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Neuromancer Quick Reference
GETTING AROUND IN THE REAL WORLD
While walking through Chiba City, you'll see the world one "room" at
a time. Many rooms have exits or doorways you can walk through. Exits at
the bottom of the main screen are represented by a black line. Some doors
may be locked or guarded; in this case it is up to you to find out how to get
in.
As you cruise through each room, you'll see and talk to other
people. You can control your actions and movement using keyboard commands or
a joystick (more commands later).
The screen is divided into three main areas. The largest section
shows the room itself. In the bottom left corner are the eight command icons.
In the bottom right corner is a special text window used for room
descriptions and other short bits of text. When a conversation is in
progress, "word balloons" will appear above the speaking characters in the
room.
JOYSTICK CONTROL
To toggle the joystick on and off, press "J" while holding down the
"open-apple" key. If you have a joystick, you can use it to move a "pointer
arrow around the screen. Whenever you want to select anything on the screen
-- a command icon, a menu option, some softwarez to download -- you can just
point to it with the pointer and press the joystick button.
COMMAND ICONS
You use the command icons to perform actions. You can pick an icon
by either pointing to it with the joystick pointer and pressing the joystick
button, or pressing the corresponding key on your keyboard.
The command icons are arranged _______________
as in the figure to the right. The table | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
below refers to each icon by number, as |---|---|---|---|
shown in the figure. | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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SOUND CONTROL
To toggle the sound effects on and off, press "S" while holding down
the "open-apple" key".
Here is a list of the command icons and what they do.
KEY ICON DESCRIPTION
--- ---- -----------
1. M MODE Toggles through these display options:
Current amount on credit chip
Time
Date
Constitution level
2. I INVENTORY Displays what you're currently carrying and lets you
operate, discard, or give items, or erase software in
a
deck.
3. P PAX Access the PAX system if there's a PAX terminal in the
room.
4. T TALK Talk with another person in the room.
5. S SKILLS Use a skill you have acquired.
6. WALK When using a joystick, puts you back in control of
your movement after performing some other action.
(See Movement Commands)
7. R ROM CONSTRUCT Access your ROM construct abilities (if you have one).
8. D DISK Save your current game position, load an old game,
pause the game, start a new game, or quit the game.
MOVEMENT COMMANDS
You can use either the keyboard or a joystick to walk around town.
With the keyboard, you can one step by pressing a direction key once
or keep walking by holding a direction key down. the direction keys are
shown below. The arrow keys will move you immediately from room to room.
To walk around with a joystick, first select the "Walk" command
icon. The joystick pointer will disappear to show that you are walking
around. Moving the joystick in the direction you want to go will then make
you walk in that direction. When you want to select a different command
icon, press the joystick button again to stop walking and get the joystick
pointer back.
COMMANDS WITHIN MENUS:
Menus may appear throughout the game when you look at lists of items
-- prices in a shop or your inventory list, for example. You can select a
menu option with the keyboard, or point to the option with the joystick
pointer and press the joystick button. There are several commands commonly
used within menus:
COMMAND KEY DESCRIPTION
------- --- -----------
EXIT X Leave the current menu
MORE M View more menu options (if available)
After you select an item in your Inventory menu, you can choose from three
special commands:
OPERATE O Operate an item.
GIVE G Give an item to another person.
DISCARD D Discard an item, permanently.
CONVERSATIONS
In Talk mode (type "T" or select the Talk icon), you can carry on
conversations with other characters in a room through the use of "word
balloons". Word balloons allow you to choose among several respnses or
questions that are appropriate to the situation in that room. When a word
balloon appears over your head, you can see all of your possible responses by
pressing the space bar or pulling back on your joystick after each response
is displayed. When you decide on the proper response, press return or the
button on your joystick. the response you select will be displayed a second
time as you "say" it. After you read a word balloon that you or another
character has "said", press the space bar or joystick button to continue.
You can leave a conversation your character initiated with the "talk" command
by pressing the <ESC> key.
USING THE PAX
When you operate a PAX machine (by selecting the PAX icon or
pressing "P") the machine will give you three access codes and ask you for
the verification code.
Take the PAX Verification Code Wheel (or a reasonable facsimile
thereof) and align the first access code, found on the outer wheel, with the
second access code, located on the inner wheel. Find the window that
corresponds to the third access code. Type the number found in the window,
then press RETURN. For example, if given the codes Freeside, Comlink, and
Holy Joystick, you would line up the words "Freeside" and "Comlink", and then
type the number in the Holy Joystick window: 512.
Whenever text is displayed on the PAX or a database, you may press
the "+" (plus) key to speed up the text display, or the "-" (minus) key to
slow it down.
THE CYBERSPACE DISPLAY
(Cyberspace jacks appear as yellow circles with a red dot in the
middle.) The top half of the screen shows the view from your current
cyberspace location. The bottom left corner of the screen is occupied by the
cyberspace command icons. The bottom right corner of the screen contains
your EEG monitor, which gives you a visual representation of your brain wave
activity. Just below the EEG there is a gauge of your cyberdecks shielding,
and to the right of the EEG is a gauge of ICE shielding for when you're in
combat with ICE.
