                                 Cell Block A

Legal:
   This game is freeware - meaning it is free, no fee may be charged for it
   except to cover the cost of the disk/cd it is stored on.
   
   It can be freely distribted to anyone/everyone under the following conditions.
   ABSOLUTLY NO changes are made to the actual game itself.
   this text file is included with it, complete and unmodified.
   
   "I do not accept responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, 
    that this code may have on you, your computer, your sanity, your dog, 
    and anything else that you can think of. Use it at your own risk."


The Story:
   The year is 2063 and prisons are more overcrowded then
   ever. You are a prisoner of the Washington state penitentiary
   nick named "The Hole". Once every year prisoners are
   released into Cell Block A, an old section of the prison that
   was destroyed during the prison riot of 2060. Prisoners fight
   to  the death knowing that only one prisoner will escape The
   Hole with their life, only one prisoner will be set free.

Goal:
   The objective of the game is to kill your opponent
   however you can via weapons or just brute force.

Tactics:
   Shoving your opponent off the edge, causing him to fall to
   his death is the main idea but if all you can do is just grab a
   shotgun and bust a cap' then that'll just have to do.


Keys:
   Player 1:
          W
      A - S - D
      
      action = Q
   
   Player 2:
              UP
      LEFT - DOWN - RIGHT
      
      action = CTRL

Music Control:
NumLock = Random
      / = Previous
      * = Next
      - = Pause/Play
      + = Stop/Start

System Requirements:
   Intel Pentium
   Windows 95
   8MB ram
   Sound Card

Recommended:
   Intel Pentium 166
   16mb ram
   Above normal blood sugar
   BIG speakers


Troubleshooting:
   Problem: "ERROR: setting 640x480x256!"
   Info: Your video card for some reason does not support this video mode.
   Solution: Get a REAL video card!

   Problem: "ERROR: initialising sound"
   Info: Your sound card is not sound blaster compatible.
   Solution: Run cell.exe with a -nosound arguement (eg "cell -nosound")

   Problem: "ERROR: setting digi voices"
   Info: Something went wrong initing the mod player.
   Solution: Run cell.exe with a -nosound arguement (eg "cell -nosound")

   Problem: "ERROR: loading game.dat/menu.dat"
   Info: Someone messed up the game.dat or menu.dat
   Solution: Re-install Cell Block A.

   Problem: "ERROR: loading mouse!"
   Info: The map editor requires that a mouse is installed.
   Solution: Install a mouse before running jail-ed.

   Problem: The game runs so slow on my computer.
   Info: Cell Block A is not an extremely demanding game, so either you have
         an outdated computer, or an incompatible sound/video card.
   Solution: Since Cell Block A was written using allegro (something I 
             did not create) there is little I or you can do. Try running
             Cell Block A without sound ("cell -nosound").

Any problem thats not mentioned here could be caused by many things.
First try the game with no sound. If it runs but it used to work with sound
before, possibly you added a new .mod file to the music dir that messes the
game up.

If none of these things help you fix your problem, you can contact me with
your prob, e-mail me and I will see what I can do:
kevlarx@netidea.com


Credits:
   Conceptual Design/Story:
      Cobol & KevlarX
   Art:
      KevlarX
   Sound FX:
      KevlarX
   Vocals:
      Protomas & Dougy - (They have not completed there damn job yet!!!)
   Music:
      Varius Artists (mods from the net)
   Whipping Boy:
      Necros
   Play Testing:
      All of Lake St School.
   Everything Else:
      KevlarX


End Notes:
   You can make levels using the map editor Jail-Ed just run jailed.exe
   the keys for the editor are:
   Q = Ladder
   W = Left endpiece
   E = Middle piece
   R = Right endpiece
   T = Start position
   S = Save
   L = Load
   N = New

   When a map is saved in Jailed it creates a 200x150 pcx of it named zzz.pic
   where zzz is the name of the level. This pcx can be any 200x150 256 colour
   image so have fun, just remember to stick to the pallete included named
   "game.pal", this file is not used by the game it is just included so you
   can make lame pictures for the levels etc.

   Any mod (up to 24 channels) can be thrown into the music directory, and
   it will be added to the song list, beware though, some mods freak out
   and freeze the game.

   A special thanks goes out to the author(s) of Red Pixel, the code of which
   helped my figure out how to actuly write a game. My map selector list code
   is based heavily off of theres.

   And of course, the authors of Allegro, and JGMOD. Both librarys which I
   used to create this game.
   
   Play it, enjoy it, give it to people, just don't rip me off :)
   kevlarx@netidea.com

for new game updates, maps, music, and other related stuff check out the page:
                          www.netidea.com/cell


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