STELLAR AGENT (c)1991-2002 by Robert A. Kraus E-mail: bobkraus@csi.com This is a FREEWARE version of an old text-adventure game I sold via mail-order in 1991. The entire original game is entact, except its copy-protection is removed. The HINT progam is also included. It is an MS-DOS based game but plays okay under the Windows MS-DOS prompt. (I've only tried it with Win 98 (second edition) but it should work with any windows version.) *********************************************************************************** To play the game, go to your STAG folder and double-click on STAG.EXE (Note: STAG stands for STellar AGent, just in case you didn't realize it!) To run the Hints, double-click on HINT.EXE (Or you could run them from the Start Run menu, browsing to find stag.exe or hints.exe ) When the DOS-window comes up click on the Full-Screen Icon. Then just follow all on-screen directions. Be sure you carefully read the Help Screens. Press any time during play to view the Help Screens again. *********************************************************************************** Some people love this game and others hate it! This is NOT a game for anyone looking for a great storyline, extensive dialog, or good writing. This is a PUZZLE-text-adventure, containing a large number of logical puzzles, some easy, some difficult, but all are woven into the story or setting (you don't just come across a marble-jumping puzzle in the middle of the desert) and all puzzles are original --- there are no standard or classical ones you've seen before. Note that the first stage of the game is purely introductory and not entirely typical of the rest of the game (which is much more interesting and difficult!). *********************************************************************************** Below is a list of game features that was originally used for publicity purposes. 100% MENU-DRIVEN This text-adventure requires NO typing and no mouse. All actions are chosen from numbered menus with a single key-press. This makes for the easiest to use of all possible interfaces! However the game is NOT easy to solve! 100% LOGICALLY ORIENTED The game requires NO knowledge of obscure facts and NO guessing the right word. All of the necessary facts and clues appear somewhere in the text. Logical thinking, common sense, and basic knowledge of the real world are all that is needed. EXTREMELY NON-LINEAR (GEOGRAPHICALLY) The game requires repeated travel among the numerous locations and it contains many devious twists and vicious dead-ends. However a compensating factor has been introduced: The game is divided into seven stages, and the player is informed whenever a stage is completed. At that time the player is assured that he has avoided all dead-ends up to that point and will never have to restore the game to a position prior to the beginning of the current stage. USER-FRIENDLY The program has easy save and load routines, on-screen help, and includes four types of automatic restore commands! VARIETY OF FUN Game features include humor, surprises, adventure, and puzzles. The puzzles range from easy to very difficult, and are balanced between the situational kind and the purely logical kind. EXCITING SCENARIO The theme is science-fiction. You play an interstellar spy. Your mission is to recover an important alien artifact before the bad guys do. You travel to five different planets, fight a weird assortment of creatures, communicate and trade with aliens, find and use numerous unusual objects, do battle with enemy agents, and operate advanced technological equipment. WIDE RANGE OF DETAILS Dozens of unusual objects to be found including a variety of scientific devices involving teleportation, anti-gravity, robots, time-travel, and much more. You also discover lost temples, mazes, tribal aliens, mountains, deserts, jungles, and a host of other things. ***********************************************************************************