STAR QUEST - CHURCH ARMY RESOURCE CENTRE

FAMILY ADVENTURE GAME

A computer adventure inspired by a famous journey.

Some friends of yours, astronomers by profession, have persuaded you
to join them on a long quest following, so they say, a new star which
has recently appeared in the Western sky. You are to meet them in a
secret room in the Eastern city of Babylon; but hurry, even now you
may be too late....

STAR QUEST        Copyright Church Army 1984

PLAYING STAR QUEST

The computer will act as your guide and interpreter throughout the
game, and will accept your instructions in the form of a verb/noun
combination.

Examples of this are 'take carrot', 'go West', etc.

Multiple statements such as 'take the carrot and then go West' will
not be understood so well.

Part of the fun of Star Quest is to discover which words will work,
but here, to get you started, are some of the most important ones:

N,S,E,W    These letters can be used as abbreviations for directions.
           For example, typing 'e' will have exactly the same affect
           as 'east' or 'go east'.

INVE.      This is short for INVENTORY, and will print a list of your
           current possessions, and the amount of silver you have
           left.

HELP.      Try this one if you are really stuck, you will not always
           receive a useful answer, but who knows?

LOOK.      This command will reprint a description of your present
           location.

STOP.      This will terminate the game if you do not wish to continue.

SAVE.      This useful facility allows you to preserve the current
           state of play, you may wish to use this if you are about to
           do something risky, or even if it is simply time to go to
           bed! You will need a spare cassette on which to SAVE your
           progress.

LOAD.      The complementary instruction to SAVE. LOAD the main
           programme as usual and when the first location appears,
           type LOAD and then follow the on screen instructions.


LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

Insert a cassette into your tape recorder and connect a lead from the
EAR socket on the Spectrum to the EAR socket on the recorder.

Set the tape recorder volume to approximately 3/4 and tone controls to
maximum treble. Type LOAD and then press the ENTER key.

Start the tape recorder and then press any key.

If the programme fails to load, alter the volume setting slightly.

SOME HINTS

Remember to use the verb/noun combination, your Spectrum will
understand this best.

If a command does not have a desired effect, don't give up, try
putting it another way.

Above all, think carefully about situation you encounter, simply
rushing off into the distance will mean missing many opportunities and
clues.

To avoid disappointment, do not attempt to BREAK into the programme,
it is likely to CRASH.