DR. JIM'S LOADING NOTES (for Steve Poole's Thor Game)
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For any QL SuperBASIC software I've written myself, I'd opt for QemuLator, but Steve has written this game to run on QPC2 in 8-bit colour mode. For this reason, I have not made a microdrive image as I usually would, because QPC2 considers itself beyond Sir Clive's shrunk-in-the-wash 8-track cartridges. The raw _BAS is all you get.

It will run on QemuLator (and probably QLAY as well, if you're really determined) but you'll only get four colours, or you'll have to make a couple of changes to get the double-width text to fit on the screen in TV mode.


TO RUN THE GAME IN QPC2 v5:
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- Launch QPC2.exe; if it doesn't start with the "Configurations" dialogue box, hold Shift while launching it to force the box to appear.
- Select "8 bit colour (mode 16)" from the "Colour mode" menu at the top left.
- Click "Devices", and the folder to the right of DOS1.
- Navigate to where the folder called "Steve's original file" is found. (This is the folder containing "Thorgame_bas" that's visible from the Windows file manager.) Hit three consecutive "OK"s to launch QPC2.
- Right-click on the down-arrow at the top right of the introductory demo screen.
- Click the "A" cursor with the hourglass over the SuperBASIC window.
- Type "dir dos1_" if required, to confirm that dos1_ points to the correct files.
- Type "lrun dos1_thorgame_bas". And Enter, obviously.


TO RUN THE GAME IN QEMULATOR v3.3.1, NOT NECESSARILY REGISTERED:
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- Launch QemuLator.
- Select "Stop", then "QL Configuration" from the "QL" menu.
- Left-click on the grey microdrive slot marked "1" at the bottom of the screen.
- Choose "Attach Directory" and select the folder "Steve's original file". The directory will become your virtual microdrive.
- Select "Start" from the "QL" menu.
- EITHER: Press F1 to start monitor mode (if you're going to deal with four colours)
  OR: press F2 to start TV mode (if you want to retain the colours at the expense of resolution).
- Type: "lrun mdv1_thorgame_bas" and Enter.
- If you have used TV mode, the game will cause an error report. Type "edit 1350" and use left, right and delete to change the line to AT 24,13.
- Press down twice to get to line 1370 (or press Enter followed by "edit 1370") and alter this line to AT 24,23.
- Type RUN and Enter.


FOR BOTH EMULATORS: press CTRL+BREAK to stop the game (or press 0 on the opening screen) and edit line 190 to "bp=1" if you want sound.
