games/appleII/eamon/guild/original/EAGREAD.ME

A Quick Guide to the Eamon Files for the Apple II computer:

There are two kinds of Eamon file to be found here: 80-col. lower-case
ProDOS Eamons, and 40-col. upper-case DOS 3.3 Eamons.

At the time of this writing, there are 236 DOS 3.3 Eamons and 60 80-col.
ProDOS Eamons.  The ProDOS Eamons constitute the best 1/4 of the entire
DOS 3.3 Eamon set.

EVERY Eamon that I upload has been personally played and debugged by me,
and has no known serious bugs.

My ProDOS Eamons all use the naming convention EAMON000.SHK; they are
ShrinkIt 'file' archives that can be unpacked to any size drive.  The
archive includes a folder for each adventure, necessary because all
Eamons use the same filenames.  Most will fit on a 5.25 floppy, and
those that are too large include instructions for unpacking to multiple
5.25 floppies.

The DOS 3.3 Eamons use the naming convention EDOS3000.SDK; these are
ShrinkIt 'disk' archives that can only be unpacked to BLANK 5.25 floppies.
Note that GS-ShrinkIt does not have this capability; you must use ShrinkIt
3.4 or IIPLUS.UNSHRINK 2.1.  Some of the DOS 3.3 Eamons use multiple disks;
you will find these use SHK archives that include more than one SDK archive
and will have to be unpacked twice to get the final disks.

Besides the Eamon adventures, you will also find the Eamon Master/Main
Halls.  There is a text version that includes a players' manual and a very
simple Beginners Cave (Eamon #001), and a hi-res graphics version called
the Graphics Main Hall (the GMH files).  There are designer utilities to
write your own Eamons, Utilities, a mapmaker, an Appleworks 3.0 ADB of
known bugs, and other stuff.

The EAMONTU1 and EAMONTU2 files are collections of design tips and tutorial
collected from the Eamon Adventurer's Guild newsletter.

The EAMONRV1 and EAMONRV2 files are collections of Eaomn adventure reviews
from the Eamon Adventurer's Guild newsletter.

Apart from the reviews, the most useful tool you will find for selecting
which Eamons to download are the Eamon Lists (EAMONLST.SHK).  These are
text lists of the Eamon adventures that are arranged in different ways to
help you see which Eamon might best interest you.

If you have any comments or suggstions, please feel free to email me at
t.zuchowski@genie.com or 71214.1670@compuserve.com.

Tom Zuchowski, Editor
Eamon Adventurer's Guild