.

 {Desk top:DeskTop} │ {Menu} │ {Status line:StatusLine} │ {New game:NewGame}

Press [Esc] to put this help screen away.

.topic DeskTop
The desk top contains a {menu:Menu}, background and
{status line:StatusLine}.  All work takes place on the desk top.

.topic Menu
The menu is accessed by pressing F10 or Alt+highlighted letter.
For example, the File menu is pulled down by Alt+F.  Use cursor
keys to move and Enter to select.  A mouse can be used by clicking
on the desired item.

.topic StatusLine
Status line items are accessed by pressing Alt+highlighted letter
or function key.  For example, to exit press Alt+X.  A mouse can be
used by clicking on the desired item.

.topic File
 File ▄ (Alt+F)
  ▀▀▀▀▀
The File menu includes choices for {loading:LoadFile} font, PCX and
configuration files, {saving:SaveFile} configuration files, viewing
the {document:ViewDoc}, file {version:About} information and
{exiting:Exit} the program.

.topic LoadFile
 File│Load ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
You can load Character Generator Files .CGF (F3) into font 1 table
or one bit PC Paintbrush .PCX (Shift+F3) images into font 2 table.

Configuration .CFG (Ctrl+F3) files contain VGA font tables 0 - 7,
{screen:Screen} options, {colors:OColors} and the DAC palette.

.topic SaveFile
 File│Save ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Configuration .CFG (Ctrl+F2) files contain VGA font tables 0 - 7,
{screen:Screen} options, {colors:OColors} and the DAC palette.

.topic ViewDoc
 File│View doc ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Loads CYBER.DOC into a scrolling {window:Windows} for viewing.
CYBER.DOC contains information about CyberTools.  See ORDER.DOC or
ORDER.TXT for ordering information.

.topic About
 File│About ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Displays version, copyright and mode information.  Press [Esc] or
[Enter] to close box.

.topic Exit
 File│Exit ▄ (Alt+X)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Terminates program.


.topic Windows
 Window ▄ (Alt+W)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
The Window menu contains commands to close, move and perform
other window-management commands.

Most of the windows in this program have all the standard window
elements, including scroll bars, a close box, and zoom icons.

.topic Tile
 Window│Tile ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Window│Tile to tile all file viewers on the desk top.

 ┌────────────────────────────────────┐
 │ ╔════════════1══╗┌────────────2──┐ │
 │ ║               ║│               │ │
 │ ║               ║│               │ │
 │ ║               ║│               │ │
 │ ║               ║│               │ │
 │ ╚═══════════════╝└───────────────┘ │
 │ ┌────────────3──┐┌────────────4──┐ │
 │ │               ││               │ │
 │ │               ││               │ │
 │ │               ││               │ │
 │ │               ││               │ │
 │ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘ │
 └────────────────────────────────────┘
             Tiled Windows

.topic Cascade
 Window│Cascade ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Window│Cascade to stack all file viewers on the desk top.

 ┌──────────────────────────1─┐
 │┌─────────────────────────2─┐
 ││┌────────────────────────3─┐
 │││╔═══════════════════════4═╗
 │││║                         ║
 │││║                         ║
 │││║                         ║
 │││║                         ║
 │││║                         ║
 └└└╚═════════════════════════╝

        Cascaded Windows

.topic Resize
 Window│Size/Move ▄ (Ctrl+F5)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose this command to change the size or position of the active
window.

 ▄▄▄▄▄▄
  Size
 ▀▀▀▀▀▀
If you press Shift while you use the arrow keys, you can change
the size of the active window.  Once you've adjusted its size or
position, press Enter.

If a window has a Resize corner, you can drag that corner to
resize the window.

 ▄▄▄▄▄▄
  Move
 ▀▀▀▀▀▀
When you choose Window│Size/Move, the active window moves in
response to the arrow keys.  Once you've moved the window to where
you want it, press Enter.

You can also move a window by dragging its title bar with the
mouse.

.topic Zoom
 Window│Zoom ▄ (F5)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Zoom to resize the active window to the maximum size.  If
the window is already zoomed, you can choose this command to
restore it to its previous size.

You can also double-click anywhere on the window's title bar
(except where an icon appears) to zoom or unzoom the window.

.topic Next
 Window│Next ▄ (F6)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Next to cycle forwards through the windows on the desk top.

.topic Close
 Window│Close ▄ (Alt+F3)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Close to close the active window.

You can also click the Close box in the upper right corner to
close a window.

.topic NewGame
 Window│New game ▄ (F7)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
New game will open a new Cyber Invaders {game:GameDialog} dialog.
You can have multiple windows and games running at the same time.

.topic Options
 Options ▄ (Alt+O)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
The Options menu contains commands that let you set {screen:Screen}
options, change the {colors:OColors}, adjust the VGA
{palette:AdjustPalette}, restore the {default:DefaultFont} font and
change game {controls:Controls}.

.topic Screen
 Options│Screen... ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Screen brings up the {Screen:ScreenDialog} dialog box,
where you can customize the appearance of the desk top.

