ADVENTURE-OF-THE-MONTH
           Atari  Edition
           December  1981
    ---- Softside  presents ----

  As captain of the interstellar craft
Palomino, returning from a long jour-
ney, you find yourself face to face
with a gigantic black hole.  Moving
closer, you find something even more
unique-a ship sitting on the vortex's
edge, unaffected by the immense grav-
ity.  It is Deep-Space One, the
Cygnus, humanity's most illustrious
scientific undertaking
  Decades earlier, the Cygnus' desig-
ner and captain, Dr. Hans Reinhardt,
conned the international Space
Space Appropriations Agency into
funding this giant project.  Then,
after years of failure, the ship did
not respond to a command to return to
Earth.  The ship was assumed lost, and
it's crew presumed dead.

  As the Palomino makes a pass over
the vessel, the silent, dead appari-
tion suddently springs to life!
Lights go on all over the Cygnus; her
docking bay beckons to the smaller
ship.  The Palomino lands, and you
step into the legacy of a ship of
robots, a ship controlled by its only
human survivor, Dr. Hans Reinhardt.

  Your mission is to escape from the
Cygnus, and inform the world of your
discovery!

Three main (non-human) characters in
this adventure need explaining.

MAXIMILLIAN is a ten-foot scarlet
robot whose main purpose is to destroy
those who oppose his master.

VINCENT is your friendly mechanical
partner, and will help you where
possible.

OLD BOB (wherever he may be hiding)
is a battered ancestor of Vincent's,
and is the only survivor who knows
that the humanoid robots are actually
lobotomized crewmen.

  In this adventure I will become your
eyes, ears and hands.  You will tell
me what to do with simple two word
commands such as GET AXE or GO STAIRS.
To move, type the direction you wish
to go in, NORTH, EAST, SOUTH or WEST,
or simply type the first letter of the
direction, N, E, S or W.  To obtain a
list of what you are carrying, type
INVENTORY or just I.

My vocabulary is limited, so I may not
understand everything you tell me to
do.  If one way of wording something
does not work, try another.  People
having trouble are usually trying to
do something beyond their (or my)
capability.
 
Some useful commands:
  LOOK, GET, DROP, HELP
 
            Good Luck!