000000000000000000000 BEGINNING OF MM1GUIDE.TXT 00000000000000000000000 MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure Version 1.4 Story, graphics, and programming by Carol L. Standley Copyright (c) 1991, Carol L. Standley All Rights Reserved 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 WARNING! Read ALL documentation before trying to play this game. ======== === The frustration you prevent may be your own. 000000000000000000000000000 TABLE OF CONTENTS 00000000000000000000000000 1) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 2) SPECIFICATIONS 3) STARTING THE GAME 4) HOW TO PLAY THE GAME 5) NOTES TO THE PLAYER 6) ABOUT SHAREWARE AND REGISTRATION 7) REGISTERED SOFTWARE LICENSE 8) SHAREWARE LICENSE 9) WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMERS 10) CAUTIONS TO THE SHAREWARE BUYER 11) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1111111111111111111111111 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1111111111111111111111111 IBM, true IBM and MS-DOS compatibles 8 mhz. or faster EGA or VGA (16-color) 2.5 megabytes of hard disk space 384k RAM keyboard or joystick (optional) 2222222222222222222222222222 SPECIFICATIONS 222222222222222222222222222 MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure is a shareware, 3-D, EGA, interactive, adventure game you'll enjoy playing for many hours. Become Anton, a likeable young hero trying to change his image as a bumbler. You'll explore a kingdom with many characters to meet and deeds to perform. As Anton, you will encounter some danger on your quest. Rise to the challenge of discovery in 70 different locations in beautiful EGA color. Become a hero, savior, magician, and all around good guy. The files distributed with this game are: MM1.EXE--The MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure program MM1READ.TXT--How to install the game on your hard disk MM1GUIDE.TXT--How to play the game and other information MM1PIC.DAT--Data file MM1NOUNS.DAT--Data file MM1VERBS.DAT--Data file MM1RSPTS.DAT--Data file MM1STATS.DAT--Data file MM1SD.DAT--Data file MM1VOL1.MM1--Graphics MM1VOL2.MM1--Graphics MM1VOL3.MM1--Graphics MM1VOL4.MM1--Graphics MM1VOL5.MM1--Graphics MM1VOL6.MM1--Graphics VALIDATE.DOC--Explanation of VALIDATE.COM VALIDATE.COM--A Computer Virus Industry Association program used to check for any kind of file corruption Revision history: Version 1.0--Beta version Version 1.4--Baseline version, first publication, April 29, 1992 333333333333333333333333333 STARTING THE GAME 3333333333333333333333333 VALIDATE.COM is a program distributed with MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure to check the game program for file corruption. To make this check, before starting the game type VALIDATE MM1.EXE after the prompt > then hit enter. The VALIDATE.COM program will return some values you may want to write down. These values should be equal to the values you will see displayed at the end of the setup routine. If these values are not equal, then you should check the program for viruses. See section 10) CAUTIONS TO THE SHAREWARE BUYER for more information on file corruption. MM1.EXE has a setup routine which should check your hardware and allow you the option to choose the keyboard or a joystick to move the main character in the game. Just type MM1 after the prompt > in the directory containing all the game files and follow the instruction to run the setup routine. After running the setup routine once after installation, you can bypass the setup routine by pressing the enter key right after typing MM1 to start the game. 4444444444444444444444444 HOW TO PLAY THE GAME 4444444444444444444444444 a) Setting the scene: This is the first great tale of the MythMaster, a nickname given to an adventuresome young man seeking fame and fortune as a troubleshooting vagabond from the kingdom of Ethra. Anton Schlepp came from humble beginnings. His parents were farmers who worked hard their whole lives to have a comfortable home and enough to eat. When growing up, Anton had heard amazing tales of power and magic that could reach beyond his own world into the cosmos. But, from an early age, Anton showed a strong inclination for being a world class klutz. At the age of eighteen, his parents finally had to turn him out of the house when he accidentally burned down the barn. Anton was thunderstruck. He set out with only a knapsack and as many provisions as he could carry, but he was determined to change his luck. He was a hopeful dreamer, bumbling through life as he always had until upon entering the kingdom of Cafray, he happened upon a man in a very great hurry with a remarkable story... Go on an adventure... This game lets you become the stories central character and control everything he does to discover the object of his quest and to fulfill his destiny. b) Start by typing MM1 and following the setup instructions to check hardware and choose a joystick if you wish. If you do not have a joystick, choose the keyboard. (The keyboard is the default control device.) c) The joystick can move Anton wherever you wish: left, right, up, down, diagonally, and to a stop at center. If your joystick does not respond to your satisfaction, you may want to use the keyboard keypad instead. (Start the game over, choosing the keyboard rather than the joystick in the setup routine. Changing from the keyboard to the joystick and back again will not affect the games you have saved.) If Anton won't move, hit enter a couple times. d) When using the keyboard keypad, you may use home, arrow up, pgup, arrow right, pgdn, arrow down, end, and arrow left. To stop his motion at any point just hit again the last direction key used (i.e. if he is moving diagonally down-left, then hitting the end key will stop his movement). If Anton won't move, hit enter a couple times or a direction key. e) A ? is the prompt for you to enter commands. Type in commands, i.e, LOOK, LOOK AROUND, TALK, GET THE HAMMER, and then hit enter. The first thing to do when entering a room is to LOOK or LOOK AROUND. You should LOOK AT everything you can in the room and GET objects at every opportunity. Hit return to clear the response to your command and get the prompt back or enter your next command. f) This game understands the following verbs: break enter hug pick up catch examine jump