User Guide

To re-open a mine, proceed as if you were starting a new mine on the site of a

closed but existing mine. You can not mine on uneven or mountainous terrain,

nor can you mine in water.

LOAD AND SAVE SCREEN

Access this area by clicking on SAV in the screen transfer panel. U

SAV to re-

cord a current situation in memory, load a previous one, or simply

pause

what

you are doing to attend to urgent, non-Overlordian matters. The clock stops and

the game pauses while you are here.

The right-hand side of this screen displays previously saved files. The left side

has a number of large buttons. If the Executron operates too quickly or too

slowly, simply adjust the desk speed up or down using the arrow buttons. The

speed ranges from one to ninety-nine, with ninety-nine being the fastest rate.

To load a game either click on a file title from the list, and then click the LOAD

button, or select LOAD directly. This will bring up the Executron’s graphic

Holo-keyboard. Input the file name by selecting the appropriate keys, and then

select the OK button. Or simply type in the tile name on your keyboard, and

press Return.

SAVE works much like LOAD, calling up the keyboard and asking you to input

a tile name. The Executron inserts the suffix WOW at the end of every file (this

is also visible from DOS). File names may only be up to 8 characters long.

DEL GAME allows you to delete a highlighted game, or to specify one on the

keyboard to delete.

The AUTOSAVE button turns the automatic backup feature on and off. It is

marked AUTOSAVE ON to begin with, and will save a backup copy of all perti-

nent information on the first of each month. The default AUTOSAVE file is

named AUTOSAVE.WOW. Please note that if you had a particularly good

game but had to quit for some reason, the file AUTOSAVE.WOW will still be

visible from DOS. This will enable you to copy the AUTOSAVE.WOW file, to

a unique filename in order to preserve the saved game tile for future use.