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- There are presently two games supplied free with Trellis; The Sacred Pyramid
- (!Pyramid) and The Purple Crystal of the Heavens (!Crystal)
-
- Both of these games started life on the Acorn Electron in the late eighties,
- and were originally supplied on a 5.25" disk for the BBC along with the BBC
- version of Escape from Exeria. The version of Escape from Exeria that was
- written for the 32 bit computers also had the BBC versions of these two
- games supplied with it, which could be run with !65Host.
-
- When the first version of Trellis was written for the 32 bit Acorn
- Computers, The Sacred Pyramid was used as a means of making sure it worked.
- Since then, with every change to the Trellis software that game has been
- rewritten accordingly. Now that a version of Trellis is available for
- release, the other game has also been brought to life on the new hardware.
-
- (For the benefit of those of you who have bought the 32 bit version of
- Escape from Exeria, and those who have the BBC version and have now moved
- over to the newer machines, both adventure games have been changed so that
- your old solutions no longer work. So there!)
-
- I recommend that you play these two games to death (or, at least, play them
- until you no longer want to) before referring to their files as examples of
- how to use Trellis. If you look first and play later, the games will be much
- easier to solve. They aren't that difficult anyway, so there should be no
- need to do this for the purposes of cheating!
-
- Your basic instructions for the games are as follows:-
-
- The Sacred Pyramid
- ------------------
-
- To load the game, double click on the !Pyramid icon. You will be presented
- with a simple title screen. Press the space bar to start playing the game.
-
- This is the simpler of the two games. You have somehow managed to get
- yourself locked inside a pyramid, and must find a way out.
-
- You play the game by entering simple one or two word commands, like NORTH,
- or TAKE DIAMOND. In some cases you might need to use more than two words,
- such as PUT DIAMOND ON PEDESTAL.
-
- You can't use abbreviations, and you can't enter more than one command at
- the same time.
-
- You can get a little help by typing HELP. If you want help about a
- particular thing, for example the diamond, use HELP DIAMOND. (The software
- will only give you help on that thing if you have it or can see it.)
-
- The Purple Crystal of the Heavens
- ---------------------------------
-
- To load the game, double click on the !Crystal icon. You will be presented
- with a simple title screen. Press the space bar to start playing the game.
-
- This is the larger of the two games. You are a new member of the crew on The
- Stormy Sea, a pirate ship. The captain has given you a task, in order that
- you can prove to be a worthy member of his crew - you have to find The
- Purple Crystal of the Heavens. You start the game having been put on the
- shore of an island.
-
- You play the game by entering simple one or two word commands, like NORTH,
- or EAT APPLE. In some cases you might need to use more than two words, such
- as THROW CUTLASS AT SERPENT.
-
- You can't use abbreviations, and you can't enter more than one command at
- the same time.
-
- You can get a little help by typing HELP. This will tell you where you are
- in the game, in terms of the location number, which will help you to map the
- game. Help has not been provided for individual objects.
-
- As Examples
- -----------
-
- The games, as provided, demonstrate everything covered in the instructions
- for Trellis, and more besides.
-
- The Sacred Pyramid, being smaller and less complicated, is the best game to
- use as an example. Being simpler, the TScript program runs quicker than the
- equivalent in the other game. For this reason there are more REM statements
- in !Pyramid than in !Crystal:-
-
- !Pyramid has a remark at the start of each group of lines that make up a
- routine in the script file, whereas !Crystal only has a remark that
- separates the different sections of the script. Therefore, the script for
- !Pyramid is far easier to understand than the one from !Crystal.
-
- A map has been provided for !Pyramid in the form of a Draw file. This is
- located in the directory 'Extras'. The text on the map uses the Trinity
- font, which you should find in your !Fonts directory (the Trinity font
- should have been supplied with your computer.)
-
- Finally
- -------
-
- I hope you enjoy playing these games, and that you are able to use Trellis
- productively.
-
- Good Luck.
-
-