Please read the game's own !Help file (available
by choosing "Help" from the filer menu) and any
other ReadMe files supplied.

If you've previously used a different port of the
game then you'll find some important information in
the !Help file.

Once in the game you can use the '?' command to
access the on-line help.

The "font-acn/prf" file supplied can be put in the
!<game>.Lib.User directory to get the game to use
IBM graphics characters for walls, etc.  Make sure
that you use a font that has these characters if you
intend to use this file ;)


IMPORTANT:

The game uses a lot of files whose names (in the UNIX world)
have 'dot extensions', eg. "news.txt".  Under RISC OS, these
names are translated by subsituting a '/' for the '.', so when
the game wants to use the file "news.txt" the actual file
used will be "news/txt".

Early-ish versions of SparkPlug (2.23 and earlier, possibly also
2.24 - I'm not sure) can unfortunately extract these files with
the wrong names: where "news.txt" should be extracted as "news/txt"
they will extract it as "news_txt".  This will stop the game from
working.

If, upon running the game after dearchiving with SparkPlug, you
get a series of error messages along the lines of: "Cannot access the
blahblahblah.news/txt file" / "The lib directory is probably missing or
broken" / "Perhaps the archive was not extracted properly", culminating
in a "Fatal Error" then the chances are that your copy of SparkPlug
has mangled the filenames as described.

Despair not:  In the archive there should be two obey files, !DeMunge
and !DeMunge10.  One of these should fix the filenames.  Which one
you should use depends on the filing system you are using:

If you're using a filing system that supports filenames longer than 10
letters (eg. NFS, RISC OS 4, raFS, etc), then you should use the !DeMunge
file. This file is also suitable for RISC OS 3 machines that have
"Truncate" configured on (ie. almost all of them :)

On the other hand, !DeMunge10 is suitable for any system that has a limit
of 10 characters of filenames, eg. RISC OS 2, RISC OS 3 using ADFS, etc.



Have fun,
Musus Umbra, 1998.