************************* ** COUPLES 1992 ** ** By G. Lund ** ************************* This game is shareware with a slight difference. Please see the section marked PERSONALISING THE GAME. If you decide you like the game and would like to personalise it then please follow the instructions in that section and return your drawings to me at the address shown together with five pounds and I will prepare a version incorporating your drawings. Also I will include another small game. Put simply the idea of this game is to match up drawings in the top part of the game screen with those shown in the bottom. The top part is marked with the letter 'A' and the bottom with the letter 'B'. The game can be played with either one or two players. PLAYING THE GAME - Setting up. ============================== The game is controlled by the mouse using either mouse key and the keyboard for entering names, numbers etc. After the game has loaded the first screen is cleared by pressing F1 when prompted. A new screen then opens asking if you want either to match 18 or 32 pictures. Simply enter the number one for 18 pictures and two for 32 pictures. A picture bank will then be loaded. Next a new screen opens with four buttons on it. Click on the ONE PLAYER button if you want a one player game. You will then be asked for a number between 18 and 199. This represents the number of attempts you are giving yourself to find and match all the pictures. You will then be asked to enter the name of player one. If a TWO PLAYER game is chosen then you will be asked to enter the names of the two players - so decide who is going first and enter that persons name as player one. Once this part is out of the way you are returned to the screen with the four buttons on. If you wish to use the pictures already in memory - and in both cases (18 and 32) this is a bank of pictures called pot-pourri - then simply click on the GO button. If however you want to change the pictures then click on the CHGES button and you will be presented with a list of available picture banks. Just enter the number of the bank you want and it will be loaded. Now click on the GO button and after a short while the game board will appear. PLAYING THE GAME - One player. ============================== In a one player game the number of attempts you have chosen will be displayed in the bottom right hand corner. Each time you pick one picture from the top and one from the bottom this number will decrease by one. If you get down to NIL then the game ends and you will be told to try again and returned to the first screen to start again. I have built a cheat mode into the one player game. After choosing a picture in the top bank you can click on the CHEAT button and a screen will open on which will be displayed the contents of the bottom bank. HOWEVER each time you use the cheat mode your number of attempts will be decreased by 10 SO USE THIS SPARINGLY. Should you find all the pictures in the number of attempts chosen then you will be told how many attempts you took. The game then returns to the first screen and you may start again. PLAYING THE GAME - Two players. =============================== In the two player game the CHEAT mode is disabled and the CHEAT icon is covered. A large arrow points to the player whose turn it is. Player One = P1 and Player Two = P2 and this moves each time a WRONG choice is made by either player when it is their turn. Each time a correct guess is made then the player making that choice gets a small mark in his or her score box situated at the bottom of the screen. Once all the pictures have been found then you are told who has won, how many attempts it took and how many pictures each player found in that number of attempts. MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. ==================== After each game and before the game screen opens new positions are chosen for the pictures in both banks so it is no use trying to remember where the pictures were even if the same pictures are used. For those of you using AMOS I have included the source code on this disk. This is release 2 of the game and a bug with the choice of random numbers for the pictures has been fixed. The game is better to play for this. I have also included a bit of an introductory screen to the game. PERSONALISING THE GAME. ======================= On the game disk there are two IFF picture files called BLANK.IFF and BIGBLANK.IFF. The first has 32 small blank squares on it and the second has 18 larger blank squares on it. Load up your favourite paint programme and open up a low resolution screen 320 by 256 by 32 colours and load up either of the above picture files. You can then create your own masterpieces BUT PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THEM BIGGER THAN THOSE SQUARES or I will not be able to incorporate them into a personalised game. Once completed save your pictures off to another disk and send me the disk together with the five pound fee and I will delete my poor pictures and place yours in their place. Please NO MORE THAN TWO NEW SETS of pictures as it is very time consuming altering the picture banks. As stated above I will include another game as well as personalising your copy. I will also credit you in the documentation with extra graphics. Please let me know if I can use the graphics you create in any future versions of the game. You'll understand this when you see the quality of my own graphics - I'm no artist !!! CREDITS. ======== This game was written in AMOS and compiled using the AMOS Compiler. All graphics and coding are by me. Graphics were created using Deluxe Paint 3 and the excellent AMOS programme SpriteX. Music is from the AMOS P.D. Library but I do not know the composer. It is from APD disk 158 and called "Sleep.abk." I find it relaxing - let me know what you think. Please send disks, fees and bug reports to:- Graham Lund (LUNDY) 10 Hawkcliffe View Silsden KEIGHLEY West Yorkshire BD20 OBS This game can be freely distributed provided it is not altered in any way and this documentation file remains with it. LUNDY 120592