ллллм мллм ллллм лллл лл лл лллл мллл лллллл лл лл лл лл лл лл лл лл лл лл лн лл лл ллллл лл лл ллллл лл млл лл лл ллл плллм лл лл лл лл лл лл лл лл лп лл лл лн лл лл ллллп пллп ллллп ллл л пллллп лллл ллллп лл STARRING BOB THE HAMSTER - 1995 - H.R.P ВВ пплллллллллллллллллллллллллллллллллллллллВВББББББББВ ппппппппппппппппппппппппппппппп ВВ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1- BOBQUEST TITLE 2- TABLE OF CONTENTS 3- CONTROLS 4- WEAPONS 5- HOW TO MAKE CHILI 6- POWERUPS 7- ENEMIES 8- DIRECTIONS TO MY HOUSE 9- HACKER'S GUIDE 10- DIRESPAM ADVERTISEMENT 11- W 12- BOBQUEST SECRETS 13- TROUBLESHOOTING 14- WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEUROSIS 15- AN APOLOGY 16- CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ CONTROLS: Move Bob Arrow keys Strike Space or keypad 5 Weapon menu Enter Save menu Esc or keypad - Move menu cursor Keypad \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ WEAPONS: Mauve Sword Bob's first weapon Frosted doughnut Inexpensive mid-range balistic snack Vlad's Sword Watch out! It is cursed! Viviplunger Unclog toilets, or suck life essence Used Beans A violent `backfire' Cheeserang Cheddar that keeps coming back Pavender Very effective for smacking people with Molatov Bob Close, wide range pyro attack *Moonflower Homing weapon! Homing weapon! Mr.Happybaloon Long range air-filled projectile Elvis Tune Diagonal sound waves (Uh-Huh!) Time Bomb Make a mine field! *Gutspiller The best close range weapon *MegaNuke Suicide attack *Lemming Dive My personal favorite * these weapons are secret! Bet you cant find them, Ha Ha! \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ HOW TO MAKE CHILI: Open one can of Hormel* hot chili (with beans) and empty into a saucepan. Place on the stove over medium-low heat, stirring occaisonaly (If you are worried about burning it, you might want to add a little water.) While the Chili is cooking, grate the desired amount of cheddar cheese. (I reccomend one part cheese to two parts chili) When the Chili starts to boil, stir it, if it continues to boil, it is done. Turn off the heat, and pour into a heat- resistant bowl. Add cheese, ketchup, and crackers in desired quantities. Pour yourself a nice glass of whole milk (2% will do in a pinch), and chow down. Remember not to go swimming for at least a half hour. * Hormel is the very same company that brings us fine products like SPAM \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ POWERUPS: These items are available from stores and/or defeated monsters SunSeed $ Bag of Seeds $$$ Carrot Cure a little Mega Carrot Cure a lot SumoBaloon Cure even more Elvis Song Cure a lot more Bobkaseltzer Level up in a bottle Mystery Crate ??? MoonRock ??? \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ENEMIES: These are the monsters you want to find and hurt MONSTER DESCRIPTION ------- ----------- Pink Plip Dumb Snatchle Ugly Vrang Repulsive Skinny Gaunt Oogler Deformed Blue Goomple Mushroomesque Ghost Possesed toilet paper BoltBot Hulking Invisibeast Ineffable Roach Alluvial Impod Evil jellybean Slugoped Evil gumdrop Sparky Dour Sumo Lumpish \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ DIRECTIONS TO MY HOUSE: Leave town past the post office, Turn right just past the sherif station, go about a half mile, then turn right, The road is unpaved, follow it a little ways and look for a yellow house on the left with my car parked in the driveway. Cant miss it. Dont worry if my dog barks at you, she wont bite. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ HACKERS GUIDE: Hackers may want to alter this game for their own personal use, but they should just remember that dis- tributing altered copies of the game is even more illegal than distributing unaltered copies. This was my first full-scale game, so it is rank with incompetent coding. If you cant figure out how to alter the text, you shouldnt be using a computer in the first place, so I wont go into that. The graphics (BOBSTUF*.*) are pretty standard QuickBasic picture arrays. If you know QB, you could try to mess with them, but it would probably be too much trouble. The map files (ROOM.*) are nothing too complex. In retrospect, I would have liked to put them all in one file. (I am doing that in DireSPAM:BobQuest II.) The numbers tell what map blocks each room uses. I used to have an index of them written down, but I lost it. You could figure it out by just changing with ROOM.1, you know, a guess-and-check sort of thing. You probably wont be able to change the door locations or the friendly hamster locations, because they are stored in the EXE. (my fault) ENEMY.BOB has all the enemy data. Each row corresponds to the appropriate room. The first number in each row is the number of enemies in the room plus one. (more incompetent programming.) The rest of the numbers on each line are enemy data- picture, speed, strength, etc. I had all that written down, but I lost it too. Savegames (FILE?.SAV) should be fairly easy to change too. Each item in the list of numbers is a different stat. Dont bother changing the weapon name, because it doesnt actualy affect what you are equiped with. Once again, I dont have my index anymore, so you will have to guess and check. All said, It should be but a small task to alter this game. I realy didnt know much about programming when I made it. Keep an eye out for DireSPAM. Already it is shaping up to be a grat game. (It will be much harder to hack than this one.) If you want my