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                               SoS Software

                                 presents...
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                           Sos Hangman v. 2.00
                             (the accessory)

                           by John R. Duckworth
                              May  12 ,1993
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  SoS Hangman 2.00 is offered to the Atari community as FREEWARE. It
  may not be distributed without the following files:
          HANGMAN.ACC
          HANGMAN.TXT
          HANGMAN.DAT
          HANGMONO.RSC
          HANGCOLR.RSC

~~~~DISCLAIMER: Use SoS Hangman at your own risk. Although SoS Hangman
    v.2.00 has been thoroughly tested on several machines, we cannot
    be held responsible for any accidental damages in equipment, data,
    etc. while using it.
~~~~

How to use:

   Place HANGMAN.ACC,HANGMONO.RSC,HANDCOLR.RSC and HANGMAN.DAT in 
   the directory you normally load accessories from. If you only use
   the color resolutions, you will only need the HANGCOLR.RSC file,
   and if you only use monochrome, only HANGMONO.RSC will be used. The
   accessory determines which type of screen it was loaded in, and
   chooses the appropriate resource file. SoS Hangman 2.00 works best
   with a hard drive, but will run from a floppy if booted in medium
   or high resolution. Users running SoS hangman 2.00 from a floppy
   will notice a slight delay when the accessory loads in new puzzles.

   SoS Hangman 2.00 also works well with the Chameleon accessory which
   will allow you to load and unload the game at will.

How to play:

   If you have ever played hangman then you already know how to play.
   Simply guess letters until you have filled in the complete word
   or phrase located in the box near the top of the accessory window.
   The game will only accept guesses if the accessory is the top 
   (active) window. Letters guessed will appear in a box near 
   the bottom of the window, and a hint about what the word or
   phrase is will be found in a box above the SoS Software logo. 
   There are now a few different categories of puzzles including...
   cinema (most likely a movie title), personalities (usually a 
   movie star, but can be any well known person),television 
   (most likely the name of a TV show), arcade (the name of an old
   favorite from the game room),toons (cartoon characters), 
   music (most likely the name of a group or music performer),
   and literature (should have paid more attention to those
   reading assignments in English 101).

   You can only guess seven wrong letters before you will be "hung". You
   are  not  penalized  for guessing a letter which you have guessed previously,
   the game will simply issue a warning. Also, the game now will only
   accept "legal keypresses", the lowercase letters.

   To  close  the  window,  click  in the small (closer) box located in the top
   left  corner.  Clicking on the top right box (usually the fuller) will
   restart the game with a new puzzle.

   The game randomly chooses puzzles from it's .DAT file, so it is possible
   to  get  repeats.  Also, the puzzles in the .DAT file are encrypted (although
   any  fool  can figure out the code) so that a user cannot accidently
   read the file. SoS Hangman 2.00 contains almost 400 puzzles, so
   repeats will not occur as much as they did in the first version.

   Clicking on the box labeled "info..." will bring up a small window
   with copyright notice and E-mail addresses of where I can be
   reached. You MUST click on the closer button of the info window to
   continue playing SoS Hangman.

Bugs:
    
   So far I have not run across any bugs in version 2.00. If you
   run across any program bugs, or would have suggestions on 
   how to make this fun little accessory better please e-mail me!

Thanks:

   A great big thank you goes out to the following...
       The GEnie programming/technical answer crew:
             Dave (thanks for example code),
             CBARRON  (I  would  have  never figured out the heap alone),
             and Dr. Bob (always helpful).
       Jon  "the  ninja"  Roy  (for being a cool cyber-bud!).
       Keckles (stop playing games).
       Gordie (for keeping Delphi a great place to be).
       Clay (for the great ST books you have given us).
       Fred Percival (for the DAT file placement suggestion).
       Fred Koch (for the nice note and keypress suggestion).
       and  Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Info. Society, and
       WhiteHeart (for the great tunes).

Send me a note:

       You  may  E-mail  me  with hints, suggestions, complaints
       etc. at the following addresses:

                  GEnie: J.DUCKWORTH2
                  Delphi: JDUCKWORTH
                  CompuServe: 73520,3631
                  Internet: JDUCKWORTH@DELPHI.COM

 Watch  for  more  great  Atari STuff from SoS Software in the near future !