Boffin

by Philip Roberts


To keep you amused and entertained over the festive season, we bring you Boffin, a high quality graphical adventure game from the author of Wraith (see the Volume 6 Special Disc). Boffin is a challenging ladders and levels game containing dozens of puzzles that must be solved in the right sequence to complete each level. 

Can you guide the professor to safety, avoiding the acid drops, baddies and glass beakers? Get caught in a glass beaker and there is no escape.

Objects must be collected in the right order to perform experiments, give the professor extra power or open doors. Bunsen burners must be used to heat some liquids before collecting them in the flask for mixing, pouring or drinking.

Explore and master the 20 levels in this highly original game and become the hero of the Acorn world this Christmas.

INSTALLING BOFFIN
You CANNOT run Boffin from this disc. To install it, either click on its icon in the RISC User Menu System, or double-click on it in the Filer window. This will automatically open the archive containing the actual Boffin game. Copy this !Boffin application onto another disc, or your hard drive.

PLAYING BOFFIN
Boffin is very easy to play, but not that easy to complete. If you have an ARM3-based computer, you might find that Boffin runs too fast for you. To slow it down, press F12 to enter the command line, and type *cache off followed by Return. To turn the cache on again, simply enter *cache on at the command line. 

To run Boffin, simply double-click on its icon in a Filer window, or click on its icon in the RISC User Menu System. You will immediately find yourself in a passage, from which you can enter each level, change the keys and exit the game. In the passage you will see four items.

To start the level, click on the lift icon. 

You can change the control keys by clicking on the key icon with the mouse. The default keys are 'Z', 'X', ';' and '.'.

Clicking on the flask will allow you to select the level you want to start from. You will always start from the last level you completed in your previous game, but you can play from any of the previous levels by entering the colour combination which is revealed to you when you complete each level.

Clicking on the door icon allows you to return to the Desktop

INSIDE THE LEVELS
Once you have entered a level, you can control the professor with the control keys you have chosen, and the function keys F1 to F5. To move up or down, walk onto a lift and press the Up or Down key. To turn a switch on or off, stand in front of the switch and press the Up or Down key. To pick up an item, such as a key or a box of matches, stand in front of the item and press the Down key. To drink from a flask, or use a key, select the item with the appropriate function key, and press the Up key. There are various other combinations, but they're for us to know and you to discover.

One quick hint, though. There are such things as invisible doors!


Graphics and Code  Copyright Philip Roberts 1993

The name Boffin and the 'look and feel' of the game supplied on this disc is:
 Copyright RISC User 1993