pull chop exit kill push climb fill kiss read close follow knock sleep crawl get leave speak dive give lock take drink go look talk drop help move unlock eat hit open use wade g) It is very helpful to make a map of the territory you cover. This makes getting around much quicker. h) The function keys: F1 = HELP SCREEN (This function gives you a quick display of function keys during regular game play.) F2 = REPEAT LAST COMMAND (This function allows you to repeat the last command you typed on the keyboard.) F3 = SAVE GAME (This function key allows you to save all the parameters associated with the progress you have made in your game play. You will want to use this feature when you're about to try something dangerous or before quitting play to take a break. It is possible to save a total of 12 games.) F4 = RESTORE GAME (You may use this function key to restore a saved game when you restart your game, during game play when you've come to an untimely death or whenever you wish to return to a particular point in the game where you want to start over.) F5 OR TAB = INVENTORY (Either of these two keys gives you a list of the objects you are presently carrying.) F6 = PAUSE (This function key will stop all game action until you press any other key.) F7 = SPEED ADJUSTMENT (Particularly effective with faster machines, this function key allows the adventurer a choice of three speeds of travel.) F8 = RESTART GAME (This function key will reset the game parameters so that you can start over. It does not change any of the games you may have already saved. After restarting the game, you could still restore any one of your saved games.) F9 = SOUND (The sound in this game is limited to a beep which tells you that you may hit enter to get the input prompt following a reply to one of your commands. Always read carefully the replies, to get some clues about your quest. If there is a WAIT! located at the end of a response, do not hit the return.) F10 = QUIT (Leave the game and return to DOS. Remember to save your game if necessary.) i) This game has a possible 206 points but not all are necessary to win the game. The big challenge is to get all of the possible points, so, good luck! 5555555555555555555555555 NOTES TO THE PLAYER 5555555555555555555555555 Every attempt has been made to eliminate possible problems. If, by chance, you should discover a bug and the program does something obviously unintended, then reboot DOS or turn off your machine. When you restart the game, you probably will not encounter the same difficulty unless you create the same conditions leading to the same error. This game should not be run from inside any other program, i.e. WINDOWS. Comments to the author are appreciated. Please send these directly to the author via mail to Carol L. Standley, Techni-Graphics, 39038 Trillium Ln., Corvallis, Oregon 97330, USA. 666666666666666666 ABOUT SHAREWARE AND REGISTRATION 6666666666666666666 If you have paid a shareware distributor the nominal fee requested for sending you a copy of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure, you should know that none of that fee is paid to the author. Please register this shareware. By doing so, you will support the author's efforts to bring to the public more inexpensive, challenging and fun adventure game software. For registering this game you will receive: A free hint book A certificate of registration A registered version of the latest update of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure A notice of the release of the sequel to MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure Telephone support (please don't call for hints) For just $5.00 more with your registration you will receive: A shareware version of Anton's next great adventure when it becomes available and before it is available to shareware distributors. This offer allows you to get the shareware version of the sequel to MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure straight from the author at a very low price. If you want to register MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure, please use the registration form supplied below by copying it to your printer. All registrations from outside the United States of America must add $3.00 for the extra postage and handling. ........................................................................... Your name__________________________________________________________________ Street_____________________________________________________________________ City, State___________________________________________________Zip__________ Country_____________________________________________Telephone______________ xxxxxx Please check which diskette format(s) work on your computer system: [ ] 5.25" DS/DD (360 K) [ ] 3.5" DS/DD (720 K) [ ] 5.25" DS/HD (1.2 MB) [ ] 3.5" DS/HD (1.44 MB) [ ] Registration, hint book, the latest registered version, and shipping and handling for MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure in the U.S.A....$25.00 U.S. Dollars [ ] Shareware version of the sequel game...............$ 5.00 U.S. Dollars [ ] Extra postage for orders outside the U.S.A.........$ 3.00 U.S. Dollars ------------------ Total = U.S.A. Customers: U.S. Dollars United Kingdom Customers: U.K. customers please send cheques in Pounds Sterling at the present exchange rate. Other Foreign Countries (including Canada): Checks in U.S. Dollars drawn on a U.S. bank. Certified bank draft in U.S. dollars. U.S. dollars cash (please send by certified mail). Traveller's checks in U.S. dollars (please send by certified mail). NO EUROCHEQUES, PLEASE (they cost more than their value to exchange). To best serve our customers and to keep the price of this shareware as low as possible please answer the following questions about your shareware copy of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure. Where did you got your shareware copy of MythMaster (Name or Company)?_____ ___________________________________________________________________________ Street_____________________________________________________________________ City, State___________________________________________________Zip__________ Country_____________________________________________Telephone______________ How much did you pay for your shareware copy of the game?