Exile - manual or guidance?

[wemb]

Decided to try Exile - have heard about this game for decades and have played it a few times in emulators - which, of course, have save states.

Never tried playing it on a real BBC till now so... err... How do you save? I can see there's a save option on the main menu, but non of the instructions I've googled indicate how you get back to the main menu. Obviously I'm missing something - which, I assume - is listed in the actual manual - but haven't get found a decent copy of it. Anyone able to point me inthe right direction?

Thanks
Dave

[wemb]

Ah - Just found a scanned copy of the manual and read the page where it covers how to save the game and that's... different. Well - it's completely bonkers in a slightly wonderful way.

Got to wonder how far the developers got along the coding process before they realised there were going to have to make the user do a cold boot and load the game loader back in in order to same some portion of non-overwritten ram.

That must have been a fairly difficult decision to come up with a solution that radical. I can't remember of ever hearing anything like this before.

Dave

[bob147]

I've been spoilt by emulators, on real hardware I'll be thinking 'time for a break, I'll just save it here... oh'. Exile is particularly inventive.

[james]

Ah - Just found a scanned copy of the manual

For the benefit of anybody else in the same predicament as you - where did you find it?

[wemb]

In the 11th gif of a zip file of individual scanned pages I found on an insecure webpage last updated in 2003 that's full of otherwise broken links.

Also, presumably, with a sign on the frontpage instructing me to 'Beware of the leopard'.

http://www.exile.plus.com/download/exile-manual.zip

The file exl_20-21.gif is the one containing the details of the 'unusual procedure' needed to save the game.

I may turn this into a proper pdf if I get time.
.. update - I had the time - see attached. Apologies for the low resolution - the source gifs above also of equal quality. It seems to have been ocr'd properly though.

Dave

[strawberrytau]

See this thread started by me. Lots of helpful tips and advice there:

viewtopic.php?p=233385#p233385

[Cybershark]

Also, presumably, with a sign on the frontpage instructing me to 'Beware of the leopard'.

Had the document in question been buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters?

[vexorg]

That is a lot of keys