Think #10 31 мая 1998

Игры

Overview of new products - Life Game, Margo Puzzle, Scrabble

              REVIEW novelties



                LIFE GAME


GROUP: ID
Genre: Arcade


  With pomoschyu etoy programmy mozhno nablyudat
razvitie svoeobraznoy 'kompyuternoy life'
Ha ekrane Vami sozdaetsya nekotoraya pervichnaya koloniya 
suschestv, raspolagayuschihsya nA pole of kletochek-plyusikov.



  Suschestva mogut, HOW razmnozhatsya, and tak
umirat, podchinyayas for verily two zakonam.


  Pervy zakon: When vokrug pustoy kletki
Apartment belongs rovno three osobi (schitaya Po gorizontali, 
vertikali and diagonalyam), verily a etoy kletke zarozhdaetsya 
life, ie poyavlyaetsya novaya osob.



  Vtoroy zakon: osob perehodit in sleduyuschee pokolenie, kogda 
in blizhayshih kletkah vokrug nee Apartment belongs 2 or 3 
drugie osobi. In protivnom case ona umiraet: When ryadom

Apartment belongs tolko a organizm, verily etogo nedostatochno 
for vosproizvodstva, a 4,5 and bolee sozdayut perenaselenie.


CS +1 - vyzov instructions

TEAMS:

L - zagruzka kolonii with diska
S - sohranenie kolonii nA disk
Q - perezapusk programmy
E - redaktirovanie kolonii
C - vyzvat katalog diska
I - of climate pravil programmy



              MARGO PUZZLE


GROUP: FATALITY
Genre: Puzzle


     This world has nothing to Save!


     So, once again you are invited to
to solve the devilish mystery and save
the world from imminent destruction ...


              NOVELLA

- King's troops smashed to smithereens!
- Happily hissed old witch Gelya,
damn no time for abusing a black magic spell snake.
 - Does this mean that the crystal with you? -
asked Irgul.
 - No, my lord, - Gelya wriggled his whole body.
 - What's the matter?
 - Daughter of the King! She disappeared from the castle, 
together with the crystal.  - I'm tired of waiting - Irgul, if 
by chance, let the finger ball lightning which exploded, spread 
across the wall one of the satellites Geli.

 - We do not fault! - Gelya issued a quiet
whistle, which issued its funk. - It was not
just a royal daughter. After spending a lot of
time in the woods in the troop of Amazons, she became almost 
neulovimoy.Ya abandoned in pursuit of the whole his retinue, 
but returned only two and one of them, my lord, you just killed!

 - Do not fear - cold smile Irgul, then there is the second. We 
ask him.  - I'm afraid this is impossible because he was

wounded and died before I had time with him
talk.



 - Really? - Irgul thought.
 - I can only guess where Margo
attempts to flee - hissed Gelya.
 - Margot? - Asked Irgul.
 - So her name. Rather, it holds
way into the country of volcanoes. Her brother lives there
Lien.
 - But this is impossible! - Irgul jumped from
throne - If a crystal gets into the hands of Lien, then it will 
never be in my power!  - Lord, Gelya-old threw her skull, there 
is a chance to hold her!  - He says - Irgul stared unblinking at

snake eyes.
 - On the way Margot necessarily be in
the valley of death. This area has
my old friend. Usually he does not touch
travelers, but I already asked him and ...
 - What is the valley of death? - Interrupted Irgul.
 - Two vertical cliffs and narrow path
between nimi.Kogda traveler is at the center, rockfall blocked 
the road behind and front. Escape is possible, but it does 
parse obstruction.  - We are what gives? "

 - Dam magic, understands very difficult. While she will tinker 
with it, we as podospeem time and the crystal is in your hands! 
- Gelya carefully put her foot ruler.  - Then the chase and 
immediately ... 


            ++++++++++++++++

          + + + Margo Puzzle + + +

            ++++++++++++++++

 So, you understand that your task to avoid the chase, having 
had to disassemble the magic obstruction.

 The game uses 36 chips. Your task
put these chips in a row in the corresponding
of the wells (four blank pieces in the right
lower right corner). Stacking is only in order: 1 to 9. As well 
"fall" only those pieces in which the right side of the whole

number blank.
 Chips can underlay to equal in value if the right is an empty 
cell and left the same figure.


  If I choose the wrong piece, click on "Last". (At the complex 
level button "Last" does not work).

 Change the layout can be re-click
"New", all these attempts you are allowed
three on the first level, two on the second and one
in the third. (At a delicate level of minus one
attempt.) Appointment of the other buttons
in the explanation is not needed.
 That's all. It remains to add that this version
is a fairly easy (especially at the basic level). Therefore 
regard it as preparations. Wait for "MARGO 2" - there

seriously have to smash his head.

                               Good luck!



Authors: A. Kostrigin
Genre: Puzzle


 Do you like crossword puzzles?
 If yes, then the program "Scrabble" do it
exercise more comfortable and hopefully more interesting.

 You can also defer part of his secret crossword puzzle, 
writing it to disk and continue to reveal all later.

 Colors in the program you can install on
your taste.


  And now more about the program.



              Main Menu


 Running "Scrabble", you get to the main
Menu:


         Loading crossword puzzle

            guessing

              record

          color adjustment

         description of the program

Move the cursor by keys Q, A, O, P, arrow keys. Selecting - 
space, enter, 0. 

           Download Crossword

 By selecting this option, you will see on the screen
picture as in the usual boot'e. Select
Crossword desired and press ENTER. If you
press the space bar, it will perezachitan directory of the 
drive. In order to avoid disruptions program, do not press 
BREAK to time disk access.



               Guessing

 Go to the guessing crossword. Appears on the screen crossword 
puzzle grid and the cursor (Flashing square). Moving the cursor 
over crossword puzzle grid by keys

Q, A, O, P. Task appears at the bottom
screen when you put the cursor at the beginning of speech and 
press ENTER. It also appears flashing square, inviting enter 
the answer. The answer should be given lower case (small) 
letters. When you finish entering, press ENTER.  If you answer 
correctly, you will corresponding to the label and the word 
will be entered into a crossword puzzle grid. While waiting I 
answer, you can ask for a hint - click EDIT. In this case, you 
will see the first letter of the answer. If you now press the 
spacebar, you get the second letter and so Further, upon 
reaching the last letter, the program responds to pressing the 
space bar only sound. Interrupt viewing the possible answers to

any time by pressing ENTER.
 If you do not know the answer, and yet do not want to
to Use a prompt, then instead of typing an answer, just press 
ENTER. In this case, the program will give the job to the floor 
on a vertical, or return to move the cursor.  Notice that the 
first job is always displayed horizontally, and then by 
vertically.  Exit to the main menu - by pressing the "e" in

navigation mode on a crossword puzzle grid.



                Record

 Allow writing to the disk is not fully
enigma crossword (unless you want) on any drive with enough 
free space.  Menu names speak for themselves. "Exit" will 
return you to the main menu.  Note: The program did not write 
checks availability of disk files with the entered name

and can create two files with the same
names. The menu also no operation "delete the file." Rename or 
delete the file you can directly from the TR-DOS or

any service program.


             Color Settings

 To change the background color, tone, or curb, position the 
cursor at the appropriate menu item and pressing the space bar, 
select desired color. Result, you immediately see (or do not 
see in the coincidence INK and PAPER) on the screen. "Exit" 
will return you to the main menu.