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                     Girlfriend Construction Set

                           by Tom Scheffler

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  This entertainment product is being distributed in the ShareWare tradition.
  Feel free to pass along copies to others.
  If you find Girlfriend Construction Set to be entertaining,
  please send $15.00 to
                            Tom Scheffler
                            25W 610 Jewell Rd.
                            Wheaton, IL  60187


  I will send you the latest version of Girlfriend Construction Set along with
  information about other software by Tom Scheffler.
  Comments and suggestions are also welcome.

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WARNING!     WARNING!      WARNING!      WARNING!       WARNING!     WARNING!


                   This game is for adults ONLY.
     Girlfriend Construction Set contains some sexually explicit material.
     It should NOT be used by younger or more sensitive players.

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                      Girlfriend Construction Set

                            Game Overview

     
     Girlfriend Construction Set is designed especially for all you
pencil neck computer geeks  (like me)  who can't get a real date.
Come on, guys - GET A LIFE!  In the meantime, this game will give you
some practice in the fine art of dating.  But unlike real life, you don't
have to take pot luck in your choice of women. You get to construct your own!
     You start with 50 status points which you can spend on the ten attributes
of the girlfriend you are creating.  Make her an average "5" in all ten areas.
Or boost your favorite areas.  (at the expense of others)  Spend all or some
of your available points on her.
     Then take her out on the town. (or the world)   If you treat her right
and don't make a fool of yourself, you can increase your status points.  But
if you screw up, your status drops, and if it drops below her total points, 
she'll dump you.  You can dump your current girlfriend anytime and construct 
a new one using your newly increased status points.  Eventually, when your 
status reaches 100, you can construct The Perfect Woman.
     Your ultimate goal is to get into the BIG PARTY.  But they won't let just
anybody into the Mansion.   You and your date must both be Perfect.  If they
kick you out, though, don't give up.  Keep trying. Eventually they'll let you
in.  If you are Perfect.

     Hint:
           Frequent use of the Save Game function allows you to recover from
disasters.  You can Restore a previous game anytime.  Or use the Save/Restore
functions to keep several girlfriends at once.  (They'll never find out about
each other)   You can keep up to 20 different games stored on the disk.

     The game is operated by using the arrow keys to move the pointer to the
item you wish to select.  Pressing either the return key OR the space bar
selects that item.

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                         System Information.

     If you are running Girlfriend Construction Set for the first time on your
computer, first delete the file CONFIG.SET, if it exists.  This will allow you
to customize the game for your computer's disk drive and graphics systems.
Another CONFIG.SET file will be created for your configuration the first time
you run the program.

     Recommended equipment is two 5.25 inch floppy drives, or a hard drive, or
one 3.5 inch drive.  The game can be run on one 5.25 floppy drive, but it is
an incredible pain to do so, due to constant disk swapping.

     If you have two 5.25 inch floppies, put disk 1 in drive A and disk 2 in
drive B.

     If you have a hard drive, copy all of the Girlfriend Construction Set
files to one subdirectory and log onto that subdirectory.

     To run the game from one 3.5 inch drive, all the files should be on the
same 3.5 inch disk.

     To start Girlfriend Construction Set, enter G.  Follow the prompts if you
are setting configuration.

     Note about graphics:   Girlfriend Construction Set was programmed using
CGA graphics.  If your computer has any way of displaying CGA graphics, try
the CGA configuration option. (Hit return at the graphics system prompt)
If it doesn't work, delete CONFIG.SET and reconfigure for Hercules. (Enter 1
at the graphics system prompt)   In that case it will be a text only game.
Do try CGA first if you can - it's the better version.



                 Have fun!    Let me know what you think of this game.



                                    Tom Scheffler


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