MICRO MOUSE ----------- EEK! Dodge Drillers, avoid Pulsers and hide from Homers as you help Micromouse scamper round a circuit board effecting repairs. A challenging maze game packed with frantic action. LOADING INSTRUCTIONS Spectrum — Put your machine into 48K mode. Type LOAD"" and press ENTER. Program will load and run. Use the joystick to move around the tracks on the scrolling circuit board, pressing fire to place a patch over a damaged area. Alternatively, use the keyboard: Q up, A down, O left, P right and Space to fire. In an effort to save money, the Powers That Be have decided to use small robots to repair damage to the circuit boards of a huge supercomputer. There's no point, they reckoned, in sending highly-trained service engineers to do a bit of basic soldering. Why not develop robots for that sort of work, they argued, and save the human engineers for the really tricky stuff like making tea and talking about cricket scores? Rather than develop complicated intelligence programs for the solder druids, it was decided to modify the behaviour of an elemental cyber brain — put it in a robot under manual control, guide the robot through a sequence of tasks manually, and eventually the brain will pick up what's needed and be capable of carrying out the tasks unsupervised. Step forward Solder Robot Trainer, First Class. It's your job to train the cyber brain inside a prototype solder robot. To make the task more amusing. you've disguised the little droid as a mouse, and trained three other cyber-brain-driven droids to emulate the ravages of time and power spikes on the circuit board. Suddenly, going to work in the morning is rather like playing a game... TRAINING SOLDER DROIDS Three types of damage droid hack around the solder tracks: Pulsers cruise around randomly and suck energy from the mouse when they touch it; Homers have the same effect as Pulsers except they come looking for the mouse; and the Drillers not only sap mouse energy on contact but also damage the solder tracks, causing breaks. First Aide stations, marked with a Red Cross, are dotted aorund the circuit board. Scampering the mouse through a Red Cross calls a solder patch into a little window on the status area. If the patch fits a broken section of solder track, scamper over the break and press fire to mend the damage. If the patch collected in the Red Cross station isn't the one you want, just turn around, go through again and get another one. One horizontal bar meter keeps tracks of Micromouse's energy while another reveals the amount of unrepaired damage that needs to be fixed. Keep an eye on both of these readouts, and check the timer which counts down from the moment the mouse starts work — to fully train the mousedroid, you need to get a circuit board 100% working within the time limit. Programmed by M.C. Lothlorien FRENCH Utilisez le manche à balai pour vous déplacer sur les pistes roulantes de la plaquette du circuit, en appuyant sur la touche de tir pour mettre en place les pieces sur les surfaces endommagées. Ou alors, vous serez, si vous le désirez, en mesure d'utiliser le clavier: Q — vers le haut: A — vers le bas: O — sur la gauche; P — sur la droite: Barre d'espacement— pour effectuer la mice à feu. CHARGEMENT: SPECTRUM — Réglez votre machine sur le mode 48K. Tapez LOAD"" et appuyez sur la touche ENTER. Le programme se chargera et se déroulera. GERMAN Benutzen Sie den Joystick, um über die Spuren der scrollenden Platine zu rase. Kleben Sie mit dem Feuerknopf ein Pilaster auf die beschädigten Stellen oder benutzen Sie die Tastatur wie folgt: Q — Hoch, A - Runter, O — Links, P — Rechts und die Leertaste — Feuer. LADEN: SPECTRUM — Den Computer auf 48K einstellen. LOAD"" eintippen and auf die ENTER-Taste drcüken. Das Program lädt sich nod läuft. ITALIAN EEK! Schiva i Trapani, evita i Pulsanti e nasconditi dai Teleguidati, mentre aiuti Micromouse ad allancendarsi nelle riparzazioni su una scheda circuito. Un labirinto sfida pieno di attività frenetica. CARICAMENTO SPECTRUM — Metti il computer in modalità 48K. Batti LOAD"" e profit INVIO. Il programma si carica e gira da solo. A MEMBER OF THE VIRGIN MASTERTRONIC GROUP OF COMPANIES WARNING: ALL RIGHTS OF THE PUBLISHER AND THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OF THE WORK REPRODUCED RESERVED, UNAUTHORISED COPYING, HIRING, LENDING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, RADIO OR TV BROADCASTING OR DIFFUSION OF THIS PRODUCT PROHIBITED. THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD ACCORDING TO VIRGIN MASTERTRONIC TERMS OF TRADE AND CONDITIONS OF SALE COPIES OF WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. (C) Mastertronic Limited 1989 Made in Great Britain