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╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ LYNQ SHAREWARE VERSION ║ ║ Copyright 1996 ║ ║ ANARCHY ENTERTAINMENT INC. ║ ║ All Rights Reserved ║ ║ ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ See ORDER.TXT to get your copy of the Full, Registered Version of LYNQ! ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── "LYNQ" SHAREWARE MAY BE FREELY DISTRIBUTED! That means you should give copies of "LYNQ" Shareware to all your friends and every other living human you encounter while roaming planet earth! See Section [8] for details ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ╔═══════════════════╗ ║ TABLE OF CONTENTS ║ ╚═══════════════════╝ [1] Installation & Setup [2] Object of the Game [3] How to Play [4] Controls [5] Keyboard Controls [6] Tips and Strategies [7] Troubleshooting [8] Distribution Information [9] Credits [10] CHEAT CODES! [11] How to ORDER the Full, Registered LYNQ! ╔══════════════════════════╗ ║ [1] Installation & Setup ║ ╚══════════════════════════╝ LYNQ Requires the following: [1] WIN95 or MSDOS - Not Windows 3.1 ! Run from Win95 or Start your machine in DOS! [2] 386 or better - Not 8088, not 8086, not 286... 386 or better! (Get a new machine!) [3] 4 MB of RAM - Not 640K, not 1MB... Make sure you have at least 4 MB or RAM! [4] VGA Card - Not CGA, not EGA... Your computer must have a VGA card or better! [5] Mouse - Not a cat, not a dog... The mouse driver must be installed from DOS! SETUP.EXE is the program that configures LYNQ for the specifics of your machine. If you wish to change sound card or memory options, you can run SETUP again and change those options. LYNQ.EXE is the program that runs the game. Type "LYNQ" to play! ╔════════════════════════╗ ║ [2] Object of the Game ║ ╚════════════════════════╝ The object of LYNQ is to match up the colored shapes on the different pieces so they all match. Every time you match up a shape, you form a "Link." When you "link" all the shapes, you win! ╔═════════════════╗ ║ [3] How to Play ║ ╚═════════════════╝ The puzzle is always at the center of your screen. As the game starts, the puzzle will explode, and the pieces will be scattered all around. (That's why this is a puzzle!) What's left behind is the wire model which shows you the shape of the puzzle, and where to put the pieces. You can find individual puzzle pieces by moving around the environment. You will experience the game by revolving around the puzzle like the earth revolves around the sun. You can adjust your view so that you are up high, like a bird, looking down at the puzzle, or you can move your view way down low, where you'll see the puzzle like a worm sees the world. You can zoom back, far away from the puzzle, or you zoom in super close so the pieces are right in your face. You can also tilt your head up or down. (The closer you are to the ground, and the tighter you zoom in towards the puzzle, the more profound the effect will be when you tilt your head.) You play the game by selecting pieces, snapping them into the wireframe model of the puzzle, and rotating them until you have linked all the shapes. You can also pop out pieces that are annoying you, or swap the positions of pieces. When you link all the shapes correctly, you win the level and move on to a new challenge! ╔══════════════╗ ║ [4] Controls ║ ╚══════════════╝ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ There are three main things for you to know about │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ [1] Pieces - There are two different kinds. 4-sided piece - Tetrahedron 5-sided piece - Pyramid [2] Wire Model - This shows you the shape of the structure you are building. The glowing section indicates where the piece you have selected will snap into. [3] Control Panel - Here's where most of the action takes place. It's divided up into three sections: ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ Piece Manipulation │ └──────────────────────────┘ [SNAP IN] Snaps the selected piece into the highlighted section of the wire model. [SWAP] Swaps the selected piece with another of your choice. [POP OUT] Pops the selected piece out of the wire model. [ROTATIONS] Twists and turns the selected piece. ┌────────────────────┐ │ View Control │ └────────────────────┘ [ZOOM OUT] Zooms your view out. [ZOOM IN] Zooms your view in. [MOVE UP] Moves your view up. [MOVE DOWN] Moves your view down. [MOVE LEFT] Moves your view left. [MOVE RIGHT] Moves