Snakes (C) 1991 Kevin L. Patch 75 Pine St. #2 Woburn, MA 01801 Phone: (617) 935-8534 Compuserve: 72611, 2301 Registration: HELP SUPPORT SHAREWARE! If you like the Snakes game, PLEASE register by sending your name and address, along with $15 to the address above. This does several things, it supports the shareware concept and proves that it works, it will allow me to continue to create and distribute shareware programs, it will get your name on my mailing list for notices of new versions and programs, AND THIS IS THE GOOD PART, you will receive a disk with SUPER SNAKES. (When you register, DON'T FORGET TO STATE 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" disks) SUPER SNAKES -- Run for your life! Instead of the simple single-level play of Snakes, Super Snakes has multiple 'Worlds'. Each layout brings new excitment as you advance from world to world. Super Snakes adds several new 'Power Items'. TIME WARP freezes play for just the right amount of time to get over to that block you were headed for without getting killed! And the WALL STONE allows you to roll through walls in the nick of time to save yourself from sure destruction! Also, Super Snakes has a 'Paint' mode which allows custom worlds to be created and played. These custom worlds can be saved to a file and loaded to be played at any time. SUPER SNAKES has these features and more.... If you don't care to receive SUPER SNAKES and support Shareware, please feel free to enjoy Snakes for a while and give it to a friend or upload it UNMODIFIED to your favorite BBS. Files in SNAKES.ZIP: SNAKES.DOC - This file SNAKES.EXE - Windows 3.0 executable file SNAKES.HLP - Windows 3.0 help file Put this in the same directory as SNAKES.EXE BWCC.DLL - Dynamic Link Library Put this in the same directory as SNAKES.EXE, or in your WINDOWS directory. Installing and Running Snakes: 1) Put SNAKES.EXE in a Program Manager group and select the SNAKES icon. This is accomplished by selecting NEW from the program manager FILE menu. Choose 'New Item' from the dialog box. A second dialog box will be displayed. Enter 'Snakes' at the first prompt, and Enter 'SNAKES.EXE' with the full path name at the second prompt. The Snakes icon should appear in the program manager window. Select this icon to launch Snakes. 2) Type 'SNAKES' with the full path at the prompt of the RUN menu option in program manager. 3) Launch SNAKES.EXE from the File Manager. To get on-line help for this program, make sure the help file 'SNAKES.HLP' is in the same directory as the SNAKES.EXE program file, and select an option from the HELP menu on the main window menu bar. If the program does not run correctly, make sure that the DLL file BWCC.DLL is in the SNAKES.EXE or WINDOWS directory. Playing Snakes -- This can also be viewed from the Help menu of Snakes. Playing: You are the yellow bulldozer in the middle of the screen. You move the bulldozer around the playing field by pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard. The mouse CANNOT be used to move the bulldozer. The mouse can only be used to Pause the game and to select from the menus. The gray walls are solid and cannot be moved or passed through. The blue blocks are moveable and are to be used to kill snakes. You can push one or more blue blocks at a time. The purple snakes move randomly about the screen. The snakes can be killed by pushing the blocks into them. There are 10 snakes at all times. When a snake is killed, another is created elsewere on the screen. Pushing a blue block into a snake will kill the segment that you hit, and all segments that were cut-off from the head. To kill the whole snake the blue block must be pushed into the head of the snake. Red Power Rocks will appear from time to time. If you run over one, your bulldozer becomes red for several seconds. During this time you cannot be killed by snakes. You can run directly into snakes and kill them. When the bulldozer turns a dark shade of red the Power-Rock time is about to run out. Scoring: The object of the game is to accumulate points. Each segment is worth 5 points, each head is worth 20. Objects: Yellow bulldozer - This is YOU! Purple snakes - These are evil snakes from hell and should be eliminated! Gray blocks and walls - These cannot be moved or passed through. Blue blocks - These can be pushed one(or more) at a time by the bulldozer. They are to be used to kill snakes. Red Power Rocks - These appear from time to time. Hit one and become immune to snakes for awhile. Kill snakes without the blue blocks. Menu Options: GAME MENU: NEW - clears screen and starts new game. High Scores - displays 10 most excellent players, with their scores and excellent quotes. About - displays program information. Exit - ends game. OPTIONS MENU: Power Rocks - toggles Power Rock generation on and off. Sound - toggles sound on and off. HELP MENU: Index - index of help topics. Playing - describes game play. Scoring - describes scoring. Object - shows what game objects look like and what they do. Menu Options - describes each menu option.