.topic OColors
 Options│Colors... ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Colors brings up the {Colors:ColorDialog} dialog box,
where you can customize the colors of the desk top.  Make sure you
use only the first 8 colors (0 - 7), since the last 8 colors (8 -
15) are reserved for font 2 table.  You may have to
set {font 2:Screen} table to the same VGA table as font 1 table to
see the color block next to the names.  Remember that colors 8 - 15
are for font 2 table, so there is no telling what it contains.

.topic AdjustPalette
 Options│Adjust palette... ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Adjust palette brings up the {Adjust palette:PaletteDialog} dialog
box, where you adjust the VGA's DAC registers to any of the 262,144
possible colors.

.topic DefaultFont
 Options│Default font ▄ (F4)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Loads the default font into font 1 table.  The default font is the
font loaded during start up.

.topic Controls
 Options│Game controls... ▄ (Alt+G)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Game controls brings up the {Controls:ControlsDialog} dialog box,
where you choose keys for your ship's various directions.

.topic PaletteDialog
 Adjust palette dialog box ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Select color to adjust.  The color names are arbitrary and
can be made any color.  You may have to set {font 2:Screen} table
to the same VGA table as font 1 table to see the color block next
to the names.  Remember that colors 8 - 15 are for graphics, so
there is no telling what is in font 2 table.

 Color
 ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
 │  αßΓ█Black       αßΓ█Gray           │
 │  αßΓ█Blue        αßΓ█Light Blue     │
 │  αßΓ█Green       αßΓ█Light Green    │
 │  αßΓ█Cyan        αßΓ█Light Cyan     │
 │  αßΓ█Red         αßΓ█Light Red      │
 │  αßΓ█Magenta     αßΓ█Light Magenta  │
 │  αßΓ█Brown       αßΓ█Yellow         │
 │  αßΓ█Light Gray  αßΓ█White          │
 └─────────────────────────────────────┘

The Red, Green and Blue sliders allow you the change the RGB levels
of the current color.  The [Cancel] or [Default] buttons restores
the VGA palette to the colors in effect prior to adjustments.

  Red
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  Green
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  Blue
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.topic ControlsDialog
 Game controls dialog box ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Select any key for ship's direction except 'P' and 'S' which are
reserved for dialog use only.  Alpha characters are interpreted
regardless of case.

 Left    ███
 Right   ███
 Shoot   ███
 Stop    ███

You can also enable or disable PC speaker sound effects by setting
Sound before starting a {new game:NewGame}.

 Sound
 Σσµ On/Off

.topic ScreenDialog
 Screen dialog box ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
The Screen dialog allows you to set various screen modes and select
which VGA font tables to use.  Windows 3.x and other OSs that allow
task switching may corrupt VGA font tables 2 - 7 during task
switches.  Only the two BIOS supported tables 0 and 1 are restored
correctly under Windows 3.1 with some VGA drivers.  You can
{save:SaveFile} your current configuration prior to task switching
and later {load:LoadFile} it if needed.

Use 640 X 400 to eliminate one pixel gaps caused by standard 720 X
400 VGA text mode.

Paging causes VGA screen page 0 to be copied between pages
1 and 2.  This help smooth movement and eliminate flicker.  If the
desk top becomes too sluggish then you may want to turn off
Paging.

8 color mode masks off the high bit of all attribute nibbles
forcing colors 8 - 15 the be the same as 0 - 7.  If 8 color mode is
turned off then all 16 colors can be used.

 Screen Mode
 ┌───────────────────────────┐
 │  Σσµ 640 X 400            │
 │  Σσµ Paging               │
 │  Σσµ 8 Colors             │
 └───────────────────────────┘

Select which VGA font table to use for the desk top.  Make sure
that a font resides in the desired VGA table or the screen may turn
to garbage.  If this happens just restore the {default:DefaultFont}
font.

 Font 1 table
 ┌───────────────┐
 │  αßΓ 0  αßΓ 4 │
 │  αßΓ 1  αßΓ 5 │
 │  αßΓ 2  αßΓ 6 │
 │  αßΓ 3  αßΓ 7 │
 └───────────────┘

Select which VGA font table to use for game fonts.  If font 2
table is set the same as font 1 table when you load a PCX file
then the screen will turn to garbage.  If this happens just restore
the {default:DefaultFont} font.

 Font 2 table
 ┌───────────────┐
 │  αßΓ 0  αßΓ 4 │
 │  αßΓ 1  αßΓ 5 │
 │  αßΓ 2  αßΓ 6 │
 │  αßΓ 3  αßΓ 7 │
 └───────────────┘

When saving fonts as .CGF files you can specify the first and last
character to save.

 First char █████
 Last  char █████

.topic GameDialog
 Game dialog box ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
The Game dialog box contains a multi-level 'invaders' type arcade
game.  You {control:Controls} a ship that moves along the bottom of
the dialog.  The object of the game is to kill all the invaders
before they reach bottom while avoiding the UFO's cyberbombs!  When
your last ship is destroyed the 'GAME END' message will be
displayed in the Ships line.

