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 BY MADNESS PRDUCTIONS(DANIEL LOKSHTANOV) APRIL 1999


                        TABLE OF CONTENTS

 A :BEFORE YOU CAN START FISHING...              
                1       STARTING THE GAME
 B :HOW TO USE YOUR FISHING EQUIPMENT...             
                1       THE MENU       
                2       THE PLAYING SCREEN AND RULES
                3       THE PLAY MENU
                4       THE MARKET
 C :TROUBLE WITH FISHING??
                1       PLAYING THROUGH WINDOWS
                2       PLAYING WITHOUT MUSIC
                3       CLEARING THE HIGH-SCORE TABLE

 D :ASK A EXPERIENCED FISHERMAN...
		1	CONTACTING ME
		2	THE STORY OF FISHFALL
 E :THE QB SOURCE CODE(PROGRAMMERS ONLY!)
		1	WHY IS THE CODE SUCH A MESS?
		2	WHY IN HELL DO I USE DATA?
 F :CREDITS
		1	CREDITS...

		BIVAR OFF MAI HORRIBEL INGLISH!!


 ------------------------------------- PART A

 A.1
   I presume that you are in the MS DOS prompt. If you are not, look at C.1. 
   To start the game type
                
                FISHFALL <ENTER>

   NOTE: <ENTER> means that you have to press the ENTER button, not to type
         in <ENTER> in the command prompt...

 ------------------------------------- PART B

 B.1
   The menu is easy - choose between starting the game, viewing the highscore
   or Quit with your mouse (I CAN'T BELIVE YOU ACTUALLY ARE READING THIS!)

 B.2
   You move the gray "thingie" to the left and right with your mouse. Try to
   hit the blue fishes, and to avoid the red. For each red fish you hit you 
   loose a life. For each blue you take you get one point and two seckonds 
   time. Time is always counting down, and when it's on zero you die.

   DIE CONDITIONS:
    LOOSE ALL YOUR LIVES, OR LET THE TIME RUN OUT

   For each blue fish that goes down and does NOT hit you, the speed 
   increases. If you hit a trafic light the speed reduces to minimum 
   again. There can altso fall money (It looks like a blue dollar sign) 
   For each one you take you get 1 cash that you can use in the market.
    
   To enter the play-menu push the right mousebutton.

 B.3
   The playmenu is easy - choose to continue the game, the market
   or quit to the menu. (I STILL CAN'T BELIVE YOU ACTUALLY ARE READING THIS!)
  
 B.4
   For 10 cash you can buy yourself a Life, 10 seckonds of time, a Shield 
   that makes you immune to red fish for 20 seckonds, or, for 20 cash you
   can buy a gun. To use the gun on the PlayScreen push the left Mousebutton
   and you'll shoot. You'll altso get 2 points and 3 time when you shoot blue 
   fish, and you can shoot red fish without getting hurt.

   NOTE: YOU CAN ONLY SHOOT ONCE IN A SECKOND!!

   Choose Menu to go back to the PlayMenu

 ------------------------------------- PART C

 C.1
   Just click at "FISHFALL.PIF" and the game will start. If it appears in a 
   window press ALT + ENTER to make it full screen - you'll avoid some mess.
   When you end the game (maybe)a strange error message will appear, but just 
   ignore it and close the window. (That shit always happens when you use
   SBMIDI in WINDOWS)

 C.2
   Start FF.EXE instead of FISHFALL.BAT

 C.3
   Delete the FF.RES file

 ------------------------------------- PART D
 
 D.1
   MY MAILS ARE thenerdofthenet@yahoo.com OR dlokshta@c2i.net. CONTACT ME
   AND PRAISE ME FOR MY EXELLENT WORK(hahahahaha!)
 D.2
   			THE STORY OF FISHFALL...*
	The wheel of time turns, and Ages cone and pass, leaving memories
   that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten
   when the Age that gave its birth comes again. In an Age called the new
   Era, in year 1999, a person called Daniel decided to have a programming
   competition with a friend. The rules were easy - make the best game with
   things that fall, and you have to catch them - in one and a half hour.
   As it always goes in such competitions - when the clock rang both Daniel
   and his friend (who descided to remain anonymous in this tale) were
   almost done with their stuff. Scince no one were finished, no one was a
   winner or a POOR LOSER(Who most probably would cry himself to sleep that
   night) But Daniel had BIG, actually FANTASTIC plans about this game he
   almost had made. So he copied his version of the code, and took it home
   There he worked heroic day and night for several days, and then suddently
   he jumped up and cried out "EUREKA! I HAVE WON TARMON GAIDON AND DEFEATED
   THE DARK ONE! FISHFALL IS DONE! I AM TO CONQUER THE WORLD! RAHAHAHAHA!
   	And that is the whole and true story of fishfall**

   *  THE STORY WILL BE MORE ENTERTAINING IF YOY HAVE READ "THE WHEEL OF
      TIME" BY ROBERT JORDAN

   ** SOME THINGS MAY HAVE BEEN A "LITTLE" DIFFERENT FROM WHAT STORY TELLS,
      BUT IT !! IS !! BASED ON A TRUE STORY..

 ------------------------------------- PART E

 E.1
   Yes, i know that the code is an unstructured, twiting and horrible mess.
   This is because some of it is the code from the great one hour
   competition... If there is somethong you just cant understand, mail me
   and I will gladly explain it to you(only if I can find out of my own
   mess!!) The strange thing about this game is that even my friends say it
   is entertaining (AND SOME EVEN PLAY THE GAME WHEN I AM NOT THERE!!!
   WOW!!!) I am aware of a couple of bugs, but they are to be fixed in the
   nearest future.
 
 E.2
   You may ask yourself when you read my code - WHY IN HELL DOES HE USE
   DATA?? That is a part of the code from the competition, and in the
   competition we couldn't use a drawing prog (Such are our rules...) When I
   continued to work on the game at home, i was lazy and didn't change
   it - It does no harm...

 ------------------------------------- PART F

 F.1 
   I have two big credits to give. One to JESSE DORLAND, the maker of QMIDI, 
   and one to my still anonymous friend...who came up with the idea of making
   such a game in our great programming competition. Without them you would
   be doing something worthwile right now instead of reading this junk...
 
	
   