"Fruit Salad", a Vintage Software production     (c) Vintage Software 1996-1997
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Congratulations ! You now have on you computer a nice action/puzzle game in its
full version. Enjoy it all you can, it's not a limited version: there are 50
levels to play in the regular game and an infinity with the random mode !
You also can freely distribute it. It should work on DOS and Windows 95, with
at least a 486.

But this game is not freeware, it is "what-you-want-ware"... That means that
if you really like it and play it a lot (and/or you're really cool people !),
you have to send us some funny and/or pleasant things: ex. some chocolate, an
unusual object, even a postcard if you're really out of ideas. If you do so and
enclose an envelope with international stamp and your adress or an Email we will
send you the level editor, that will let you design your own additional levels ! 

Here are our addresses:

Coder: Anthony Guye-Vuilleme
Place du Tunnel 8
1005 Lausanne
Switzerland

Artist: Andres Wanner
Bartenheimerstr. 19
4055 Basel
Switzerland

The game
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Running: type "fsalad" from the appropriate directory or d-click on the icon.

The goal of the game is to remove all the fruits from all levels. A level
is composed of fruits at the top of the screen, and others attached to them.
You must remove all of them in order to go to the next level. You control 
some kind of strange shooting device that lets you shoot additional fruits
on the others. Your fruits rebond on the left and right border, and that can
help you shoot them in a difficult area. The fruit you'll be shooting does
appear on your device, and the next one just on its right side. 

When at least three fruits of the same kind are in contact,
they explose (strange eh ?!) and disappear. At the same time, the fruits that were attached
to the ones that exploded fall. A level is finished when there are no
fruits left (except for the black ones, that cannot be destroyed). The fruits
that fall give you more points than the ones that explode, so do it as often
as you can - and it's good to finish the levels too. Depending on the level
and on how far you are, the "ceiling" will go down slowly or faster. When a
fruit enters the zone of your device you have lost.

There are some strange black and white fruits that are "magic" fruits. If you
shoot a fruit on it, all the fruits of that kind will explose. The effect 
will be the same if you shoot one of those "magic" fruits on a "normal" one.
At the start of a game, you have three "magic" fruits that you can shoot with
the "Alt" key. You'll soon understand that those ones are really precious, so
use them wisely !

Some numbers may appear on the fruits. If you make those fruits explode, you
receive extra points. Some '?' may appear too. In that case a special event
occurs. It can be good or bad... Watch the FX indicator and listen to the sound to
determine it. There are a bit more "good" events than "bad" ones, so it can be
a good idea to shoot those '?'. Ex: add points, remove points, add magic fruit,
go to next level, mix all the fruits (The Fruit Salad Event) etc.

Keys:

'Cursor Left' and 'cursor right' to choose your shooting angle.
'Space' to shoot a normal fruit.
'Alt' to shoot a magic fruit.
'Q' to quit the game.
'P' to pause the game.  

If you have any question or comment, feel free to contact us by E-mail:

Anthony: aguye@pop-server.unil.ch
Andrés: wanner@ubaclu.unibas.ch

Sorry for the bugs... (big sound bug, I know, I know ;-)

Thanks ! LLater !

Anthony Guye-Vuillème (25.3.1997)

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PS. If you can't hear any sound try running "ssetup.exe".