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- Welcome in the computer world of ECOLAND
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- In the game are functioning the following keys:
- {ENTER} - Confirmation of input
- {ESC} - Input cancel and exit from tables
- {Up}/{Down} - Direction keys
- {F10} - Quit and return to DOS
- {F4} - Sound On/Out
- {Tab} - Viewing of previous screen
- {Ctrl-B} - Return to previous play game
- {F8} - Changing language
-
- The monetary units of our game are teps. You may earn teps
- successfully coping with the tasks that are waiting for you.
- To begin with it is necessary to choose correctly a motto for
- the Ecoland folk:
-
- ■ " One must live within his means"
- ■ " No pains, no gains"
- ■ " Self comes first"
- " Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care
- of themselves"
- You are right! The way in Ecoland is open ...
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- Firm "UNISON" opens you an account to make it possible for
- you to pay your expenses for the journey and your entertaining
- games. Onto this account you may transfer the money that you
- gained during the journey and take from it the necessary sum
- for your expenses. If your expenses will exceed your income
- Firm "UNISON" pays for you. You may return this debt guessing
- the meanings of proposed by the computer economical terms. To
- get the right to an entertaining game you may only for money
- you earned in the game.
- Furthermore, "UNISON" renders you a car !
-
- To continue press the key {ENTER} .
-
-
- Without what, do you think, cannot exist a man?
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- ■ Without friends..................
- ■ Without books....................
- ■ Without water....................
- ■ Without air .....................
- ■ Withou love......................
- ■ Without respect..................
- ■ Without music....................
- ■ Without food.....................
- ■ Without luck.....................
- ■ Without roof.....................
- ■ Without family...................
- ■ Without clothes..................
- ■ Without journeys.................
- ■ Without amusements...............
- ■ Without protection from enemies..
-
- After each statement write estimation of the importance
- of these statements in such a way, that number 1 would be
- after the most important necessity and number 15 after
- the less important one. After input press the key {ESC}.
-
- Help! The answer is correct, if numbers 1,2,3,4,5
- stand in any order at the words: water, air, roof,
- clothes, food.
- You must pay one tep for calling help.
-
- Absolutely correct! You have earned 3 teps. The scientists
- think, that all the human demands may be represented in the
- form of a pyramid.
- To continue press the key {ENTER}.
- You drive now along the Natural Economy Road. The people
- live here isolated and try by oneself to supply their
- families with all the necessary. That is why all the family
- members must know several trades to be able to keep their
- economy.
- Try to guess those professions, symbols of which you'll
- see on the screen. For every correctly guessed letter you
- gain 0,25 tep. For prompt use the key { F1 }.
- For each prompted letter from your cash would be written off
- 0,25 tep. You'll get a credit of cash in a sum of 10 teps,
- which you have to repay in the end of the round.
-
- Press the key { ENTER }.
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- Drawing Profession
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- Teps:
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- The family, whose members didn't know any trades, was
- in a desperate situation. They had to exchange their goods
- and in that way to purchase all the necessary. And this was
- not simple as well.
-
- Press the key {ENTER}.
-
- We came to the Primitive Exchanges Road, through which
- lies the Natural Economy Road. Here come the inhabitants,
- who couldn't make all the things necessary for the life.
-
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- To continue the journey solve the task:
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- To the market came five men "A", "B", "C", "D", "E".
- "A" arranged an exchange. He brought boots and wanted to have
- for them a goose."B" brought an axe and wanted to exchange it
- for a shirt. "C" had a shirt and wanted a saw for it. "D" had
- a saw and wanted for it boots. "E" brought a goose and wanted
- for it an axe.
-
- Write down, with whom "A" had to make an exchange, in such
- a way that everybody would be satisfied:
- "A" exchanges with
- "A" exchanges with
- "A" exchanges with
- "A" exchanges with
- Alarm!! Your car got into quicksands of misery, you have
- gone too far along the Natural Economy Road.
-
- To escape you have to solve the following task:
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- In a month to the market came four men. "F" brought
- boots and wanted for exchange a shirt. "G" brought an axe
- and wanted for it a saw."H" brought a hammer and wanted
- for it boots."I" brought a horse's collar and wanted for
- it trousers. Who of them managed to make an exchange?
-
- ■ "F"
- ■ "G"
- ■ "I"
- ■ Nobody
- "H" Time
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- For this task you have 40 seconds, otherwise the car remains
- in quicksands. To continue press the key {ENTER}.
-
- Alas! In the natural economy unsuccessful attempts of
- exchange are the usual run of things. One had to rely only
- on himself and to make all the things on one's own.And this
- is very difficult. One can stitch boots, shape a pot, but
- even a simple radio receiver you cannot assemble without
- parts, produced by other masters. And if these masters don't
- need the things produced by you for barter?
- After all the people found the way to solve the problem -
- everybody has to do one thing but it must be done perfectly.
- One part he left himself, the rest was for exchange with the
- others. The thing produced for exchange is called commodity.
- Owing to it the mankind avoided the misery only then, when
- they began to run the commodity economy.
-
- Press {ENTER}.
-
- To continue the journey answer the following question:
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- In the country are produced 22 Millions different goods.
- They are produced by some hundred thousand enterprises. What
- do you think, how much time do you need to work out using
- computer a better plan of production of these goods for a year
- ahead ?
-
- ■ 2 monthes
- ■ 4 monthes
- ■ 6 monthes
- ■ 2 years
- ■ 10 years
- ■ more than 1 000 years
-
- And if it is impossible to make a better plan, is it
- worth to force everybody to work according to the bad plan?
- The history has shown, that peoples can live without
- a common plan. It is rather well replaced by the market, where
- everybody may choose a buyer and a seller and come to
- agreement about the price of the purchase.
- The main law of the free market calls that one has to
- produce the things that are bought and to sell at the price
- which the buyers are willing to pay.
- To tell the truth, the problems seem here indispensable
- as well...
-
- Our way passes now along the Commodity Economy Highway,
- that in its turn is forking in the Common Plan Highway and
- the Free Market Highway. The people, that live and work here,
- long ago renounced their attempts to make all the necessary
- alone. They joined their efforts coming to an agreement, that
- everybody would specialize in one thing, and then they would
- exchange the fruits of their labour - the produced goods and
- bring them for exchange in the market.
- This helped them to work more effective and live richer
- than their neighbours from the Natural Economy Road.
- But the life is here full of problems as well.
-
- Press {ENTER}.
-
- You have no more money!!!
-
- You may:
-
- continue to guess words;
- take cash from the bank;
- finish the round.
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- WOOD-CUTTER
- TAILOR
- BAKER
- POTTER
- MILLER
- SHOE-MAKER
- COWBOY
- FURRIER
- VETERINARY
- FISHER
- CHEESE-MAKER
- WINE-MAKER
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