Action Games (Willard)/ACTGMS_VOL1.iso/ke/ke_us.txt

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                           KRYPTON EGG



     1.   INTRODUCTION.

      "Krypton Egg" is the ultimate break-out. It runs on P.C.
under DOS. Some versions are Windows compatible. It is an easy
and fun game to play.      To play, hit on the command line: ke
<return>.

     2.   AIM  OF  THE  GAME.

      You must demolish a bricks wall by hitting them with a
ball. You must send back the ball with a racket that you move
with the mouse. Some bricks when they are hit by the ball,
release a spell (bonus or malus). These spells, when they are
caught with the racket, influence some of the game parameters
like the size, the speed, the consistency and the number of
balls; the size, the possibilities of the racket,...etc.

     3.   DESCRIPTION.

     "Krypton Egg" includes 60 levels with increasing
difficulty. Every five levels, you fight a horde of monsters,
you must kill all of them to go to the next level. Every ten
levels, you fight a big monster. When you kill it, you receive
an access code. It allows you to restart from this point. The
access code is given after you died on the bottom of the menu
screen. This code must be noted for a further use. To restart
your game, you must press the space bar key on the menu screen
and enter your access code with the letters and the numeric pad.

     3.1 The spells.      "Krypton Egg" includes 28 spells . A
same spell can have different powers, action times. And the best
of... they are all compatible : you can have two different
spells at the same time ...and cumulative : if you take two
growers, you will be greater than if took one.

      The good spells.  1) Pumper: It pumps all your balls.
      (maximum 7 times) 2) Extender: It extends your racket.
    (maximum 13 times) 3) C.A.G.: Computer Aided Game: The computer
    plays for you for a while.  4) Reactor: You can fly and go
    everywhere on the screen.  5) Multiplier: All your next points
    will be multiplied by two.  6) Bier: It inverts the left & the
    right direction.  7) Glue: It pastes the balls on your racket.
    You can send them back when you want with the left mouse button.
    8) Dynamite: It kills all monsters present on the screen.  9)
    Shield:    Each time you catch it, you receive additional shields
    (from 1 to 3).  The red star indicates that you have one shield,
    the blue star more than one.  10) Slow Ball: It slows down the
    balls speed.  11) Spectre: It gives you an help racket to send
    back the ball.  12) Power Ball: It transforms all balls in lead.
    You can now break everything.  13) Rapid Shoot: It enables you
    to send light shoot one by one to kill monsters or break bricks.
    14) Rapid Multi Shoot: It enables you to send light shoot more
    than one at a time.  15) Double Shoot: It enables you to send
    shoot one by one.  16) Double Multi Shoot: It enables you to
    send shoot more than one at a time.  17) Bonus Racket: It gives
    you some extra lifes.  18) Bonus Ball: It gives you an extra
    ball, enabling you to play with more than one ball.  19) Canon
    Shoot: It enables you to send heavy shoot one by one.  20) Canon
    Multi Shoot: It enables you to send heavy shoot more than one at
    a time.

    The bad spells.  21) Speed Ball: Each time you catch
    it, your balls will go faster.  22) Cage: It immobilizes you for
    a while.  23) Interrogation point: A randomized spell which
    affects your ball or your racket.  24) Bulb: The general
    brightness will diminish, disturbing your sight.  25) Transpa
    Ball: The balls become green smoke and break nothing more for a
    while.  26) Deflater: It deflates all balls, shrinking them.
    27) Shrinker: It shrinks the size of your racket.  You can
    have a smaller racket than the starting one.  28) Knife: It
    takes off a shield one by one, then one life.  ...

     3. 2 The bricks.      The game includes 256 different
bricks, no way to describe each of them.  So here are the 6 main
categories of bricks.

     1)  The normal bricks:  You must hit them from one to three
times to break them.     2) The spell bricks: Those bricks
content a spell.  You can easily recognize them to the little
blue star that they bear in their bottom right corner.  You must
sometimes hit them more than once to release the spell.     3)
The teleporter bricks:   Always present by two: they teleport
the ball from each to other.     4)  The death bricks:
Each time you hit one of them, your racket will shrink.     5)
The  temporary bricks:    Never  broken,  they  only disappear
 for    a    while.   Some   of    them    must    be hit till 7
times to disappear.     6)   The indestructible bricks: Never
broken and never disappearing.   They can only be destroyed by a
powerful weapon or a lead ball.

