Documentation for Adventure in the Magic Land version 1.00
       Copyright 1989 by Kevin L. Shelton, All Rights Reserved

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                           About The Parser
     The parser in this adventure game understands commands of the 
form where the command word is followed by zero or more object names. 
When the game asks you what you want to do, you may tell it to do 
several things. To enter more than one command at a time simply 
separate the individual commands by periods. For instance, a multiple 
command might look like this: N. GET UMBRELLA. USE UMBRELLA. Multiple 
commands are executed from left to right, therefore, in the example 
above, the player would first go north, then get the umbrella, and 
finally, use the umbrella. Not only can you specify more than one 
command at a time, you may also specify more than one object for a 
command to act upon. To do so simply separate the object names with 
either a comma or an ampersand. For instance, to get several objects 
at once you might enter a command that resembles this: GET MAN, POT, 
KEY, RR, BOX & SHIP. The parser will automatically break a multiple 
object command into individual commands. The example above would be 
equivalent to: GET MAN. GET POT. GET KEY. GET RR. GET BOX. GET SHIP. 
Of course, both multiple commands and multiple object commands can be 
combined at the same time as in: N. USE COMPUTER & TRANSMITTER. 
EXAMINE FOOD. Note: if a movement command precedes other commands and 
the movement command fails (i.e. you can't go that way) then the other 
commands will be ignored and you will be asked what you want to do 
next.
     There are 26 basic commands that the game understands. However, 
there are several alternate commands available that the computer will 
automatically translate to its equivalent known command. To get a 
complete list of available commands ask for HELP. There are several 
commands with one or two letter abbreviations including I or INV for 
INVENTORY, Q for QUIT, H or ? for HELP, and the standard directional 
abbreviations N, S, E, W, NW, NE, SW, and SE. Note that up and down 
are not valid directions in this adventure. The GO command can be 
abbreviated as either the direction name or the direction 
abbreviation or you may specify GO and a direction abbreviation as in 
GO NW. Some object names can also be abbreviated. Generally these are 
two word object names. With two word object names you may use either 
the first or the last word to specify the object. The exception to 
this is the POTTED CACTUS whose first word abbreviation is POT and not 
POTTED. Other object name abbreviations are not so obvious and include 
SHIP for SPACESHIP, RR for MODEL RAILROAD, FOOD for SANDWICH, and MAN 
for WISEMAN.
                           About the World
     The world in this adventure consists of an 8 by 8 square grid. 
Walking over the edge of the world is possible and is always fatal. 
However, you may safely fly off of the world. There are five locations 
in the world that will always kill you unless you fly over them. This 
includes CHAOS and the four BOTTOMLESS PIT locations. The cave 
locations can also be fatal if you cannot see to move around. At the 
start of the adventure you will randomly be placed somewhere in the 
world. Naturally, in the interest of fairness, it won't be one of the 
fatal locations.
     To find out what you are supposed to do you will need to first 
find the king. To win you will need to deal with the dragon and with a 
prince that is initially something else. That's about all I can tell 
you here without giving the game away. However, several of the places 
have hints to help you in your quest and the wiseman gives good advice 
if you can wake him. If you get totally stuck you may wish to read the 
separate hint file MAGIHINT.DOC but you will need to use the DOS COPY 
command to read it since TYPE intentionally won't work. Good Luck.