File name: CHRONO.DOC CHRONO-QUEST A fantastic adventure game................ Unjustly charged with the murder of your father, you go on a frantic spatiotemporal trip in search of the true culprit. Before his death, your father, an eminent scientist, had successfully developed and tested a fantastic time machine... The letter he sent you has many clues which may help you in your quest. Dear Son, When this letter reaches you I fear I will have perished at the hands of greedy men. I leave you the family chateau and what's left of the family fortune. The latter has reduced a great deal since your departure. In order to forget the circumstances in which you left I invested all my time and money in my last experiment. It was the start of a fantastic adventure--which may prove to be the cause of my death. That experiment was to find a way of travelling in time. After more than ten years research I finally succeeded in perfecting the machine that would allow my dreams to come true--EXPLORA. With this machine I took numerous trips in time to different ages and lands. I know that you will take me for a senile old fool, but what follows will prove my sanity. During a trip to the future of 1987 I discovered a fantastic machine called a computer and brought back two samples that will prove I haven't gone out of my mind. You will find them in the machine room. Soon I began to run out of money. To continue my research I was forced to bring back treasures form each journey and sell them to unscrupulous dealers. Unfortunately my servant Richard found out and I had to dismiss him. This vile character still lurks around the chateau and spies on me. I am obliged to hide in order to carry on my work and I fear for my life. I decided on a plan, to transport myself into the future, the year 2125. However, just before my intended departure Richard discovered the secret of the time machine and stole the program. If you find this letter I will probably be dead. YOU MUST FIND RICHARD and avenge my death. You must bring him to justice. What follows are notes on the time zones I visited.j The time machine will have returned and I have hidden all the necessary programs in the chateau. The final program that will take you to the future has been broken up and scattered in the other 4 time zones. PREHISTORY--33172 BC, we are in the middle of the upper Palaeolithic era, improperly called the "Stone Age". Useful tools have still not been invented so you must survive with brain and hands. Evidence of man's development is found in their cave dwellings. The cave paintings are basic and crude and seem somehow out of place. THE CHATEAU--1922 AD, your long journey will start in this magnificent Loire chateau. You must locate the secret room where I built the time machine. The payload is limited so be careful what you take with you into the unknown. INDIA--1605 AD, the beginning of Jahangir's reign. The empire reaches its peak but leprosy decimates the population. This is the most contagious of diseases. Be careful for you will inevitably meet with the carriers of this disease. You may marvel at the splendour of the forest from your privileged position on elephant back. Find the Holy Temple and you will be rewarded. MEXICO--750 AD, the decline of the Maya civilisation is underway. The Sun God will be most helpful in your quest to gain access to the temple of Chichen Itza. Beware the energy sapping heat will only allow you so many moves through the jungle or so much time. Follow all the directions you are given very carefully. The plush vegetation conceals many clues...this is the most difficult land you will visit..understand well what I have told you. EGYPT--1100 BC, the twentieth dynasty defends Egypt in the face of the Indo-European advance.j Brave the arid deserts and find the pyramid. This pyramid holds the sacred remnants of the powerful Pharaohs. The mazes are tricky so plot your course well. THE FUTURE--2125 AD. Paris is no more the capital of France. You will discover a model society where order and justice prevail. Due to the nature of this place all conventional forms of direction finding are useless. You must go on courage alone... You must explore the various lands in a VERY PRECISE order to avoid the most demon like traps and use your sharpest wits to recover the four pieces of the missing magnetic card to take you into the future. There lurks the evil culprit....but how will you recognise him...YOU MUST FIND RICHARD......... Good Luck........... If you have a second drive attached to your ST use Icon no. 11 (External Drives) for the data disk position to be drive A or B. If you have a hard disk in your system copy all the files on data disks 2 and 3 to the hard disk. Use the boot disk to start-up which will then be replaced by data disk 1. SAVE GAME To use the load and save game features you will need a previously formatted disk.