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3 E.T.X. 2 ETX MANUAL(# 1 h: [2Vj:%[2Uj 1 etx speech 1 dRxQoH:![/ 1 W PLAYER : 1 VPRESS ANYTHING 1 THE GAMES PEOPLE 1 START THE TAPE 1 PROUDLY BRING HOME TO YOU 1 PLEASE WAIT 1 INSTRUCTION MANUAL COMING UP!... 1 HIRING IS PROHIBITED 1 ETX SPEECH HANDLER 1 ETX INSTRUCTION MANUAL 1 COPYING, LENDING, OR 1 BY PLAYER 1 1 BREAK AND 1 1 ANOTHER ROUND (Y/N)? 1 > < TOTAL: 1 =THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1 ;"to execute power." 1 ;"________"''" You are ETX and the game starts when you are teleported down to Earth."''" Earth consists of sixteen different landscapes, only one of which appears on the screen at any one time. Fourteen of thelandscapes are pitted with deep alien-traps into which you may fall." 1 ;"THE GAME"; 1 ;"THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL"; 1 ;"PRESENT"; 1 ;"INSTRUCTIONS,PRESS ANY KEY" 1 ;":2000"'"Television"; 1 ;"21 to 30 fruits:3pts" 1 ;"11 to 20 fruits:2pts"' 1 ;"***PLEASE PRESS ANY KEY***" 1 ;"****THE GAMES PEOPLE****"; 1 ;"*****END OF MANUAL*****"'''" Would you like to read this manual again (Y/N)?" 1 ;" The speech has loaded. Pleasewind the cassette tape on to theend, turn it over and restart the player." 1 1CHOOSE GAME: 1 1 THE PROF. & ERNIE 1 1 THE MI5 AGENT & ERNIE 1 1 JUST ERNIE 1 ''''" Welcome to ETX. This game willproduce a large vocabulary of real speech. Unfortuanately,due to the large amount of memory necessary to store the speech ETX will only speak on a 48K Spectrum." 1 ''"Energy is deducted as follows...": 1 ''" If you are successful,you willbe offered another round. Your total score is carried over fromthe round before. The total is calculated thus:" 1 ''" Could these faint traces be the first signs of a primitive civilisation on another planet?"'"ETX and his research team were despatched to investigate." 1 ''" A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Xargon receivers detected very faint electromag- netic radiation which they foundto be originating from Earth andlater decoded it to be a mashed carbohydrate promotional trans- mission." 1 '"The zones and symbols are.......": 1 '"+ Remaining energy."''" 1 '" You lose 30 points every time you execute a power, and gain 300 points for eating a fruit."''" If your energy count reaches zero, then Ernie will come alongand fuse with you, reincarnatingyou with 9999 energy points. He can only do this 3 times though,after which the game is over andyou have failed."; 1 '" You have an energy count whichappears at the top-left corner of the screen. At the beginning of each round you have the max- imum of 9999 energy points. You will lose energy every time you move, and since fruit has mass, the more you carry, the faster you lose energy."; 1 '" You have a 48K Spectrum.Pleasestart up your tape player and I will load the speech." 1 '" Note that you lose twice as much energy for going twice as fast." 1 '" ETX can be controlled with a Kempston Electronics joystick, an AGF joystick (using PLAYER 1)or with these keys:": 1 '" You have a 16K ZX-Spectrum. Please wind the cassette on to the end, turn it over and press ""PLAY""" 1 '" The other two areas are the forest in which you land and from which you will be rescued, and the city where the other three characters live." 1 '" The Prof. has a chair in med-icine and is nothing more than a continual nuisance to you. He will try to catch you and take you back to his lab. for study. Once he has caught you,you can'tescape until you reach the lab.." 1 '" The MI5 agent is a very evil human if ever there was. He has a gun, wears a trilby and will try to take things from you." 1 '" Scattered about on the groundyou will find various pieces of fruit. Since ETX is a vegeterianyou can pick up this fruit to eat at a later date." 1 '" Ernie is your friend. He is alittle boy to whom you become very close, and as an expressionof your feelings you may call him and give him some fruit. He can accept up to ten fruits (he is only little and cannot carry any more), and if you give him ten then he will give you one ofthe transmitter pieces."; 1 '" Each of the 15 types of powerzone is allocated a symbol,whichwill appear between the ""> <"" atthe centre of the top line on the screen." 