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Box Man Xmas Edition ReadMe
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Description
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Box Man Xmas Edition is a fun logic and strategy puzzle board game to
memorialize the foundation of MagicSeven Studio for two years, it's a brain
teaser featuring the clever porter Box Man, it has beautiful sceneries,
orphean background music and sound, more and more difficult levels with
no solutions seemingly, but yes actually there are. This game is very easy
to operate but maybe very difficult to solve, it's really a great challenge
to your brain! Fun for the whole family, encourages logical and procedural
thinking, enhances problem solving skills. Treasure forever, delete never!
WARNING: VERY ADDICTIVE!

Some features of Box Man Xmas Edition
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   - The registered version has 300 more and more difficult levels to tease
     your brain!

   - You can save and load the solution for each level. When you meet the
     levels that you can't solve, you can load the solutions downloading
     from MagicSeven Studio web site!

   - Join World Competition of Box Man and beat the world records!

   - Edit new beautiful levels by yourself, take it easy and enjoy yourself!

   - You can load the levels and their solutions edited by other persons, so
     you can enjoy new levels again and again! Pay attention to MagicSeven
     Studio web site!

   - Undo when you make a wrong step so you don't need to play again from
     the very beginning of the hard work!

   - Beautiful and colorful sceneries you will never be sick and tired!

   - Orphean background music and sound to lift up your head!

   - Shortcut keys.

   - ...and much more.

Requirements
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   - IBM PC-compatible computer;
   - Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP;
   - 640x480 or 800x600 resolution mode recommended;
   - Sound card recommended.

Installation
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To install Box Man, just run Setup.exe.

Uninstallation
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To uninstall Box Man from your computer, just run Uninstall from the Start
menu.

How to play
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You are the clever porter Box Man whose job is to move all of the objects to
the marked floor positions allowing you to escape to the next level. You can
only push but not pull the objects around the maze and can not push more
than one at a time. You can do this by using arrow keys on your keyboard.
The operation sounds very simple, right? Play it right now!

 * Shortcut keys usage: Almost every menu has its own shortcut key, for
   example, if you want to play the current original level from the
   beginning, just press CTRL+N. See the menu.

 * Undo usage: Sometimes you move an object to a wrong position by mistake,
   don't worry, just press CTRL+U to undo it. Only the last step you can
   undo.

 * Load solutions: Too difficult to think out the solutions? No problems,
   just load the solutions and follow up them! The solutions will be saved
   automatically each time you completed each original or self-edited level,
   then you can load them and see the solutions just by clicking the "TRACE"
   button! You can send the solutions for each original or self-edited level
   to us and we will publish them on our web site! Also you can download the
   solutions from our web site. Visit our web site for more details.  

 * Level editor: Easily edit your own levels just by clicking! First click
   an object on the edit-bar, then click the main window. After editing you
   can test it by clicking the "TEST" button, continue to edit by clicking
   the "EDIT" button, end editing by clicking the "EXIT" button. If you
   re-edit and re-save the level after the test is completed, you will need
   to re-test this level to save the corresponded solutions. Please feel
   free to email us your levels and their solutions, we'll adopt and publish
   them on our web site for other people to download! See our web site for
   more details.

 * Levels and solutions are named according below:
   Solutions for the original levels: BOXSOL.1 is the first level solutions,
   BOXSOL.2 is the second level solutions, etc.
   Self-edited levels: SELF.1 is the first self-edited level, SELF.2 is the
   second self-edited level, etc.
   Solutions for the self-edited levels: SELFSOL.1 is the first self-edited
   level solutions, SELFSOL.2 is the second self-edited level solutions,
   etc.
   Other levels: OTHER.1 is the first other level, OTHER.2 is the second
   other level, etc.
   Solutions for the other levels: OTHERSOL.1 is the first other level
   solutions, OTHERSOL.2 is the second other level solutions, etc.

