1,000 Game Levels 2/1,000 Game Levels 2.iso/DOSARC/ALPMAN10.ZIP/ALPHAMAN.5

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F1 : Displays your character's statistics on the right side of the screen.
F2 : Displays your possessions on the right side of the screen.
F3 : Lists the berries whose effects you know, and the devices you understand.
F4 : Shows useful information about your physical and mental condition.
F5 : Displays the main map temporarily, showing the entire world.
F6 : Displays the local map, showing nearby terrain, creatures and objects.
F7 : Shows a list of relevant symbols and the objects they represent.
F8 : - not used -
F9 : Displays important information about the creator of AlphaMan.
F10: "Boss" key, which creates a fake DOS screen.  F10 or Esc escapes.
?  : Shows help screen listing commands and character information.
Esc: Escapes from most commands, and clears text in the dialog box.
.  : Rest, which will reduce your fatigue and allow faster healing.
<  : Go down stairs, or down into a lair.
>  : Go up stairs, or up out of a lair.
a  : Repeat command.  Useful for throwing or figuring out repeatedly.
d  : Drop an item. You must be standing on an empty square to drop something.
e  : Eat food, berries or other items.
f  : Figure out an unknown device.  Often must be repeated many times.
m  : Use your Mental Mutation.  (Shortcut key)
p  : Use your Physical Mutation.  (Shortcut key)
r  : Remove a trap, pit, or poison gas.  Sometimes requires several attempts.
s  : Search area nearby for traps, secret doors or invisible critters.
t  : Throw an item such as a weapon, grenade or berry.
u  : Use an item such as armor, weapon or device;  use a mutation.
P  : Previous message.  This will scan through the last 5 messages.
Q  : Quit game.  You have the option to save the game at this point.
S  : Save game at current position for later reloading.
U  : Unuse an item. Take off armor or suits, stop riding vehicles etc.
W  : Customize the name, symbol and color of the wimpy critter.
X  : Examine a nearby object or a possession.  Describes item condition.
Z  : Try to fall asleep.  This won't always work at first.
Numeric Keypad: Move yourself, attack creatures by trying to move into them.

Strength: your physical power and stamina, influenced by fatigue
Dexterity: your agility and coordination, affected by encumbrance
Constitution: your fortitude and poison resistance
Radiation Resistance: susceptibility to ambient and attack radiation
Mental Resistance: your willpower, your brain's resistance to attack
Intelligence: your adaptibility, learning capability and cleverness

Electrical Generation:  usable every few rounds, this attack causes
   electrical damage to any creature touching you during the round used.
Heightened Dexterity:  this mutation raises your dexterity to 19-23,
   subject to reduction by encumbrance in the usual way.
Heightened Strength:  this mutation raises your strength to 19-23,
  subject to reduction by fatigue in the usual way.
Heightened Vision:  allows you to see long distances, to see invisible
   creatures, to search more effectively, and to hit more often in combat.
Tough Exoskeleton:  lowers your armor class, making you harder to hit in
   combat and reducing your damage sustained.  It encumbers you somewhat.
Sonic Attack:  usable every 12 rounds, this does burning damage to
   all nearby creatures not protected from heat.
Blood Structure Change:  raises your constitution to 19-23, making you
   more robust and giving you more hit points and poison resistance.
Reflective Skin:  raises your radiation resistance to 19-23, and makes you
   more resistant to lasers and heat.
Laser Generation:  usable every 13 rounds, this attack does laser damage
   to a selected target if it successfully hits.
Heightened Endurance:  you tire much less easily and regain lost hit points
   more rapidly, and you can sustain a much longer duration underwater.
Foul Musk:  usable every 14 rounds, you cause nearby creatures to
   get sick and flee for a variable duration of time.
Acidic Saliva:  usable every 8 rounds, this attack causes acid damage to a
   selected target if you successfully hit, which is easier at close range.
Poison Claws:  you cause poison damage to a selected target if a successful
   hit is scored.  You can inject poison every 5 rounds.
Heightened Speed:  usable about every 30 rounds, you can double your speed
   for 10-20 rounds, allowing you extra attacks or movement.
Radiation Generation:  usable every 15 rounds, you can generate a beam of
   radiation capable of damaging creatures in line with a selected target.
Quills:  these provide protection by causing damage to any creature touching
   you.  You can also shoot them at an opponent every 8 rounds.
Tenticles:  you can entwine a selected target and cause constriction damage
  every round.  While constricting, you are able to do other things.

Military Genius:  you are a natural soldier, hitting more often and
   doing more damage than normal mutants.
Scientific Genius:  your intelligence is raised to 19-23, and you
   can construct new tech devices with parts salvaged from old ones.
Heightened Willpower:  your mental resistance is raised to 19-23, and you
   are able to temporarily raise all your stats and your hit points.
Mental Blast:  usable every 12 rounds, you can attempt to overload the
   mental synapses of a selected opponent to do damage.
Teleportation:  you can mentally transport yourself short or long distances.
   You must be rested to teleport, and it can only be used infrequently.
Mental Healing:  you can heal yourself at a rate of 3 hit points / round.
   You must sit motionless to do this, however, and it is tiring.
Force Field:  while activated, you take reduced damage (typically
   2/3 normal) from all attacks.  It is tiring to use, however.
Molecular Disruption:  usable every 12 rounds, this mental assault can
   totally destroy creatures or other objects at which it is targeted.
Life Leech:  you can steal hit points from nearby monsters and add
   them to your own.  This is usable every 4 rounds.
Invisibility:  you can mentally bend light rays around you, which makes you
   difficult to see and less susceptible to lasers.  Lasts about 9 rounds.
Cryogenics:  you can mentally freeze an opponent, doing progressively
   more damage as the opponent freezes. It is usable every 3 rounds.
Hypnosis:  you can put opponents to sleep by a sheer force of will.
   This ability is usable every 3 rounds.
Psychokinesis:  you are able to disrupt matter to create explosions.
   This ability is tiring, and can only be used every 15 rounds.