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Mindshadow - Manual - www.lemonamiga.com Mindshadow © 1985 Activision Manual MINDSHADOW An Illustrated Text Adventure Instructions Your great Mindshadow adventure starts when you find yourself - all alone - on a mysterious tropical island. You have no idea how you got there or where you came from. You don't even know who you are! And now, armed only with your reasoning power and imagination, you must escape from this place and get to the root of this puzzle. So...courage! And remember, your mind is the master of this mystery! LOADING INSTRUCTIONS Apple Macintosh * Insert disk, label side up, slot in first. * Turn computer on. Amiga * Turn computer on * Insert Kickstart disk * When instructed to insert the Workbench disk, simply insert the Mindshadow disk. THE TASK AT HAND As you wake up, you find yourself lying on the shore of a tropical island. Your main problem is that you seem to have lost your memory. As you explore your world, you must search for the clues that will give you answers to the questions: "Who are you?", "Where did you come from?", and http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs_print.php?id=1098 (1 of 7) [3/13/2011 9:40:29 AM] Mindshadow - Manual - www.lemonamiga.com "Who left you on the island?" THE ILLUSTRATED TEXT ADVENTURE EXPLAINED OVERVIEW As the 'lost soul' you are the central character in a complex adventure that begins in the tropics. The computer shows you the world from the character's point. In order to execute the above-stated tasks, you must explore your world and its many characters. Search for clues, examine everything, question everyone and be on guard for danger. Then, put it all together and figure out what's what and who's who. This will take a lot of thinking, some clever approaches, a good memory and a penchant for risk taking. INTERACTING WITH THE COMPUTER Let the computer be your eyes, ears, voice, hands and legs. Tell it what you want to do by using the keyboard or mouse to give it commands. Commands include verbs and nouns; for instance, TALK TO MAN or TAKE SHELL. The computer also understands more complex commands, like GIVE THE BOTTLE TO THE CAPTAIN You can string commands together, too: TALK TO CLERK AND GO UP STAIRS. However, the computer will perform the commands separately, rather than simultaneously. So in this case, if talking to the clerk gets you "killed", you'll never get the chance to go up stairs. Of course, the computer isn't as smart as you are. It might not understand all of your commands. Since your vocabulary is bigger, experiment with different words and ways of expressing what you want to do. If an important command is rejected, make several attempts to rewo…