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Information about “ROMEO AND JULIET 1 OF 2 (#2423 ALSO)”
ROMEO AND JULIET is a true classic. But was it meant for only the
elite few who can figure out what all those words and flowery phrases
really mean?
This program, from the author of the shareware program MACBETH, proves
that Shakespeare can actually be understood and enjoyed by the non-
Shakespearean fan! Geared to aid students of English literature at the
high school level, ROMEO AND JULIET accomplishes this seemingly
impossible trick through the use of menu-driven quizzes and games,
notes, and a `tour' through the Globe Theatre where the plays were first
seen by audiences.
As with his other programs, the author also offers his students The
Competition! -- a chance to win prizes of cash and computer products,
achievable only through a close knowledge of the play. Definitely a
win-win program!
FILE2422.TXT
Disk No: 2422
Disk Title: Romeo and Juliet 1 of 2 (#2423 also)
PC-SIG Version: S1
Program Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author Version: 1.0
Author Registration: $12.00
Special Requirements: 512K RAM and CGA.
Did you ever really understand ROMEO AND JULIET? This program, from the
same author of the shareware program MACBETH, proves that Shakespeare,
for the non-Shakespearean fan, can actually be understood and enjoyed!
Geared to aid students of English Literature at the High School level,
ROMEO AND JULIET accomplishes the seemingly impossible through the use
of menu-driven Quizzes and Games, Notes, and a `tour' through the Globe
Theatre where the plays originally were presented to the audience.
As with his other programs, the author also offers his students The
Competition! - a chance to win prizes of cash and computer products,
achievable only through close knowledge of the play. ...Definitely a
win-win program!
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
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MANUAL.TXT
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Activities and Notes for Students
Programme and Notes
by
Steve Herbert
(p1)
Table of Contents
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Introduction to Romeo & Juliet.............................3
Introduction to the Programme..............................3
System Requirements........................................4
Installation...............................................4
How to get Started.........................................5
Using the Menus............................................5
The Main Menu..............................................6
Quizzes and Games Menu.....................................6
Notes Menu.................................................7
Instructions...............................................7
The Competition............................................8
Customising the Programme..................................9
About the Programme........................................10
Registration Form..........................................11
Entry Form.................................................12
(p2)
INTRODUCTION TO ROMEO & JULIET
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'Romeo & Juliet' is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and the only
one that deals directly with the theme of young love.
Written in about 1597, it is one of his earliest tragedies, and different
from the others in that the final tragedy cannot be traced directly to some
fault of character in either Romeo or Juliet.
As usual, Shakespeare did not create an original story. His characters are
taken from the history books, and the works of other authors. In this case
his basic story was a traditional Italian one, possibly based on true
events. Shakespeare seems to have acquired most of his material from one of
the first English versions of the story, a long poem written by Arthur
Brooke. He introduced new characters (noticeably Mercutio) and shortened
the time-span of the original plot to its final breathless length.
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAMME
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The programme consists of a series of activities to assist high school
students learning Shakespeare's play 'Romeo & Juliet'. The student can
select the activity of his choice from a series of menus.
Activities include several quizzes or games, notes on a wide variety of
topics, graphics of the Globe Theatre and even a competition with the
chance to win worthwhile prizes.
The games are designed to be fun and at the same time to provide a fairly
painless way to memorise quotations, learn important speeches, and in
general, to become familiar with the plot, characters and themes of the
play.
(p3)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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The programme will run on IBM and Compatible computers with 512Kb of memory
or more. CGA card is required, although it is not necessary to have a
colour monitor. However, colour is recommended, especially for the games.
The programme is normally supplied on two 5.25" floppy disks and the
default set up is for the programme disk to be in Drive A and the data disk
in Drive B. These defaults may be changed, however, from the SETUP option
on the Main Menu, and the programme will also run from a single drive (of
720Kb or more) or from a hard disk.
INSTALLATION
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You are advised to use the DOS DISKCOPY command to back up your disks
before you use them.
