BEYOND
CHALLENGING SOFTWARE
ENIGMA FORCE 
INDEX
Introduction......................................................................................................... 3
Game Objective.................................................................................................. 3
Loading Instructions ........................................................................................... 3
Other Formats .................................................................................................... 3
Mission Briefing .................................................................................................. 4
Issuing Commands............................................................................................. 4
Using The Keyboard........................................................................................... 4
How To Use Icons .............................................................................................. 4
Step 1 – Select A Character ............................................................................... 4
Step 2 – Movement ............................................................................................ 6
Step 3 – Using Objects....................................................................................... 6
Step 4 – Battles .................................................................................................. 7
An Example ........................................................................................................ 9
Advanced Game Play....................................................................................... 10
Game Pause And Game Status ....................................................................... 10
Hints & Tips ...................................................................................................... 11
GAME CONTENTS
Rules booklet, plus one cassette or disk.
CREDITS
Design: Denton Designs with special thanks to Fred Gray (music).
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ENIGMA FORCE
WHAT KIND OF GAME IS ENIGMA FORCE?
Enigma Force is a new kind of action adventure from Denton Designs. It’s also the
sequel to their amazing Shadowfire strategy game. When the game opens you will see
an unusual split-screen display. The top half is an animated play area where all the
action takes place. The bottom half is a scrolling command area. Once again your
orders to the Enigma team are made with the aid of icons (picture symbols). But the
layout has been designed for speed and ease of use – things move fast in this game!
INTRODUCTION
The action in this game takes place after the Shadowfire mission. General Zoff, the
republican dictator, may have been captured, but he still had time to declare war on the
empire. While five members of the Enigma team: Zark, Sevrina, Syylk, Maul and
yourself; escort Zoff to face the Emperor’s wrath, the war flares across the galaxy. As
you cross the imperial border, Zoff concentrates his awesome psionic powers on the
Enigma craft’s guidance system. Moments later the ship is bucking and burning through
the atmosphere of a planet. You awake, head throbbing, to find the Enigma craft
wrecked and General Zoff missing …
GAME OBJECTIVE
Enigma Force is a race against time to locate Zoff, discover the only other space-worthy
ship available and escape off-planet. The section headed MISSION BRIEFING gives
you further vital clues to success in this mission. The Emperor will not tolerate failure!
LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
Spectrum 48K/+: Type LOAD “” then press ENTER on the keyboard. Next press PLAY
on your cassette player. Control in this game is via the keyboard or any of the following
joysticks: Kempston, Protek, Sinclair or Fuller.
Commodore 64/128 (cassette): Press SHIFT & RUN on the keyboard, then PLAY on
your cassette player. (Disk): Type LOAD “*”,8,1 then press RETURN. Control in this
game is via the keyboard or digital joystick. If you use a joystick make sure it is plugged
into PORT 2.
OTHER FORMATS
Owners of other micros should consult the addendum sheet for their machine. 
MISSION BRIEFING
The Enigma craft’s battle computer issues one last communique before it fails:
“……….Planet identified as team-member Syylk’s homeworld. Our location is an
underground complex beneath the capital city. Syylk’s people, the insectoids, are locked
in battle with reptiloid storm troopers loyal to Zoff. Communication scan reveals
republican destructor tugs are due off-planet at indeterminate time. Their arrival will
signal this planet’s elimination. My recommended course of action:
1. Location insectoid leader and convert to ally.
2. Only space-worthy craft located in reptiloid area. Find it.
3. General Zoff heading for his spacecraft. Apprehend in the name of the Emperor.
4. Insectoid alarm system will signal approach of destructor tugs and your elimination.
ISSUING COMMANDS IN ENIGMA FORCE
In this game your are the Enigma team leader. You issue commands to the four other
team members by moving a cursor (cross-hair) over a series of icons (picture symbols).
Your commands are executed by pressing the joystick fire button or an appropriate key
on the keyboard. The chosen Enigma team member will then perform the command on
the animated play screen.
USING THE KEYBOARD TO CONTROL THE GAME
If you will be using the keyboard to control the game you will find the tables of keyboard
functions on the play aid supplied.
HOW TO USE ICONS TO ISSUE COMMANDS
The majority of the icons (picture symbols) used in this game are explained below. They
are easy to use if you follow these simple instructions.
STEP 1 – SELECT A CHARACTER
Move the cursor over the character of your choice and ENTER your command by
pressing the joystick fire button, Function Key F7 (CBM) or any top row key (Spectrum).
On the Commodore the background to the chosen character turns blue. On the
Spectrum the whole of the animated play area turns the same colour as the selected
character.
