DEUS EX MACHINA
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"DEUS EX MACHINA" is intended as a totally original audio-visual
entertainment, in which the "player" actively takes part in a televised
fantasy, fully synchronised to a stereo soundtrack. Enjoy it.

 INSTRUCTIONS

Load COMPUTER COMPACT-CASSETTE SIDE-ONE into your computer, as if it were a
normal computer program.

Play AUDIO COMPACT-CASSETTE SIDE-ONE on a cassette player, until the
Storyteller instructs you to "PAUSE". Pause your audio cassette player.

Press the S key on your computer keyboard, to initialise the Screen
Countdown, and re-start your AUDIO cassette exactly when instructed by the
Screen. You will witness a slight Accident.

You may control its progress using the following keys:

O	to	P	'up' or 'jump'
A	to	L	'down'
Z	to	V	'left' or 'anticlockwise'
B	to	M	'right' or 'clockwise'

Keys may be used in combination to achieve diagonal movement. Your Screen
will give you other operating options, before 'play' commences.


In the year 1987, the Department of Health and Social Security Police and
State Security records of the United Kingdom were coordinated within a
central computerised data bank. The following year, all passport,
communications and censorship operations were integrated. In 1994, this
computer network became responsible for the total defence and inter