If you intend to run the programme from the original disks, or from back-
ups of the originals, no installation is required. If you want to run it
from a hard disk or from a high capacity disk, just follow the simple steps
below to install it successfully.
1. Create a new directory or subdirectory for the programme (if desired)
using the DOS MKDIR or MD command (See your DOS manual).
2. Copy all the files from the Programme Disk and the Data Disk to the
chosen directory or sub-directory using the COPY *.* command. You may copy
the data files to a different directory from the programme files if you
wish.
N.B. The Programme Disk (Disk 1) is the one containing the main programme
file RJ.EXE
3. When you first run the programme, select SETUP from the Main Menu, and
alter the Drive/Directory setting to the one where you copied the data
files. You must do this before you attempt any of the activities which load
data from the disk. (Most of them do!).
4. Please note that although the files from the data disk may be stored in
a separate directory, ALL the files from the Programme Disk must be kept
together in the same directory.
(p4)
HOW TO GET STARTED
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A. Two 5.25" Floppy Disks
Insert the Programme Disk in Drive A and the Data Disk in Drive B. Now turn
on, or reboot your computer. N.B. You can reboot by pressing the Ctrl
key,the Alt key and the Del key all at once, or by pressing the Reset
Button if there is one.
Alternatively, if your computer is already running and the DOS prompt is on
the screen, insert the disks as above. Now change to Drive A if necessary
by typing A: <<Enter>> To run the programme, type AUTOEXEC <<Enter>>
B. One 3.5" disk
Insert the disk in your drive and turn on, or reboot your computer.
Alternatively, if your computer is already running and the DOS prompt is on
the screen, make sure you are using the correct drive (Usually Drive
A:),and then type AUTOEXEC <<Enter>>
C. Hard Disk
Make sure you have followed the instructions in the previous section to
make a directory and copy the files to it. Now change to that
directory.(e.g. If your Hard Disk is Drive C and you created a new
directory called LITDISK, then type CD C:\LITDISK) <<Enter>>)
Now type AUTOEXEC <<Enter>>
USING THE MENUS
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You find your way around the different parts of the programme by using a
very simple system of menus.
The choices offered at each level are shown on the screen, with the first
one high-lighted. Use the arrow keys to move the high-light to the
selection you want. Then press the <<Enter>> key to go to that selection.If
your computer has a numeric key-pad, you may use those arrow keys as well,
but remember to turn off the Num Lock function.
To Find A Menu
If a menu is not currently showing on the screen, you can almost always get
to one by pressing the <<Esc>> key. This will halt the current activity,and
display the active menu.
(p5)
THE MAIN MENU
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The Main Menu Options are described briefly below.
Introduction
This is a welcome to the programme and a brief description of its features.
Quizzes And Games
Choose one of the quizzes and games available from a further menu.
Notes
This also leads to another menu, listing the different topics for which
notes are available.
Competition
This reveals details of the competition, and gives the coded message which
makes up Level 1 of the competition.
The Globe
This segment reveals interior and exterior views of Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre, with associated notes.
Set-Up
Use this selection to change the colour of the text and the menus, or to
alter the speed at which the programme runs; also to set the drive and
directory in which the data files are stored.
Quit
Return to DOS
QUIZZES AND GAMES MENU
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These are the options available on this menu.
Quotation Quiz
Tests your detailed knowledge of the book by asking you to choose the
correct speaker of each quotation. Over 90 quotations to really test you.A
good score here earns you a clue to the competition code.
Missing Words
Vital passages from the text can be learnt by heart, as you guess the words
missing from the screen. Great revision value!
Poison
An addictive word-guessing game. To save Romeo from the threatening
situation, you must guess the mystery word in time. Romeo's life depends on
you!
Family Feud
A simulated board game in the Snakes and Ladders tradition. Become Prince
Escalus as you follow his changing fortunes through the plot of the text.
Try to beat your own record for completing this game!
Plot Swap
Re-arrange events from the plot into their correct order.
(p6)
NOTES MENU
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Major topics are:
Plot Summaries
This leads to another menu allowing you to select summaries of individual
Acts or key scenes.
