.B&W GAMES Turn turbo off before running these games. These are old B&W games, roughly sorted by EXE or COM filename. Most of these games have instructions included. There are notes on each game below. Usually each game tells you how to quit, but for those that don't, try the following in this order: 1. If there is a hint in these notes use it 2. Press Esc 3. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del 4. Press Reset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS ---- Centipede game. Start: BUGS!.EXE Quit: Esc Other files: BUGS!.SCR Notes: F10 to fire Screen must be 25 lines before starting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHESS88 V2.0 (IBM) ------------ Start: CHESS.EXE Quit: ^C Notes: When asked for colour, answer in UPPERCASE Select piece with arrows Pick it up with DEL Position it with arrows Place it with INS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPACE COMMANDERS II ------------------- Space Invaders. Start: INVADER.EXE Quit: Ctrl+Alt+Del Notes: Goes too fast. The fire key can be held down for almost continuous shooting Keyboard: Arrows. Move Space. Fire Q. Sound on/off ScrollLock. Pause Esc. Menu Return. Game Start ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOON LANDER SIMULATOR v1.01 --------------------- Start: LANDER.EXE Quit: Esc then X (but it freezes so wait till you crash and press X) Measurements are the archaic type used in America. Keys ---- Left-arrow Half-throttle Home Full throttle End Free-fall Up-arrow increase throttle by 5% Down-arrow decrease throttle by 5% PgUp increase throttle by 1% PgDn decrease throttle by 1% Right-arrow 'hover thrust' F9 high/normal speed F10 Superfine scale Esc Quit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SINGLE STAGE TO ORBIT SIMULATION v1.0 -------------------------------- For orginal doco, see separate rid Start: LAUNCHER.EXE Quit: Esc then X (but it freezes so wait till you crash and press X) Measurements are the archaic type used in America. Keys ---- Left-arrow 65% power Home Full power End Free-fall Up-arrow increase FPA by 5 degrees Down-arrow decrease FPA by 5 degrees PgUp increase FPA by 1 degrees PgDn decrease FPA by 1 degrees F9 run fast F10 run in reverse Esc Quit Position of craft doesn't display on the graph FPA controls actually adjust Angle instead left and right arrow adjust other parameters but not documented ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PIANO COMPOSER -------------- To start: PIANOMAN.COM Quit: End then N Notes: Use Esc for top left A#, use \ for bottom left F. PLAYRPNO.COM,FUGUES.COM,HARMNIZR.COM are utilities, other COMs are sample music. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSION CHESS ver 2.11 (turbo can be on) 1985 PSION ----------- To move, use arrow keys to position pointer over piece to move, press Enter. Then move pointer to destination, press Enter. Special keys: A Analysis on/off B Display best move discovered so far (during computer's move) C Computer will play a move for you D Demo mode (computer plays itself) E Stops the computer thinking while it's your move F Steps forward a move after being taken back G Games menu (see p5 of help) D List saved games L Load game M Run one of the 50 famous games supplied S Save game H Hint I Turn board around L Increase computer's level ^L, F10 Decrease computer's level M Forces computer to stop thinking and move now (during computer's turn) Also terminates demo mode N Forces computer to play its next move again P Prints moves as they are made ^P Print whole board Q Quit R Replay the game from the start S Sound on/off T Take back last move and assume next move is yours W Pause 2 Allows 2 humans to play $ Start a new game F1 Help F2 Switch between 2D and 3D board F3 Set up a position (see p4 of help) F4 Language Technical: The game needed a keydisk. This was fixed by changing various bytes. Bytes changed with DEBUG were: CHESS1.OVL : 11989: 61 3A -> 2E 5C -> Replace "a:" with ".\" ie use current drive CHESS2.OVL : 85A1: 88 46 07 -> 90 90 90 -> Don't overwrite drive letter with 'a' : 8752: CD 25 72 03 9D EB 0A 9D 3C 04 75 05 -> 90's -> Remove code that checked floppy was in the drive : F8CF: 61 3A -> 2E 5C -> use current folder instead of A: drive This program won't run under command-prompt-only on win95. I have created a 13 cm floppy that can be used in the A: drive. The label is PSION CHESS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PITFALL ------- Hydrax game. Start: PITFALL.EXE Quit: Ctrl+Pause Notes: Use arrows in number-pad to steer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SARGON 3 CHESS (turbo can be on) -------------- Text-based chess game. Enter moves similar to Microbee Chess. Special keys: - Chess Clock Off + Chess Clock On ^A & ^S Mode Change, Autoplay (more info needed here!) ^B Take back last move ^C Swap players ^D 'Draw Declined' ^E Change Level 1 to Level 1E ^G Save game ^I, Tab Turn board around ^J Search ^K Overtype clock (?) ^L Load game ^N Start a new game ^P, ^W Turn on printer ^Q Quit (reboots computer) ^U Show coordinates ^V Change Level 1 to Level 1 V ^Y 'Cancel Opening Library' ^Z Sound on/off Technical: The files with the original game were: SARGON3.COM, SARGON.III, B000.BOK SARGON3.COM loads SARGON.III which then loads B000.BOK SARGON.III is a renamed .COM file. It crashed after starting due to bugs. I fixed the bugs, but it won't load B000.BOK which is not needed anyway. SARGON3.COM won't load the fixed version. The solution is to dump SARGON3.COM and B000.BOK, and rename the fixed SARGON.III to SARGON.COM (or whatever you want). Byte changes with DEBUG: 7FB0: E8 DB BC -> 90 90 90 subroutine called in error, blanked screen at start of game 7FB5: 01 -> 02 jump to middle of an instruction, crashed machine 7FB7: CD -> CC jump to middle of an instruction 7FB8: 19 -> 90 extraneous byte, crashed machine 7FF3: 74 05 -> EB 03 ignore error reading B000.BOK 7FF8: 75 -> EB ignore error reading B000.BOK 8022: D7 -> 00 ignore error reading B000.BOK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPACE WAR --------- Shoot down opponent's spaceship. Start: V1.50 'force' SPACEWAR.EXE V1.50 'farce' SPACEWR1.EXE V1.71 'force' SPACEWR2.EXE Other files: SPACEWAR.TXT, SPACEWR2.TXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMARINE CHASE --------------- Start: SUBCHSE.EXE Quit: F5 F10 to drop depth charges on submarines Up-down arrows to control the speed of your boat F5 emergency exit F2 to resume DOESN'T WORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------