![]() ![]() Your task is simply to raise a mere 100,000 in a pretty green within seven days or face the consequences. One minute you're snacking in Chicago, the next you're abducted, grilled by a Vegas mobster and then beaten senseless. I knew if I didn't I'd regret it - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of my life. It couldn't even be comfortably described as a peanut butter sandwich. I haven't got a car, never ind any gas, I'm out of cigarettes, it's light outside and I've mislaid my sunglasses. I had to get back to Chicago to try and sort it all out. I was playing the part of Ace Harding, down and out in Las Vegas and on the receiving end of some unwelcome attention from the mob. If this is what's meant by user- friendly, fully icon- driven interactive adventures, they lay some more on me. Any other actions could be performed by clicking on the words in the top right corner. ![]() To move around I could either click the appropriate part of the screen or on the little squares in the exits window. And if I opened up an object, its own little window appeared. This was impressive.īeing an ace at this sort of work I soon discovered that I could pick up objects by clicking on them and dragging them to the inventory window. I gave the same treatment to the rest of them, all except the graphic which looked too big for me to handle. I re-sized him, sent him to the back and to the front, then dragged him around for a bit. I told him I was going to have to rearrange his features. Someone was cracking funnies, but I wasn't laughing. There was windows all over the place: Inventory, graphics, exists, text - it was all there. Hey, what kind of a stunt were these boys trying to pull? This looked a little like a Workbench screen. There was always someone trying to work a new angle, and it always ended up messy. Something was different here and it made me uneasy. I told myself to be sure and get round to fixing that power cable some time. Sam was doing the driving so I sat back and lit up. We had our ups and downs like any other partnership, but on the whole we got along swell. I guess I felt kinda dumb just talking at it, so I slid it into my disc drive. I told it: "Of all the in-trays in all the offices, you had to fall into mine". I took a look at the box and got that weird feeling - you know, when you think you've seen it all before. It was getting so a guy couldn't make a decent living. Software houses were like that, you could never trust 'em, always on to some scam or other, and nearly everyone on the take. Tracking the software down wasn't hard - Icon Design had set it up. I don't know if you've ever been in fabric retail, but it isn't a pretty sight. I had to do something, and do it fast, or it was curtains for me. The review I'd been assigned had been dragging on for days. The editor was on to me and it wasn't to wish me happy birthday. ![]()
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