Character Studies
Another menu to select notes on any of the major characters
Exam Questions
A selection of notes on how to handle different exam questions.
Themes
Discusses the major ideas of the play
Setting/Background
Brief notes on relevant points.
Language/Imagery
A discussion of Shakespeare's language, including his verse.
The Author
Notes about Shakespeare's life and a portrait.
INSTRUCTIONS
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The programme has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible. Most of
the activities have on-screen help. Where more detailed instructions are
necessary, this option has been included in the menu for that particular
activity.
Activities which include their own instructions are:
Quotation Quiz (Games Menu)
Missing Words (Games Menu)
Poison (Games Menu)
Family Feud (Games Menu)
PlotSwap (Games Menu)
The Globe (Main Menu)
In addition, you can receive help on any menu by pressing <H>.
(p7)
THE COMPETITION
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One of the unique features of this programme is the on-disk competition. To
take part in the competition, you must first solve a code. To see the coded
message, select COMPETITION from the Main Menu.
Once you have cracked the code, you will be able to confirm your success
with part one of the competition, and this confirmation will be written
onto the disk. This will gain you access to the next level of the
competition, a treasure hunt in the Globe Theatre.
Once the treasure is discovered, you will be able to answer a series of
questions which make up Part Three of the competition.
Write your solution to the coded message on the Entry Form (Included as
page 11 of this manual), and also write the answers to the five Buried
Treasure questions. Please note that you must be a registered user of the
programme to be eligible to enter the competition.
First prize is cash to the value of approximately US$50 plus computer
products. Second prize US$15 plus computer products. Twenty consolation
prizes of computer products. The value of the prizes may vary slightly from
year to year, but should increase rather than decrease (assuming enough of
you lovely people out there in Computer-land buy my programmes).
The competition is an annual one closing at the end of November each
year,and with the winning entries drawn at the beginning of December.
All prize-winners will be notified by post, and all entrants in the
competition will receive a list of results.
(p8)
CUSTOMIZING THE PROGRAMME
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With a modicum of knowledge and the ability to use a text processor, you
should be able to customise some of the data used in the programme, if you
so desire. The most obvious areas where this can be accomplished are as
follows:
QUOTATION QUIZ - The data for this quiz is contained in the text file
RJQUOTES.QQZ on Disk 2. The first item in the file is the number of quotes
currently in the file. Don't forget to update this if you add or delete
quotes. Each question must contain the following items: The quotation
itself, the correct answer, 3 incorrect answers, a sentence explaining the
context of the quotation, the Act number, the scene number. Use ordinary
Arabic numerals for Act and scene numbers, not Roman numerals. When typing
in quotations, use a * to indicate line breaks. A quick look at the file
should make it clear what to do if you are still confused.
POISON - This is my version of the Hangman game. You can easily add new
words by altering the file POISON.DTA on Disk 2. The first item in the file
is the number of words. Don't forget to update this if you add or delete
words. Each word used in the game also has an accompanying definition; this
must be included.
PLOTSWAP - The data for this is contained in the file PLOTSWAP.DTA. The
first item in the file is the number of 'events' listed. The more events
included in this file, the more difficult the game becomes. You could use
this fact to make the game more challenging or more simple, but remember
the minimum number is 12. The events in the file must be listed in the
exact order in which they occur in the play.
NOTES - I don't recommend that you alter the notes, as my system for
printing them to the screen is a little peculiar to say the least, but if
you must experiment, then go ahead. Plot summaries can be identified by the
file suffix .PLT , Character studies have .CHR , while other notes have the
suffix .NTS The first item in each file is the number of screens or pages
of data, then each 'page' has the number of data items on that page.
Beginning an item with a * indicates that the item is to be high-lighted in
the text. To print a blank line, include an item consisting of 4 or more
spaces enclosed in quotation marks. You may need to experiment a little to
find out just how much will fit on each page.
MISSING WORDS - If you have a lot of time on your hands, and are by nature
a patient and tolerant person like me, then you can try writing different
speeches for the Missing Words game. I'll leave you to figure out how it's
done! Unfortunately, you won't be able to change the reference to the
speech in the GAMES Menu.