Main history of Box Man and MagicSeven Studio
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   12/03/2001: Box Man Xmas Edition (this version) released! More fun!
   09/05/2001: Box Man V3.02 minor updated! The bug under WIN NT & 2000
   (Box Man stopped periodically under WIN NT & 2000) fixed. World Records
   added to the menu, and more...
   07/25/2001: Box Man original levels increased to 300 and will be more! 
   05/04/2001: World Records of Box Man published! 
   04/26/2001: Box Man won HOT GAME OF THE DAY on ZDNet!
   04/22/2001: Box Man V3.01 minor updated! Registration and documentation
   revised, and more...
   04/08/2001: Box Man original levels increased to 200 and will be more!
   02/07/2001: Box Man V3.0 (English version) won a 5-Bombs award on
   GameArchives!
   02/05/2001: Box Man V3.0 (English version) won a 4-Stars award on ZDNet!
   01/28/2001: Box Man V3.0 (English version) released! Program re-coded
   with 32 bit, installation and uninstallation supported!
   12/15/2000: Box Man V2.1 (English version) and MagicSeven Studio English
   homepage released!
   11/05/2000: Box Man V2.1 (Chinese version) updated! Addictive sound
   effect added, characters and sceneries selectable...
   02/19/2000: Box Man V2.0 (Chinese version) released! Some excellent
   features added, such as editing levels, loading levels and solutions,
   undoing... 
   11/17/1999: MagicSeven Studio website founded!
   07/07/1999: Box Man V1.0 (Chinese version) released and won a lot of
   awards!
   07/1997 - 11/1999: Eight software (Chinese version) such as Screen
   Puzzler, Nim, Memory, Word Puzzler, Word Miner, etc., had been developed
   and released!
   07/07/1997: MagicSeven Studio founded!

Shareware license agreement and registration
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   Box Man is a shareware, that means:

 * Shareware is copyrighted software that is distributed for you to "try
   before you buy". This way you only buy games that you like - no more
   buying a game at the store only to find out that it isn't much fun.
   Distribution and packaging costs are kept to a minimum, so the price of
   the software is lower. The shareware version of this game is intended for
   evaluation purposes only. It is a functional program with some of the
   difficult levels and beautiful sceneries disabled (limited to 11 levels
   and 3 sceneries), however almost all functions are enabled. If you like
   the game and want to continue playing it, you must register it.

 * You may freely copy and redistribute Box Man unregistered version, as
   long as it is distributed in its full, original, and unmodified form.

 * The type of license you are granted is a single computer usage license.
   This means that the user purchases ONE license to use Box Man registered
   version on ONE computer. If you install the software onto a multi-computer
   platform or network, each and every individual computer of the software
   must be registered separately.

 * This is unregistered version. Registration of our product will allow you
   to 
   - play with full levels (300 levels) to tease your brain!
   - play with full, beautiful sceneries!
   - open solutions, solve difficult levels, track out steps of World Records
     of Box Man!
   - think much, much more!
   - be able to upgrade to all available future versions of Box Man free!
   - get the registration for Box Man V3.X automatically at the same time!
   - ... and much more.

 * You can register this great product online via secure web server, the 
   registration fee is just US$14.95 for 100 levels, US$19.95 for 200 levels,
   US$24.95 for 300 levels! You will find that it's worthy of registering to
   treasure this wonderful game! Online registration is very easy, fast and
   secure, we recommend you strongly! You can also register by phone, fax or
   regular mail. Just click the game menu "Buy Now" or the game button "Buy Now"!
   You can visit our web site for more details. If you have any questions or
   suggestions, feel free to contact us at email address below:

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   support@magic7.net
   webmaster@magic7.net
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   Our web site is at:

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   http://www.magic7.net
   http://www.magicseven.net
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 * BOX MAN IS DISTRIBUTED "AS-IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR
   IMPLIED. YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA
   LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR
   MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE THOUGH IT IS HARMLESS AND HAS BEEN TESTED
   COMPLETELY.

 * You may not use, copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, modify,
   decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the 
   licensed program, or any subset of the licensed program, except as
   provided for in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in
   immediate and automatic termination of this license and may result in
   criminal and/or civil prosecution.

 * By installing and using Box Man you accept the terms set forth in this
   agreement. If you do not agree with the terms of the agreement, please
   remove Box Man files from your storage devices and cease to use the
   product.

   Thank you for using this product in accordance with the terms of this
   agreement. Enjoy it and have fun!

   MagicSeven Studio

   http://www.magic7.net                                              
   http://www.magicseven.net

   Email: support@magic7.net

   December 2001