Money for Life

short instructions & hints

A Plus/4 game created by Roe-Pipi
(download it now!)

Feel free to send me your hidden-in-secret Plus/4 programs and data files!

 

 

Hi, I suppose you don't need much information on playing simple BASIC games. Yeah, it's freeware.

Overview:
It's a tactical-trading-flying game, with a bit of shoot'em up features. You need to collect money by trading in a system of planets to buy some devices that might help you to reach your goal. However, it's a good thing if you like surprises :-)

Note on emulators:
This game fully works on a real Plus/4. I tested the disk and tape saving-loading, it worked for me. If your Plus/4 emulator doesn't emulate disk and/or tape devices, you should use some snapshot options. If neither of these work, then you might think about upgrading your emulator software.

Using the program:
In most cases, you don't need to use more than the cursor keys and space. However, these keys have different functions in different situations (see below). Other keys are trivial what time to use (eg. giving filenames).

Keyboard usage in some cases:
in trading/equipment menusup/down to select item
left/right to buy/sell
space to finish
flying in spaceup/down to select equipment / see quantity
left/right to navigate ship
space to fire active weapon
in mazecursors to walk
space to escape from maze
in hotel menusspecial key:
run/stop to escape to main hotel menu anytime

Program history:

V1.0
- Initial version made in around 1991-1992 (ah, my memory...)
V1.1
- First release for public. Translated everything to English, minor bugfixes, upgraded some features beneath contempt.

Last note:
If you think you are totally lost, you can find some hints hidden in this html document's code. To see them, select your html viewer's view source option, then scroll down far to the bottom. And be careful: Don't read more than you want to read! :-)

HAVE FUN.