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- Loading
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- Game installs on icon bar. Click on icon to play game. To return to desktop
- press escape whilst title or high score screen is shown.
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- Instructions
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- Create complex molecules out of individual atoms which have no free electrons
- when joined.
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- Keys:
- Z - Left
- X - Right
- ' - Up
- / - Down
- Return - Place atom
- Space - Rotate atom
- P - Pause
- Escape - Abort game
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- The standard Acorn Joystick SWI is supported by Atomix. RTFM Joysticks
- can be used by selecting the appropriate option from an icon bar submenu.
- The RTFM module must be loaded for this option to work. Options to change
- sound fx, music, volume and display options are also available and can be
- saved.
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- The Board
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- The board allows for 7x8 or 56 atoms. To the top left, above the board is
- the current score. Beneath this is a status field which tells you the
- minimum size of molecule to construct as well as the number of molecules left
- to assemble and the current number of atoms on the board. To the right of
- the board is a pit into which the atoms fall - slowly at first but the speed
- will increase as you progress through the levels. The pit can hold up to 6
- atoms.
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- Joker Atom
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- Occasionally a joker atom appears in the pit which has no electrons and thus
- no determined number of free bonds. You can place it anywhere you choose,
- but it must be able to bond with at least one other atom, if it doesn't it
- will immediately be withdrawn from the screen.
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- Game Over
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- The game is over when a seventh atom falls into the pit. Atoms must be
- placed on the board at a sufficient rate to prevent this.
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