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                            BELLRINGER II

                  A 4K MiniGame for the Commodore 64
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GAME OBJECTIVE

You are the Bellringer, and your mission this time is to collect as
many bags of gold as possible from four castle towers. You will be
awarded 750 pts for each bag collected.

You move up through the towers by climbing ladders. At the top of
each tower is a final ladder which needs to be fully raised by ringing
five (out of eight) bells in the correct order. Every time you ring a
correct bell, the ladder is raised a little. If you ring an incorrect
bell, the ladder is lowered and you must ring the previous correct
bell again.

You need to be positioned just below a bell and then jump straight
up to pull the bell's rope.

When the final ladder is fully raised, you may climb to the top of
the tower. Before proceeding to the next tower, you will be awarded a
bonus which depends on how many bells you had to ring to fully raise
the ladder. The bonus will be at least 1000 pts.

Avoid the evil knights who guard the towers. Whenever you get too
close to them, your health will decrease. You may pick up a small,
yellow box located in one of the towers to refresh your health.

The game will restart when you have completed all four towers, but
your score will not be reset. The game ends when you run out of
health.
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GAME CONTROLS

Use a joystick in port two:

     Left      Move left
     Right     Move right
     Up        Climp up ladder or jump
     Down      Climb down ladder

Press the fire button to start the game.
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GAME PLAYING HINTS

Use the ladders effectively (be patient), and do not attempt to jump
over a knight unless you really have to.
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EMULATOR COMPATIBILITY

Use of a recent version of one of the following emulators is
recommended:

     - VICE
     - CCS64 v2.0 or v3.0 (Beta)
     - Frodo
     - Power64 (Mac OS X)

The game has also been successfully tested on actual C64 hardware.
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CREDITS

Game design and programming by Geir Straume.
http://home.chello.no/~gstraume/c64/

Program compressed using Exomizer v1.1.5 by Magnus Lind.
http://w1.131.comhem.se/~u13114991/exo/


This game was submitted to the "2005 MiniGame Compo" and may be
distributed freely.