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Use F2 and F3, or the
mouse, to open the windows.
Use the up and down arrows
or the mouse to select an
option, then press ENTER,
or click the mouse, to
activate your choice.
Press F4, or click on the
place name, to see
information about a place.
When you need help with a
window, F1 will sometimes
help you. When you have
finished with a window,
press ESCape, or click the
mouse anywhere outside
the window.
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Player
New game
Save this game
Change colours
Sound on/off
Top ten players
Go to demo mode
Leave Gumboots
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The CONTROL window allows
you to control how the game
is played. If you want to
do something new in this
game, use the PLAY window.
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New player,
please type in your name:
>
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Just type in your name and press
ENTER. You can only have twenty
letters in your name. The disk
will be checked to see if you
have played before, and if you
have, the game you were playing
last time will be loaded.
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Your game has been saved on the
disk, #.
You will be able to finish it
next time you play.
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Palettes
Background
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You can change all the colours on
the screen (the palette), or just
the background colour. The best
combinations for a colour screen
are light cyan, light magenta,
white with a blue background, or
light green, light red, yellow
with a dark grey background.
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Light green, light red, yellow
Light cyan, light magenta, white
Green, red, brown
Cyan, magenta, light gray
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Some palettes will look
good, some won't. It might
help to fiddle with the
brightness and contrast
controls on your screen.
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black
blue
green
cyan
red
magenta
brown
light grey
dark grey
light blue
light green
light cyan
light red
light magenta
yellow
white
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Some background colours will
make the screen unreadable.
Just experiment until you find
the best one. It might help
to fiddle with the controls
on your screen.
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Sound is
now
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=====  GUMBOOTS TOP TEN  =====
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No, stay in Gumboots
Yes, leave Gumboots
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You are about to leave Gumboots,
and will be returned to DOS, the
Disk Operating System. If you
don't know anything about DOS,
you won't know what to do.
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(I) Investigate
(G) Go to a new place
(E) Extend your deadline
(A) Apply for a job
(R) Read your instructions
(L) Look at your notes
(S) Search the database
(B) Big map
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The PLAY menu gives you the
choices you have when you are
playing a game. You can use
these choices without opening
this menu by just pressing the
hot keys listed in brackets
next to each of the choices.
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< < <   UP   > > >








< < <  DOWN  > > >
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Use the arrow keys or the
mouse to choose the place
you want to go to. To see
more places, press the
arrow keys or hold down the
mouse button on UP or DOWN,
or you can press the first
letter of a place's name.
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How do you want to travel?
I don't want to go
car
bus
plane
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Read about this new place before
you decide to go. You don't want
to spend all your money going to
places you don't need to go to.
Also, check the costs to see if
you can afford to get there,and
the times to see if you have time
to get there.
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Careful - you are already in
@.
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You have finished this
game, and you will now
go on to the next game.
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You don't have any notes,
because you haven't found
any clues yet!
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<     <     <   UP   >     >     >







<     <     <  DOWN  >     >     >
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If you start a new game, you will
lose all the money you have earned
in this game. The early games are
easier, and they get harder as you
go on to the later games. You can
choose to go backwards and start
playing some of the easier games,
or go forwards to the harder ones.
You can restart the game you are
playing now from the beginning if
you want to.
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Are you sure?
No, I've changed my mind
Yes, start this new game
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You have already solved
this game,
#.
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Hi, #!
You will now be able to resume
the game you were on last time
you played Gumboots.
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G'day, ^.
It looks like you haven't played
before, so you can start with
game 1. Good luck.
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You can't do this
while Gumboots is
in demonstration
mode. Open the
CONTROL window and
choose PLAYER.
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You don't have
enough money
to do this!
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You don't have
enough time to
do this!
*
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The game is
already in
demo mode!
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This name is your name,
#!
*
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Your game is being
saved on the disk.
Please wait ...
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If you extend the deadline,
your bonus points will be
reduced by one.
No, I don't want to do this
Yes, extend my deadline
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Watch out ...
Something is going
to happen !!!
*
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Look at the time,
#.
Your deadline has expired!
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The CES in @
offers you these suitable jobs:
      JOB              DAILY RATE  DAYS



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Work out how much you will
earn from each job. Make
sure you have enough time
to complete the job you
choose by your deadline.
Also, highly paid jobs are
harder to get than lowly
paid jobs.
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PLACE:
TIME:
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You can't extend the
deadline because you
have plenty of time
left.
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There are no
players saved
on this disk.
*
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Congratulations!
Your application
was successful.
*
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Bad luck,
#.
You didn't get this job.
Try again if you want to.
*
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You earned
$
this job.
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You receive your final payment
of $@ for completing the
task, plus your $100 for each
bonus point you have left. This
adds $# to your bankroll.
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You have solved all of these
games, @.
If you want to play them
again, type in a new name and
start again as a new player.
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<  <  <  UP  >  >  >







<  <  < DOWN >  >  >
*
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Use the arrow keys or the
mouse to choose your name,
then click or press Enter.
To see more players, press
the arrow keys or hold down
the mouse button on UP or
DOWN. If your name is not
there, choose New player.
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There is no room for
you on this disk,
^.
You will have to remove
one of the old players
from the disk.
*
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<  <  <  UP  >  >  >




<  <  < DOWN >  >  >
*
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Use the arrow keys or
the mouse to choose
the player you want to
remove from the disk.
*
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Are you sure?
No, I want to remove someone else
Yes, remove
*
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Please type in
your keyword:
>
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Just type in your keyword
and press ENTER. You can
only have twelve letters
in it. The data base will
be checked to see if your
keyword is in it, and you
will be shown the relevant
information. You will be
charged $20 for each
search. Press Esc, or
click outside the window,
if you have finished with
the database.
*
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Searching the database
 ... please wait ...
*
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Keep searching?
Yes, keep going
No, stop the search
*
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The search has
reached the end
of the database.
*
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You can't do
this while you
are travelling.
*
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You have already been here,
#.
*
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This is the same game as
you are playing now.
No, don't restart this game
Yes, start this game again
*
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Loading @
from the disk. Please wait ...
*
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Having trouble writing
to the games disk. This
may be because the disk
is write-protected, or
because someone has
saved some extra files
on the games disk and
the disk is full.
*
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Loading a picture
from the disk.
Please wait ...
*
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Loading data
from the disk.
Please wait ...
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