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|5║ |EFun 'N Games|5 ║ ^1 Missing Dots Matrix |5 ║ |EFun 'N Games|5 ║
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^Cby
^CJohn Besnard
Here's a new word game with a very different twist. On the game
screen, a message from a faulty dot matrix printer is displayed. The
letters in the message are missing some of the dots (pixels) that make
them recognizable as letters. Your job is to figure out what the
message says and type it at the bottom of the screen.
Some of the messages are profound quotes. Some are silly riddles.
If you can correctly decipher the Missing Dots Matrix message, then
the program will reveal who said the famous words or it will reveal
the answer to the riddle. Good luck!
^1PLAYING THE GAME
Press the SPACE bar and a Missing Dots Matrix message will be
shown. The current letter will have a box around it. Mentally fill in
the missing dots and type what you think the current letter is on the
answer line at the bottom of the screen.
If your guess is correct, then your letter will stay on the answer
line and you can move on to the next letter. If your guess is
incorrect, then you will have to try again. Please note, the computer
does all the punctuation for you including spaces.
When you successfully finish a puzzle, the name of the person who
said the quote or the answer to the riddle is revealed.
^1ACTIVE KEYS
On the game screen, the following keys are active:
<F1> HELP - provides information on how to play
<F2> LOAD - lets you load a new puzzle file
<F3> SOUND - lets you turn the sound and speech off and on
<F4> LEVEL - lets you make the puzzles hard or easy
<ESC> QUIT - exit program or cancel a menu without change
^1USING THE MOUSE
If you are using a mouse, the cursor on the screen looks like a
screw driver. If it were real, you could use it to fix the faulty dot
matrix printer. Unfortunately, it's not. However, you can use it to
access menu options on the screen. Place the cursor on your choice
and click to activate it.
You may also use the mouse to answer YES or NO. Click the left
button for YES and the right button for NO.
^1CREATE YOUR OWN PUZZLE FILES
Maybe you don't like our riddles. Suppose you think our quotes are
dull. Don't just sit there. Make up your own puzzle files. Using
your favorite editor, create FILENAME.PIX and enter your favorite
quotes or riddles. Now you'll have new puzzles to amuse your family
and friends.
The following restrictions apply when editing your puzzle file:
1. Your puzzle file must have the .PIX extension.
2. The file you create must be in simple ASCII text.
3. Your quote or riddle must be less than 120 characters.
4. The author of the quote or the answer to the riddle
must be less than 70 characters.
5. The quote and the author (or the riddle and the answer)
must be on the same line separated by a slash (/).
6. The last line of the file must be an asterisk (*).
7. The complete puzzle file cannot be longer than 1500 bytes.
Please look at the .PIX files on this disk for an example.
O O O O O OOOO OOOO O O O O
O O O O O O O O O O OO O
OOOOO OOOOO O O OOO OOO O O O O O
O O O O O OOOO O OOO O O
^1CREDITS
Funnier Than the First One by Sonny Fox
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Houseful of Laughter by Bennett Cerf
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The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said arranged by Robert Byrne
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The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said arranged by Robert Byrne
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^1OUTSIDE OF BBD
To run this program outside ^1Big Blue Disk^0,
type ^1MDM^0.
To run this program in ^1SILENT^0 mode,
type ^1MDM S^0.
Disk files this program uses:
^FMDM.EXE
^FBEZ.SEZ
^FSHAPES.BEZ
^FALPHA.BEZ
^F*.PIX