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- Thorsoft of Letchworth presents:
-
- S P E L L C H I C K
- v1.11
-
- by
-
- Thomas Thurman
-
- "Spellchick" is an arcade-style game that will run on PCs equipped with an
- EGA card (or higher). Spellchick has to rescue Princess Caddelli from the
- clutches of the Theodolite wizard, Grizzell. (You can read more about this
- by loading the game and pressing "I" at the menu, or see below.)
-
- Files that must be present:
-
- SCHICK.EXE the program itself,
- SCHICK.DOC which you must have because you're reading it,
- SCHICK.DAT a data file, and usually
- SCHICK.HST the high-score table (if this isn't present, a new one
- is created.)
- SCHICK.ICO an icon for use under Windows
-
- The default controls are: Z- left, X- right, Enter- jump (standard Beeb
- controls!), but you can redefine them. Have fun!
-
- Rough synopsis of the plot:
-
- King Tenlox the Long-Winded of Cwilia was turned into a pink blancmange
- at a party by the Lord High Wizard of Theodolia, Grizzell. As he had been
- nearly eaten, he was justifiably annoyed. So he told the L.H.W. of Cwilia,
- Spellchick, to zap Grizzell. Spellchick agreed. However, Grizzell decided
- to be hung for a sheep as a lamb and kidnapped Princess Caddelli, Tenlox's
- daughter and good friend of Spellchick's, for good measure. He protected
- her with a formidable array of foes: there were the brooms and wands which
- would gore people, the three radioactive rattlesnakes (who were called
- Snake, Rattle and Roland), the Fidgety Bridge which never keeps still, and
- of course the Star Cat (of Directory Enquiries, perhaps. "*." to his
- friends) who has a long catalogue of crimes! (In-joke... Ask a Beeb owner.)
- Spellchick has to fight his way through SIX screens of this kind of thing
- for every one of the TWELVE castles owned by Grizzell, in order to rescue
- Caddelli. Phew. It's not easy, let me tell you! (You start at Castle
- Diamond.)
-
- "Spellchick" was written in Turbo Pascal v5.5, and compressed using the
- brilliant public-domain program, "LZEXE", by Fabrice Bellard.
-
- This program is FREEWARE, as opposed to Shareware, which is how "Avaricius"
- is sold. You have nothing more to pay, the game is free, but please note:
-
- * This game remains Copyright (c) 1992, Thomas Thurman.
- * It may not be sold for commercial profit.
- * However, it may be sold by shareware libraries, as long as
- they specify they are not charging for the game (only the
- copying, disk, postage etc.)
- * You are encouraged to give copies to your friends.
- * The files SCHICK.EXE, SCHICK.DAT, SCHICK.DOC, SCHICK.ICO and
- optionally SCHICK.HST must all be on the disk. They may be
- compressed into an archive.
- * The game may be posted on bulletin boards.
- * Contact us on CompuServe: send to Mike Thurman, 100021,3440.
- * Contact us on Ebenezer: send to Thomas Thurman.
- * Have fun.
- * If you want to write to me, my address is:
- Thomas Thurman,
- Thorsoft,
- 71, Baldock Road,
- Letchworth,
- Herts. SG6 3JP
- Great Britain.
- Enclose a disk and p&p for a trial copy of "Avaricius", if you
- want one. (You probably do, it's a really brilliant game- I know,
- I wrote it(!)- but you do need a hard disk. (And EGA, but you've
- probably got that to be running Spellchick.))
-
- Revision history:
-
- ver.no. date comments
-
- v1.11 August 1992 Added the icon. (Not much of a change...)
-
- v1.10 March 1992 Put names of ALL the alpha-testers on the alpha-
- testers screen. Also fixed the bug on the wrap-around
- back to the title screen after the "Free Shareware"
- part, and fixed the ending routines. Plus, Star Cat
- is easier to get past. And "left" & "right" now have
- arrows on the key selection screen, in case you're
- not very good on lefts & rights! (Mainly for Andrew's
- benefit- he's 6.)
-
- v1.00 December 1991 First ever...
-
- Enjoy the game! Oh, and by the way...
-
- SPELLCHICK
- WILL
- RETURN!
-
-