FAMILY FEUD - Not much you can change here, except for the True/False
questions. These are contained in the file BORDATA.DTA Take care not to
make the questions too long.
I guess that's about all, unless you are one of those people who can't
resist seeing what Shakespeare looks like wearing spectacles and a false
nose. The pictures are all in BLOAD format.
(p9)
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
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This programme began its life as a set of quizzes I programmed for my own
Literature students at a High School here in Singapore. Over the last two
years, the programme has grown and developed and gone through a variety of
versions, to become what it is today. It has been quite well-received by
students here who face a compulsory Shakespeare component in their
Cambridge GCE O Level examinations.
Originally, as the new owner of an Apple II clone, I programmed in
Applesoft Basic. The programme fitted easily onto one 5.25" floppy disk,and
consisted mainly of three games and the segment on the Globe Theatre. I
believed then as I believe now, that people do not really want to sit and
read pages of notes from a computer monitor.
However, feedback from users indicated a desire for more notes, so the
programme quickly grew. It also changed direction to become IBM-compatible
to run on the computer of choice of 80% of the student population here in
Singapore. So I put my prejudices aside and picked up a smattering of
GWBasic.
As the programme grew and became more sophisticated, I felt the need for
something a little more powerful and faster than interpreted Basic, so
Microsoft QuickBasic made its appearance. I still see room for improvements
and additions to the programme, and each new version on each different text
is a little more sophisticated than its predecessor. Who knows what the
future will bring?
Currently, available titles are:
MACBETH
ROMEO AND JULIET
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
WALKABOUT
THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE
and next on my hit-list
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
(p10)
REGISTRATION FORM
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To Steve Herbert
154 Sixth Ave.
Avenue Park
Singapore 1027
A. PERSONAL USE
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Please enroll me as a registered user of your programme 'ROMEO & JULIET'.
I enclose payment in the form of:
*Bank Draft in Singapore currency S$20
*Personal cheque in any currency to the
equivalent of US$15
B. SITE LICENCE
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Please register my application for a Site Licence for the use of your
programme 'ROMEO & JULIET'. I understand that the Licence permits the
making of as many copies as desired of the above programme for use within
the physical boundaries of any one school or other educational institution,
in a classroom situation only. It does not permit copying and/or
distribution of the programme for individual use outside the classroom.
I enclose payment in the form of:
*Bank Draft in Singapore currency S$100
*Personal cheque in any currency to the
equivalent of US$60
*Delete one
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SCHOOL.....................................................................
OCCUPATION ..............................AGE ............
PROGRAMME OBTAINED FROM .........................................
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(p11)
ENTRY FORM
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LEVEL ONE - CODE BREAKING Write the decoded message clearly and accurately
on the lines below
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LEVEL TWO - Buried Treasure and LEVEL THREE - Question Answers Write your
answers to the five buried treasure questions clearly and accurately in the
spaces below.
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(p12)
README.TXT
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* This is the Shareware version of ROMEO & JULIET *
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* Read or print the manual MANUAL.TXT on Disk 1 for instructions *
* on running the programme and how to register with the author *
* who is a poor impoverished school teacher from Singapore *
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Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #2422
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
CHECK 2 6-19-90 4:01p
CLUES 304 6-19-90 3:50p
REGISTER 34 8-09-90 6:57p
SCREEN BAS 4103 6-18-90 3:14p
AUTOEXEC BAT 182 8-09-90 6:58p
COMMAND COM 37557 5-15-89 12:00p
PMRJ PIC 16391 8-10-90 11:36p
TREASURE PIC 16391 6-17-90 11:58p
CONFIG R&J 37 11-06-90 11:33a
RJ EXE 176180 6-19-90 3:58p
README BAT 34 4-04-90 11:52p
MANUAL TXT 24633 10-24-90 4:21p
README TXT 1155 8-09-90 12:54p
FILE2422 TXT 2221 10-18-90 10:50a
GO BAT 40 1-01-80 6:00a
GO TXT 925 10-17-90 7:15a
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