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- Narkomania v1.0
- (c)1996 by FE-1, Data Station
-
- Narkomania is a Minesweeper clone game, that me and my Students have
- developed in the classroom for educational purposes. The program is
- named Narkomania after "Narke" which is greek for mine, and "Mania"
- you know what it means.
-
- So for all those Narkomaniacs over there, here it is. A program that
- keeps High Scores, not only for the lucky persons who complete levels
- but also for the "God Damned" ones who have a bad luck in completing
- these levels. It has a graph, that gives you over time your performance
- in finding mines, using a single horizontal line as the best mine per time
- recorded in your High Scores table.
-
-
- **** INSTALLATION ****
-
- Simply put NMANIA.EXE into a directory. After the first execution a file
- named NMANIA.HSC will be created. This is the High Scores table.
-
- **** UNINSTALL ****
-
- Delete NMANIA.EXE and NMANIA.HSC. Narkomania does not write in Windows system
- directory or in registry, or anywhere in your disks.
-
- **** HELP ****
-
- Purpose : The purpose of the game is to reveal all mines hidden in a minefield.
- To do so, you just open a tile, and you find a number. This number is
- the number of mines that exist in the surrounding tiles. It is going
- to be from 0 to 8. If 8 then all surrounding tiles are mines. You can
- mark them so you wont accidentally open them. If the number of mines is
- zero (0), then the program will automatically open the surrounding tiles
- in order to help you no to do this boring job. The opening is being
- made continuously until no more auto-openings are available.
-
- When all free tiles, are opened the game ends.
-
- Left-Mouse button : opens a tile.
- Right-Mouse button : marks a tile.
- Both Mouse buttons : open all surrounding tiles if the tile you click has the
- correct number of mines marked in the neighborhood. This means
- that if you have opened a tile which has number "2" and you have
- found the two corresponding mines, you may press both buttons
- on "2" and open all surrounding non-mine tiles. If you have made
- a mistake in the marked tiles, this means that you will open a
- mine and you're going to blow things up. Game Ends :-(
-
- Press "H" : This button will engage the auto-mode. It will mark and open, mark and open
- continuously until no more sure marks, or sure free tiles can bve found. In
- small levels pressing H will probably win the game. However if you use H you
- are a CHEATER and the High Score will be placed in the corresponding infamous
- category.
-
- **** SPECIAL CHEAT MODE ****
-
- This is not meant to be written right here, but I will tell it: Some times when the game
- is near to its end, we have to confront a dilemma; two or more tiles that we know that one
- of them is a mine but we cannot get a clue. So this makes the game purely a game of chance
- and Narkomania was not supposed to be such a game. Write the famous magical word of the
- old adventure games (I won't write it down here, look at the about box) and when you move
- your mouse pointer over a mine a slight eye movement will occur in that face in the center
- of your window. Use it for a good reason only. Whether or not, this mode is costing you time
- so if you finish the game you will be considered a real winner!
-
- **** CREDITS ****
-
- Five people, struggled their minds to create this awfull game.
-
- Kostas Symeonidis, the teacher and the students:
- John Andreadakis
- Panayotis Dalaras
- John Nasiopoulos
- Spyros Michos
-
- We've had a great time doing this. Brain storming was especially funny. He made this program
- at the end of the school year, just to find out how many things we have learned in Borland
- Pascal and Delphi 1.0.
-
- Narkomania, is using recursive algorithms and it is a great program in the inside. Of course
- this does not bother the gamer, but as a teacher I have to say that Bill Gates' favorite game
- is an excellent algorithmic exercise. There is a difference between Windows' Minesweeper and
- Narkomania though. Minesweeper opens only tiles in the exact neighborhood, meaning the 8
- surrounding squares, while Narkomania, recursively opens all tiles that are obviously not mines.
- This makes Narkomania a little faster and better (I think) for the gamer.
-
- This version has been upgraded to Delphi 2.0 by Kostas Symeonidis, who is responsible for the
- artwork too.
-
- **** FREE REGISTRATION ****
-
- This program is FREE! You can use it, until the End of the World, copy
- it and distribute it FREELY to your friends, as long as you don't modify
- the executable and accompanying files (including the one you now read),
- neither charge any money for them.
-
- If you like this program and would like to become a registered user,
- which means you will receive future versions, e-mail us at :
-
- cylog@hyper.gr or ksymeon@hyper.gr
-
- Please write how nice this program is, how much you liked it, your name
- and your e-mail address. To get informed on other CyLog Software products,
- take a look at our WEB Page at :
-
- http://hypernet.hyper.gr/~ksymeon/cylog.html
-
- * This program is copyrighted and protected by international copyright laws *
-