Jumper is a game which an old friend (Alec Thomas) and I created and released back in September of 1994.

To run Jumper you need either an old DOS 3.x, 4.x or 5.x partion (or boot disk), or you can use a DOS-emulator such as DOSBox. The screenshots shown here were taken running Jumper within DOSBox, which I can recommend as it is very simple to install and use!

Installation: To install Jumper, simply unzip the files into the directory of your choice (e.g. C:\Games\Jumper) and you're done!

How to start Jumper:
I'm going to assume that you have successfully installed DOSBox. Run DOSBox, mount the folder where you installed Jumper, change to the newly mounted drive and then run jumper, for example if you had installed Jumper in C:\Games\Jumper then you would execute the following commands within the DOSBox window:

mount z: c:\games\jumper
z:
jumper

Movement Keys:
The numeric pad plus the spacebar are used for Jumper's movement:

• Left cursor (4) - hop 1 square left.
• Right cursor (6) - hop 1 square right.
• Cursor up (8) - jump straight up (4 squares high)
• Home (7) - jump up to the left.
• Pg Up (9) - jump up to the right.
• Cursor down (2) - jumper turns away to face into the monitor, this is how you prepare Jumper to use his climbing rope.
• End (1) - face left (makes Jumper face to the left, without moving from the current square)
• Pg Dn (3) - face right (makes Jumper face to the right, without moving from the current square)
• Spacebar - either launches Jumper's climbing rope (only when facing into the monitor) or fires his shooting star.

Things to note:

• Jumper can instantly stop his diagonal jumps, by pressing down. This stops Jumper's horizontal movement and his upward motion, causing Jumper to fall straight down from his current position when Cursor down was pressed.
• To fire Jumper's climbing rope, press Cursor down (2) and then Spacebar. Jumper can only fire his rope from a stationary position!
• Jumper can NOT cancel his rope, so once the rope has been fired Jumper will not move until the climbing rope has reached it's highest point.
• Jumper can jump (or walk) off the climbing at any point while climbing the rope, simply press either Left cursor, Right Cursor, Home or Pg Up to move in their corresponding directions.
• Only one star can be shot at a time. However Jumper has an unlimited number of stars at his disposal.

How to complete a level:
You need to collect or destroy all the gems within the level before you can continue to the next. To collect a gem, you simply need to move jumper on top of the gem, you will hear the collection sound when you are successful. You can also destroy gems by shooting them with your star. When you destroy a gem you will also hear the collection sound, however you will not recieve any points for the gem.

Hints:
We built some cheats into the game, so if you get totally stuck then just drop me a line (email me) and ask for the cheats.

A word of warning to any gamer interested in giving the game a go, it's very hard. When we created this game, we failed to take the beginners learning curve into account, so even the first level is more suited to an intermediate player, rather than a beginner. I don't mean to scare you away, just warn you that you're in for a tough challenge! ;)

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