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- | BEYOND THE TITANIC |
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- A Text Adventure Fantasy
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- An Apogee Software Production
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- Programmed by Scott Miller
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- This game is not copy protected. You are free to distribute this program
- for any purpose except to personally gain money.
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- The author asks that those who enjoy this game send $5 (five dollars) to
- Apogee Software Productions. This minimal fee will help cover the cost of
- producing this software and will encourage the author to write further text
- adventure games.
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- Please send $5.00 to: Apogee Software Productions
- 4206 Mayflower Drive
- Garland, TX 75043
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- Enjoy the game,
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- Scott Miller
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- Instructions to Beyond the Titanic Page 1
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- The STORY
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- As the game begins you find yourself standing on board the Titanic, on her
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- maiden voyage. Of course, that particular voyage was never completed!
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- Your goal is to survive and somehow get back to your home in the United
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- States.
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- Most of your time will be spent solving numerous problems and dangers that
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- arise, like starvation and drowning. If you've played any of Infocom's famous
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- text games you will notice that Beyond the Titanic is quite similar to Zork
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- and Planetfall.
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- Hints: Examine everything and make a map as you move through the many
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- game locations. There are not any puzzles that cannot be solved logically;
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- apply an "If I were really there, I would do this..." type of attitude.
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- To add to the game's realism sound effects are used throughout the game.
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- Instructions to Beyond the Titanic Page 2
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- LOADING
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- Game setup for single disk drive:
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- 1) Insert the GAME disk.
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- 2) Type in BEYOND and press the <enter> button.
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- 3) When the "Do you have a colr screen?" question appears, press Y or N.
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- 4) When the "How many disk drives do you have?" question appears, press
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- 5) The game will begin.
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- Game setup for two disk drives:
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- 1) Insert the GAME disk into drive A:
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- 2) Insert your SAVE/RESTORE disk into drive B:
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- 3) Type in BEYOND and press the <enter> button.
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- 4) When the "Do you have a colr screen?" question appears, press Y or N.
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- 4) When the "How many disk drives do you have?" question appears, press
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- 6) The game will begin.
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- Instructions to Beyond the Titanic Page 3
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- The VERBS
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- Beyond the Titanic has a vocabulary of over 700 words--more than most
- text adventures sold commercially. Here is a sampling of the verbs
- understood by the game's parser.
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- EXAMINE (or EX for short)
- INVENTORY (or I)
- NORTH, SOUTH, NORTHWEST, UP, DOWN, IN, OUT, etc. (or first letter)
- GET, DROP
- PUSH, PULL, MOVE, PRESS, TOUCH
- LOOK, LOOK INSIDE, LOOK BEHIND, LOOK THROUGH, LOOK UNDER, LOOK ON, etc.
- WEAR, TAKE OFF
- TIE, UNTIE
- PUT, INSERT
- OPEN, UNLOCH
- TURN, ROTATE
- FIND
- SAY
- TYPE
- CUT
- HELP
- JUMP
- SHAKE
- SLEEP
- FLY
- DANCE
- FALL
- CRAWL
- and many more!
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- Example structures:
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- TIE [object] (TO, AROUND) [object]
- EX [object]
- GIVE [object] TO [object]
- PUT [object] (WITHIN, UNDER, ON, BESIDE, BEHIND, etc.) [object]
- SAY [something] - used to converse with othe game characters.
- TYPE [something] - used to enter data on a keyboard device.
- TURN [object] or TURN [object] to [position] - used for dials.
- OPEN [object] WITH [object]
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- Example Sentences:
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- >> PICK UP THE KNIFE THEN THROW IT AT THE WALL
- >> E.N.OPEN HATCH THEN CLIMB DOWN THE LADDER. READ SCREEN. BREAK IT.
- >> SHOOT THE CREATURE WITH THE GUN PLEASE, THEN RUN SOUTH!
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- Instructions to Beyond the Titanic Page 4
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- The COMMANDS
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- Here's a list of the major commands you will need to know in order to play
- Beyond the Titanic.
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- QUIT - ends the current game.
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- SAVE - allows you to save you present game location. Use a separate formatted
- disk. Up to 26 SAVE files per disk. SAVE names can be up to eight
- letters long. To resume a previously SAVED game use the RESTORE
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- RESTORE - allows you to restore a SAVED game location.
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- DIAGNOSE - reveals your health, appetite, etc.
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- LOOK (or L) - does a brief examination of your current game location.
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- REPEAT (or R) - repeats your last line of commands.
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- WAIT (or Z) - lets one move pass without any action.
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- SCORE - gives you your current ranking.
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- ROOM DESCRIPTION (or RD) - toggles between full room descriptions or brief
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- Instructions to Beyond the Titanic Page 5
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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- Beyond the Titanic only recognizes the first SEVEN letters of any word or
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- command. (Note: Infocom games only use the first SIX letters.)
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- The word AND is not understood. You cannot say, for example, GET GUN
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- AND ROPE, or PUT ROPE AND KNIFE IN SACK.
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- With the verbs GET and DROP you may refer to every object by saying
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- GET ALL or DROP ALL. The word ALL is not accepted anywhere else.
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- This game most probably contains many spelling errors and minor bugs.
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- The bugs are not the type that might impede your progress through the game.
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- (Assuming there are any.)
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- If you have any questions feel free to call me (Scott Miller) at:
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- (214) 278-6747
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