================================================================ C R A Z Y K I N G V 1 . 0 ================================================================ Contents of this file: 1. The program 2. The author 3. Installation 4. Deinstall 5. What is Shareware? 6. Disclaimer of warranties 7. Licence agreement for users 8. Distribution by vendors 9. How to register? ================================================================ 1. The program ================================================================ Help the subjects out of their jam and bring the chessboard back to the crazy king. The story --------- A long time ago a king, who loved playing chess more than any- thing else, reigned over a country. His chancellor, who was a great magician, did all the government. He wisely reigned the country and everybody was happy and confident. Each day the king demanded one of his subjects to a chess-duel. If he won, everything was alright. If not, he got very angry and his opponent was banished. So nobody ever dared to win, and the king never lost a game, although he was a bad player. One day it was the chancellor's turn to play against the king. But the magician was sick of cheating. This time he won.The king was wild with anger and wanted him to be marched off to prison. At this moment the cancellor spoke some magic words and the king's chess board broke into twelve pieces. Then he locked each piece of the chess board in a room deep down in the cellar of the palace. Next he casted a strange spell on the cellar's corridors, turned into a huge black bird and flew away. What should the king do without his beloved chess game? He turned into a hard-hearted and embittered man. As he had no chancellar, he began to reign his country himself. That turned out badly for his subjects. The subjects of the king tried hard to find the pieces of the the chess board. That was not easy though the casted corridors were changing their appearance permanently. Many a one, stepping down into the cellar, could not find the exit any more. To enter a room, in which one piece of the chess board was locked, they had to solve a certain riddle. Although many had tried to find the pieces of the chess board nobody ever succeeded in doing so. Your mission ------------ So bold-hearted subjects travelled to distant countries and looked for courageous people being clever enough to solve the exercises. On their way they also found you. They implore you to give back the chess board to their king so that they get back their happiness and satisfaction. As you've made up your mind and you really want to help the subjects of the crazy king, you will find some indications for your difficult mission. The function of all buttons will be shown, if you leave the mouse pointer on them motionless. The casted corridors -------------------- Deep down in the cellar you'll first see the casted corridors. Perhaps your further way is barricaded. Now you can understand that many subjects did not find their way out. You can see thirteen doors round the jumble of corridors, but they are all locked. There is one piece of the chessboard behind each of the twelve doors. Door number thirteen leads you to the old throne room. Between the doors there are arrow signs chisled into the stone. Click on these signs and the corridors will move. Keep on trying and you will soon look through. To move yourself you must click on the corridor you want to enter next. It is possible to reach all doors, if you move the corridors skillfully. With the help of this mechanism you can also move yourself. For example: Your position is on the right side, now you click on the arrow sign showing right, your position will be on the left side at once. This can shorten your routes. Try it! The king's subjects would be really happy, if you could be able to disentangle the corridors. They were symetrically ordered at the beginning. Maybe this can help you. You can decide if you do this exercise at once or later. The closed rooms ---------------- Try to reach the doors which are closed. Then click on the door and you will be proposed a riddle. You must solve it, to be able to open the door. Press the button with the book on it and you will get instructions. You can leave the riddle using the door-button, if you don't want to go on. Then you will find yourself in front of the closed door again. Click somewhere beside the door and you will be inside the casted corridors again. The riddles ----------- All riddles can be solved with simple mouseclicks. Only a few have to been solved by keeping the mousebutton pushed and moving the ball. Try to experiment a bit, your time is unlimited. The button with the crown restarts the riddle. You can start as often as you want to. If you have solved a riddle, click the button which now shows you a part of the chess board. You will find yourself in front of the opened door. You can now take the piece of the chess board. Just click on it. It will be put to the old throne room automatically and there it is waiting for you with all the others. The old throne room ------------------- The entrance to the old throne room is on the very right in the middle, just opposite to the entrance. If you enter, you will see all the pieces of the chess board, you have already collected. You can try to put them together, whenever you want, but it only will work if you have all twelve pieces. You can rotate every piece in 90° steps with a right mouseclick. Maybe the black-white pattern of a normal chess board is a help for you. If you manage to put all pieces of the chessboard together and the result looks like a real chess board, your work is done. The additional riddles ---------------------- But the game is far from being ready. You will have certainly observed, that three stones in the wall blink brightly in the rooms you can enter. Behind each of these stones hides another similar riddle being more difficult. You can only solve these additional riddles after you've ful- filled your mission AND after you've registered the game. By means of registration there will be no boring shareware- dialogues any more. So the short investigation of US$ 20.00 pays. Besides, you make it possible to the author to keep on developing new games. ================================================================ 2. The author ================================================================ Josef Stöckl Kundmanngasse 10/9 A-1030 Vienna Austria Europe Tel.: +43-1-7149215 Compuserve: 106371,1776 E-mail: Crazy_Bytes@compuserve.com Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/crazy_bytes ================================================================ 3. Installation ================================================================ If you got "CRAZY KING V1.0" on disks you find the file CKIN1.EXE on the first disk and CKIN2.EXE on the second. If you have downloaded "CRAZY KING V1.0", there is only one file CKIN.EXE. All these EXE files are self-extracting ZIP-files. Start this files. In a dialog you are asked for the unzip-directory. The default is C:\TEMP. Put the directory of your choice in the edit-field, then press the UNZIP-button. After the unzip-operation you find a lot of files in your Crazy Convert - directory. If you've installed Windows 3.x, you should use the 16-bit-version CKIN116.EXE. If you've installed Windows95 or Windows NT, it's better to use the 32-bit version CKIN132.EXE. To play the game start one of these. To create a program-icon look up in your windows-manual. ================================================================ 4. Deinstallation ================================================================ If you don't enjoy "CRAZY KING V1.0" and you want to deinstall it, do the following steps: 1. Remove all "CRAZY KING V1.0" icons from the program group window. 