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- The MoonGames X Loader
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- (c)1996 ICH Software Development, Daniel Fischer
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- 1. Introduction
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- Ever played MoonGames, the _GREAT_ Moon Speeder Clone, done by G. Audoly?
- If not, I strongly encourage you to get it (if you have a Falcon).
- If you already played it, have you ever had the feeling 3 credits were
- too less? Or missed the possibility to keep more than one championship?
- Well, now, MGLX stops this. With MGLX, you can keep up to eight games
- and adjust your credits beyond your wildest dreams.
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- 1.1 Reasons
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- My reason to write this program was _not_ to be able to cheat, but as
- MoonGames claims to have not enough memory periodically, and I always
- loose a credit then, MGLX gives you the opportunity to prevent your
- speeder from being destroyed by the low memory.
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- 1.2 Target group
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- The target is, of course, the Falcon and the target group is the people
- who love to play MoonGames (like me).
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- 2. Usage
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- MGLX can either be used by running it from the Desktop or by placing it
- and its compagnion in the AUTO folder.
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- 2.1. Running from the Desktop
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- Just run MGLX by double-clicking MGLX.PRG, this is the easy way.
- If you have 4 Mo Ram, you must press CONTROL while booting your Falcon.
- However, as it then will use the st-low resolution, you have to change
- to at least st-mid as MGLX needs a screen of at least 80 colums and
- 25 rows.
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- 2.2. Running in the AUTO folder
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- First, place MGLX in the your AUTO folder, then MGLOAD. The order really
- is important, MGLOAD must be run after MGLX. This feature only makes
- sense if you use a startup program that allows you to select the prgs
- that should be started (fex Startup or XBoot). Running from the AUTO
- folder will give you more Ram than hou could use if you ran MoonGames
- from the Desktop.
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- 3. First start
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- When you run MGLX the first time, it will ask you where your MoonGames
- loader program is (the one that asks about the mode). Type the full
- path including the name of the loader, then press return. MGLX now will
- create its configuration file at C:\MGLX.INF, where the path of MoonGames
- is stored. In this file, your championship data is stored also.
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- 4. Controls
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- When MGLX is run, it will read the file GAME.DAT in your MoonGames folder
- and place it into slot #1. Then it will read the seven other possible
- games and place them into slot #2 to slot #8.
- MGLX will use the names you used in the game as name of the championship.
- Use the arrow keys up and down to select the championship you want to
- play. If you press BACKSPACE, the slot will have assigned a copy of the
- first slot, what is the active game stored in MoonGames' GAME.DAT.
- If you press DELETE, the selected slot will be cleared, and you will read
- '-unused-' at its place in the list. DELETE does not work with the first
- slot. If you want to have the first slot cleared, press space. None of
- the list entries will be selected then, and you will have to start a new
- championship with MoonGames. Usually, you should not use this feature, but
- start a new championship in MoonGames by pressing the laser button (Return)
- when it asks.
- You can change your credits with the keys '+' and '-', for increasing and
- decreasing the credits respectively; however, you should not, according
- to Intel, overdrive (-grin-), and use too many credits for the program
- won't display them correctly. This would damage nothing, but you never
- know...
- After you have selected the game and adjusted the credits, you can exit
- either by pressing RETURN or by pressing ESCAPE. While RETURN keeps your
- settings, ESCAPE cancells your changes and quits immediately.
- If you decided to use the AUTO folder method, MGLOAD will run the original
- MoonGames loader, what will then ask you if you want to use mode a or
- mode b, as usual. If you ran MGLX from the desktop, it just will quit and
- the desktop will reappear. Now you can start the loader manually.
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- 5. Finish
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- MoonGames X Loader was writte by Daniel Fischer, in 1996. It is freeware,
- as MoonGames. Use it at your own risk. This means, if something is damaged
- by the use of MGLX, or also, if something is damaged by something else,
- it's your own fault and no one takes responsibility.
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- If the author of MoonGames gets to read this file, I want to congratulate
- him - this is the finest piece of software I have ever seen on Falcon.
- I tried to e-mail him, but the mail came back.
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- 6. Address
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- You can reach me via snail-mail...
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- Daniel Fischer
- Salenbergstrasse 11
- D-72250 Freudenstadt
- Germany
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- ...or via e-mail at
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- fischer@freudenstadt.netsurf.de
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- If you email, please set the subject to "For Daniel" or "Fuer Daniel"
- in my native language, respectively. This is my father's email, and
- if you mark the message this way, he will know that the mail is for me.
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