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- SPELL GAMES
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- (C) Alan C. Elliott
- TexaSoft
- P.O. Box 1169
- Cedar Hill, Texas 75104
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- DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM
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- SPELL GAMES is a SHAREWARE program. This means that you
- may copy it and give it to friends, and that user groups
- and bulletin boards may distribute it (as long as no files
- have been altered). This gives you a chance to try the
- program without having to spend money up front for something
- that may not meet your needs. If SPELL GAMES is useful to
- you, please become a registered user by sending in the
- registration form. Thank you.
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- SPELL GAMES is a game to help you learn how to spell. The
- game displays a word on the screen for an instant, then
- you must spell the word by typing it on the keyboard.
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- The game pits your country against an opponent. Each time
- you spell a word correctly, your team wins a point. If
- you make a mistake, your opponent gains a point. A board
- containing nine flags must be filled for one team to win.
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- When you begin SPELL GAMES, you will choose your country
- (your team), and your opponent. Next, you will choose the
- level of difficulty of words to spell. Typically, your
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- 1) Very easy words
- 2) Easy words
- 3) Moderately difficult words
- 4) Difficult words
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- After you choose one of these options, you must then
- choose the speed at which the words will be flashed on the
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- SLOWEST, and 100 is the fastest. Try about 50 to begin
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- The program will warn you that the spelling word is about
- to flash on the screen. When you press the Enter key, a
- word will appear in the lower left corner of the screen.
- The word will flash off quickly, and you will hear a short
- beep. Now the program is ready for you to type the word.
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- If you make a mistake while entering the word, your
- opponent gets the point. The scoreboard on the screen
- will keep track of who is winning. Remember, it takes 9
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- HOW TO RUN SPELL GAMES
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- Running the program from a floppy disk:
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- Place the program disk in the A: disk drive. Make sure
- the DOS prompt is A>. If it is not, enter the command
- "A:" (no quotes). At the A> prompt, enter SPELL
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- A>SPELL
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- This will begin the program. Following directions on the
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- Running the program from a hard disk:
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- Copy all of the SPELL GAME files to a directory on the
- hard disk. Be sure the files SPELL.ACE, SPELL1.ACE,
- SPELL2.ACE, SPELL3.ACE, SPELL4.ACE, SPELL.ORD, FLAGS.ACE,
- and SPELL.EXE are copied to the hard disk. From the C>
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- C>SPELL
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- This will begin the program. Following directions on the
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- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SPELL GAMES
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- Spelling words for this game have been carefully selected.
- Please do not alter the files SPELL1.ACE to SPELL4.ACE.
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- If you wish to add spelling files, you may do so with the
- following technique:
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- The names of the files to be used in SPELL GAMES are
- contained in the file named SPELL.ACE. Its original
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- |spell1.ace, Very easy words |
- |spell2.ace, Easy words |
- |spell3.ace, Moderately difficult words |
- |spell4.ace, Difficult words |
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- Each of these four files contains lists of words. To add
- your own spelling file, for example, named MYFILE.ACE
- containing legal words, you would add a new line to the
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- myfile.ace, Legal Words
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- Then, you would place a file on disk named myfile.ace
- containing the words you want to be included in the SPELL
- GAMES program. The option "Legal Words" will be added to
- the SPELL GAMES menu options.
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- REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR SPELL GAMES
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- By becoming a registered user, you not only help promote
- Shareware, you will also receive a disk the latest copy of
- SPELL GAMES and other programs from TexaSoft.
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- Registration for SPELL GAMES ($19) $____________
- Includes disk of other programs.
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- Texas Residents add 7% sales tax $____________
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- Add $2.00 Postage and Handling or
- PO, COD, Rush: add $4, Overseas add $5.00 $____________
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- TOTAL ENCLOSED $
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- Payment method:check one
- _____ Check or M.O. _____ Credit Card (MC or VISA)
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- IF CREDIT CARD:
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- Name on Card:_____________________________________________
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- Type Card is __________________ Exp Date is:_____________
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- Card Number is:___________________________________________
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- Authorized Signature:_____________________________________
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- Mail order to:____________________________________________
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- Address:__________________________________________________
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- City:___________________ St_______ ZIP ___________________
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- Phone ( )______________________________________________
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- Where did you get SPELL GAMES?_____________________________
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- Please mail to:TexaSoft, Post Office Box 1169, Cedar Hill,
- Texas 75104. Thanks. Phone orders call 214-291-2115.
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