
                           A Spyral production

                               
                                  
                                    
                                       
                             
                               

                         OFFICIAL BROWSER MANUAL

                          Coded by RskY/Spyral
                   Copyright (C) Giovanni Bajo, 1995-96

    ChLib is Copyright (C) Giovanni Bajo and Mattia Barbetti, 1995-96
                           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

                          VERSION 4 - October '96
****|          Modified sections are indented like this line

                                        
                                        
                                       
                           DISCLAIMER 
                                      
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This product is provided AS IS, without warranties of any kind: the author of
this program cannot be held liable for any defects in the executable nor in
the documentation nor in any other files contained in this package. Any
damage directly or indirectly caused by the use/misuse of ChLib is the sole
responsibility of the user her/himself. In other words: ChLib never formatted
my harddisk, nor killed my cat, so I suppose it won't cause any damage to
your system either, but, just in case, do not blame me if something nasty
happens.

                                         
                                         
                                        
                           LEGAL STUFF 
                                       
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ChLib Official Browser is a copyrighted freeware: it means that you can
use it freely, spread it freely, but you CANNOT modify it.


                                                  
                                                  
                                                 
                          HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 
                                                
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CHLIB official browser is a little program, so does not require a big computer
to run. You need only a 386, with about 400k of base memory free, and a VGA
video card. Someone asked me why I don't release a browser version that works
also on 286, or 8086. I think that it is useless, becuase there are very few
games listed in ChLib that can be played on a 286. So, even if I release a 286
version, which cheat could you use?


                                            
                                            
                                           
                         CONSULTING CHLIB 
                                          
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Before loading the browser, you should control that your current DOS code page
is 437 (USA), because using other code page could make strange symbols appear
in the screen instead of the normal symbols. To see your current set, type
"mode con codepage".

Once you have started the browser, you will see a list of all the game that
have one or more cheats. Look through the list with the [CrsUp], [CrsDwn],
[PagUp] and [PagDn] keys. If you want to skip directly to one cheat, press a
letter and Chlib will show you the first game whose name starts with that
letter; you can also continue typing the second letter, the third, ecc.
to skip fastly to the game. Some voices in the list are shown in red: these are
the game whose cheats are been modified since the last update.

When you have highlighted the game you wish, press [Enter]. A menu will appear
with all the categories of tricks of that game. When you have chosen one
category, the text of the trick will appear. You can scroll the text with the
usual keys. Moreover, you can output the text to a file by pressing the [O]
key. The name of the output file is "cheat000.txt". If this file already
exists, the name will be "cheat001.txt" and so on. You can go back to the menu
by pressing [Esc].

N.B.: A lot of people wrote me that an option to print the text of a tip would
be appreciated. The (little) problem is that I don't have a printer, so I can't
test it. Don't flame me for this: you can simply output the text to a standard
text file by pressing the [O] key and then use the DOS "print" command, or open
the file with a word processor and then print it.


                                         
                                         
                                        
                           KNOWN BUGS  
                                       
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In the moment I release this version, I know that the program is bugged. The
first and most important problem is that the VGA mode I use in ChLib (50 rows)
doesn't work on some old VGA graphics cards. There are other small bugs, but
you should not see any one (they are very very small).

                                      
                                      
                                     
                           HISTORY  
                                    
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Version 0.8B, December 1995

   Public beta release. This version was spreaded with a beta release of
   ChLib.

Version 1.0, May 1996

   First public release.

****| Version 1.0a, October 1996

****|   This version fixes a bug that occured when trying to display a very very
****|   large text file.


                                                  
                                                  
                                                 
                          CONTACTING THE AUTHOR 
                                                
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Name:    Giovanni "RaskY" Bajo

E-Mail:  rasky@shock.nervous.com

Fidonet: 2:332/125.33

Snail:   Giovanni Bajo
         Via Allori 37
         50127 Firenze (FI)
         ITALY