2. Delete all files in the directory, where you've installed "CRAZY KING V1.0" and at last the directory itself. 3. Start an text-editor (NotePad or WordPad). 4. Open the file BRAINBOX.INI from the windows-directory. 5. Search for the section "CRAZY KING". It looks like this. [CRAZY KING] sound=1 left=138 top=70 ... 6. Delete all lines in this section. 7. Save the file. 8. If the file is empty now, you can delete it too. Now "CRAZY KING V1.0" is removed completely from your harddisk. ================================================================ 5. What is Shareware? ================================================================ Definition of Shareware ----------------------- Shareware is a distibution method, not a type of software. The author gives the user a chance to try the software for a limited time before buying it. If the user likes the software and wants to continue using it after the trial period, he must make a registration payment. With the registration, he gets anything, from the simple right to continue using the software with no function limitations and no nag screens, to more game levels etc. Caution! The fee paid to the disk vendor, or the price for the CD-ROM is not to be mixed up with the registration payment. Commercial software and sharware in comparision: ------------------------------------------------ Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference lies in the method of distibution. Both, commercial authors and shareware authors, have got the same copyright laws. All rights belong to the copyright holders. There are some exceptions. The shareware author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy the software. Shareware programs are mostly cheaper than commercial programs, because there are no costs for advertising, in between transactions, storing a.s.o. The shareware author is a special communication partner for the user and he is thankful for all suggestions. The users have influence on the further development of the program. The shareware concept allows the fast circulation of the software. So it is possible to react quickly on faults and on users' wishes. Three main points for the success of the shareware-concept: ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. The authors are responsible for the quality and variety of their products. 2. The shareware vendors are responsible for distribution and advertising. 3. The users' registration's moral decides wether this special distribution concept is successful or not. ================================================================ 6. Disclaimer of warranties ================================================================ The author disclaims all warranties, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantibility or fitness for a particular purpose or hardware configuration, with respect to the product. Should the program prove defective, the user assumes the risk paying the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction and any incidental or consequential damages. In no event will the author be liable for any damages whatsoever - including without limitations damages for loss of business profits, business interruptions, loss of business information and the like - arising out of the use or the inability to use this product even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The author will try to correct errors of the program fast as possible. He is thankful for hints at program errors, but cannot guarantee their elimination. ================================================================ 7. Licence agreement for users ================================================================ "CRAZY KING V1.0" is a shareware program. It is copyrighted by the author. You as user are allowed to test the trial- version of this program for a period of 30 days and check if it's what you expected. If you intend to continue using it, you must register the program by making a registration payment to the author. For registration use the added text-file REGENG.TXT. The author will send you a personal registration code. Enter this code in the Shareware-Dialog, which appears when you start the program. The trial-version of the program will be converted to the full-version. This full-version you may use on any one computer at any one time. This means, it may be moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at any location while it's being used at another. Just like a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. ================================================================ 8. Distribution by vendors ================================================================ "CRAZY KING V1.0" is a shareware program. Don't describe it as public domain or freeware in your catalog. The program is copyrighted by the author. The trial-version of the program is allowed to be copied, sold for a small fee, distributed on CD-ROM and uploaded to mailboxes and internet servers. Keep all files together when distibuting. Do not change any of the files. Do not add files. Please distribute only the latest version, which can be downloaded from the COMPUSERVE-Forum DEUSHARE or from the internet-homepage of the author. If you distribute the program on CD-ROM, it would be nice to get an example CD-ROM. Please use the program description in the file FILE-ID.DIZ for your catalog. ================================================================ 9. How to register? ================================================================ To register "CRAZY KING V1.0" read first the chapters 6 and 7 in this ducument. If you accept the conditions continue with the following steps: - Load the file REGENG.TXT in a text-editor (e.g. notepad). - Fill in your name and adress completely. - Select the way of payment. The possibilities are cash, check, bank transfer or postal order. Notice: bank transfer or postal order give the highest security. - The price of the game is US$ 20,00 inclusive shipping. - If you have an e-mail-box and want to get the registration code there, mark the corresponding field and don't forget to enter your e-mail-address. - To optimize my distribution methods, please tell me, where you've got the trial-version from (which CD-ROM, magazine, homepage, ...). - Please let me know all your critisisms, suggestions, a.s.o. on the program or more common themes. - Don't forget date and signature. - Send a printout of the form per mail or e-mail to me. Add money, check or acquittance (except e-mail) . - As soon as the money has arrived I will send you your personal registration code promptly. This code converts the trial-version of the program to the full-version. - Keep this code carefully. If it becomes necessary to reinstall the program because you got a new computer, operating system, harddrive, a.s.o, you will need the code. - Feel free to pass a copy of the trial-version of the program to your friends, but keep all files together and do not change any of them. - Don't pass your registration code. Encourage your friends to register their own copy. Doing this you'll help me to develope this and other programs. - Enjoy the game. ================================================================