__________________ Mail your registration form and appropriate fee to: Carol L. Standley Techni-Graphics 39038 Trillium Ln. Corvallis, OR 97330 USA ........................................................................... 777777777777777777777 REGISTERED SOFTWARE LICENSE 777777777777777777777 Registered versions of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure are distributed as COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE and SHOULD NOT BE DISTRIBUTED to individuals or companies in any form, nor transmitted electronically to bulletin boards or any other kind of distributor in any form. Also, registered versions may not be copied except by the holder of the registration to make one backup copy. This license allows for the use of the registered version of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure on one machine only. If you are interested in site licensing for a company, please contact the author. MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure is the property of Carol L. Standley, Techni-Graphics who retains all copyright rights to MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure. MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure is licensed to you only for your own use. You are not obtaining title to the software or any copyright rights. You may not sublicense, rent, lease, sell, convey, modify, translate, convert to another programming language, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the software for any purpose. 8888888888888888888888888 SHAREWARE LICENSE 888888888888888888888888888 The concept of shareware is to provide a fully functioning copy to the user for evaluation. MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure is the property of Carol L. Standley, Techni-Graphics, who retains all copyright rights for the author of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure. You are granted a limited license to "try-before-you-buy" this software. If you find MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure entertaining enough to want to play the game to it's completion, then please register your copy. If you choose not to register this shareware, then pass a copy to some friend and erase your own copy. This license also allows you to make as many copies of the shareware version of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure as you wish in it's unaltered and original form to give to others on the same shareware evaluation basis. But you are specifically denied permission by the author to sell or ask any payment for MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure. A distributor of shareware may ask for a nominal fee (NOT TO EXCEED FIVE DOLLARS PER DISKETTE OR FIFTEEN DOLLARS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME) to cover the costs of copying and distribution of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure. The distributor must correctly label the shareware diskettes with the title, copyright notice, trademark notice and shareware notice on the diskette labels. All of the files must be distributed together and none of the files may be modified in any way (but the distributor may add a file to disk 1 which identifies their company and contains installation information.) The author, Carol L. Standley, Techni-Graphics, retains all copyright rights and may request upon written notification that any shareware distributor cease distribution of MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure if the author feels that the distributor is violating the above limited license. OEM's or publishers who wish to bundle MythMaster: A Vagabond's Adventure must obtain written permission from the author, Carol L. Standley, Techni-Graphics, 39038 Trillium Ln., Corvallis, Oregon 97330, USA. Companies wishing to get a site license should write to the author for a rate schedule. 999999999999999999999 WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMERS 9999999999999999999999 THIS SOFTWARE AND IT'S DOCUMENTATION ARE LICENSED "AS IS." CAROL L. STANDLEY, TECHNI-GRAPHICS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE, AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED. CAROL L. STANDLEY, TECHNI-GRAPHICS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE. CAROL L. STANDLEY'S, TECHNI-GRAPHICS' LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE REGISTRATION FEE PAID FOR THE LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE. SINCE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF THE LIMIT OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF OREGON, U.S.A., AND SHALL INURE TO THE BENEFIT OF CAROL L. STANDLEY, TECHNI-GRAPHICS AND ANY SUCCESSORS, ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS, AND ASSIGNS. ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT BY EITHER PARTY AGAINST THE OTHER ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT ONLY IN THE STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION LOCATED NEAREST TO OR IN BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, U.S.A. THE PARTIES HEREBY CONSENT TO IN PERSONAM JURISDICTION OF SAID COURTS. 10-10-10-10-10-10-10 CAUTIONS TO THE SHAREWARE BUYER 10-10-10-10-10-10-10 IMPORTANT COMMENT TO THE USER: Because of the possibility of corruption of this software or it's documentation by virus infection or from the accidental corruption during downloads from bulletin boards, this author recommends that purchasers of shareware always try to get their shareware products from reputable shareware vendors. Some measures to alert the customer of accidental corruption and viral infection have been included in the programming of this game, but no guarantee of 100% protection can be made by the author. Read VALIDATE.DOC and then use VALIDATE.COM to check against the values given to you at the end of the setup routine. If the values match, the program should be free of file corruption. 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 Many thanks to David R. Standley (my husband) for his support and encouragement in the writing of this game. Thanks again to the beta testers who helped me to debug this game. Portions (c) Copyright Genus Microprogramming, Inc. 1988-1990. Validate 0.3 Copyright 1988-1989 by McAfee Associates. LHA SFX 2.13S (c) Yoshi, 1991. 0000000000000000000000000 END OF MM1GUIDE.TXT 0000000000000000000000000