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- Instructions for Shanghai 93.
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-
- This is a brief set of instructions (who needs a detailed set?) to explain
- the rules and one less obvious feature of the game.
-
- The Rules.
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- The game starts (after the intro and menus) with the board being drawn.
- The board consists of 144 or 100 tiles.(depending on which game you select)
- The object of the game is to remove the tiles two at a time until there
- are none left. Only tiles that are free can be removed. Only matching
- tiles can be removed together.
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- A tile is free if there are no tiles partially covering it (above it)
- and the tile is not blocked by tiles to either the left or right.
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- Matching tiles either have the same symbol on top or are a special case.
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- There are four of each tile except for the special cases.
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- Special cases are tiles from the last column of the select tiles screen.
- (The 100 tile game has no special cases)
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- There are only one of each special case on the board so they can match
- another special case from the same set (i.e. Crimes,Signs).
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- To play the game use the mouse to click on a tile that is free and then
- click twice on a matching tile to remove them.
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- Continue until the board is cleared or you can find no moves.
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- In Game Features.
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- This game has several features to help the player.
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- Restart.
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- This feature allows you to reset the board to the same configuration
- as when you started playing the current game.
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- Quit.
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- Quits back to the intro/options screens.
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- Backup a move.
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- Allows you to back up as many moves as you want if you get stuck or make
- a mistake.
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- Peek.
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- Choosing this option forfeits the current game. It allows you to remove
- any tile one at a time until none are left.
- Only New Game and Quit work after you select this.
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- New Game.
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- Reshuffles the tiles and draws a new board.
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- Help.
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- This option is not on the menu. Clicking the right mouse button calls up
- the help function. There are two times when you can do this.
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- 1) When you havn't selected any tiles.
- This shows all possible moves one at a time. left mouse-next move
- right mouse-exit help
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- 2) When you have selected one tile.
- This shows all tiles which are free and match the selected tile.
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- The Main Menu.
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- These are very straight forward as they do exactly what they say.
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- Choose Game allows you to choose which game you wish to play.
- Choose tiles allows you to select the sets of tiles you wish to use in
- the game. The fourth column contains the special cases.
- Play Game (nuff said)
- Quit (You really want to know?)
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- On the choose tile screen each column has "Choose X" written below it.
- You must click on X boxes in each column.
- Click on finished when you have done this.
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- Right...that wraps up the instructions....Now it's time for.....
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- TECHNICAL DETAILS!!!
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- This game was written in Amos version 1.35 and compiled with V1.35.
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- This is supposed to make it compatable with all Amigas currently available.
- If it doesn't work on your machine I would be very interested to know.
-
- The graphics were all drawn using DPaint III.
-
- This game uses an awful lot of chip Ram. The reason is quite simple.
- EVERY Tile is a bob. The reason for this is because it is very fast
- (remember I used Amos) and because I only started writing this game as a
- joke and that was the simplest way.
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- I have done my best to make sure the game is as user friendly as possible.
- If you enjoy playing the game as much as I do than please send in the
- Shareware registration fee and I will be eternally grateful that I didn't
- waste my time. Remember to send your name and address so that we can
- post you a disk containing Shanghai 93+ which has extra tile sets to
- choose from and extra levels to infuriate you.
-
- If I get a good response to this game I will write and release a version
- with a level editor.
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- Please send any ideas for improving the game along with the money. (I may
- even implement them before sending you the update.)
-
- Oh well....thats enough waffle on my part....THIS IS A GAME...
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- GO AND PLAY IT!
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- Jim.
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