Apple Lode Runner - The Remake
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This is version 1.0d - April 2006 including Bonus Packs 1, 2, 3 and 4

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IMPORTANT CHANGE: To toggle the game between full-screen and 
windowed mode, use the key combination: Alt+Enter.
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If, when you first run the game, it moves too fast for you, just hit 
the SUBTRACT key on the numeric keypad to slow the game down.
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Apple Lode Runner is a remake of the popular Apple II game Lode Runner 
written by Doug Smith and originally released by Broderbund in 1983.

It plays and looks as close to the original version as is possible, 
but many extras have been added and several features have been modified 
to make it easier for you to design and organize your own level maps.

Level Designer, a WYSIWYG level map designer replaces the original Game 
Generator and another utility, Level Organizer allows you to rearrange your 
level maps into a specific order without the limitation that they must 
be designed and created in that order.

The main features of Apple Lode Runner are listed below:

o  Play windowed or full-screen
o  Define your own control keys
o  The original 150 Lode Runner levels
o  The original 50 Championship Lode 
   Runner levels
o  150 new levels designed by Lode 
   Runner guru Fred Pence.

   BONUS PACK #1
o  Hyper LR - 80 levels from the Nintendo
   Game Boy.
o  CWG Contest - 61 levels from the Computer Gaming World Magazine's
   Lode Runner contest.
o  LR Pics - 150 levels with a picture theme.
o  Quickies - 150 levels for practice.

   BONUS PACK #2
o  French Screens - 100 levels.
o  LR Fan Book - 85 levels.
o  Big Red Apple - 100 levels.
o  Fujionkyo LR - 100 levels.

   BONUS PACK #3 (Released November 2005)
o  Apuroman-Korea - 66 levels.
o  Australian - 34 levels.
o  Scavenger - 180 levels.

   BONUS PACK #4 (Released April 2006)
o  Bug News - 56 levels.
o  English Screens - 270 levels.
o  Freds Screens - 160 levels.
o  Hozanban - 20 levels.
o  LR On-Line - 187 levels.
o  MAC LR - 125 levels.
o  NEC Lode - 40 levels.
o  Yamamoto - 52 levels.
      
o  Play levels one after the other and try to get in the high scores list.
o  Play levels at random, picking and choosing.
o  Save a game to continue later.
o  Resume a previously saved game.
o  Design and create your own level maps in minutes.
o  Test your newly created level maps.
o  Organize your level maps by reordering them and deleting unwanted ones.
o  User-definable background music
o  User definable key combinations.

SUBMITTING YOUR OWN LEVELS
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When you have played Lode Runner for a while and you have designed your own
cool level maps, you are invited to submit your level map set file to Spoonbill
Software. It is intended sometime in the future to release a further set of level
maps with a later version of Apple Lode Runner and these will consist of level
maps submitted by users. If any of your level maps are included in the future
release, you will get your name in the credits. Submit your level map set file
(file extension .LMS) as an attachment to an email addressed to:

   irhumph@omninet.net.au

I hope you enjoy this game.

Ian Humphreys
Spoonbill Software
Albany, Western Australia
April 2006
