T H E G A M E P L A Y E R ' S D O C S January 7, 1991 Welcome to The Game Player's Docs series of game documenation disks. As an Amiga game collector since 1985 and former arcade game programmer, I've found it quite difficult to play many Amiga games without documentation. While many games seem simple to play, you don't always know what the object of the game is, and often there are hidden features within the game. Besides many newer Amiga games are becoming more complex, and you will never figure them out without documentation. Also, with these docs you may discover many older games that you overlooked, especially among newer Amiga owners who just see certain titles advertised in the mazazines or those sold in the computer stores. There are hundreds of classic games just two or three years old, but worth playing. Look for used copies for sale at your local user group. People tire of games and often sell them for under ten dollars. I've been collecting docs disks seriously within the last two years. The files on many of these disks are in random order, often duplicates or obviously taken off BBSs or services like PeopleLink or Compuserve with junk embedded within them. I attempted to sort and clean up the worst of the mess. INITIAL RELEASE DISK SET Disk #1 Arcade Adventures Disk #2 Arcade Adventures (Continued) Simulation Games Board & Card Games Disk #3 Adventure Games Disk #4 Adventure Games (Continued) Disk #5 Flight Simulators Disk #6 Flight Simulators (Continued) War & Diplomacy Games Commando & Ninja Games Disk #7 Game Cheats Arcade Games Puzzle Games Disk #8 Fantasy & Role Playing Games Disk #9 Fantasy & Role Playing Games (Continued) Disk #10 Fantasy & Role Playing Games (Continued) Race Games Strategy Games (Continued) Disk #11 Strategy Games Disk #12 Shoot-em'up Games Disk #13 Sports The files on these 13 initial disk contain more than 7.6 megabytes of compressed text and pic files. The files on these disks are arranged by game type; i.e. Adventure game, Flight Simulators, War games, etc. For example in adventure games, you might find the docs and the solutions, codes or Pics needed to play the game. Everything diplays automatically just by clicking on the items on the menu. Menu Selector uses PPmore and PPshow to display the Powerpacked files. PPMore is menu driven by commands at the bottom of the screen. A word of caution! PPmore should be exited via QUIT, not by closing the window button. While it may not seem to matter, PPmore sometimes crashes when the close box is used to exit repeatedly. I've included a text file called `DocsPrintInstructions' on several of my disks. It is an improtant file since PPMore, which reads and un- crunches the files, prints exactly what you see in a 78 column format. Many files were typed in 80 columns and PPMore wraps the end of longer lines to the next line with mostly blank space. There are alternative methods to print those files. Read file! PPShow does not have a print option. You should use Powerpacker, in- cluded on several of these disks (see C directory) to uncrunch the Pics and then after saving them to another disk, load them in a paint program and use that program to print them out. I've included a listing on each of the initial disks that tell you where each doc file is located. I've also included a list of missing doc files that I hope users will supply for future disks. If you own one of these programs, I hope you will type in the essential instructions, like object of game, controls, etc. Someone must have a scanner out there ( for IBM and Macs) since some of these files are 100K long uncrunched. If you have acess to Compuserve, download their many solves. And if you are really lazy and you have the docs, send a Xerox of the entire manual. Postcard Man Send material on disk or Xerox copy to: Venice Postcard Company 3710 Pacific Avenue. #16 Venice, Califoria 90291 (213) 821- 2425 (That is Pacific time - 3 hours earlier for those who live in the east. No answering machine.)