P I P E S PIPES Copyright 1993 Roy Person Sr. Written by: Roy Person Sr. 336 Elmwood Lane Hayward, Calif. 94541 USER LICENSE ************ This software and the disk on which it is contained is licensed to you, for your own use. This is copyrighted software. You are not obtaining title to the software or any copyright rights. You may not sublicense, rent, lease convey, modify, translate, convert to another programming language, decompile, or disassemble the software for any purpose. You may make as many copies of this software as you need for back-up purposes. You may use this software on more than one computer, provided there is no chance it will be used simultaneously on more than one computer. If you need to use the software on more than one computer simultaneously, please contact me for information about site licenses. WARRANTY ******** I DISCLAIM 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 PURPOSE, AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED. NEITHER MYSELF NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE EVEN IF I HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS. IN NO EVENT SHALL I BE LIABLY FOR ANY DAMAGES EVER TO EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF CLAIM. THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE. Some states do not allow the exclusion of the limit of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California and shall insure to the benefit of myself and any successors, administrators, heirs and assigns. Any action or proceeding brought by either party against the other arising out of or related to this agreement shall be brought only in a STATE or FEDERAL COURT of competent jurisdiction located in Alameda County, California. The parties hereby consent to in personam jurisdiction of said courts. SHAREWARE ********* This Program is Shareware, which means the Author of this program is allowing you to try before you buy. If you find that after 30 days of using this program you like it and want to continue using it, then please register it. If after the 30 day evaluation ,you find that you don't like the program, then you must discontinue using it. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PIPES ************************ Pipes is my first attempt at writing an arcade type game. If you like the game please send a registration fee of $10.00 to the address shown on the registration form. To print out the form just type reg.bat at the Dos prompt. Anyone who registers will receive a Personalized Copy with NEW Levels and a copy of my next game FREE. REQUIRMENTS TO RUN PIPES ************************ PIPES will run on any 286,386,or 486 Computer with a VGA Monitor and Card at 320 by 200 by 256 colors. You will also need a 102 key keyboard, and a mouse is supported but is not required. PIPES will run on most Super VGA boards like the TSENG, TRIDENT, ATI, and PARADISE. Normally PIPES will automatically determine the type of board that you have, but if the Video breaks up and doesn't scroll properly, then you will have to tell the game which card you have by typing PIPES followed by the chip set name. EXAMPLE : PIPES TRIDENT8900 (Return) The following chip set names are valid : 1. TSENG3000 2. TSENG4000 3. ATI 4. TRIDENT8800 5. TRIDENT8900 6. PARADISE 7. STANDARD NOTE : PIPES will run on Machines that are slower than 16 Mhz, but the Game Play is slowed down to a crawl. The faster the Machine the better. The game was tested on a 286-16,386DX-20,386DX-25, 486SX-30,Compaq Deskpro 386DX-20,IBM PS/2 models 40,50Z,80, and a Tandy 2000. INSTALLING PIPES **************** Installing PIPES is very straight forward, just put the distribution disk into your floppy drive, change to that drive and type INSTALL. The Install program will do the rest, including letting you install from any drive A or B to any drive C,D,E etc. PLAYING PIPES ************* Once you have installed pipes onto your hard disk drive using the INSTALL program, just change to the directory that you installed pipes into a type PIPES. The Startup screen will come up and then the instruction screen will popup on top of Robbie the Robot. F1 will display the General Help Screen. F2 displays your Status ie. health, time, gold, etc. F3 turns the music on or off. F4 turns the sound on and off. F5 saves the current game to disk. F6 restores a saved game from disk. F7 not used in this game. F8 turns on and off the joystick, it is off normally. F9 calibrates your joystick (use before F8). NOTE: The F3 Music function, only works with a sound card installed into your computer, such as the Sound Blaster (TM) and has no effect on machines that do not have a sound card installed in them. PLAYING A GAME CONT. ******************** Once you push start game from the popup menu, you will be started at level 1 with 50 Bombs, 200 Phaser rounds, and your health level will be at 150. From there you will receive 1 point for every block of spilt water you clean up (you will notice the floor change shape.) This will also help you to determine where you have and have not been yet. Food will award you health points. Gold will also be found in the maze and will award you points also. To check your gold, health, time, etc. use the F2 key as described above. Help is always available by pressing the F1 key. Once the Game is in progress you can Quit at any time by pressing the ESC key, which will take you back to the Main Menu. Once you reach the Gold Room, which will be filled with a large amount of gold Bars you will find a gray square door on the bottom right, this is your entrance into Level 2. You then must fight your way thru this level to the secret room of the Water Monster. Find the Water Monster and Kill him and you win the Game. I won't go into a lot of detail as part of the fun of playing the Game is finding the little secrets out yourself. HINT: The bombs can be used to stop the leaks and will open up a way into other parts of the maze. Some items can be picked up and will be added to your inventory, which you can check by pressing the 'd' key for drop. If you run over an item and it doesn't disappear then push 'p' for pickup item while you are on top of it. The 'd' drop and 'p' pickup keys will display your inventory and allow you to drop an item by highlighting it and pushing return or you can press the ESC key to return to the Game. If you pickup bombs then they will be added to the amount of bombs you already have and can be used later. To use a bomb press the 'b' key or joystick button 2, the bomb will move in the direction you were moving before you pressed 'b' or stopped your man. PLAYING A GAME CONT. ******************** The Game starts you off with 200 Phaser shots, so use them carefully, don't shoot needlessly, and somewhere in the two mazes there are extra Phasers. If you get hit by certain beams and monsters, you will be stunned for a short time and will loose hit points, which you can replenish by eating. When your hit points reaches the 0 level, you will loose a man and start from the beginning unless you saved the game first with the F5 key. In this case when you loose a man and the game puts you at the beginning you can press the F6 key to restore where you left off, but you will still be one man shorter. You will start the game with 20 men and the game will start over if you loose all twenty. CREDITS: Sound Blaster is a (TM) of Creative Labs Inc. City at Night ........GIF from Compuserve (TM) Some parts of this game were written and used in this game with permission from: Recreational Software Designs (TM) Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031 IF YOU LIKED THIS GAME AND WOULD LIKE THE REGISTERED VERSION , WHICH HAS MORE LEVELS, MORE MONSTERS, AND MORE SURPRISES THEN PRINT OUT THE REG.BAT FILE AND SEND THE AMOUNT ASKED FOR. YOU WILL RECEIVE MY NEXT GAME FREE AND YOUR NEW COPY WILL BE PERSONALIZED WITH YOUR NAME.