Micro Mouse			(c)1989 Mastertronic

Loading instructions

Put your machine into 48K mode.
Type LOAD"" and press ENTER. The program will load and run automatically.
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 tricky stuff like 
making tea and talking about cricket scores?

Rather than develop complicated intelligence programs for the soldier 
droids, it was decided to modify the behaviour of an elemental cyber brain - 
put in a robot under manual control, guide 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 Soldier Robot Trainer, First Class.

It's your job to train the cyber brain inside a prototype soldier 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 soldier 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;
Drillers not only sap mouse energy on contact but also damage the solder 
tracks, causing breaks.

First Aid stations, marked with a red cross are dotted around 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 round and go through again to 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 that counts down from the 
moment the mouse starts work - to fully train a mouse you need to get a 
circuit board 100% working within the time limit

Programmed by M.C. Lothlorien

Inlay typed and modified by Simon Rooney 2003
