

                                 Star Bores

                                     by

                                 Tony Blews

                       Amstrad CPM Version (c) 1987/8

Instructions
============

To run Star Bores on an IBM compatible PC, you will need a CPM emulator, such
as 22nice. A copy can be downloaded from http://www.sydex.com/

Once you have downloaded and installed this package, you will need to convert
the Star Bores files to run as DOS executables. This can be done with the 
GENCOM executable (included in 22nice):

	GENCOM part1 DISPLAY=ANSI
	GENCOM part2 DISPLAY=ANSI

The game is now converted, and can be run by typing PART1


History
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Back in the mid eighties, long before Spaceballs appeared, I came up
with the idea of writing a text adventure game based loosely on the
very Star Wars films, Queen videos, tedious adverts and old computer jokes.
The first version was written for the Sinclair Spectrum, using the Quill 
adventure creating package from Gilsoft. That was in 1984. By 1988 the project
had moved to the Professional Adventure Writer package on the Amstrad CPC6128
and was eventually completed. By this time it included more awful jokes 
donated by Jason Denton, Brian Frost, David Oldcorn and a few others at
WR Tuson College.

In 1989 I moved to Stafford to start university. I sold copies to other 
people who had been misguided enough to purchase Amstrads. Over FIVE
copies of Star Bores were sold. I lost interest after then.

Now, nearly ten years later (and twenty years since the Star Wars
films were made), I've got hold of an Amstrad PCW and can read 3" disks again, 
its time to unleash it on the world again.

Star Bores has the these amazing features:

		* Rooms, Objects, Other characters,
		* No graphics whatsoever,
		* Jokes that were possibly funny about 8 years ago,
		* No mention of the Spice Girls,
		* A plot that even a moron can follow.

Credits
=======

Star Bores was coded by Tony Blews, using the Professional Adventure Writer
from Gilsoft. 

The scenario was created by Tony Blews, with advice, jokes, ideas etc. from:
Jason Denton, Brian Frost, Stephen Jewel, David Oldcorn, Mark Slater and others 
at WR Tuson College, Preston.

Converted from PCW 3" format disks to PC format by Jacob Nevins.