The center of the cyberdeck panel is where information will appear
when needed. At the bottom center of the cyberdeck panel, there are four
numbers; from left to right, these are the cyberspace zone number you're in,
your X and Y coordinates in cyberspace, and the amount of money in your
credit chip.
CYBERSPACE ICONS
The cyberspace command icons are arranged as in the figure below.
KEY ICON _______
--- ---- | 1 | 2 |
1. I INVENTORY |---|---|
2. S SKILLS | 3 | 4 |
3. R ROM CONSTRUCT -------
4. D DISK
In cyberspace, the SKILLS, ROM CONSTRUCT, and DISK icons behave just
as they do outside of cyberspace. The INVENTORY icon displays a list of
softwarez in your deck to operate, rather than a list of your items. The
MODE, PAX, TALK, and WALK icons are unavailabe in cyberspace. There are
three new controls: The EXIT button ("X" on the keyboard) exits from
cyberspace. The ERASE button ("E" on the keyboard) will erase a piece of
software from your deck. The "Movement" button, just above the four command
icons, is used to control your movement with the joystick. The "Movement"
button is similar to the "Walk" button in the real world.
Bases Link code & passwords
Bases Link Code Password(s)
Cheap Hotel CHEAPO GUESTS, COCKROACH
Regular Fellows REGFELLOW
Consumer Review CONSUMREV REVIEW
Aseno Computing ASANOCOMP VENDORS
World Chess WORLDCHESS MEMBER
Psycho PSYCHO BABYLON
Hitachi HITACHIBIO GENESPLICE,BIOTECH
Sea Cop SOFTEN PERMAFROST
Hosaka HOSAKACORP BIOSOFT, FUNGEKI
Panther Modern CHAOS MAINLINE
Bank of Zurich BOZOBANK no password
NASA VOYAGER APOLLO
People for Free Matrix FREEMATRIX CFM
IRS IRS TAXINFO, AUDIT
Fuji FUJI ROMCARDS,UCHIKATSU
City Police KEISATSU WARRANTS, SUPERTAC
Musabori MUSABORIND SUBARU
Copenhagen College BRAINSTORM PERILOUS
Eastern Sea Board EASTSEABOD LONGISLAND
Gentlemen Loser LOSER WILSON, LOSER
Tozoku Imports YAKUZA YAK
Bank Gemeinschaft BANKGEMEIN EINTRITT, VERBOTEN
Justice Department JUSTICE no password
All these bases can be reached by using a deck and a cyper jack. but some
boards need a higher version of Comlink to be able for you to reach.
SOFTWARE LIST & FUNCTION
(unless noted, the highest the version, the better)
JAMMIES, SLOW- These are cyberspace interface corruptor, which slows down the
ICE's attack.
THUNDERHEAD, PYTHON, ACID, INJECTOR- Cyperspace ICE viruses, use these on ICE
to slowly destry the ICE defense.
VACCINE, CYBERSPACE- These are communication software for entering the
cyberspace.
BLAMMO, BATTLECHESS 4.0- These are deck viruses, don't use them no matter
what happen!
DOORSTOP, DECODER, BLOWTORCH, DRILL, HAMMER, DEPTHCHARGE, CONCRETE,
LOGICBOMB- These are your ICE breakers, collect them all.
SEQUENCER- USE THESE TO FIND OUT LEVEL ONE PASSWORD, OR TO access Justice,
bozobank after you use COMLINK (after the base into appears, move your
joystick to inventory and select this software, this will run the softwares
while you're on-line)
ARMORALL- Use this one, if your shield is down. warning, this only work once
per ICE.
KGB 1.0- Use this in cyberspace to teleport you to KGB base.
COMLINK- communication softwares, version 6.0 allows you to enter cyperspace.
PROBE- allows you to find out the name of the base that ICE's are guarding,
in higher version, you can ever find out if AI's are present.
EASYRIDER 1.0- allows you to traver over to the other zone in cyperspace.
BATTLECHESS 1.0- a chess program.
SCOUT- used in link lines to find out the numbers of levels in a base. (same
way as in using a SEQUENCER)
HEMLOCK- use this to 'kill' Greystoke AI.
THE PURPOSE OF CYPERSPACE IS TO BREAK INTO A BASE WITH THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE
LEVEL ACCESS WITH-OUT A PASSWORD. YOU MUST USE YOUR SOFTWARE TO MELT DOWN THE
ICE IN-ORDER TO REACH THE BASE.
SOMETIMES, an AI (artificial intelligence) is present after you melt the ICE.
you must use your skill to kill them, if you don't know which skill to
use.... try psychoanalyis.
P.S only once ICE can be defeat only with a software, and that's Greystoke.