Welcome to
          
                                  GOLD  RUNNER
          
                         Copyright (C)1994 Tom Niwinski
                              All Rights Reserved.


        
                                STARTING THE GAME
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                The first time you play Gold Runner, type "SETUP" at the DOS
          prompt, this will set up your sound environment, and the world you
          will be playing.

                Thereafter, to play the game, enter "GOLDRUN" at the 
          DOS command prompt and follow the menu.  
          
          
                                PLAYING THE GAME
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                The objective of the game is to collect all of the gold 
          and escape through the teleport.  This may sound easy, but there
          are many obstacles in your way.  First there are the treasure 
          guardians, you don't want to get tagged by these baddies.  Trap 
          floors will send you falling to the perils below.  You are armed 
          with a power-digger, your mind, and five lives; good luck.

                Use the arrow keys to move around, the space bar to dig.  
          If things get tight and you have no moves left hit 'A' to
          abort the current man.  

          Hints:

                To dig through two levels of floor, dig two holes side by side, 
          fall in and dig another hole.

                Some rooms have to have the gold picked up in a certain order,
          study each room carefully before you start.

                Once a baddie falls in a hole, he is stuck, but be careful as
          they regenerate and fall from the top again.

                Sometimes, the guardians will pick up treasure chests, watch 
          them carefully to see where they drop them.

                                 PROBLEMS
                                 ========

        1. My sound card does not work.

        The sound routines are not fully compatible with all sound cards, 
        future releases of Gold Runner should have support for GUS, and 
        PAS-16.  (As soon as the new WGT routines come out :)

        A couple things to try:
        þ Make sure your interrupt and IO address is correct.
        þ Try disabling the music, and just play with the sounds
        þ Make sure you have the correct version of SBFMDRV.COM and 
          CT-VOICE.DRV (Unfortunately the sound routines do not use the 
          SOUND environment setting.

        2. The program says XXXX file not found.  

           You received an incomplete version of GOLD RUNNER you can always 
           get a complete copy from the web, or email: niwinski@sfu.ca

        3. If you have any questions please send me mail niwinski@sfu.ca 
           or snail mail (see bottom of document for address).