QUEST2.TXT Unregisteres Version 22.11.92 -------------------------------------------------------------- ==================================== QUEST II Unregistered Version ------------------------------------ VGA V1.01 ------------------------------------ design & coding by A.Dax / Rincewood ==================================== -------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE READ THE QUEST2.TXT FOR DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS VENDORS & SYSOPS: PLEASE READ VENDOR.TXT -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- SHAREWARE INFORMATION QUEST II is a shareware program and is provided at no charge to you for evaluation. But, if you try QUEST II and continue to use it, you are expected to register. Fell free to share QUEST II with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. -------------------------------------------------------------- Short Description: ------------------ QUEST II is an Action-Arcade-Puzzle for PCs with a VGA- Graphics-Card. You have to reach the Exit of each level to finish the game and to free the kingdom of Lord Seventeeth from the evil monsters. To stay alive, you will have to survive lots of traps and monsters. The Levels: ----------- Each Level of QUEST II consists of 3x3 Screens. If the hero leaves one screen, the graphics flips to the next one. To finish a level, you must reach it's exit. This sounds easy, but believe me, it is NOT ! Playing the Game: ----------------- You control the hero with your keyboard Commands: --------- Cursor-Keys .... Change Direction Space .......... Use Object M .............. Show Level-Map S .............. Save Current Game L .............. Load Saved Game ESC ............ Retry Current Level Quick Start: ------------ QUEST II has a little built-in playground. Select the GOTO PLAYGROUND line in the main-menu and you enter a training level, where you can test the effect of all items. Speed of the Game: ------------------ Game speed is adapted to a 12-MHz-AT-286. To adapt the speed to other machines, use the + and - key on your keyboard. Using the - key is always useful in risky situations ! Saving and Loading: ------------------- Loading and Saving a game is always possible while playing. To save the current game, just press S. A little save-menu opens and you can enter a number from 0-9 and a short text. pressingh return saves the game. To load a saved game, just press L while playing and enter the number of the desired game. Collecting and Using Items: --------------------------- You can collect an item by just walking about it. Some items can not be collected but just used at their home-place (e.g. a lever ). To use such items, touch them with your player (don't do that with pitfalls ! *smile* ). To use a item, you must put the hero in front of the target of the item-usage and press the space-key. After that a small blue box appears in the item-inventory. Use the cursor-keys to select the desired item with the blue rectangle. Then press Space again. Now the selected item will be used onto the object in front of your hero. E.g. to open a door, place your hero in front of the door, select the key right-colored key from the inventory and use it with space. The door will open ! The Hero: --------- The Hero can be controlled withe the cursor-keys. He has infinite lives, but after every death you must start at the beginning of the current level. DON'T FORGET TO SAVE !! Your Friends: ------------- YOu can meet a friend in each level. You can talk with him by touching him with your hero. He will ask you to bring him a certain item, which he is in need of. After you have found the item in the current level, go back to the friend and give it to him by using it onto his square. The friend will disappear and will leave behind some useful item as a reward for you. E.g. at the start of the game, you can see a friend in the prison-cell. When you talk to him, he will ask you to bring him the book lying around in the upper right corner of the cell. Bring it to him and as a reward he will give a bomb to you. Use this bomb onto a wall-block to blast your way out. The Monsters: ------------- Most of them are really stupid. They always stay on their running-path. Don't touch them, they are lethal. To destroy a monster, just put a monster onto it's running-path. BANG ! The Items: ---------- Gold: Collecting through walking about. Not necessary to solve the game but good for getting a leading position in the Hall of Fame. Bomb: Use a bomb to blast a wall or the destroy a monster. To blast a wall just put your hero in front of the wall and use a bomb from the inventory. To kill a monster, just put a bomb onto his path. When the monster touches the bomb, BANG ! Keys and Doors: Golden and silver doors can be opened ONLY by the right-colored key. Runes and Shrines: Use a rune (X-shaped thing, blue or red) with a shrine to make something strange happen on the current screen. Many times a wall block disappears and creates a new path. Levers and Pitfalls: Touch a lever to close a pitfall. Pitfall = Grey, rectangular, with a red center. Don't touch pitfalls, they are lethal. Blue Blocks: You can push blue blocks over the screen. They can be used to change the path of monsters or TO FILL PITFALLS. Just push a block into a pitfall and it will turn into normal ground. Other Items (Book, Dagger etc.): These items are not really useful for you, but you can exchange them against other items if you meet a friend. Exit: Shining blue, it is the finish of each level. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Registration: ----------------- IF you or your children try QUEST II and decide to use it for a longer time, you are expected to register the program with the author. Please remember, the more people that register QUEST II, the more time and effort the author will spend in developing future programs. If you like QUEST II, decide to use it and want to play the full-version with 56 screens, you must send a registration payment of $ 10 (US-Dollar) or the same amount in another currency to: DAX Software Games Division Wieneroed 3 A-4890 FRANKENMARKT AUSTRIA ======= PLEASE USE THE FILE REGIST.TXT FOR REGISTERING !!!!! For your registration you will get the registered version of QUEST II containing 56 action-packed screens full of traps and treasures. If you have new ideas or comments for QUEST II, please write to the above address or e-mail me. My Internet-Address is: ADAX@COSY.SBG.AC.AT IRC-Nickname: Rincewood ATTENTION, PLEASE ! If you want to bring a little smile onto the author's face, please write a postcard of your hometown to the following address. HOLZINGER Andrea Kirchham 55 A-4891 POENDORF AUSTRIA ======= This is the address of my girlfriend, who is very happy about every postcard she gets ! -------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: QUEST II IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IS WITH YOU. DAX SOFTWARE ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF QUEST II.