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- P E R K Y
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- This program is COPYRIGHTED FREEWARE.
- The program code is Copyright (C) 1998 by Klaus Tadsen.
- The title melody is Copyright (C) 1998 by Meike Tadsen (9 years).
- All rights are reserved.
-
-
- THE GAME
-
- The aim of this game is to place 5 of your `marbles` in a row, horizontal,
- vertical or diagonal.Your opponent is the computer who obviously also
- tries to place 5 of his pieces in a row and win himself.
-
- You can move around on the board with your mouse. Select any of the empty
- fields and place one `marble` on it by pushing the left mouse button.
- After you made your move it`s Perky`s turn, who tries to block you.
- If you click on an occupied field, Perky will show the field where he
- made his last move to!
-
- When you do well, you receive points and will be placed in the high
- scoring table. But you can earn even more points by winning not only
- one match, but a series of matches. This will increase your score.
- But if you loose, the series ends and you have to start over.
-
- The alltime-highscore file will only accept one entry / player.
-
-
- THE MENU
-
- Scroll a list of players by clicking with your left mouse button on the
- name or type in a new player.
- Click on `sound`, to select or deselect the PC - speaker sounds. There is
- no ( not yet :) ) support of soundcards. Click on `level` to chose one.
- Level 1 is easy (with 1 bonus move), level 3 is strong. The higher the
- level, the more points you will receive. The default setting is level 2.
- After you have won a game you can`t change the level until the winning
- series ends!! Click on `exit` to end the game from the menu or hit `F4`
- at any time during the game. Clicking on `high score` leads to the high
- scoring table.
-
- Perky will remember your favorite settings.
-
-
- STRATEGY
-
- The clue is that you have to combine your pieces so that they work
- together. Let`s take an example:
-
- O O
- O X means a piece of yours, O means O
- X an empty field and # is Perky`s one. X
- O O X O X O O If you could reach a situation O O X X X O O
- X like this, you might put your X
- O next piece right in the middle. O
- O Now you have two rows of three O
- pieces with open ends. Perky can
- only put his piece at one open
- end.
-
- O
- O
- X
- # X X X O
- X
- X
- O
-
- Now you have the chance to place your piece to the row with the two
- open ends. Now it is a row of four pieces with open ends. This is
- unbeatable, because if Perky places his piece at one end, you put
- yours at the other and reach `5 in a row`.
-
- O There are lots of different X
- X situations like this.Find them, X
- X use them and you will be the X
- # X X X O PERKY - CHAMP! # X X X O
- X But...you have to watch Perky`s X
- # moves to block situations like #
- this.
-
-
- CONTEST
-
- I am running a highscore contest on my web page.
-
- http://members.tripod.com/~Klaus_Tadsen/
- http://village.flashnet.it/~fn050126/
-
- I would be pleased if you submit your score ONLINE on my webpage
- or via email to:
-
- klaus.tadsen@flashnet.it
-
- There is a checksum-test in the score itself to make the contest
- a little serious. This simply means some numbers are ok, others
- are not...
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- This program is made for DOS 3.0 or later.It will also run as
- a DOS application under Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and 98.
- You should have a VGA Graphic card.
-
- The zip file contains the following files:
-
- perky.exe the run file
- perkyxx.dat the graphics data
- perky.ico an icon for installing the game under windows
- readme.txt this file
- file_id.diz file description for BBS systems
- vendinfo.diz vendors info
- perky.hsc the high score file ( will be created)
-
- If your old high score file is in the same directory Perky will
- convert it to the new binary format.
-
-
- NEW VERSIONS
-
- Lookout for new versions on PERKY`s homepage
-
- http://village.flashnet.it/~fn050126/
- http://members.tripod.com/~Klaus_Tadsen/
-
-
- COMMENTS
-
- If you can upload the game to any game related area,server,BBS...
- ...just do it!! THANKS
-
- Don`t hesitate to correct my english :))
- Please feel free to email your comments to
-
- klaus.tadsen@flashnet.it
-
- Have fun...