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SSSS PPPPPP EEEEEEE LL LL CCCCC HH HH IIII CCCCC KK KK
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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!