| Genre: | Text Adventure |
| Publisher: | Alpine |
| Cover Art Language: | English |
| Machine Compatibility: | BBC Model B, BBC Model B+, BBC Master 128, Acorn Electron |
| Release: | Professionally released on 5.25" Disc |
| Available For: | BBC/Electron & Commodore 64/128 |
| Compatible Emulators: | BeebEm (PC (Windows)) PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)) Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)) Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
| Original Release Date: | 1st March 1990 |
| Original Release Price: | £9.99 |
| Market Valuation: | £33.32 (How Is This Calculated?) |
| Item Weight: | 64g |
| Box Type: | 5.25" Disc(s) Plastic |
| Author(s): | Philip Hawthorne |
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Acorn User
1st August 1990
Where this adventure scores highly is in the quality of the puzzles... Parsing gets the adequate mark but the replies are a little unhelpful and very repetitive. Read Review
The Micro User
1st March 1990
Cops is a pretty good adventure and worth buying, but there are a couple of minor drawbacks to the parser. Read Review
Full Instructions
Cops
An interactive story written by Philip Hawthorne
You knew it was going to be one of those days as soon as you got up. First the shower heater blew a fuse and then you spilt coffee on your new uniform trousers. Lucky you had the spare pair pressed - wouldn't want to create a bad impression on your first day out of the Police Academy.
As you sipped your replacement cup of coffee and munched your oatie flakes, you couldn't keep wondering what your new colleagues would be like.
No amount of imagination could have prepared you for the events of the next twelve hours - your very first day as one of the Hall Street "Cops"...
Playing Cops
In response to the "What Now?" prompt, you can enter fairly complex sentences with multiple commands, such as:
DROP ALL EXCEPT THE GUN, THE HANDCUFFS; GO NORTH THEN TALK TO THE MAN
Note that the objects in the EXCEPT list may be separated by spaces or commas and that the list must be terminated by a semicolon (;) or a colon (:) which must have at least one space either side.
To store your current position on disk, you should use the SAVE command: you will be prompted for a filename. You can resume from a saved position by using the RESTORE command.
Loading
Cops is only available on 5.25" DFS disc.
Hold SHIFT and tap BREAK to load.
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| Download | What It Contains |
|---|---|
 | A digital version of Cops suitable for BeebEm (PC (Windows)), PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)), Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)), Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
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