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- ESCAPE
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- Note. This game runs from Workbench.
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- WHAT IS IT? Escape is a graphical adventure. Your character, Basil, has been
- falsely accused and convicted of robbery. Your task is to help
- him escape from prison.
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- WHAT DO I NEED? An A1200, preferrably with hard drive. It will work quite well with
- two floppy drives but with one drive the disk swapping is no fun
- at all. Fast memory also helps. Floppy users must leave their
- discs write-enable for saving the game with your game disk in DF0:
- Hard drive users should copy all files including the Fonts drawer
- and Savegame drawer to a single drawer anywhere on your hard
- drive. If there isn't a 'Savegame' drawer, then you must make one.
- Running from CD any disk will do. Just make a drawer as mentioned
- below. Hard drive users should check that the 'Savegame' drawer
- exists. If not, in either case:-
- Just open the Game disk/drawer on Workbench - Go to the Menu select
- Window then 'New drawer'. Back-delete 'Unnamed1' and write
- 'Savegame' then press return. Done. (there are lots of new Amiga
- users about, you know)
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- NOTE When you play your first game, go into your room first (the door
- next to you on startup). Have a nose round. Chat to Benny and
- then go to see Mr. Big (Cell 1 (opposite)). After that go
- where ever you wish.(just helps game play)
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- HOW DOES IT WORK? Run the mouse over the screen and items etc. will be highlighted
- at the bottom. From the main Hall just click the 'right' mouse
- button on any door and your character will walk to that door and
- enter the room.
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- CONTROLS LEFT MOUSE BUTTON - This gives you information about objects in
- rooms. use the left button first as there is a lot of information
- available (not compulsory).
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- RIGHT BUTTON - This tries to interact with objects eg. pick
- up, use etc.
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- TEXT SPEED - Use the '-' and '+' signs on the keyboard
- (not while talking is in progress) to speed up or slow down the
- text. You will be told what you are doing at the bottom of the
- screen.
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- Note Keyboard controls will not work if the mouse pointer is over
- an object etc. or out of limits of the main screen.
- Just move the mouse.
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- MENU F5 F5(function key) gives you a menu as follows:-
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- LOAD GAME. press 'L' There are ten save game slots numbered
- 0 to 9. They will appear at the top of the screen.
- Any highlighted number represents a saved game. Pressing a
- highlighed number (on the keyboard) will load this saved game.
- Load works from Main Hall only. Sorry.
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- SAVE GAME. press 'S' This again brings up the 'save game slots'
- Again, it shows you where games have already been saved. Pick
- a nex slot or over-write an existing saved game.
- Save works from anywhere.
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- RETURN. press 'F5' Again the abort and return to game.
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- DELETE. press 'Y' to delete a saved game. To tidy up if you
- wish. Careful now. (I chose the 'Y' key because it's not to close
- to the other user keys).
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- QUIT. press 'Q' to quite the game. You must verify this with
- 'Y'es or 'N'o.
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- MUSIC By pressing the 'M' key the music can be toggled on or off.
- You can change the volume if you wish.
- Hold down '<' key and the volume will decrease.
- Hold down '>' key and the volume will increase.
- (it starts off at full volume). The sound effect volume is not
- changed.
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- PROBLEMS The game needs about 1.5 mbs to run. I removed my accelerator
- and after booting I was left with just over 900K (due to CD
- software and all those Workbench startup files) System told me
- I did not have enough memory to run the game, but it ran although
- some graphics were a little suspect.
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- If you're running the game from hard drive and a requester at the
- bottom of the screen asks you to change disks, this means you
- have a file missing. Check that you have copied everything.
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- Otherwise, the game will run fine.
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- TECHNO. This adventure was written over a period of four years on an
- A1200 with 4 mbs of fast and FPU and finished on an 40MHz 040 with
- FPU. Graphics drawn with DPaint IV. Text written on my own
- text editor.
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- SHAREWARE Please remember this game is Shareware and only £5. Try it, and if
- you like it, please register. ( See docs ).
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- WHO? N.L. Crossfield, 18 Melrose Avenue, Worthing, Sussex, BN13 1NX.
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- Who?
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- Have fun.
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