
                         Ped Xing's Quest - Typosoft


Welcome to Ped Xing's Quest
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Ped Xing's Quest is a creation of Typosoft, run by Michael Dowling.
This is the release of the game.  A lot of hard work and a good number
of months went into making this game.

Typosoft is run by Michael Dowling, a resident of Lousiana in the US.
Michael's brother Brian does most of the graphics and storyline. Michael
does all the programming.

There are two game EXE files, pedxing and nosound.  Run nosound if you
encounter any problems with sound or crashing.

Playing the Game
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The gameplay in Ped Xing's Quest is simple.  To talk to people just rub
against them.  To enter a doorway just walk into it.  To read a sign or
make use of a gong just rub against it.


Saving and Loading
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When you save your game, it saves as of the first time you walked onto that
screen.  If you partially solve a puzzle and then save it, it will reload
when you first entered that screen.


Controls
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ARROWS.......Move Ped Xing
CTRL.........Shoot
SPACE........Summon
ENTER........Select Spell
LSHIFT.......View Key Items
ESC..........Menu
F1...........Help
F2...........Set Detail Level
F3...........Save
F4...........Load
F5...........Die

Spell hoy keys (for when you have more than one spell) are the keys
~ all the way down to backspace.  Therefore, the whole row of keys that
starts with ~ is relative to a spell if you know it.

Options
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Detail:  Set to High and you'll get antialiased particles & shadows
         Set to Medium and you'll get regulear particles & shadows
         Set to low and you'll get antialiased particles

Controls: Set to Joystick to use the joystick
	  Set to Keyboard to use the keyboard
	  Set to Custom to use user-defined keys


Problems Running the Game
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Error with DS4QB -     please visit www.geocities.com/typosoft/ to download
                       the drivers nessacery to run the game. or 
		       typosoft.qbasicnews.com

			also try running nosound.exe

Unable to play sonnd - Be sure to turn off any other programs that use
                       sound.

No EMS memory -        Add the following to (c:\config.sys):
                       DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIHEM.SYS
                       DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 2000 RAM

		       then restart your computer


About the map editor
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Don't try to edit the levels: you'll probably just mess your game up and
have to reinstall Ped Xing's Quest.  If you want to load screens, you must
load INTRO1.DAT first (it contains script that makes it possible to view
screens that aren't caves) and then click on one of the files that says
SC0XX.DAT (where XX is a number).  To view swamp screens, you must first
load sc059-01.DAT

I included the map editor so other QB programmers could read the source
(not very good source, but it works good) and see how a good map editor
is made.  I don't care if you use it even for your own games, just give
me credit.


Contact Typosoft
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Need help? Do you wan't to know how to beat the game with one of the
alternate endings?  Are you having problems running the game? Found a bug?
Please contact me at:
typosoft@hotmail.com

Or visit us on the web at:
http://www.geocities.com/typosoft/ (sometimes works)
http://typosoft.qb45.com/


Thanks
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Angelo Mottola - DQB library http://ecplusplus.com
Lithium (Chris Adams) - DS4QB++V1.2 http://lithiumonline.com
Eric Lope - Rel Lib (custom routines)

Playtesters:

Joakim Ahnfelt-Rønne
BlueSckR
.:: æthérFòx ::.
Ryan



