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- Here's a list of important additions to the FRUITBANK fruit machine.
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-
- firstly, three command line switches have been added to the game to make
- it more friendly, the first being a sound toggle, to enable the sound
- effects to be turned off, before the game starts making them!
-
- The command is NOSOUND, and typing:-
- FRUIT NOSOUND
-
- will do the job nicely.
-
- Secondly, there is an option to create a totally new set of reels for
- the fruit machine, so, whenever you feel that a particular set of reels
- are not giving you very good wins, then simply add the switch, NEWREEL,
- after the filename, ie:-
-
- FRUIT NEWREEL
-
- Lastly, there is a switch to make the game run faster on slower machines, at
- the loss of the half-symbols on the lower and upper edges of the reels. it can
- be turned on with the following command:-
-
- FRUIT 286
-
- These switches can be combined, so typing :-
-
- FRUIT NOSOUND NEWREEL 286
-
- Will give a faster, silent fruit machine, with a new set of reels!.
-
-
- If you wish, you can also create a new set of reels by just typing:-
-
- MAKEREEL
-
- This will run the REELMAKER program. In either case, if the program
- encounters an error while creating the new reels, then you will hear a
- warning sound, and, to create the new reels, will have to run the program
- again once the problem has been rectified. If running REELMAKER as a
- switch from FRUIT.EXE, then the error will be ignored, and FRUITBANK will
- load up using the existing reels.
-
-
- Lastly, typing FRUIT ?, or FRUIT HELP, will show the available command
- line options.
-
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-
- Control keys used in the game
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- Keys Function
-
-
- Cursor keys Move cursor around fruit machine buttons, and around
- letters on high-score table.
-
- <SPACE> & <ENTER> Press buttons on fruit machine, and enter name on
- high-score table.
-
- F1 Bring up help screens showing win amounts while playing.
-
- F2 Toggle sound effects On/Off.
-
- F10 The old `Boss' key. - Well useful, methinks.
-
-
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-
- Finally,
-
- FRUITBANK has extensive error checking built in, but will return to DOS
- upon encountering a FATAL error. These are errors where the game will
- not run unless they are corrected. Examples of these are corrupt or
- missing files, the floppy disk being ejected, not enough memory, and a
- few others.
-
- All problems except those concerning lost or corrupted files can be
- remedied without too much trouble, normally only needing the floppy disk
- re-inserting, or by quitting from another application to free up more
- base memory, and re-running the game.
-
- If, on the other hand, you are getting a missing or corrupted file error,
- then you may have to re-install the game.
-
- NB.- If you have to re-install the game, and you have a high score to be
- proud of, then it may be an idea to make a backup of the high-scores
- file, FRUITBNK.HSC, BEFORE re-installing, and then re-copying it back
- once the game has been re-installed. If the problem was NOT caused by a
- corrupt high-scores file, (Which it shouldn't!), then you will still have
- your scores intact after doing this.
-
-