Commodore C-64

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LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

Hold down SHIFT KEY and press  RUN/STOP. Press PLAY on tape. Program  will load
and run.  

CONTROLS

Commodore Key - Swap
Joystick Only

Up, down, left and right move the frame used to manipulate the cubes. The  four
cubes inside the frame can be  rotated anticlockwise by pressing Fire and  Left
or clockwise by pressing Fire and Right.

MINDTRAP - What you're up agains . . .

Keeping the world  a neat and  tidy place is  not easy, especially  if you find
yourself inside the world of  Mindtrap. Coloured cubes have been  scattered all
over a  floor and  your objective  is to  shuffle them  around until the screen
contains six neatly colour-coded columns of  cubes. Stack the cubes up so  they
align vertically with the colour markers at the bottom of the screen, but don't
hang around - there's a time limit  on each level and you've only got  a finite
number of moves in which to get everything neatly in place.

A giant cursor,  or frame, can  be shifted around  the screen and  is your main
ally as you attempt to restore order. The frame 'holds' a group of four  cubes,
and can  be pivoted  around its  centre in  order to  move a  quartet of  cubes
clockwise or anticlockwise in 90 degree increments. Run out of time, or use  up
all the moves allowed on the current level and Mindtrap has won .....

In the early stages, the  challenge is fairly straightforward -  you're working
in two dimensions, dealing  with cubes scattered on  a single plane, or  floor.
When you hit Level 33, however, things start getting a mite trickier: from here
on, the  world of  Mindtrap becomes  three dimensional.  Level 33  contains two
floors which have to be sorted into tidy order, but only one floor is shown  on
screen at a time - it's up to you to decide which floor to start work on. Then,
just as you've nearly tidied up one floor you realise that you haven't got  all
the cubes you need  to do the job.  Some ratbag has shuffled  cubes between the
floors .....

Fire/Up and Fire/Down can be used  to move the display between floors,  and the
swap key is used to move cubes between floors - pressing it exchanges the  four
cubes  in  the  frame  on  the  current  floor  with  the  four  cubes  in  the
corresponding position on the floor  above. The swap system 'wraps  around', so
pressing the swap  key on Floor  One exchanges a  set of cubes  with the bottom
floor.

Just as you reckon you have mastered tidying up two floors at a time,  Mindtrap
piles on the challenge.  Try working against the  clock with three floors  to a
level. Or even five.

Taking Bite-Sized Chunks

Even the most puzzle-hardened  game player would he  scared by the prospect  of
solving a million levels  of Mindtrap. So we  told the programmers to  cool it,
and limit the size of the challenge. So they put in 999,999 levels to keep  you
amused. Even if you've played the game several times, it's simply not going  to
he possible to zip through from Level One  to the end in an afternoon - so  the
programmers have devised  a special, personalised  password system so  that you
can leave the game and restart at exactly the same point.

After loading, you can choose to start a new game or resume play exactly  where
you left off.  Type in your  name, and Mindtrap  generates a detailed  password
after each level is completed ~ passwords are linked to the name typed in  when
the game started,  so to resume  play another day  you'll have to  remember the
password and  your own  name! Difficult,  huh? Restoring  a game  by using  the
password system allows you  to continue from exactly  the place where you  left
off - the total number of moves  and the time elapsed in the original  game are
restored along with the game position.

The only advice we can offer, is to try and get coloured cubes arranged in  the
frame in pairs, and  then move pairs into  the right place until  everything is
hunky dory. Until the next level, that is. Enjoy the challenge!

(c)Activmagic 1989



Povezave:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum verzija
Amstrad/Schneider CPC verzija

Dodatno:
Razdrta verzija igre s trainerjem (P00)

Opisi:
Commodore User, June 1989, Cheapo-Round, 66%