1 '" ETX is left to fend for him- self:-he is alone and several billion muons from home."''" In order to get home he must construct a special transmitter so that he can phone home for a ship to rescue him." 1 "cathode ray apparatus, better known to the humans as a T.V., a children's bicycle, and a flower. These items are valuableon Xarg and you will gain bonus points for taking them home withyou." 1 "________________________________" 1 "Each fruit given to Ernie:500"'"Each fruit taken home :400"'"Flower taken home :1000 Bicycle"; 1 "ETX-THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL XARGON" 1 "ETX MANUAL" 1 "Carrying 0 to 10 fruits:1pt"' 1 "''" The best score is printed in the bottom-left corner. A ""*"" inthe top-left corner means the current player achieved this." 1 "'" 6 A"''" 0 1 " Your to-tal score increases for every fruit you give him.": 1 " If you are carrying any fruit,then he will take that and eat it. If you have no fruit, then he will take your lowest-valued treasure from you. If you don't even have any treasure on you, then he will take one of your transmitter components and hide it back in one of the wells." 1 " These other three characters are the Mad Professor (people call him ""The Prof.""), The MI5 agent, and Ernie, who befriends you and can sometimes help you." 1 " The earth is divided further into 1408 different zones. Eachof these zones will either be empty or will be a special powerzone. When you are in one of thepower zones you can execute one of your special powers by using one of your long power fingers." 1 " The main aim of the game is to find the three pieces of the transmitter, and then to phone home for a rescue craft."''" The transmitter components can be found hidden in differentwells on earth. Also to be foundin these wells are three pieces of typical humanoid habitat:-a" 1 " On attaining earth orbit, ETXis teleported down to earth to prepare the way for the landing party. Suddenly the Starship Mayflower receives an urgent telex and is called away by the Supreme Federation Council,whichhas been sitting on a Saturday for the first event in several time states." 1 " In the game you play the partof ETX, the Extra-Terrestrial Xargon."; 1 " ETX is an adventure/graphic arcade game utilising every byteof computing power in your ZX Spectrum." 1 " ETX has been sent to Earth asthe leader of a scientific research party by order of the Supreme Federation Council of the planet Xarg." 1 TO RESET HISCORE 1 TO MOVE ONTO EACH PAGE OF"; 1 TO END GAME 1 FOR PLAYER 1 DAVID M. WEBB,1983 *" 1 DAVID M. WEBB,1983 1 DAVID M. WEBB, 1983 1 DAVID M. WEBB ,1983 1 BOTTOM for extra speed or"; 1 THE TELE-EXIT zone. You must be here for the rescue ship to beam you up. If you have not arrived when the countdown gets to zero,then the ship will leavewithout you. The tele-exit zone is always in the forest." 1 POWERJUMP zones. When one of the arrow symbols appear you mayjump in the indicated direction to one of the eight adjacent landscapes. This is particularlyuseful when running away from the Prof. or the MI5 agent, but don't forget:-you may end up in a well!" 1 PHONE HOME zone. You must find this zone in order to call for a rescue ship. You can only phone home if the transmitter iscomplete. Having phoned home,youwill see and hear a countdown ofthe 99 time states during which you have to find...." 1 FEEDING zone. When you are here you may eat one or more of the pieces of fruit that you have collected." 1 E.S.P. (Extra-Sensory Percep-tion) zone. Executing this powerwill make any of the wells in the current landscape that hold a transmitter component shimmer for a short time." 1 CALL ERNIE zone. Use this to call Ernie. He will only come when any other humans have gone back to the city." 1 ANTIMION SHIELD zone. Using power in this zone will send theProf. or the MI5 agent back to the city if he happens to be at large." 1 ANTI-GRAVITY zone. When you are in a well you must use your A.G. finger to float out onto terra firma. While you are stillfloating you will lose energy." 1 ALL UNAUTHORISED