PNEUMATIC HAMMERS
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1. PNEUMATIC HAMMERS c 1987 ANDROMEDA SOFTWARE Spectrum conversion by PAUL JOHNSON THE GAME RED ALERT The Lee Valley gold research base is under threat of destruction The electrical power lever has broken off and there is no other way of switching off the plant s pneumatic hammers The hammers were installed to hammer bridge pillars into the river bed The continuous operation of the hammers is causing the rockface to crack and crumble into the valley floor threatening the base Red O Blair famous trouble shooter is choppered in to save the day Your job is to help Red cast a new lever but the only available material is gold which first has to be found The gold nuggets have to be pure in quality and exact in quantity to make the required lever LOADING 1 Connect a suitable cassette player to your Spectrum according to the User Manual THEN FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS 3 4 AND 5 BELOW SPECTRUM 48 128 and PLUS 2 OWNERS 2 Put the 48 128 and Plus 2 systems into 48K mode 3 Place the rewound cassette into the cassette player 4 Type LOAD on your Spectrum and press ENTER 5 Press PLAY on the cassette player NOTE Full loading instructions can be found in your Spectrum Manual PLAYING THE GAME Pneumatic Hammers can be played with the following keys Z Left X Right K Up M Down L Jump break High Score Table Abort The game begins with options offered on playing modes and difficulty levels The gold is buried amongst the ro2. ckslides either side of the river The nuggets can be found by use of a metal detector obtained on the 1 floor of the base When a nugget has been located it can be made visible by pointing the hand at the spot and pressing fire A sack is provided for collection Take care both detector and gold will be lost if there is a rockslide and they are not held in the hand The number of buried nuggets is displayed at the bottom corners of the screen Movement across the river is made by jumping from pillar to pillar hammers should be avoided though The pillar will gradually be hammered under the water but time can be extended by placing logs on top of the pillars Log piles can be replenished by use of the crane on the ground floor of the base Recovered nuggets of gold can be weighed and checked for purity on the 2 floor Nuggets come in sizes of 9 10 11 18 20 22 45 50 90 100 110 grammes Only 10 20 50 and 100g are pure enough for moulding Every nugget placed in the furnace must be pure otherwise all the gold will be lost The player must also take care to weigh in the correct amount of gold needed for the handle The furnace will heat up until it reaches 1000 c when a thermostat will turn on and maintain the temperature at between 980 c and 1000 c Gold will melt at 1063 c and cast at 1120 c so until the correct amount of gold is present do not switch the furnace above 1000 c This is achieved by pressing the HEATING switch when th
3. e temperature is rising if it is dropping the furnace will switch off Once a handle is cast go to the top floor and switch the power off and the base will be saved The exit to the base is on the ground floor opposite the lift
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