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- │ RELEASE NOTES FOR │
- │ PC CHESSHOUSERS │
- │ SHAREWARE │
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- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
- GIVE SHAREWARE CHESSHOUSERS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
-
- THIS GAME MAY BE FREELY DISTRIBUTED
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- ┌───────────────────┐
- │ TABLE of CONTENTS │
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- 1. Playing CHESSHOUSERS
- a. System Requirements
- b. Installation & Setup
- c. Menus
- d. Game controls and Shortcuts
- 2. Getting Technical Support
- 3. Ordering REGISTERED CHESSHOUSERS!
- 4. Distribution Information
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- ┌──────────────────────────┐
- │ 1. PLAYING CHESSHOUSERS │
- └──────────────────────────┘
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- Chesshousers means the excellence in arcade's world. It's
- a chess based game, with a good quantity of strategy.
- Chesshousers contains many unlike tridimensional worlds, and
- the objetive is to find the hidden king of each level.
- Every piece have an different behaviour in relation with the movements
- in a game of chess.
- ChessHousers hold all the characters of chess and adds some important
- objects as rocks and glasses to add complexity to the game.
- The sum of these components is... a must, for arcade lovers!
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- ┌─────────────────────────┐
- │ 1a. System Requirements │
- └─────────────────────────┘
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- BASE REQUIREMENTS:
- - IBM PC compatible 386-25 or faster.
- - VGA graphic adapter (256 kb VGA should be fine!)
- - 2 Mb on your hard disk.
- - DOS 3.0 or above.
-
- RECOMMENDED:
- - Soundcard
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- │ 1b. Installation & Setup │
- └──────────────────────────┘
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- Instalation process of ChessHousers is very simple. Just create a directory
- named CHESSHOU (e.g.) and decompress the archives included in the distribution
- set into that directory.
-
- Once copied the game you can choose your audio adaptor. The program is
- allows to use Adlib, Sound Blaster (mono, Pro and Pro 16), DAC
- interface (mono and stereo). If you haven't got any of the above mentioned
- sound add ons, you could hear the sound with the PC speaker.
-
- IMPORTANT!!:
- The program is set to work on IRQ 7, so if you use another interrupt for
- your soundcard, the program wont work.
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- To run the setup type SETUP and press Enter. You will see the sound options,
- and you could choose one.
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- To start the game type
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- CHESS <ENTER>
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- If mouse is enabled, it will be used in the menus. Otherwise you can use
- keyboard to move pointer, and enter to select options.
-
- After starting the game, you will be in the intro screen. Press any key,
- or tap the mouse button to see the main menu.
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- │ 1c. Menus │
- └───────────┘
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- Use the arrow keys or mouse to move around menus.
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- CHESSHOUSERS MENUS
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- Option 1, Play level 1
- Option 2, Restore previous saved levels
- Option 3, Enter password, Will allow you to access upper levels.
- (not available in share version)
- Option 4, Exit to DOS.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 1d. Game controls and Shortcuts │
- └──────────────────────────────────┘
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- * Default keyboard 1 keys are Q-A-O-P to move and SPACE to shoot.
- To destroy a block you must move in the direction of the block and press
- fire.
-
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- ┌──────────────────────────────┐
- │ 2. Getting Technical Support │
- └──────────────────────────────┘
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- => Q: YOU'RE NO HELP AT ALL! I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING!
- CAN'T YOU SEE I NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP, MAN?
-
- A: Don't panic. DDM Technical support is happy to help
- with any problems you have. Help is available 24 hours a day
- through our Automated Customer Service system, with representatives
- available during normal business hours. Here's how to contact us:
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- ┌────────────────────────────────┐
- │ DDM Technical Support │
- │ & Customer Service │
- │ +34-1-5192353 │
- └────────────────────────────────┘
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- Please try to have your system information available and be near your
- computer if at all possible.
-
- Other ways to get help:
-
- Digital Dreams Multimedia DDM BBS: +34-1-519-7575
- attn: Customer Service
- Vicente Muzas, 15
- 28043 Madrid (Spain) Internet: email to: ddm@servicom.es
-
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 3. Ordering Registered CHESSHOUSERS │
- └──────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Can't get enough Chesshousers? It's a common malady. It inflicts everyone
- sooner or later. The only cure is to order the full playing time version.
- Call +34-1-5192353 or see ORDERFRM.TXT in your game directory for details.
-
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- ┌──────────────────────────────┐
- │ 4. Distribution Information │
- └──────────────────────────────┘
-
- Shareware Chesshouser is freely distributable to anyone and everyone so
- long as it is distributed in UNMODIFIED FORM and no fees are charged.
-
- For more information on authorized distribution, contact DDM at the
- telephone:
- +34-1-5192353
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- DDM CHESSHOUSERS IS COPYRIGHT (C) 1995 DIGITAL DREAMS MULTIMEDIA S.L.
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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