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- EXILE: ESCAPE FROM THE PIT
- A fantasy role-playing game from Spiderweb Software
-
- This text file contains a full description of Exile: Escape From the Pit
- and some troubleshooting information. If you have trouble installing or
- playing Exile: Escape From the Pit, look below.
-
- DESCRIPTION OF THE GAME:
-
- Exile: Escape From the Pit
- A Fantasy-Role Playing Game for Windows 3.1 and 95
-
- Spiderweb Software proudly presents Exile: Escape From
- the Pit, a new, full-length, fantasy role-playing shareware game for
- Windows. Exile features a huge, highly detailed world with
- many quests, scads of characters to interact with, and
- almost eighty towns and dungeons, scattered over an
- enormous world.
-
- Exile has several overall game quests, of varying
- difficulty, each the size of a full game. If one doesnÆt
- appeal to you, you can try another, or all of them! The
- game can be as linear and goal-driven as you want it to
- be. Exile also has a simple, elegant skill-based character
- system. No more character classes - you design characters
- who do exactly what you want them to do, with as much
- versatility as you want to put into them.
-
- In addition, Exile has all the features game players have
- come to expect, including intricate graphics and sound,
- full auto-mapping, many, many puzzles, and, of course,
- the obligatory hordes of evil nasties just waiting to be
- robbed and butchered. Finally, the first full half of the
- game is free, with full functionality!
-
- The story:
-
- "exile n. 1. Enforced removal from one's native country.
- 2. The state or circumstance of being in Exile."
-
- Above ground, there is only one nation: The Empire.
- That's all it's called. What need is there for fancy names
- when there's really only one game in town? The Empire
- maintains order at all costs. Misfits, magical creatures, and
- petty criminals of all sorts are unwanted, and the Empire has
- one tried and true way of disposing of them...
-
- They are sent through a one-way teleporter into the
- Underworld. And, alas, you have had the bad luck to be
- considered misfits.
-
- There are hundreds of miles of twisting tunnels and
- enormous caverns under the surface world, filled with
- creatures fantastic and mundane, all scrabbling for the same
- limited food and limited space. It is into this hostile,
- war-ravaged land that you are sent to find your fortune. Or
- just try to survive.
-
- Exile is $25 shareware. It requires Windows 3.1 or 95, 2 MB free RAM,
- 256 colors, and a 13" monitor. The author is a member of the
- Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). Exile is compatible
- with Windows 95.
- Spiderweb Software
- PO Box 85659
- Seattle, WA 98145-1659
- Internet: SpidWeb@aol.com
- www.spidweb.com
-
- TROUBLESHOOTING:
-
- The information below should solve many of your problems installing
- or running Exile: Escape From the Pit...
-
- Question: Exile: Escape From the Pit refuses to install!
- Answer: First, make sure you have ten megabytes of free space on the
- drive you're trying to install too (the game takes up 5, but the
- installer needs a little extra space). Then reboot, make sure no other
- programs are running, and try installing Exile again. If this
- doesn't work, contact SpidWeb@aol.com.
-
- Question: Exile crashes sometimes for no reason!
- Answer: Several steps to try, which will eliminate most problems.
- 1. Select Preferences from the Options menu. Select Fewer Sounds. If
- this doesn't help, turn off sounds. This will fix most problems.
- 2. Run Exile with no other programs running.
- 3. Make sure you have 2.5 megabytes of free RAM.
-
- Question: I get crashes when targeting a spell or missile, and nothing
- helps!
- Answer: Select No Targeting Line from the Options menu.
-
- Question: The Exile screen is really tiny!
- Answer: Go into Windows preferences, and select a monitor mode with a
- different resolution. 640x480 is recommended.
-
- Question: The Exile screen colors are all bizarre!
- Answer: You need to play Exile in 256 color mode. Run Exile, hit F1
- (for help), and read the section on how to get 256 colors on your screen.
-
- Question: When I run Exile, the colors of all my other running programs
- get strange!
- Answer: This is an unavoidable side effect of the way Windows handles
- color palettes. Exile requires control of all 256 available colors. If
- the color change makes the other program unusable, don't use it while
- playing Exile.
-
- Question: OK. I installed the game. It runs fine. It looks fine. But I
- keep starving, if the monsters don't kill me first, and I don't have any
- gold!
- Answer: Read the Hints For Getting Started section near the end of the
- manual (hit F1 to get the manual).
-