     3. 3 The little monsters.      Most of the monsters are not
really dangerous. They take off one shield or deviate the ball
but they can not kill you.  Except the Picus Vulgarus, the most
dangerous one. Its contact will cause an instant kill if you
have no shield.  You can recognize it by its red shimmering halo.

     4.   PRAGMATICAL  EXPLANATIONS.

     4. 1 Controls.      You can play the game whether with a
mouse, a joystick or the keyboard.      You control the racket
with the mouse. With the left mouse button (LMB) you throw the
ball, either to start the game or when it is glued on the
racket. You can shoot, when you got the good spell, with the
right mouse button (RMB).  A very important feature of the game
is that you can give some effects in the ball by moving the
racket when hitting the ball. It is not an easy technique but it
is indispensable to master it to finish the game.

     4. 2 Useful keys.       On  the  Menu: SPACE   to enter
your  access  code  to continue a previous game

After  having entered your code press ENTER to validate it.
ESCAPE  to quit the game. P    to play S    to go to the high-scores
screen. O    to go to the order screen. I    to go to the informations
screen.  LMB + the mouse pointer in the upper left corner also
quit the game. LMB + CTRL     to decrease  the  mouse sensibility.
RMB + CTRL     to increase  the  mouse sensibility.

      In the Game: CONTROL KEY or LMB  to release the ball when
it is pasted on the racket.

ALTERNATE KEY or RMB  to send a shoot when you have caught the
spell that enables it.

ESCAPE  to kill the racket. P    to set or remove the pause.

      For both:      S    to switch the sound on or off.

     4. 3 Horde attack.     This kind of fight appears after
level 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 and 55. You got a weapon and you send
your shoots with the RMB.  At the beginning, you own one shield
and you can have more if you shoot them up. Each monster knife
touching you takes one shield away.  You die when you are
touched by a knife without any shield more. You can only go to
the next level after all the horde is killed. Do not forget that
the monsters must be touched several times to die.     If you
want to skip this phase of the game, you must enter the code
'DADA' in the bottom of the menu screen.     To reactivate it,
enter the code '0000'.

     4. 3 Monster attack.      This  kind of fight appears after
level 10, 20, 30, 40,  50 and  60. You got 2 weapons of
different powers. You use the slow, single  and  powerful weapon
with the LMB, and the rapid,  double but  light  weapon with the
RMB. The head of the monster  is  its weak  point. To touch
other parts of its body does not cause it any  damage. At the
bottom of the screen are shown on the left,  the player's
energy and on the right the monster's energy. Try to  touch it
the  most at the beginning because it becomes more and  more
angry and dangerous. If you are awaiting the propitious time,
you have no chance.  Remember you have only one chance to beat
it, the number of lifes you have makes no difference.     If you
want to skip this phase of the game, you must enter the code
'D0D0' in the bottom of the menu screen.     To reactivate it,
enter the code '0000'.

     5.   TECHNICAL  CHARACTERISTICS.

     5. 1 The Animation.      The animation speed is 70 frames
per second. It is one of the only game offering 70 different
images per second. And that whether you are under DOS or
Windows.  That is not so much important for the technique itself
but it provides to the player a greater playability. For
instance, it offers a real fluidity of the objects in motion as
a smoother and more manageable mouse.

     5. 2 The Sound.        The game includes digital musics and
background noises (8 bits) on SoundBlaster or compatible cards.
We are sorry but we actually don't manage the GUS Sound card.
You can also have sound on the PC internal speaker if you run
the game with the appropriate switch.

     5. 3 The Switches of the game.

On the command line, you can enter some switches.

Write the switche(s) after the executable name.

    List of useful switches:        -f      to enable a french
keyboard ("azerty").

-k    to enable the sound speaker.

-s    to remove the sound card test.

-t    to remove the timer manager.

    Example to run Krypton Egg with the sound

of the PC Speaker enabled:

> ke -k

     6.   MINIMUM  EQUIPMENT.

     1)   An IBM or compatible PC with a 386 processor.     2)
A VGA video card 8 bits with 256 kilobytes.     3)   1,6
megabytes of free space on the hard disk.     4)   2 megabytes
of memory.

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