original basic program, my graphics editor, and my map editor, write to me (for the address, choose the `credits' option off of the intro menu) or just drop by on a weekday afternoon. (directions above) Bring some snacks if you come! \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ DIRESPAM ADVERTISEMENT: Sure, Bobquest is a simple little game. Sure, Its fun to play and all, but what about It's sequel? DireSPAM. DireSPAM is spiffy, there is no other way to put it. Bigger better graphics, digitized Sound Blaster effects, A MASSIVE world to explore. Uglier, smarter, more dangerous enemies. New weapons, with special fighting techniques. A unique real- time timescale that lets real-world date and time effect gameplay, and best of all, believe it or not, A PLOT!!! Yes! you heard right! A plot! Written by esteemed future-bestselling author, and self proclaimed master chef James Paige. What is the plot? well, here is a hint: Bob the Hamster, innocently attempting to buy doughnuts in a bad part of town, stumbles upon the Doughnut Mafia's plot to assasinate the Eminent (the ruler of the land). Forced against his will to take part in the foul scheme, Bob goes to Cheese Island to aquire a murder weapon. The forces of fate, chance, gravity, and lost pennies draw Bob the Hamster deeper and deeper into a tangled web of conspiracy. Soon it becomes clear, that to save the world from total destruction, Bob must travel space and time to stop the dreaded DireSPAM that the doughnut mafia has inadvertantly released upon us! Can Bob climb the mystic pork tree and recover the last SPAM? Can he survive the ocean depths and find the elusive pavender? Can he beat the grim reaper in a mortal duel of monopoly? Or will he give in to the forces of darkess and become the willing slave of the dreaded DireSPAM? Only you have the power to decide! Only you can save the world- or destroy it! DireSPAM:BobQuest II is still in development. It should be availble aproxamately right after I finish it. Hold your breath! 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See a doctor immediately. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ BOBQUEST SECRETS: You want to know the secrets to BobQuest? you want to know the warp code, the mutation code, and the locations of the secret rooms? Do you want to know how to uncurse Vlad's sword? Here is how: Boo gob, ug mug pooka sot. Zoo thrubb pic pip blap lug log dog. Gor Foo Flum? Soop Nog wig Pig loop noo goober boogle. Louf loaf poom oo glub. Bipple lib log grob thrug. Garf luff glug wom woom. Do Jug joo pod pow gribble. Arf ood doof moo Pib Blorp Mug Ugga. Bibble Log. Loof a era uoy Yick Goo do pug. Augh phoo rog loob. Zo roo poink pog. Noo pug chuck luff oom bog rumma bog. Oo dib lug lug Poo zot mig jot loo. Doff roop pom pum lum dif. Cog low doom mow rup pow oo. Jug lugug foop poo gob wibble merp burg log. lum pic jab do bunk. Grunk chubb rupp do pog. Meep mo do pank! Lim feep jum rup mog lop. Sdrawkcab delleps era sterces eseht. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ TROUBLESHOOTING: Having some trouble? maybe this will help. PROBLEM SOLUTION ------- -------- -Not enough hard drive space -Delete something -Not enough memory to run BobQuest -Throw away your smeppy old computer and buy one that doesnt suck. -I cant use the arrow keys to move the -Use the keypad arrow keys. cursor on menus! That error is the result of my programming ineptitude -My mouse wont work -No kidding. -The PC speaker effects annoy me. I want -Stop whining and play Sound Blaster effects! DireSPAM:BobQuest II -My girl left me, and my dog hates me. -Write a country-western song and get rich. -Stray bullets from a driveby went through -Then just use the monitor my window and shattered my monitor. you are reading this off of. I just hate it when people can afford two of them! -A hole opened up in the fabric of time, -Open up a laundrimat. and I was sucked back into medeval france. I dont speak french, and the peasants think I am a sorceror, and want to burn me at the stake. -I looted the tomb of an Egyptian Pharoh, -That happened to me once. and now I am cursed to die young in a I had to go to the hospital. messy way. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEUROSIS: anadiplosis anamorphosis ankylosis apotheosis carcinosis chlorosis cirrhosis diagnosis enantiosis endosmosis epanadiplosis epanorthosis exosmosis geognosis heliosis heterosis hypnosis hypotyposis ichthyosis meiosis metasomatosis metempsychosis metemptosis metensomatosis morosis morphosis narcosis necrosis osmosis pneumonoultramicroscopicsiliconvolcaniconiosis proemptosis prognosis psychosis ptosis pyrosis sarcosis scirrhosis sorosis tuberculosis zygosis zymosis \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ AN APOLOGY: We at Hamster Republic Productions most sincerely apologise for the part we played in triggering the War of 1812. Sorry. So sorry. Really. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: This readme file, the game it refers to, and the entire Bob the Hamster concept are the creations of: JAMES PAIGE ----------- CEO of H.R.P Chief Justice of the Hamster Republic Future best-selling author Self proclaimed Master Chef Pioneering canned meat advocate Direct male-line-decendant of Tomas de Torquemada, first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition (Those fools at Ellis Island mangled the name a bit) Thank you for reading! \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/