  COSMO CHICKEN v1.6
  (C) 1995 StefSoft
  by Steven H Don

THIS GAME IS FREEWARE. PLEASE READ THE SECTION AT THE END OF THIS FILE.

DESCRIPTION:
Cosmo Chicken is a simple arcade game involving cosmo chickens, eggs,
cosmo-chicken-eating dogs, homicidal worms and more nonsense.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- 286 processor
- 512k RAM (297K free)
- VGA display card
- A sense of humour

- FM sound cards (such as an Adlib, Sound Blaster or compatible) required for
  irritating music. >> I hope you don't have one <<
- Sound Blaster or compatibles sound card required for sound effects.

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Cosmo Chicken was based on 'Astro Chicken', a small arcade game found in
Sierra's Space Quest 3. It was programmed in Turbo Pascal 7.0 mainly to test
the sound and graphics routines I had just created. Apparently, they work fine.
If you do encounter problems, please let me know.

THE RULES:
Cosmo Chicken has to land on the landing pad. Unfortunately he's not a very
good pilot. So he needs help from you. Initially, this is a simple task. It
will become more difficult when the vicious space dog appears, the size of the
landing pad decreases and mines appear. If Cosmo hits the pad too fast, he'll
bounce off. If Cosmo flaps his wing, he consumes food. Take care not to run out
of it. Watch out for other nasties. I have tried to make Cosmo Chicken as fair
as possible, if you lose, it's (probably) your own fault.

PLAYING COSMO CHICKEN:
Primary navigation controls:
   UP - toggle flapping on/off
 LEFT - fly left
RIGHT - fly right
 DOWN - stop left/right motion

Other niceties:
SPACE - drop egg
    P - activate pause mode
    G - toggle B&W mode on/off
    S - toggles sound effects on/off
    M - toggles music on/off >> Thank goodness <<

HINT:
Drop an egg on something, the dog for example, and it stops moving or is
harmless for a few seconds.

READ THIS.
This game is freeware >> what's that <<, it may be copied freely but not
altered in any way. Even though I'm not charging anything for it, I would still
like to know who you are and what you think of COSMO CHICKEN, so please let me
know.

AUTHOR: 
 name:  Steven Don
 email: shd@earthling.net
 www:   http://shd.cjb.net