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- A Nifty Game from C & L Software By Douglas Clark
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- How to use this manual
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- If you went right into the program and got really confused, goto
- section A. If you know how to play and want some hints, go to section
- B. If you want to know about copyrights, credits, and registering the
- game, go to section C. If none of the above apply, contact the author.
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- Section A - How to play the game
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- Story - (I'm making this up right now so bear with me) Johnny Barrow
- was walking down the street one day, playing with his remote control
- marble when it fell down the storm drain. He heard a quite evil sounding
- voice say, "HA!". Suddenly the world around him grew blindingly white.
-
- When it dimmed, he found himself kneeling in front of an immense
- throne with a benign little old man sitting on it.
-
- "My diamonds, my diamonds!" he said in a depressed voice. "My evil
- brother has stolen all of my diamond blocks. I need you, Johnny, to
- use your remote control marble to get them from me. No doubt he has
- hidden them well for protection from me. But I'm sure you will find them
- and get them all back to me. I am too old and weak to find them."
-
- "Sure... Hey do you have any ice cream here?" said Johnny, not in
- the least afraid or surprised for some reason.
-
- "You can have all the ice cream you want, my child, when you return
- my diamonds to me."
-
- Johnny shrugged his shoulders and accepted.
-
-
- Wow. Cool story...
-
-
- Anyways, heres how it works: The object of each level is to get all
- the diamond squares. Before you can get them, you have to get rid of
- all the red, blue, green, and cyan colored sqaures first. To get rid of
- a colored square, touch the key of that color. Then any squares you
- touch with that color will disappear. NOTE - There is NO cyan key, so
- you have to be sure to get all the cyan squares first. You know what
- color you are working on by the color of the outside edge of the game
- feild.
-
- Your remote control marble always
- bounces up and down off of things. You can only control when it goes
- right and left. So if you want it to go into a hole to the right, wait
- until it is lined up with the hole and press right. On extended
- keyboards there are three ways to control the ball - the shift keys,
- the alt keys, and the control(ctrl) keys. Pressing left or right of
- these buttons will move the ball correspondingly.
-
- Types of squares:
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- Boxes - red, blue, green and cyan. Eliminate.
- Keys - Change your color to let you eliminate boxes.
- Diamonds - Eliminate when all boxes are gone. Level is over
- when all diamonds are gone.
- Death - Dont touch it. You lose one life. (the one with
- a skull and moving colors)
- Wall - You bounce off them. Permanent, no way of going through
- or eliminating. (the one with shades of gray)
- Skeleton key - You can hold one of these at a time. They let you
- unlock locks. If you die while "carrying" one,
- you lose it for good.
- Locks - Are removed when you touch them while holding a skeleton
- key.
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- Scoring:
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- Boxes - 10 points
- Cyan Boxes - 20 points
- Diamond - 50 points
- Skeleton key - 30 points
- Lock - 30 points
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- Bonus - Starts at 2500, moves down 100 points every now and then.
- Not a time limit.
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- Every 2500 points you get a "1-up" or free life.
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- Section B - Tips and Tricks
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- - On level 2, you can just hold down left or right and get all the
- cyans.
- - If you have to get a square from the side, use your best hand to
- "tap" the key right as you go by it.
- - At level 5 and beyond, timing is EVERYTHING. Look out and be
- *patient*.
- - If you have a key, be careful to open the right lock with it, and
- not to die while holding it.
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- Section C - Other Stuff
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- Copyright stuff:
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- Diamonds is not a Public Domain program and is not free. Diamonds is
- copyright (C) 1994 by C & L Software Programming Services.
-
- Non-registered users of this program are granted a unlimited
- license to Diamonds to evaluate the programs suitability for their
- requirements. Any usage of Diamonds beyond the evaluation time period
- requires registration of each copy of the program used. Use of non-
- registered copies of Diamonds beyond the original evaluation period is
- prohibited.
-
- Diamonds may NOT be modified in any respect, for any reason, including
- but not limited to, de-compiling, disassembling, or reverse
- engineering of the program. The opening title screen, help screens,
- and all other proprietary program output must never be altered,
- removed, bypassed or modified by any means.
-
- You are free to distribute the PUBLICLY AVAILABLE shareware version of
- Diamonds to others subject to the above restrictions and also the
- following:
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- A. No fee is charged for its use.
-
- B. No renumeration may be accepted for Diamonds. This does not
- apply to computer access charges the system operators (Sysops)
- of or organizations owning bulletin board systems, online
- services, etc... may charge subscribers.
-
- C. Diamonds must be copied in unaltered form, complete with files
- containing license information, the FULL documentation and
- all accompanying files. The self-extracting archive
- distributed by C & L Soft must not be altered in ANY respect.
-
- D. All shareware houses/distribution firms must make explicitly
- clear that the diskette purchase containing any shareware
- program has NOT registered the shareware with C & L Soft.
-
- System Operators may make Diamonds available for download only if the
- above conditions are met. The archive (TDRAW451.ARJ) distributed by
- C & L Soft or an equivalent archive may be made available only in
- complete form. Refer to section FILE LISTING to verify complete
- package contents. If the contents appear altered or not complete, you
- may obtain the latest release of Diamonds directly from C & L Soft by
- calling The Time Warp BBS at (510) - 228 - 0813.
-
- Credits -
-
- Original idea and implementation - Some smart Macintosh programmers
- (Note - I ripped off the IDEA, not the program... and I changed it
- a lot.)
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- Design, Coding, and Development...................Douglas Clark
-
- Level Design....Douglas Clark, Sam Slutzky, and Jeannette Clark
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- Title Screen.........Modified from "Acid Warp" by Noah Spurrier
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- Level Screens.....Made with Fractint, formulas and pallettes by
- various fractal people
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- Block Design......................................Douglas Clark
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- Playtesting....Douglas Clark, Sam Slutzky, Ryan Vaughn,
- Jeannette Clark, Wes Clark
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- Picture conversion.......Graphics Workshop 7.0a (good software)
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- SVGA256 BGI Driver..............................Jordan Hargrave
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- Registration -
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- For only $20, You can get all this!
-
- - The latest update of Diamonds with all the new levels
- - A Level Editor to let you make your own
- - Get the latest version for $5
- - Really, really high access on The Time Warp BBS
- - Be on the C & L Mailing list
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- Please send a check (no money orders, no CODs, no credit cards,
- and it's pretty dumb to put a $20 bill in
- an envelope and send it off)
- and your name, address, disk size, and whether you want to be
- on the mailing list or not. Also, if you want high access on
- the Time Warp, include your username and password.
-
- Douglas Clark
- 4961 John Muir Rd
- Martinez, CA 94553
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- About C & L Software -
-
- Okay, so we're not Microsoft or anything. In fact, the whole
- company is pretty much just me, with help from Sam Slutzky. If you want
- to join as an artist or programmer, just let me know through e-mail:
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- Internet: adolf@bif.com
- FOXnet: 1@5086
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- Thanks everyone for all your help! Hope you like the game!