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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Code Wheels
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:02:09 -0500
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:31:57 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 

> b) a manual look-up in the form of "journal entries" where 
>       you were directed to read what it said in the manual at 
>       various points throughout the game. Often these entries
>       contained vital information without which certain puzzles 
>       could not be completed.

Yeah. This added a lot of depth to the game, and there was a lot less
disk switching and fewer disks. Well, frankly, it literally couldn't fit
on the disks of the day.

The book was also in photocopy proof blue iirc.

*THIS* is the way to do CP.

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Zag

What's the point of growing up 
if you can't be childish sometimes? ...Terrance Dicks, BBC