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   ^: Acrostic Instructions :@

Welcome to the SCI-FI Acrostic Solver. This program presents three acrostic puzzles with famous science fiction authors as the topics. The author's last name is the answer down. Each letter in the author's name is used as the first letter of a word across. By solving the words across, you will spell the author's name down. A clue for the word down appears at the bottom of your screen. Use the ^ arrow keys or Control A and Control Z @ to move from row to row. As you move up and down, a clue for the row where you are working will appear at the top of the screen. You may guess, but the program expects you to solve all words across. Correct words are marked. If you need help with a word, use ^ Control F @ to see the first letter. Once you have completed the first puzzle, the program will automatically move on to the second. If you want to skip a puzzle, use ^ Control N @ to ask for the Next puzzle. You can quit completely by using the  [ESC]  key. The program will ask you to confirm your choice. If you do quit, you will go back to the UPTIME Menu. If you do not, you will go back the puzzle, resuming where you left off.

   ^- Modifying Acrostics -@

In this program, you will find a set of acrostics with the same theme. If you are a bit familiar with BASIC, you might look at the data statements starting at line 12000 and change them to create your own acrostics. You may want a set of puzzles for a favorite topic of yours. If digging into Applesoft is a bit beyond your wishes, you can send your suggestions to UPTIME.  If we receive enough response, we will either include a new acrostic or (preferably) a set of programs that will allow you to make your own acrostics and save them on the disk for other people to solve.  Let us know if you would like a utility which will print these puzzles for you as well.

^  Files Needed  @

ACROSTICS       - Program used to setup the machine for SCIFI
UPTIME.TITLE    - The introduction to the program
SCIFI           - The main program
FP              - EXEC file used to exit.
GARBAGE         - A quick garbage collection routine
CURSORS         - Various cursors used by programs
]BLOCK          - The following files are the character sets used to
]SMALL SQUARE   -            print on the HiRes screen.
]SMALL STANDARD

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