ZARK MONTOR
Team Leader. Battle injuries have left him
with many plastoid organs and a
cybernetic arm. Tough and resourceful. 
SYYLK
Second in command. Has a pathological
hatred of General Zoff. High stamina and
heavily armoured.
SEVRINA MARIS
Mistress of mayhem. Excellent
markswoman and locksmith.
MAUL
Combat weapons droid. Slow moving but
carries devastating armaments.
GENERAL MALTHADIUS ZOFF
(Who you will encounter during the
game.) Self-styles dictator of the
Cosmos. The Empire will reward those
who capture or eliminate this malefactor.
He appears as a purple icon on the CBM
or a magenta icon on the Spectrum. 
STEP 3 – USING OBJECTS
Move the cursor over any of these icons and press ENTER.
STEP 2 – MOVEMENT
Move the cursor over the icon and
ENTER the command. The chosen
character will move off in the direction
indicated. If they encounter a blank wall
they will stop and await further orders. If
they encounter an open door they will
pass through and halt in the next location.
PICK UP
Select an icon from the objects-inlocation
area of the command screen and
press ENTER. The character in play will
pick up the target object which will reappear
in the objects-carried area.
DROP
Select an icon from the objects-carried
area of the command screen and press
ENTER. The character in play will drop
the object which will re-appear in the
objects-in-location area.
ACTIVATE
Experiment with this command to activate
tool kits, prime explosives, etc.
STEP 4 – BATTLES
In Enigma Force characters will engage in combat at your command. They maybe
victorious and survive to occupy a location or they may be eliminated (keep an eye on
their strength bar). If you choose not to select one of the icons below the team members
will probably decide to retreat into the next (safest) location.
LOAD WEAPON
Use this command to re-load the
character in play’s weapon. Select a new
magazine from the objects-carried area of
the command screen and press ENTER.
HOUND TO THE DEATH!
Move the cursor over this icon and press
ENTER. Next select a character from the
characters-in-location area of the
command screen and press ENTER. The
character in play will direct all their fire at
the unfortunate target. They will also
pursue the target if it retreats to another
location.
DEFEND & HOLD!
Move the cursor over this icon and press
ENTER. The character in play will
engage all the enemy characters in the
location.
SOME OTHER ICONS AND THEIR USES
Use these icons in conjunction with the ACTIVATE command. We haven’t explained
what each does, so you will have to experiment. Hint: The Zoffcard is the general’s
escape ticket.
BALLISTIC MAGAZINE
There may well be other kinds of
ammunition in the game. You’ll have to
experiment to find out the effectiveness of
different kinds.
NOTE WELL: When you load a
character’s weapon the ammunition
appears in the middle of the top row of
command icons. Check the play aid
which lists ammunition status colours.
This string of commands tell Syylk to pick up the explosives, activate them, drop them
and withdraw to another location.
MORE
Not all the icons in a location can be
displayed at once. Use More to access a
wide selection.
ADVANCED GAME PLAY
To return to normal game do the following – JOYSTICK: Press the fire button at the
same time as you pull the joystick back towards yourself, diagonally to the left or right.
KEYBOARD: You will need three fingers! Press the FIRE key, hold it down and press
DOWN and LEFT or DOWN and RIGHT keys at the same time.
GAME PAUSE AND GAME STATUS
OOPS
Once you have become used to playing the
game through icons you can move to
advanced play. You can string together five
commands on the Spectrum and eight on
the Commodore. Your stacked commands
appear as a series of miniature icons next to
the character’s icon on the command
screen. You can delete commands in the
stack by use of the Oops icon. Experiment.
MINDPROBE
We’ve already hinted that characters have
minds of their own and may disobey your
commands. Use this icon to seize control of
the character-in-play’s mind. Select the icon
and press ENTER. The character can then
be moved directly via the joystick or
keyboard. Fire their weapon using the
joystick fire button or the appropriate
keyboard key. Whilst a character is “mindprobed”
they can only move or fire.
GAME PAUSE
Use this icon to quit the game in progress
and begin again.
THIS PROGRAM FEATURES SOUNDS ON THE SPECTRUM!
ENIGMA FORCE OFFICIAL HINTS AND TIPS
We hope to publish hints and tips for this game in a future issue of our newsletter. If you
wish to contribute we would welcome your own hints and tips (and find some kind of
payment-in-kind if we publish them).
GAME STATUS
Use this icon to check Status. Use again to
return to game in progress.
The Enigma Force theme tune plays from
the moment the game loads to the time you
begin to play. For best results remove the
cassette, disconnect the EAR lead from the
recorder, press PLAY and adjust volume
and tone to taste.