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- Barraging Barriers (shareware) Version 1.1
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- Copyright (c) 1996 by Sage Software.
- All Rights Reserved.
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- Sage Software
- P.O. Box 7223
- Huntsville, AL 35807
- (205) 830-9364
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- About Your Barraging Barriers User's Guide
-
- This manual is only one part of Barraging Barriers' documentation
- set. The second is the Online Help system.
-
- This manual is arranged as follows:
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- o "About Your Barraging Barriers User's Guide"
- An overview of this manual
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- o "System Requirements"
- A list of system requirements.
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- o "Installation Procedures"
- Instructions for setting up Barraging Barriers on your computer.
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- o "Online Help"
- Instructions on how to use online Help to find information about tasks
- and features.
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- o "Start Playing"
- Instructions on how to start playing Barraging Barriers.
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- o "Rules of the Game"
- A description of the rules of this game.
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- System Requirements
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- The minimum software and hardware requirements your computer system needs
- to run Barraging Barriers successfully are shown in the following
- list.
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- o Windows version 3.1 or later.
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- o 1 megabyte (MB) of free disk space.
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- Installation Procedures
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- Installing Barraging Barriers on your computer is simple. To install,
- follow these steps:
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- 1. Start the Windows application and select the Program Manager.
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- 2. Select the run entry from the File menu item.
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- 3. Insert the Barraging Barriers disk into the disk drive.
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- 4. Keyin the letter of the drive that you inserted the disk into followed
- by ":\setup" in the command line field. For example, if the disk is in
- drive "A" you would type:
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- a:\setup
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- Next, select the OK button on the dialog box. This will cause Barraging
- Barriers' setup executable to start running.
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- 5. The setup executable will display a dialog box with a default directory
- specified in the field. If you want to install the files in another
- directory, key it in in this field.
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- 6. Select the Install button on the dialog box and the files will be
- installed. If the specified directory does not exist, it will be
- created for you.
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- 7. If no errors have occurred during installation, a dialog box claiming
- successful completion will be displayed when all files have been copied
- and expanded.
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- If the installation was successful, a Barraging Barriers program group
- will be created in the Program Manager. This will contain the Barraging
- Barriers program item. When you double click on this, Barraging Barriers
- will begin execution.
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- Online Help
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- Barraging Barriers' Online Help can be accessed in two different
- ways:
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- By selecting the Help entry under the Help menu item.
- By selecting the F1 key from the keyboard.
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- The Online Help contains information that explains all aspects of this
- game and describes how to use all its functionality. This should be the
- user's main source of help.
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- Once the Help window is displayed, the buttons near the top help you find
- the information you need. The Contents button displays a list of Help
- topics that Barraging Barriers provides. The Search button displays
- a dialog box where you specify a topic to search for. The Back button
- displays the previously viewed topic. The History button displays a
- chronological list of all Help topics viewed during your current game
- session.
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- If you need to learn how to use Help, press the F1 key on the keyboard
- while the Help window is open.
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- Start Playing
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- Once Barraging Barriers is installed, start the game by double clicking
- the left mouse button on the Barraging Barriers program item that was
- created by the setup executable. After doing this, Barraging Barriers
- will begin execution by displaying the first game grid on level 1.
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- Rules of the Game
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- Barraging Barriers is a challenging multi-level puzzle game. the object
- is to score as many points as you can by collecting bonuses as you
- advance to higher and higher levels, trying not to let the barraging
- barriers barricade you.
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- There are bonus squares on each level worth between 100 and 500 points.
- When the player maneuvers over these squares, he is rewarded the
- specified number of points. All of the other squares which do not
- specify a bonus are worth 10 points. After a bonus is taken, the square
- will not offer any more points if it is touched again. When the user
- completes a level he is rewarded 1000 points.
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- The game begins with a game grid with one blue square, one square which
- contains a red and yellow star, many light gray squares and many dark
- gray squares.
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- The blue square represents your current position. You can move this by
- either using your mouse to select one of the direction arrow buttons that
- are adjacent to it or by using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
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- The star represents the square that you must get to in order to advance
- to the next level. Once this is accomplished, a new game grid is
- displayed which should be a little harder to solve than the previous one.
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- The light gray squares represent open squares that you are free to move
- onto if you wish.
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- The dark gray squares represent barriers which you cannot move onto or
- through. These barriers restrict your movements and can make getting to
- the star very difficult. They are also capable of moving, but their
- movements are predictable and are based on your location and movements.
-
- When you move your current position, the barrier directly above your new
- location (if there is one) will move down one square if it can. If the
- barrier is directly above your new location with no open squares between
- you and it, no movement will occur.
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- When a barrier moves down, it will try to bring with it all barriers that
- are connected on its left and right sides. If, however, one of the
- barriers cannot move down due to another barrier being in the way or
- there is no valid open square directly below it, the chain will be broken
- at this point. The best way to become familiar with how the barriers
- move, however, is to start playing!
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- The game is over when you cannot reach the star and you cannot win
- any more points. The game will not tell you this so you will have to
- select the Reset button to start a new game when this occurs.
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- You are welcome to visit our WEB site at:
- http://www.best.com/~mcintyre/sage/
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