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Playing The Game With A Mouse

If you have a mouse, playing this game is simplicity itself. While you are using

the main interface, you can do all of the following by pointing and clicking:

MOVE AROUND from place to place by single-clicking on the com

passrose or the directional buttons next to it. Legitimate exits from your

current location are always highlighted. Double-clicking on an exit that

is pictured in the graphics window will move you through that exit.

EXAMINE objects by single-clicking on them in the graphics window.

Take them by double-clicking.

TALK TO characters you meet in the game by double-clicking on them

in the graphics window.

CUSTOMIZE the interface by clicking on the command buttons in the

upper left hand comer of the screen.

You can build game commands using the menus on the left hand side of the

screen or you can type them in.

If you choose to type, you will see the words

that you have typed appear on the command line in the story window on the

screen. Press <ENTER> to execute a command. For more on how to build

commands, read the next two paragraphs and refer to the sections entitled

Talking to the Game and Game Commands and their Abbreviations.

At several points in the game you will find yourself interacting with different

screen interfaces including a raft control panel and some “games-within-a-

game”. To operate the raft, simply click on a succession of spots to ‘lead” the

raft to its destination. Click only on the open waterways or on the islands them-

selves. Clicking on the destination alone will not cause the raft to travel there.

You must make a series of clicks to lead the raft through the twists and turns of

the swamp’s waterways.

BUILDING COMMANDS WITH THE MENUS

A single-click on a word in the verb menu will place that word on the command

line. The verb menu will then be replaced by a preposition menu that lists the

prepositions you may use with the verb you have just selected. At this point you

can select one of those prepositions, select a word from the object menu, or exe-

cute your command by clicking on the DO button.

Naturally, we have built in some short-cuts.

If you know prior to clicking on a

word that it will be the last word in your command, you can double-click on it and

your command will be executed. Or, if you’ve already clicked on the last word in

your command and you do not want to move the mouse up to the DO button.

just double-click on the last word and the command will be executed. Another

short-cut is to select a verb from the menu and then single-click on an object in

the picture in the graphics window.

FINDING WORDS QUICKLY

Because the menus sometimes contain many words, we have also included a

few

short-cuts

for getting to words that are not currently displayed on the menu.

You can click in the grey area to the right of each menu to rapidly move up or

down in that menu. (If there is no grey area. the entire menu is visible.) You can

click on the elevator box in the column to the right of each menu and drag the

box down while holding down the mouse button.

An even faster method is to hold down the <SHIFT> key on the keyboard and

then press the first letter of the word you want. The highlight bar will then jump

to the first word starting with that letter. You can also use the <HOME> and

<END> keys on the keyboard to jump to the top or the bottom of the list, or the

<PGDN> and <PGUP> keys to move quickly up or down the list.

NOTES

To remove the last word from the command line, click on ERASE.

Double-clicking on an object in the graphics window is intended to “do the obvi-

ous thing” with that object.

For example, climb stairs, eat food, turn off lamp, etc.

If you are using the mouse and you want to type, go ahead.

However, once you

have begun typing on the command line, you cannot go back to using the mouse

until that command has been executed or erased.

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