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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to play Ecology?
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.212045.10057@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 21:20:45 GMT
References: <59550@aurs01.UUCP>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <59550@aurs01.UUCP>, whitcomb@aurs01.uucp (Jonathan Whitcomb) writes:
>I just downloaded "ECOLOGY.LZH" from Delphi, and I can't figure
>out how to play it (Guess I'm just stupid... 8^B).  Can anyone
>clue me in?  It looks great!

You first start out at a little bug of some sort.  You first need to find 
some food (the little worm things) and eat it.  To do this, get near it 
 press the button and move the stick in the food direction (look at the 
screen when you press the button, you will see that you have to hold the
joystick a certain direction to indicate you wish to eat), and keep holding
it.  Your bug will chase the food and eat it.  You then need to find another
bug like you to mate with.  You will now have a "mate" direction for the 
joystick (with the button down).  Again, get near it and hold the joystick
correctly.  After this, you will see the genetic selection screen, where 
you can play with your DNA, in hopes of becoming a higher life form (usually 
a doggie, or a bug with wings so you can fly).  The eat/mate cycle starts 
again (amazingly accurate, huh?!?).  The object of the game is to evolve 
to a person.  During this whole time, you must avoid all of the other 
higher life forms you see milling around the gamespace.  These are pretty 
brief instructions, if you have any more questions feel free to email.

-- 
             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "God is a comedian playing to an 
          FSU Computer Science       |      audience too afraid to laugh."
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      email:  boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu  |                  - Voltaire