Instructions to Dan Eble's ZShell games
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All programs are installed by sending the variable to the calculator.
Connect Four 2-player game
When the title screen appears, press [ENTER]. Use the arrow keys to move
pieces and [2nd] to drop them into the board. To quit, press [EXIT].
Dots 2-player game
When the title screen appears, press [ENTER]. Use the arrow keys to move
the ball cursor around the grid. The object of the game is to complete boxes
by drawing lines on the grid. To draw a line, press [2], [4], [6], or [8],
to draw it below, left, right, or above the cursor. Players take turns
making lines. When a player completes a square, that square is filled in
with his letter, and he gets to draw another line. The player with more
boxes when the grid is filled wins. Press [EXIT] to quit at any time.
GFM Chemistry Utility
Type a molecular formula. Use [ALPHA] to switch between upper and lower
case letters. Use [F1] through [F5] for subscripts 1-5, and use [GRAPH]
through [CLEAR] for subscripts 6,7,8,9,and 0. Use [(-)] for right and left
parentheses. [EXIT] quits.
Matricks 1-player game
When the title screen appears, press [ENTER]. Use the arrow keys to
move around in the left matrix. When you move between two elements of the
same color, nothing happens (except your score increments). If you move
between two different-colored elements, the one to which you moved changes
to the third color (and your score increments). The object is to make the
left matrix the same as the right in as few turns as possible. When the
matrices are equal, "Done!" is displayed in the lower right corner of the
screen. Hit [EXIT] to quit at any time.
Memory 1-player game
When the title screen appears, press [ENTER]. Use the arrow keys to move
the pointer and [2nd] to flip over a card. If the pair of cards you flip
over is not a match, they will flip face down next time you move the cursor.
If they do match, they will disappear. Your score is the number of pairs you
have flipped minus 16. Greater than 23 is bad, 23-16 is okay, and less than 16 is
good (my best is 9). To quit the game at any time, press [EXIT].
Minesweeper 1-player game
When the title screen appears, press an F-Key. The number of bombs on the
128-element board is eight times the number of the key you press. Use the
arrows to move the cursor. To uncover a piece of ground, press [2nd]. To
flag a bomb, press [F1] (you can not use more markers than there are bombs).
Once you are satisfied that you have marked all the bombs (or if you want to
quit early), press [EXIT]. Squares that are highlighted represent squares
that were not uncovered or marked properly. Press [EXIT] again to go back
to ZShell.
Tiles 1-player game (with optional person to mix the tiles)
When the title screen appears, press [ENTER]. Shuffle the tiles with the
arrow keys. After the tiles are shuffled, you may press [F1] to start
counting up your moves. You can toggle whether or not the counter is
displayed with the [F1] key, but you cannot stop it from counting. To quit,
press [EXIT]. My normal score is 130-200 slides.
Tron 2-player game
When the title screen appears, press [ENTER]. This game is played with
each player looking at the calculator from the side. The player on the left
side of the calculator uses [2nd] and [GRAPH] to turn his cycle left and
right, and the other player uses the up and down arrows. Note that if your
cycle is travelling toward you, turning left appears to turn right. The
object of this game is not to crash into any black line. If a player
crashes, "CRASH!" will display over his score, the other player will get a
point, and the game will pause. Press [5] to play another round. You can
press [5] during a round to pause, and again to unpause. While the game is
paused, the F-Keys change the speed of the cycles (F1 is slowest and F5 is
fastest). To exit at any time, press [EXIT].
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