You can [Stop] and [Play] to pause and continue game.  The game
automatically stops/starts when it looses/gains focus.

.topic TreeWindow
 Tree window ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
The Tree window contains a directory tree, name input line, file list and
file information panel.

 ╔═[■]═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
 ║                                                                 ║
 ║ Dir                   Name                               OK   ▄ ║
 ║ ┌───────────────────┐ █ALLTYPES.DB███████████████████  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║ │─CYBASE            │ Files                             Root  ▄ ║
 ║ │                   │ █ALLTYPES.DB███│███████████████  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║ │                   │ █NUMTEST.DB████│███████████████  Expand ▄ ║
 ║ │                   │ █SMASTER.DB████│███████████████  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║ │                   │ █SYM2.DB███████│███████████████   Mask  ▄ ║
 ║ │                   │ █SYMBOLS.DB████│███████████████  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║ │                   │ █TEST.DB███████│███████████████  Drive  ▄ ║
 ║ │                   │ █..\███████████│███████████████  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║ └───────────────────┘ ▒▒▒■▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒  Update ▄ ║
 ║                                                        ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║ █H:\BP\CYBER\CYBASE\*.DB█████████████████████████████   All   ▄ ║
 ║ █ALLTYPES.DB  26624     Jun 16, 1994   2:33am████████  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
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 Dir
 ┌───────────────────┐
 │─CYBASE            │
 │                   │
 │                   │
 │                   │
 │                   │
 │                   │
 │                   │
 │                   │
 └───────────────────┘

The directory tree window allows you browse through directories on the
current drive.  Use [*] to expand all child nodes and [-] to retract all
child nodes.

 Name
 █ALLTYPES.DB███████████████████

The Name input line is where you enter the name of the file.  Filtering
is used to insure only valid characters are accepted.

 Files
 █ALLTYPES.DB███│███████████████
 █NUMTEST.DB████│███████████████
 █SMASTER.DB████│███████████████
 █SYM2.DB███████│███████████████
 █SYMBOLS.DB████│███████████████
 █TEST.DB███████│███████████████
 █..\███████████│███████████████
 ▒▒▒■▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

The Files list box lists the names of files in the current directory that
match the file-name mask.

 █H:\BP\CYBER\CYBASE\*.DB█████████████████████████████
 █ALLTYPES.DB  26624     Jun 16, 1994   2:33am████████

The File information panel shows the path name, file name, date,
time, and size of the selected file.

None of the items on this information panel are selectable.

 Button functions
 ────────────────

 [   OK   ]

Preforms assigned action on file in name line.

 [  Root  ]

Reads root directory of current drive and the first level of child
directories.

 [ Expand ]

Expand node toggle.

 [  Mask  ]

 ╔═[■]══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
 ║                                                          ║
 ║  File mask █*.DB███████████████████████████████████████  ║
 ║                                                          ║
 ║                                       OK   ▄    Cancel ▄ ║
 ║                                     ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ║
 ║                                                          ║
 ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Use any valid DOS file mask to filter what files are displayed in the Files
list box.

 [ Drive  ]

 ╔═[■]═══╗
 ║       ║
 ║ █A:█ ║
 ║ █B:█■ ║
 ║ █C:█▒ ║
 ║ █H:█ ║
 ║       ║
 ╚═══════╝

Select any valid DOS drive on the system with [Enter] or double-click
mouse.

 [ Update ]

Refresh Files list box to reflect any changes to current directory.

 [  All   ]

Preforms assigned action on ALL files in Files list box.  Use with caution!

.topic ColorDialog
 Colors dialog box ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
This dialog box is where you can change the colors of different
parts of this program.

 ┌─ Group ─────────────┐
 │   Desktop          │
 │   Menus            ■│
 │   Help             ▒│
 │   Gray Windows     ▒│
 │   Blue Windows     ▒│
 │   Cyan Windows     ▒│
 │                    │
 └─────────────────────┘
The Group list box contains the names of the different regions of
the program that you can customize.

 ┌─ Item ──────────────┐
 │   Color            │
 │                    ■│

When you select a group from the Group list, the Item list box
displays the names of the different views in that region.

 ┌ Foreground ┐   ┌ Background ┐
 │ ░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓░ │   │ ▓░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓ │
 │ ▓░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓ │   │ ░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓░ │
 │ ▒▓░▒▓░▒▓░▒ │   └────────────┘
 └────────────┘

 ┌────────────────┐
 │ Text Text Text │
 │ Text Text Text │
 └────────────────┘
The display text shows the current color or attribute settings.

Changes do not take effect on the desktop until you close the
Colors dialog box by choosing OK.

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.topic CloseAll=65314
 Window│Close all ▄
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Close all to remove all windows from the desk top.

.topic Previous=65318
 Window│Previous ▄ (Shift+F6)
  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Choose Previous to cycle backwards through the windows on the desk
top.