your view right [TILT] Tilts your head up and down. The effect will be more profound when your view is close to the ground and you are zoomed up close to the puzzle. ┌───────────────────────┐ │ Piece Selection │ └───────────────────────┘ [PIECE] Cycles through the available pieces. This will re-adjust your view so that you are behind the newly selected piece, looking towards the puzzle. [WIRE] Cycles through all the wire model sections. [MENU] Brings you to the Game Menu ┌─────────────────┐ │ Game Menu │ └─────────────────┘ [ESC - RETURN TO GAME] This returns you to the game you are currently playing. [OPTIONS] Brings you to the "Options" screen. [NEW GAME] Brings you to "Game Selection" so you can start a new game, choosing from the different difficulty levels - Easy, Medium, Hard, or Expert. [LOAD GAME] Lets you load a game that you saved in progress. [SAVE GAME] Lets you save a game in progress. [HELP] Lets you read the help screens. [QUIT] Lets you quit the game. ┌──────────────────────┐ │ Options Screen │ └──────────────────────┘ [MUSIC] This slider lets you adjust the volume of the Music. [SFX] This slider lets you adjust the volume of the Sound Effects. [SPEED] These buttons (1-4) let you pick the speed at which the game will run. 1 is smoothest, 4 is fastest. [LIGHTS] Lets you turn the light that shades the different sides of the pieces on or off. No real useful purpose - just shows how cool the shading of the different sides is! [MESSAGES] Lets you turn the help messages on or off. ╔═══════════════════════╗ ║ [5] Keyboard Controls ║ ╚═══════════════════════╝ LYNQ is designed to be used entirely with the mouse. However, for those die hard keyboard fans, we have also enabled game play control from the keyboard. Speed Control is of interest to both mouse and keyboard players. The first four function keys control the speed at which the camera revolves around the puzzle arena. ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ Function Key │F1 │ │F2 │ │F3 │ │F4 │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ Visual Effect Smooth Normal Quick Lightning CPU Pentium 486/66 486/33 386/33 The following keys are for those individuals who would rather use the keyboard than touch a mouse. Numeric Keypad: ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │Num│ │ / │ │ * │ │ - │ wire └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ 7 │ camera │ 8 │ camera │ 9 │ camera │ + │ wire └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ │ │ │ │ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ │ │ 4 │ camera │ 5 │ snap │ 6 │ camera │ │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ 1 │ piece │ 2 │ camera │ 3 │ piece │ E │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ │ N │ │ T │ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌───┐ │ E │ │ 0 │ pop │ . │ │ R │ └─────────────────┘ └───┘ └───┘ Wire frame positions can be selected by hitting the plus [+] and minus [-] keys on the keypad. The pieces can be selected by hitting one [1] and three [3] on the keypad. Your view will change so you are looking directly at the selected piece. To snap the pieces into place hit the five [5] key on the numeric keypad. You can pop the selected piece out of the wire model by hitting the zero [0] key on the keypad. Keys seven [7] and nine [9] zoom the camera in and out. Keys eight [8] and two [2] move the camera up and down. Keys four [4] and six [6] move camera left and right around the puzzle. Keyboard: ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ Q │ rotate │ W │ rotate │ E │ rotate │ R │ tilt up └───┘ Y └───┘ X └───┘ Y └───┘ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ │ A │ rotate │ S │ rotate │ D │ rotate │ F │ tilt down └───┘ Z └───┘ X └───┘ Z └───┘ [W] and [S] rotate the selected piece about the X-Axis [Q] and [E] rotate the selected piece about the Y-Axis [A] and [D] rotate the selected piece about the Z-Axis [R] and [F] tilt your head up and down. ╔═════════════════════════╗ ║ [6] Tips and Strategies ║ ╚═════════════════════════╝ At first glance LYNQ can look a bit overwhelming. That's because you're a wimp! Power down some raw eggs and give it another go. If you apply some simple strategies to the game, you can solve the puzzles like a pro! [1] Use the hints! If you look at the puzzle from the top down, you will see half-shapes on the floor! What a way to start the day! [2] Match the Base pieces first. Nothin's worse than putting together the entire puzzle from a side-view