.Old EGA Games Turn turbo off before running these games. These are old EGA 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3DPONG ------ Pingpong Start: 3DPONG.EXE Quit: Esc Notes: Select EGA mode, then Keyboard or Mouse. In any menu, press first letter of any topic. Select a slower game speed in the menu. The computer plays perfectly, so you will eventually lose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTION FIGHTER -------------- Start: ACT_EGA.EXE Quit: Reset Keys ---- Z Left X Right O Up K Down P Fire H Pause / P - Restart ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEAST ----- Robotron game. Start: BEAST.COM Quit: F7 Notes: Screen must be 25 lines before starting Hiscores are kept in the file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BLOCKOUT California Dreams -------- This is a 3-D tetris game. Start: BL.EXE To initialise high scores: DEBUG BLSCORE.DAT F 100 FFF 0 W ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESTRUCTION ZONE ---------------- To remove nag screen, change this DEBUG byte: CFA3: 00 -> FF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRE KING: Challenge of the Mages --------- Part 1: The Tomb of the Fire King Part 2: The Fire King's Palace Part 3: The Earth Mage's Halls Part 4: The Water Mage's Fortress Part 5: The Wind Mage's Tower Part 6: Under the Mountain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOODMAN ------- Written in Dutch. Need instructions - in English! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GUERILLA WAR ------------ Shoot as many enemies as possible, while freeing the natives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HUGO'S HOUSE OF HORRORS (HUGO1) ----------------------- Sierra-style adventure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HUGO II, WHODUNIT? (HUGO 2) ------------------ Sierra-style adventure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAMES BOND 007 -------------- Doesn't work at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOBAYASHI NARU 1987; MASTERTRONIC -------------- Need instructions for keyboard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCK-ON ------- Fly plane and shoot down things with your missiles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KARNOV ------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- METROPOLIS 1987, MASTERTRONIC ---------- How to play? Read slider on intro screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPERBOY -------- Deliver papers into letter boxes without missing and without crashing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PC man 1982 ------ Robotron game Start: PCMAN2.EXE Other files: HISCORE Notes: Keys slow to respond. Resets the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PIRATES! -------- Run CRACK1.COM, then CRACK2.COM ; these will permanently modify certain files. You can now run PIR.EXE and press enter when the anti-piracy question appears. Alternatively, you can look at CODES.TXT for the answers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RACK'EM 1988 ACCOLADE ------- Start: POOL.EXE Quit: CAD Other files: POOL.SBD To initialise the scores, DEL SCORES.DAT F1 shows score rack F2 toggles pause F6 show something about the ball F10 toggles 3D mode ESC cancels current game ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLUGGER ------- Baseball ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STAR TREK 1985 PHOENIX SOFTWARE ASSOCIATES --------- Start: ST.EXE Quit: F10 then F6, or 'Plot course to earth', or swear 3 times. An examination of the code does not reveal any messages that say you have won, or in fact, that you have done any good at all. It will react to swear words. The speed of the 'Time' display depends on the speed of your computer. Use the F1 key for help. Use F10 for save/restore games etc When saving/restoring games, just press a key when asked to insert a disk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STORM ----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERFLY 1990 -------- Press F4 to skip early levels Command-line arguments: -s No sound -d1 Normal -d2 Hard -d3 Expert Read FLY.DOC for more information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TETRIS 1986 ------ Start: TETRIS.COM Quit: Esc Set to 25 lines before starting Creates TETRIS.RES for high scores ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TETRIS 1988 v1.0 ------ Start: TET2.EXE Quit: ^C Creates TETRIS.HIS for high scores ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TURBO CHESS ----------- Start: CHESS.COM Quit: Q Text characters are identical to those in Sargon Chess. See note on bottom right of board for moves. I would hardly call it Turbo; it's much slower than Sargon or Psion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URIDIUM ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------