S O L E A U S O F T W A R E presents SQUAREX v1.2 ______________________ Program by William Soleau (c) 1994-1996 Visit us on the Web and download our latest games for DOS and Windows at: http://www.soleau.com Shareware Version Requires: EGA/VGA Requires Files: Squarex.ov1 Squarex.ov2 Squarex.ov3 Squarex.ov4 Squarex.ov5 Squarex.ov6 Squarex.ov7 Squarex.ov8 Squarex.jft Squarex1.jft Squarex2.jft Squarex3.jft SQUAREX DIRECTIONS _______________________ OBJECTIVE The objective of Squarex is to capture all the gray squares on the game board by maneuvering your yellow cube around each one. GAME PLAY When the game begins, your yellow cube will be blinking in the upper left hand corner of the board. At the bottom right side of the board, there are orange cubes trying to catch you as you move around the puzzle. Use your <Arrow Keys> to move your yellow cube around the board. You DO NOT have to keep your hand pressing down on the arrow keys. Your yellow cube will continue in the direction you choose until it hits the side of the board or until you change its direction by pressing another arrow key. Once your yellow cube has passed an intersection, it can not change its direction until it reaches the next intersection. If your yellow cube cannot move in the direction you have selected because there is not path, then it will stop until you choose a valid direction. When you can maneuver your cube completely around one of the gray squares, it will then change to green. To complete a level, you must keep moving around the board until you have turned all the gray squares to green. On some levels there are blue squares. These are blank squares and DO NOT count towards your score. When your yellow cube moves, it will leave a red trail behind it. This will allow you to know where you have already been. OBJECTS At the start of each level there will be one 100 Point Square. If you can capture this square first, then you will have 100 points added to your score. If you capture any other square before this one, it will disappear from the game board and you will not get the extra 100 bonus points. PINK CUBES On various levels there are pink cubes which are located at different places along the passageways. The orange cubes that are chasing you cannot pass through these, but you can. When you do reach a pink cube, the orange cubes will turn light blue. As long as the orange cubes are light blue, you can capture them and get extra points. You have about 15 seconds before they will change back to orange and start chasing you again. ORANGE CUBES The orange cubes will always try to catch you as you move around the board. On some levels there is only one orange cube when you begin, on others there are more. Every 30 seconds, another orange cube will emerge from the lower right hand side of the board. At the beginning levels, the orange cubes move at 1/2 the speed of your yellow cube. On higher levels, they both move at the same speed. BONUS ROUNDS Every 2500 points you will get a special bonus round. There will be no gray grids on the board, but when you make a square with your yellow cube, the square will turn to green. If you can turn all the entire black board to green squares, then a special Extra Cube square will appear somewhere on the board. If you capture this special square, then you will be given an extra yellow cube. YELLOW CUBES When you begin a new game, you will be given 4 cubes to start with. If you lose all your cubes, then the game will be over. At the lower left hand side of the board, it will tell you how many extra cubes you have left, not counting the one you are playing with. LEVELS / PRACTICE You can practice any level by pressing the pra<C>tice key. This will end the present game and allow you to go directly to one of the levels. No scores are recorded while using this option. There are a total of 7 levels of play in the Shareware version of Squarex. The Registered version features 35 levels of play, plus a Save & Load Game feature that you access through the <O>ption menu. TIME LIMIT There is a two minute time limit on all levels. If you do not complete the level within this time, then you will lose one of your yellow cubes. SCORING If you complete a level you will be given 25 points for each of the green squares you captured. You will also be given Level Bonus Points which are (25 points * Level). Time Bonus Points are added to your score for each second under the two minutes it took you to complete the level (one point for each second). When the orange cubes are changed to light blue, you get 50 points for the capturing the first cube. If you capture 2 light blue cubes you get 100 points for the second one, 150 points for the third one...etc SQUAREX KEYS <H>ELP = Game Directions <N>EW GAME = Begins New Game PRA<C>TICE = Allows You To Practice A Level <O>PTIONS = Brings Up Option Menu <P>AUSE = Pauses Game <Q>UIT = Quits Program OPTION MENU KEYS <S>OUND = Toggle Sound (On/Off) S<O>LEAU = Games By Soleau Software <H>IGH SCORES = Shows Squarex Scoreboard <S>AVE GAME = Saves Present Game (Reg.Version Only) <L>OAD GAME = Loads Saved Game (Reg.Version Only) <E>XIT OPTION = Exits Option Menu * NOTE WINDOWS USERS * Running Squarex from Windows may cause unexpected results. The game should be played by loading it directly from the DOS prompt. * S O L E A U S O F T W A R E * Squarex is distributed as Shareware. You are welcome to give this game to your friends or local BBS. If you like Squarex and continue to use it, we ask you to register the game with us. Soleau Software depends on your registrations in order to continue providing an alternative to expensive commercial software. The registered version of Squarex greatly speeds up the loading and exiting of the program, plus gives you * THIRTY-FIVE * levels of play! There is also a special Save & Load game feature which allows you to save a game in progress and return to it at a later time. Your $12.00 registration of Squarex will instantly make you a Soleau Software Member. All members receive special discounts on our other games through special bonus package offers sent with your disk. Members also have the option to include an extra $6.00 dollars for our Member Game Pack which has EIGHT of our most popular Shareware EGA/VGA games on a High Density Floppy Disk. This offer is for Members Only, so please take the time to read the Sqrx_reg.doc file for details and register Squarex today ! For more descriptions of some other Soleau Software Games, please see the Solsoft.doc file. We at Soleau Software thank you for your support and hope you will continue to enjoy this as well as our other Shareware products. Sincerely, William Soleau President Soleau Software 163 Amsterdam Avenue Suite 213 New York, NY 10023
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