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Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Written by the Ghost
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Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy is a standard level game by Infocom
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I hope you can use these docs. I typed them all in during the course of
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one night. And what a night it was.
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This will be for Hitchiker's, I will soon write a overall Infocom guide
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for novices, and real dudes (of course)
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"Your software is revolutionary! I like that."
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Fidel Castro, Former baseball player
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Havana, Cuba
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"The best game I ever played! But what is that black square with the
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hole in the middle?"
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Binky O'leary, Construction Worker
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Brookyln, NY
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Well, I liked them at least, ok, on to the docs.
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Intro:
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The book is similiar in the beginning, but quickly goes off on it's own
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merry way, at least that is what the manual says. Briefly, the main
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idea is to find a cup of tea, first you have try to save your house and
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then escape from Earth. You hitchike from one place to another. Good
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Luck
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The status line at the top gives you the room you are in, and also a
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score in the form of points/turns taken
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The prompt '>' tells you that Hitchiker is ready for your input.
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To move from one place to another you can use the direction you want to
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go. N, E, W, S, NE, SE, NW, SW, U, D, IN, OUT, P(PORT), SB, F, AFT.
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To do something type whatever you want to do.
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Examples include:
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READ BOOK, OPEN DOOR, LOOK THROUGH THE DOOR
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To talk to someone, or type something just use the format of:
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RALPH, GIVE ME THE TORCH: YOUNG MAN, GO WEST: TURTLE, NE.GET SCROLL.SW
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There are several useful one letter commands in Hitchkers
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Command Description One-Letter
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AGAIN - to repeat a command unless you are talking to someone G
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LOOK - to describe the location in full detail L
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INVENTORY- to get a list of items you have, or are wearing I
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QUIT - to stop playing the game Q
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WAIT - causes time to pass in game Z
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There are also commands that are for your use
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BRIEF - gives full description only the first time you enter a room.
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Normal mode
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DIAGNOSE - gives a brief medical report on your condition
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FOOTNOTE - to read a footnote mentioned in the story type FOOTNOTE #
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RESTART - starts the game at the beginning again
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RESTORE - loads a saved game from a data disk and lets you play form there
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SAVE - records your last position on a data disk
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SCORE - shows your current score and number of turns taken
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SCRIPT - starts printing moves on your printer as well as on screen
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SUPERBRIEF- displays only the name of room,no objects
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UNSCRIPT - turns the printer off
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VERBOSE - gives complete description every time you enter a room
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VERSION - gives release number and serial number of your copy
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There are other recognized verbs of course, too many to list here,
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use your imagination.
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Here are some though:
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ANSWER, APPROACH, ASK, BLOCK, BUY, CARVE, CLIMB, CLOSE, CONNECT
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CONSULT, COVER, DANGLE, DESTROY, DRINK, DROP, ENJOY, ENTER, ESCAPE
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EXAMINE, EXIT, FILL, FIND, FOLLOW, GIVE, HANG, HIDE, JUMP, KILL, KNOCK
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LIE, LIGHT, LISTEN, LOOK, MOVE, PANIC, PULL, OPEN, PICK, PLUG, POINT
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PUSH, PUT, READ, RELAX, REMOVE, SAY, SHOOT, SHOW, SIT, SLEEP, SMELL, STAND
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TAKE,TASTE, THROW, TOUCH, TURN, TYPE, WAKE, WALK
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Remember that you can use prepositions with these nouns.
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LOOK -> LOOK INSIDE, LOOK BEHIND, LOOK UNDER, LOOK AT, LOOK THROUGH, etc
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If you suspect that there is an error on your copy of the disk, type $VERIFY
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If you get a DISK CORRECT the error seems to be a hardware problem
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If you get a INTERNAL ERROR the problem is your copy, good luck backing it up
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Complaints:
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I DON'T KNOW THE WORD "(your word)"
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the word is not in the list, try a synonym, or rephrase the sentance
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YOU USED THE WORD "(your word)" IN A WAY I DON'T UNDERSTAND
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the word is in the list, but you switched nouns-adj nouns-verbs, etc
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THAT SENTANCE ISN'T ONE I RECOGNIZE
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you typed gibberish or used a wierd syntax, try again using a different form
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THERE WAS NO VERB IN THAT SENTANCE
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unless you are answering a question, you must have a verb or command on a line
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THERE SEEMS TO BE A NOUN MISSING IN THAT SENTANCE
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your sentance was incomplete, ie EAT THE BLUE...
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THERE WERE TOO MANY NOUNS IN THAT SENTANCE
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ex PUT THE SOUP IN THE BOWL WITH THE LADLE.
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It will only take two noun phrases
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YOU CAN'T USE MULTIPLE (IN)DIRECT OBJECTS WITH "(your verb)"
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you can only use multiple objects with certain verbs like GET, TAKE, and PUT
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YOU CAN'T SEE ANY (object) HERE!
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the item you refered to is not visible in your current location
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THE OTHER OBJECT(S) THAT YOU MENTIONED AREN'T HERE
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you refered to two or more items, and one or more weren't in sight
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BE SPECIFIC: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO (your verb)
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you used HIM,HER,or IT, but the parser isn't sure what object you mean
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I BEG YOUR PARDON?
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you pressed <CR> without typing anything
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IT'S TOO DARK TO SEE!
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in the story, there is not enough light to perform your action
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YOU CAN'T GO THAT WAY
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there was no passage or exit in the direction that you wanted to move
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Address of Infocom
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Infocom, Inc.
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55 Wheeler Street
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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Attn: MARVIN
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Technical hotline(no hints)
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617-576-3190
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Author Biographies
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Douglas Adams
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Adams graduated from Cambridge in 1974 where he was a member of the
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Footlights club, which has launched many of Britain's comics. He has
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collaborated on several projects with Monty Python's Graham Chapman, and
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has served as a writerand script editor for the TV series... DR. WHO.
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The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a BBC radio serial,and soon
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was put into four books, a television series, two records, and a stage
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show. His entry in the "British guide to comic writers: "mostly
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harmless"
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Steven Meretzky
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Meretzky was born in mid-1957, frightening the Soviets into the early
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launching of its Sputnik satellite. His gestalt includes several painful
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childhood experiences: such as rooting for the New York Mets. He blames
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this on growing up in Yonkers, and studying at MIT.(studying in its most
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general sense) He now lives near Boston, and has been working for
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Infocom since 1982 as an experimental alternative lifestyle to
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unemployment. He apoligizes for PLANETFALL, and SORCEROR. The package
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includes painted out sunglasses, fluff, a "don't panic" button, a
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microscopic space fleet, orders for the removal for your house, and
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similiar orders for the destruction of Earth That's it!
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