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- HINTZEN, VERWOHLT GbR
- 'JoyTrick'
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- Marienkirchweg 3a
- 48165 Münster
- Germany
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- Tel.: 0251/232295 (Mon-Fri from 4.15pm) *** Fax: 02501/3125
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- 1. Starting the game
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- To start N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm (PD-Version) just double-click NB_PD.PRG!
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- Now you can choose one of the listed functions:
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- 1. Start Game F1/Fire-Button
- 2. Change Soundoptions F3
- 3. Change Language F5
- 4. Quit Program ESC
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- N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm runs in the following resolutions:
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- 1. ST-High (640*400 Pixels - Monochrome, 1 MB RAM)
- 2. ST-Medium (640*200 Pixels - Pseudo-Monochrome, 1 MB RAM)
- 3. TT-Medium/Falcon 030 VGA (640*480 Pixels - 16 Colors, 2.5 MB RAM)
- 4. FALCON 030 TV-Interlaced (640*400 Pixels - 16 Colors, 2.5 MB RAM)
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- It is possible, to run N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm from a Hard-Disk, as well.
- Just copy all files from your flex-disk to your hard-disk! Remember,
- you have to copy all files! You may suppress the loading of the SAMPLE-
- Files and/or the MUSIC-Files by renaming the files 'SAM_OFF.CFX' and/or
- 'DMA_OFF.CFX' to 'SAM_OFF.CFG' and/or 'DMA_OFF.CFG'.
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- 2. How to play
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- In principle, this game contains two different types of levels:
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- 1. Levels, where the snake will follow your commands directly,
- 2. Levels, where you have to set a trail. The snake (Alfred) will
- follow this trail!
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- 1.:
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- Here, you have to collect all Jin-Yang-Symbols and you have to test all
- ?-Bricks, whether there is a bad ghost or a ball underneath it (this is
- decided totally randomized, so you have to look again, when you play the
- level again). To make this specific test, you have to place Alfred next
- to a ?-Brick, then press the Fire-Button to knock on the 'door'. Somtimes,
- 'nobody' will answer your request: In that case, knock again. But, when
- the ?-Brick starts blinking, you can be sure, that soon appear a bad
- ghost or a ball will appear. While the ?-Brick is blinking, it shows how
- much tries you have left, before you loose a snake (see number on the
- 'Number-Brick'). You will loose a trie, when you will not be able to
- perform the following:
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- a) A bad ghost appears:
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- You have to leave the area around the ghost within a second!
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- b) A ball appears:
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- You have to collect the ball at once within a second!
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- While searching for these Jin-Yang-Symbols, you have to solve a lot of
- puzzles: Pushing stones out of your way, use specific objects to reach
- places, which seem unreachable, use switches to effect specific symbols
- and objects, ...! Learn, how to use those objects, symbols and bricks!
- Be adviced: Even those objects, which seem not be very useful or do have
- some negative side-effects, you have to use from time to time.
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- NOTE: All objects you have collected are displayed in the object-bar.
- To deactivate an object, you have to collect the same object once
- more.
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- 2.)
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- Here, you have set a trail in that way, that Alfred will be able to
- reach all Jin-Yang-Symbols. Alfred must not stop. To set a trail, you
- have to take an object out of the object-bar and place it on the game-
- field. You can do this with the blinking cursor. Pressing the Fire-Button
- will set this cursor into the object-bar in case you do not have selected
- an object to place earlier before. Choose an object and press the Fire-
- Button again: The cursor will jump in the middle of the game-field
- (showing the selected object). Here, you just choose the position, where
- to set the object and press the Fire-Button: The object will be placed
- and the cursor will return to the object-bar. In case the position is
- already occupied, the cursor will return to the object-bar without placing
- the object. Once Alfred is moving you cannot place another object. You
- will be able to follow him thru the different screens by using the
- Cursor-Keys or your Joystick.
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- 3. Controlling the Snake
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- To control Alfred, you may use a Joystick or the Keyboard. The hot-keys
- for Keyboard-Control are:
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- - The Cursor-Keys (press two corresponding keys to move diagonaly)
- - The left Shift-Key (this is the Fire-Button)!
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- 4. How to configure N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm
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- You can change the following options:
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- a. Soundeffects (ON/OFF)
- b. FX-Volume
- - Restart the program to load new samples!
- c. DMA-Music - Titletheme (ON/OFF * fullversion, only)
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- 5. The N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm (PD-Disk)
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- You should find on the The N.o.B.I. - Brainstorm - Disk:
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- +- NB_PD.PRG The Program (ST/STE/TT/FALCON 030)
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- +- DMA_OFF.CFX
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- +- SAM_OFF.CFX
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- +- WICHTIG NOTICE in German
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- +- NOTICE You are reading it
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- +- NOBI_B.PAC The data-file
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- +- NOBI_B.SET The options-file (may be deleted)
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- 6. Some other good PD/Shareware-Games
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- You should find the following games in many PDL's and Mailboxes.
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- THRILLER N.T. (released in 1993)
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- - Action-Packed Puzzle-Game for 1 player with 100 Levels!
- - Runs in Monochrome, only!
- - German, only!
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- SHOCKER 1 (released in 1992)
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- - Action-Packed Puzzle-Game for 2 players with 200 Levels!
- - Midi-Connection for 2-Players-Mode!
- - Runs in Monochrome, only!
- - German, only!
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- SHOCKER 2 (released in March 1994)
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- - Action-Packed Puzzle-Game for 2 players with 200 Levels!
- - Midi/Modem-Connection for 2-Players-Mode!
- - Runs in Monochrome and 16 Colors
- (640*480 VGA - TT/FALCON 030 / 640*400 TV-Interlaced - FALCON 030)
- (Special disc for the Color-Version)
- - German and English!
- - Available in COMPU-SERVE, too!
- - This is realy a blockbuster-game!
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- N.o.B.I. - Racing (released in October 1994)
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- - Actiongame * breathtaking speed (for 2 players with 100 Levels)!
- - Runs in Monochrome and 16 Colors
- (640*480 VGA - TT/FALCON 030 / 640*400 TV-Interlaced - FALCON 030)
- - English!
- - This is realy a blockbuster-game!
- - You'll love that game!
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- Good luck and lot of fun
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- The Authors: M. Hintzen and J. Verwohlt