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- !5x5 (Five by Five) 1.00 (28 Feb 1994) - By Tim Gladding, © 1994.
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- What does Five by Five do?
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- Five by Five is a small RISC OS desktop game based upon the PC PD game
- Five by Five, written by J.Stephenson. Copies available from me ... :-)
-
- Five by Five requires RISC OS 3.10 or later. Not for any particular
- reason, its just that I think EVERYBODY who has not already got it
- should go out and buy it right away!. Don't hack this program to make
- it accept RISC OS 2.
-
- Setting up Five by Five
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- Initialising Five by Five is easy. Just double-click on the application's
- icon. You can change the colour of the board from the 'Colour' sub-menu.
- Colours 5,6 & 7 are not much use with the standard RISC OS Desktop
- palette, but your's might be different! .. so I haven't blocked out
- those particular colours. Note: not using the sub-menu will cycle through
- the available colours.
-
- Using Five by Five
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- Once Five by Five has been installed onto the iconbar click SELECT on it's
- iconbar icon.
-
- The object of the game is to light up all twenty five squares of the grid.
- Click on any square to change its state. When a square is changed, that
- square and up to four of its immediate neighbours (above, below and to
- each side) also change. Like is:
-
- *****
- *****
- ***************
- ***************
- *****
- *****
-
- To RESET the board, or abandon the entire game use the menu available
- through the usual methods. If you complete the game you will be presented
- with a message, and a rating based upon how many moves you needed to
- complete the game. You can RESET or QUIT (why?) from here also.
-
- You'll find the game quite hard to complete - I think a prize for the
- quickest / least number of moves is in order! I am told it is possible
- to complete in under 20 moves but I'm not so sure my self ...
- Note there is also a limit on the number of moves you may make before
- the program resets the board!
-
- There is a really silly/simple demo mode available within the game. It is
- available from the main menu. All the program does is choose squares at
- random and 'click' on them until either you stop the demo or the program
- (amazingly) finishes the game.
-
- You may also be interested in the inbuild cheat mode! It's a simple
- matter to hack the info so why don't you see if you can find it
- without looking at the program code!
-
- Technical info
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- If you like, you can edit the template file to re-design the board!.
- Icon 0 must be indirected to AT LEAST 20 bytes, while icons 1 to 25
- are the main squares. See the template file for more info!
-
- Note that the 'Messages' file within Five by Five is not translated
- by the MessageTrans module. Only <token>: and # are supported by
- my very own personalised code. I'll fix this in a later version!
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- PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS
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- I do not accept responsibility for any damage to, or loss of, data caused
- by the use of this program.
-
- This program may be copied freely and as many times as you like and given
- to whoever you like as long as ALL the files are included TOTALLY intact and
- un-modified while no charge is made except to cover overheads like discs
- and postage/packing. This may NOT exceed £3.50 per disk. You may not sell
- this software, or use it in any way for personal gain without my
- written permission.
-
- If you want to add this application to something you plan to sell, or
- otherwise release as copyright material, whether for gain or not, then
- you'll need my permission - I RETAIN COPYRIGHT ON THIS APPLICATION.
-
- If you want to put this application on your Bulletin Board System (BBS) or
- include it in a library then, as long as you follow the rules laid out here,
- then that is fine by me. BBS systems that use premium rate phone lines may
- not include this software. ANY systems connected to ANY 0898-style
- (premium rate) lines may not include this software anywhere in their system.
-
- If you like this application and find yourself using it often I would
- appreciate a small donation. Anything reasonable will do. If you
- decided that this is worth giving a donation to me then I'll probably
- send you some of my other wonderful applications and any other PD
- programs that I can manage to get my hands on and that I think is worth
- distributing. You may request a particular program if you like.
-
- If you would like me to write a specific application specially for you
- then please write!
-
- If you would like to contact me, Tim Gladding, then you can use
- the following information:
-
- Address: 130 Cromwell Road
- Cambridge
- CB1 3EG
- England
-
- Telephone: Cambridge (01223) 573 133
-
- E-mail: stimpy@gladding.demon.co.uk
-
- Arcade BBS User #1687
- Fidonet Netmail 2:254/27
- (0181) 654 2212 / 655 4412
-
- I may take a little time to reply but ALL letters will be answered.
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-
- If, while using this program, you encounter an error, bug or a completely
- silly mistake please contact me, giving details of the version of
- !5x5 you are using and what equipment you are using it on, e.g.:
-
- Information to provide Example information
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- Computer type (A310, A4x0/1, A540, A4/500, A30x0, A4)
- Podules added (Replay, Acorn SCSI, 24bit ColourCard)
- Memory in use (0.5mb, 4mb, 16mb)
- Screen Mode (Mode 15, Mode 20, Mode 31, Mode 35)
- Error reported (Bad Command, Address exception)
- ROM Modules unplugged (System Devices, FontManager, Hourglass)
- RAM Modules installed (DiskToolKit, VirusZap, ArcFSFiler)
- Other applications running (Impression, Edit, Draw, Paint, !VEncrypt)
- Filing system in use (ADFS, NetFS, RamFS, SCSIFS, IDEFS, ArcFS)
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-
- ... and as well as this list, any other information you think is relevant,
- (while supplying and concurrently running PD applications as well! :-) ).
- If you help with the development of this or any other program then you
- may be entitled to a 'Community Action Trust' CASH REWARD of some kind
- (probably). Thank you for your co-operation.
-