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There are presently two games supplied free with Trellis; The Sacred Pyramid
(!Pyramid) and The Purple Crystal of the Heavens (!Crystal)
Both of these games started life on the Acorn Electron in the late eighties,
and were originally supplied on a 5.25" disk for the BBC along with the BBC
version of Escape from Exeria. The version of Escape from Exeria that was
written for the 32 bit computers also had the BBC versions of these two
games supplied with it, which could be run with !65Host.
When the first version of Trellis was written for the 32 bit Acorn
Computers, The Sacred Pyramid was used as a means of making sure it worked.
Since then, with every change to the Trellis software that game has been
rewritten accordingly. Now that a version of Trellis is available for
release, the other game has also been brought to life on the new hardware.
(For the benefit of those of you who have bought the 32 bit version of
Escape from Exeria, and those who have the BBC version and have now moved
over to the newer machines, both adventure games have been changed so that
your old solutions no longer work. So there!)
I recommend that you play these two games to death (or, at least, play them
until you no longer want to) before referring to their files as examples of
how to use Trellis. If you look first and play later, the games will be much
easier to solve. They aren't that difficult anyway, so there should be no
need to do this for the purposes of cheating!
Your basic instructions for the games are as follows:-
The Sacred Pyramid
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To load the game, double click on the !Pyramid icon. You will be presented
with a simple title screen. Press the space bar to start playing the game.
This is the simpler of the two games. You have somehow managed to get
yourself locked inside a pyramid, and must find a way out.
You play the game by entering simple one or two word commands, like NORTH,
or TAKE DIAMOND. In some cases you might need to use more than two words,
such as PUT DIAMOND ON PEDESTAL.
You can't use abbreviations, and you can't enter more than one command at
the same time.
You can get a little help by typing HELP. If you want help about a
particular thing, for example the diamond, use HELP DIAMOND. (The software
will only give you help on that thing if you have it or can see it.)
The Purple Crystal of the Heavens
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To load the game, double click on the !Crystal icon. You will be presented
with a simple title screen. Press the space bar to start playing the game.
This is the larger of the two games. You are a new member of the crew on The
Stormy Sea, a pirate ship. The captain has given you a task, in order that
you can prove to be a worthy member of his crew - you have to find The
Purple Crystal of the Heavens. You start the game having been put on the
shore of an island.
You play the game by entering simple one or two word commands, like NORTH,
or EAT APPLE. In some cases you might need to use more than two words, such
as THROW CUTLASS AT SERPENT.
You can't use abbreviations, and you can't enter more than one command at
the same time.
You can get a little help by typing HELP. This will tell you where you are
in the game, in terms of the location number, which will help you to map the
game. Help has not been provided for individual objects.
As Examples
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The games, as provided, demonstrate everything covered in the instructions
for Trellis, and more besides.
The Sacred Pyramid, being smaller and less complicated, is the best game to
use as an example. Being simpler, the TScript program runs quicker than the
equivalent in the other game. For this reason there are more REM statements
in !Pyramid than in !Crystal:-
!Pyramid has a remark at the start of each group of lines that make up a
routine in the script file, whereas !Crystal only has a remark that
separates the different sections of the script. Therefore, the script for
!Pyramid is far easier to understand than the one from !Crystal.
A map has been provided for !Pyramid in the form of a Draw file. This is
located in the directory 'Extras'. The text on the map uses the Trinity
font, which you should find in your !Fonts directory (the Trinity font
should have been supplied with your computer.)
Finally
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I hope you enjoy playing these games, and that you are able to use Trellis
productively.
Good Luck.