21-11-2019, 05:05 PM
Thanks to Jeremy Barr-Hyde for making scanned copies of both of these manuals available. After a good cleanup, de-skew and OCR, we now have good searchable PDF's.
Both are A4 in size and are 4 and 38 pages long respectively.
This EDASM Manual is in addition to the 6 other versions we already have. It has different front cover and the text is different in places and with additional information. EDASM started life on the DG S100 system (DGOS) and with the arrival of the Microbee, it was available for both systems on ROM form. Later it came on disk and unfortunately the ROMs and files have no version number as it was upgraded and the Manuals are also not numbered or dated. So you can only guess the order they were issued in, so for completeness, its included here. However, there may be different versions of the manual appear with time.
The Robotman Instruction Manual and program was written by Paul A Wilmhurst with the manual dated 26/11/82. Robotman is a clone of the famous "Pacman" arcade game. From the manual, it describes the game as :-
Robot-man is a game for one player. The game essentially con-
sists of a "man", "robots", "food blocks", "power blocks", and a
playing board on which the game takes place. The player is inten-
ded to move the man with the use of the keyboard, so as to weave
in and out of the maze-like structure of the board, "eating" as
many power and food blocks as possible. However, the robots roam
the board trying to eat the man, and thus the player is inhibited
in his movements.
So, in the Microbee/Documentation/Manuals folders we have placed :-
robotman_instructions.pdf - in the Games folder
microworld_z80_editor_assembler_for_microbee_dgos_cpm_t2.pdf - in the Software folder
Both are A4 in size and are 4 and 38 pages long respectively.
This EDASM Manual is in addition to the 6 other versions we already have. It has different front cover and the text is different in places and with additional information. EDASM started life on the DG S100 system (DGOS) and with the arrival of the Microbee, it was available for both systems on ROM form. Later it came on disk and unfortunately the ROMs and files have no version number as it was upgraded and the Manuals are also not numbered or dated. So you can only guess the order they were issued in, so for completeness, its included here. However, there may be different versions of the manual appear with time.
The Robotman Instruction Manual and program was written by Paul A Wilmhurst with the manual dated 26/11/82. Robotman is a clone of the famous "Pacman" arcade game. From the manual, it describes the game as :-
Robot-man is a game for one player. The game essentially con-
sists of a "man", "robots", "food blocks", "power blocks", and a
playing board on which the game takes place. The player is inten-
ded to move the man with the use of the keyboard, so as to weave
in and out of the maze-like structure of the board, "eating" as
many power and food blocks as possible. However, the robots roam
the board trying to eat the man, and thus the player is inhibited
in his movements.
So, in the Microbee/Documentation/Manuals folders we have placed :-
robotman_instructions.pdf - in the Games folder
microworld_z80_editor_assembler_for_microbee_dgos_cpm_t2.pdf - in the Software folder
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