only to find that the shapes that have to match on the floor are still messed up. Get your view way up high, and begin matching up the base pieces to the floor. Now you're cookin'! [3] Match as many of the 5-sided pieces (pyramids) as you can before you mess with the 4-sided pieces (tetrahedrons). You can think of the 5-sided pieces as your friends! Sometimes the 4-Sided pieces can rotate in ways that make them pure evil. [4] Get good with the WIRE buttons. Pushing the WIRE buttons will let you surf through the available positions in the wire model, and you can quickly try the same piece in a number of different positions. [5] Examine the colors. Here's a little mental gymnastic you can do that will make you a much better LYNQ player, as well as sharpen up your mind. Say you've snapped in a couple of pieces that match just fine. Trouble is, you've got to put another piece next to or between them, and you don't know where to start. Here's what you do. Remember the colors of the shapes on the edges of the pieces that are set in place - let's say it's Purple, Purple, Yellow. Now, look for other pieces out there somewhere with Purple, Purple, and Yellow on them. Rule out all the pieces that don't fit this scheme, and try to fit all the ones that are possibilities. [6] Now REALLY Examine the colors! There are a couple of different ways to look at the pieces and imagine the colors schemes on the pieces that have to match them. If you can master these techniques, you'll be able to snap the puzzles together faster than they blow apart! You might also improve your SAT scores! One of the most powerful techniques is to imagine the match from the inside out. Huh? what's he talking about? - Listen up! It's very common to look for colors that match along the EDGES of two touching pieces - but it's twice as deadly to look for the colors that match from FACE to FACE. When you look for matches along an EDGE, you're using an efficient searching process - but when you look for matching FACES, you're cookin' with style. Think of it this way - two pieces are joined FACE to FACE. You can plainly see all the shapes matching along the EDGES from piece to piece. But, unseen... lurking in the dark where the two FACES of those pieces are pushed together, are matches going on where nobody can see them. When you peel them apart, the two FACES are like perfect mirror images of each other! So, when you can see the FACE of one piece, and you know another piece will have to fit next to it and cover up that FACE until the end of time, take a little picture of that FACE in your mind's eye, and then find the piece that's out there somewhere that has no choice but to match perfectly! REMEMBER: This is a puzzle, which means thinking will be involved! ╔═════════════════════╗ ║ [7] Troubleshooting ║ ╚═════════════════════╝ There is a file which contains the answers to common questions. The file is called TROUBLE.TXT If this file doesn't answer your question, it will tell you how to contact technical support from Anarchy Entertainment. ╔════════════════════════════════╗ ║ [8] Distribution Information ║ ╚════════════════════════════════╝ "LYNQ" Shareware is freely distributable to any and every animal, mineral, vegetable, living human, or cosmic entity, so long as it is distributed in UNMODIFIED FORM and no fees are charged. If you would like to become a licensed distributor, fax us, send us some email, or visit our web site: Fax: (609) 737-3787 Email: info@anarchyent.com WWW: http://www.anarchyent.com/ ╔═════════════════╗ ║ [9] Credits ║ ╚═════════════════╝ Programming........... Ted Dumitrescu John Whitehurst Art / Music .......... Tim Whitehurst Business ............. Fran Goldwyn ╔════════════════════╗ ║ [10] Cheat Codes ║ ╚════════════════════╝ The following Cheat Codes are supported in the Full, Registered Version of LYNQ. (see ORDER.TXT to get your copy) Ability to Skip the level you're on and WARP to the next level! Ability to Skip the level you're on and WARP to the previous level! Ability to get to the SECRET LEVEL! Ability to play LYNQ with Rotations Off. This means all you have to do is put the right pieces in the right places - no more rotating them to get them right! ╔═════════════════════════════════╗ ║ [11] Ordering Registered LYNQ ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════╝ Look for the file called ORDER.TXT That's the file that has all the information you'll need to buy your copy of the Full, Registered Version of LYNQ!