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- Velcro M1nd Jazz software (c) copyright 1995 John White
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- v1.1
-
-
- NOTE: please read README.TXT if you
- have not already done so.
-
-
-
- ---------Credits---------
-
- -=Original concept=-
- John White
-
- -=Code, graphics, sound=-
- Joe White
-
- -=Thanks to=-
- S.W.A.G.
- Matt Pritchard, for his
- groovy modex routines.
-
- -=Hello to=-
- Sooty ("
- Binkie (BOO! (:)
- Jeeves
- Newton
-
-
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- PLAYING THE GAME :-)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- To start, quit from whatever you're reading this from and type:
- VMIND [enter]
-
- If it dumps you back to DOS with an error message, please skip to
- the end of this document to get help.
-
- While you are playing you can press 's' to toggle sound on/off, or
- 'p' to pause. Press escape to abort the game.
-
- -=Tips on playing=-
-
- * Use your mouse to move around. If you find this difficult, don't worry,
- it's just a game and you're going to die eventually anyway.
-
- * Press the left or right mouse button to rotate. To pick up a coloured
- ball, move into it with the matching coloured side of your circle facing
- it. (You'll soon discover what I mean).
-
- * If you aren't facing the correct way when you move into a ball, you will
- loose an energy unit. These are displayed on the top-left of you screen.
- The game finishes when you run out of energy.
-
- * To score points, you must give the coloured balls to it's hand on the
- side of the screen. If you try to give a ball to the wrong hand, it won't
- close.
-
- * The more coloured balls you are holding, the slower you move.
-
- * To gain energy units, pick up the white spinning things that originate
- from the middle of the screen.
-
- * The frequency at which balls appear gradually increases. >:-)
-
-
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- Command line parameters :-\
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-
- Switch Explanation
- -------- -------------------
-
- -? Show list of switches
- -nosound Turns off all sound
- -pcsound Force pc speaker sound
- -adlib Force Adlib/Sound Blaster sound
- -nofade Turn off fades. For impatient people (:
- -mouse Don't check for mouse
- -vga Don't check for VGA *
-
- * only do this if you're COMPLETELY sure you have VGA. I wouldn't like to
- see what happens if you try this on an EGA or CGA video card. :-#
-
- An example:
- VMIND -nosound -nofade [enter]
-
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- Running Vmind from Windows
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-
- You can run Vmind from Windows, but it goes all jerky and stoppy-starty.
- I would recommend that you quit Windows and then run Vmind. If you manage
- to get Vmind running under Windows nicely, please write to me and tell me
- how you did it so that I can put it in the next version (A cunning .pif
- file or something).
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- Problems? Arrrrgh! Oooohnooo! =:-0
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-
- To run, Velcro Mind needs: - 200k free conventional memory
- - A mouse with driver installed
- - VGA
-
- Error messages:
- ---------------
-
- 'Mouse not installed.'
- If you have a mouse, make sure that you have installed the mouse driver.
- (usually c:\mouse\mouse or similar). If you are _sure_ you have the mouse
- installed, but Vmind fails to detect it, you can use the '/mouse' switch to
- skip mouse detection.
-
- 'File missing:'
- There is a file missing. Make sure you are in the correct directory
- when you run Vmind.
-
- 'You need VGA or better to play.'
- If you have an EGA, or CGA card, you will not be able to play. If you are
- sure you have VGA, but still get this error message, use the'/VGA' switch
- to skip VGA detection...
-
- NOTE :
- only do this if you're COMPLETELY sure you have VGA. I wouldn't like to
- see what happens if you try this on an EGA or CGA video card. :-#
-
- 'Sorry, you don't have enough free memory.'
- Vmind only needs 200k to run, but if you should get this error message,
- you need to quit any open programs and then try again.
-
- Unexplained Crashes
- -------------------
-
- First make sure your computer meets the system requirements. (see the
- top of this section).
- If your system freezes when you try to play Vmind, it may because of
- your sound card (or my coding (:). Try typing Vmind -pcsound [enter].
- If you are running Vmind from Windows, try quitting Windows and then
- running Vmind.
- If neither of these work, try clean booting before running Vmind
- (remembering to install your mouse). If this doesn't work either, I
- don't know what the hell is going wrong.
-
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-
- My best score at time of release : 1136
-
- 'ave fun and BHAP!,
-
- Joe White - author.