The Midnight Engine v1.00
    ALPHA build 0.0016
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     by Chris Wild

With graphics by Jure Rogelj

    www.icemark.com


Based on the games Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge, 
by Mike Singleton.

The MIDNIGHT ENGINE is intended to be one program that can play both 
Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge. But not only that it can allow
others to create new and exciting adventures either within the midnight world
or using the midnight style. The designer can keep the rules that were 
implemented for the Lords of Midnight or Doomdark's Revenge Scenarios or they
may use the default set, giving their new game a different feel. Alternatively
they can easily change code or data to completely change the rules.

The Midnight ENGINE also incorporates FRONTENDS. This allows new visual styles
to be implemented without changing any of the game. This can be just graphics 
or even a different style of ouput.

Imagine playing Lords of Midnight in Text Adventure form, or Isometric, 
or top down 2d counter style, or True 3d, or ... the list is endless, all this
without changing the game code.

This is not a final product but merely a test alpha release.

KEYBOARD REDEFINITION
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The keyboard can be altered by modifying the file \frontends\default.fre


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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This total package version requires ...
A PC
A Mouse
A Keyboard
DirectX3
A graphics card capable of handling 640x480 in either 15,16,24 or 32 bit colour
3Mb HD Space
16Mb Ram


NOTE:

The Launcher has the ability to select scenario and frontend, this is currently
not implemented. This is intended to show how the feature will work.


CRASHES
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Should you experience any crashes please run DrWatson from the Windows Directory
and the run the game again. At the crash DrWatson will come up and present you
with some information. Select View:Advanced and choose Details. Please email me
this file with the description of what you were doing to chris@icemark.com.

SCENARIO'S AND FRONTENDS
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Only the LOM scenario and Jure's Frontend is currently implemented.

