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- Wimsey Games BBS, (404) 255-8646, presents
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- N I R V A N A
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- An Adventure in the World of Wimsey
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- Copyright (c) 1989 by Wimsey Co.
- 235 River Springs Dr., N.W.
- Atlanta, GA 30328
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- You may copy and use this product and documentation complete and without
- modification, provided that:
- (a) if you run NIRVANA offline, you must register your copy by sending $2.00 to
- Wimsey Co. with your name and address;
- (b) if you run NIRVANA online, you must register by mailing to us a letter or
- postcard (costs 15 cents postage) stating the version of NIRVANA, along
- with your name, the name and phone number of your BBS or business, your BBS
- software type and version number, and your mailing address (unless you ask
- us not to, we make this information public); and you must display at
- least the first sentence of the file BULLETIN.1 online as a news item or
- bulletin until the First Wimsey Contest is over, and make the Nirvana
- archive file freely available for download by your users.
- All other rights are reserved. TO REGISTER: Write to Wimsey Co., 235 River
- Springs Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30328.
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- THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS" WITHOUT
- WARRANTY, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN
- NO EVENT SHALL ANYONE INVOLVED WITH THE CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF THIS PRODUCT
- BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF ANY
- USE THEREOF OR BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY.
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- LOADING THE GAME . . . . . . . . 1
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- YOUR MISSION . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- HOW TO TALK TO NIRVANA . . . . . 3
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- SAVING & RESTORING . . . . . . . 4
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- FURTHER ADVENTURES . . . . . . .5
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- LOADING THE GAME
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- To run NIRVANA, you need an IBM PC or compatible running MS-DOS 2.0 or later,
- at least 256K of RAM, a 360K disk drive and a monochrome or color display.
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- 1. Start your machine running MS-DOS.
- 2. Place the NIRVANA files on a diskette in Drive A (or in the current
- directory of your hard disk).
- 3. Type NIRVANA and press return. (To stop snow on the screen, try typing
- NIRVANA /S.)
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- When you have correctly loaded NIRVANA, the disk will spin for approximately 20
- seconds while the program is loaded into your machine, and on the screen there
- will appear "NIRVANA An Adventure in the World of Wimsey." If it does not,
- then check the following:
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- 1. Check that the game diskette is properly oriented in the disk drive and
- that the drive door is closed.
- 2. Check that the drive containing the game diskette spins.
- 3. Inspect the diskette carefully for visible damage.
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- YOUR MISSION
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- It is long ago in the magic land of Cornwall, where the
- Village of Lostwithiel nestles in the shadow of Bald
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- There is an evil curse upon the land. Each month, at the
- full of the moon, a young man disappears from the village,
- never to return. He has been bewitched by Nirvana the Ice
- Maiden. She lures him to her marble palace atop Bald
- Mountain, where he faces a fate worse than death.
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- Nirvana can only be destroyed by ringing a crystal bell.
- Your quest is to find the bell, ring it in her presence and
- so dispel the evil curse.
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- How to talk to NIRVANA
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- Commands may be typed when the prompt (>) appears on the screen.
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- >TAKE THE BOTTLE.
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- End the commands with a carriage return (sometimes called
- <ENTER>).
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- Talk to NIRVANA by typing commands in plain English. NIRVANA
- does not understand questions or statements, only commands.
- You may type several commands on one line separated by periods.
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- >OPEN THE GATE. LEAVE. GO RIGHT.
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- For more extensive help, type HELP at the prompt (>).
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- SAVING & RESTORING
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- When you save your game position, use a formatted disk with at least 40 K
- bytes of unused space. The program can create up to twenty storage files
- numbered 1 to 20. You will be prompted to select a number, to insert the
- save disk in the current drive during save and restore, and to reinsert the
- game disk in the current drive to resume play. To retrieve the saved game
- position, type RESTORE and enter the file number you saved the position
- under.
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- If SAVE or RESTORE do not work, check the following items:
- 1. Check that the diskette is properly oriented in the disk
- drive, and the disk drive is closed.
- 2. Inspect the disk for visible damage.
- 3. If you have more than one disk drive, be sure the diskette
- is in the correct drive, and that that drive spins.
- 4. Be sure the diskette is formatted and not write-protected
- (i.e. that there is nothing covering the notch on the side
- of the diskette).
- 5. Try using a different diskette.
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- FURTHER ADVENTURES -- MOONSTONE
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- Nirvana is a World of Wimsey game in miniature.
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- Prepare for high excitement as you explore the magical
- land of Moonstone, a FULL SCALE Wimsey adventure!
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