DarkWood
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DarkWood was written by Tom Cooper, and was released commercially by Eclipse in 1995. However, Imparo, who now own the rights to DarkWood and a handful of other games, have given permission for DarkWood to be rereleased as freeware. So, here it is - freeware DarkWood, compatible with all versions of RISC OS from 3 to 3.7!


RISC OS 4 and above
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We've been notified by numerous people that DarkWood will run perfectly well under Jan de Boer's !A310emu, allowing RISC OS 4 and 5 users to play the game. You can grab a copy of !A310emu from http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~jandeboer/


Getting started
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Double-click !DarkWood, and then click on the iconbar icon to start a game.


Controls
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Z and X - Turn left and right
' and / - Walk forwards/backwards
Space - Fire
Return - Jump
P - Pause/ingame options
Ctrl-Escape - Quit to menu

The mouse is used for interacting with many objects in-game, such as the action buttons in the bottom-right of the screen. Some actions such as dropping and throwing require an item to be selected in your inventory first. If the game is running too slowly, then it would be a good idea to look at the graphics options in the in-game options menu. 


Thanks to
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* Tom Cooper for writing the game
* Imparo for releasing the rights
* The members of Acorn Arcade's Free Games section, for putting this release together. Why not visit http://www.acornarcade.com/features/freegames/ and grab some more golden oldies?
