STATIONFALL
(c) Infocom, Inc. 1987

Background
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What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you
risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at
all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First Class, but this only meant that
your dull life of cleaning grotch cages was replaced by an equally dull life of
paperwork. Now you've got another assignment tailor - made for a grotchbrain;
pilot a spacetruck to a nearby station to pick up a load of trivial forms. Trot
and double trot! 

But all is not lost. By a happy twist of fate, your companion for the journey is
your old pal Floyd! That's right, it's the same mischievous little robot,
crayons and paddleball at the ready, who was your helpful buddy in Planetfall. 

Getting to the space station is easy. But once there, you find it strangely
deserted. Even the seedy space village surrounding the station is missing its
ragtag tenants. A spooky alien ship carrying only an empty pedestal rests in a
docking bay. An ostrich and an Arcturian balloon creature are found, abandoned
but in perfect health. The commander's log describes the mysterious breakdown of
machinery, demonstrated by a roving hull-welder who seems bent on your
destruction. And finally even Floyd begins acting oddly... 

Steve Meretzky, whose interactive fiction successes include The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy and Leather Goddesses of Phobos, won a Best Computer
Software Designer award for Planetfall. Infocom fans, consistently rating
Planetfall among their favorite computer games, have been begging for a sequel.
Even if you've never played Planetfall, you will enjoy Stationfall; the puzzles
will challenge your intellect, the humour will keep you laughing, and Floyd will
win your heart. 

Essential Information
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Type |CPM to load Stationfall.

The description of your assignment is as follows:

"Take a spacetruck from the Deck Five cargo bay. Proceed to Space Station Gamma
Delta Gamma 777-G 59/59 Sector Alpha-Mu-79. Pick up 24 pallets of Request for
Stellar Patrol Issue Regulation Black Form Binders Request Form Forms. This is a
TOP-PRIORITY assignment!"

The navigational data for the autopilot is shown below. The first set of numbers
represent the time range, and the second number represents the course to set for
that time range.

4300-4349: 632      5650-5699: 193      7000-7049: 119      8350-8399: 409
4350-4399: 609      5700-5749: 184      7050-7099: 123      8400-8449: 427
4400-4449: 587      5750-5799: 175      7100-7149: 128      8450-8499: 445
4450-4499: 565      5800-5849: 167      7150-7199: 133      8500-8549: 464
4500-4549: 544      5850-5899: 159      7200-7249: 139      8550-8599: 483
4550-4599: 523      5900-5949: 152      7250-7299: 145      8600-8649: 503
4600-4649: 503      5950-5999: 145      7300-7349: 152      8650-8699: 523
4650-4699: 483      6000-6049: 139      7350-7399: 159      8700-8749: 544
4700-4749: 464      6050-6099: 133      7400-7449: 167      8750-8799: 565
4750-4799: 445      6100-6149: 128      7450-7499: 175      8800-8849: 587
4800-4849: 427      6150-6199: 123      7500-7549: 184      8850-8899: 609
4850-4899: 409      6200-6249: 119      7550-7599: 193      8900-8949: 632
4900-4949: 392      6250-6299: 115      7600-7649: 203      8950-8999: 655
4950-4999: 375      6300-6349: 112      7650-7699: 213      9000-9049: 679
5000-5049: 359      6350-6399: 109      7700-7749: 224      9050-9099: 703
5050-5099: 343      6400-6449: 107      7750-7799: 235      9100-9149: 728
5100-5149: 328      6450-6499: 105      7800-7849: 247      9150-9199: 753
5150-5199: 313      6500-6549: 104      7850-7899: 259      9200-9249: 779
5200-5249: 299      6550-6599: 103      7900-7949: 272      9250-9299: 805
5250-5299: 285      6600-6649: 103      7950-7999: 285      9300-9349: 832
5300-5349: 272      6650-6699: 103      8000-8049: 299      9350-9399: 859
5350-5399: 259      6700-6749: 104      8050-8099: 313      9400-9449: 887
5400-5449: 247      6750-6799: 105      8100-8149: 328      9450-9499: 915
5450-5499: 235      6800-6849: 107      8150-8199: 343      9500-9549: 944
5500-5549: 224      6850-6899: 109      8200-8249: 359      9550-9599: 973
5550-5599: 213      6900-6949: 112      8250-8299: 375
5600-5649: 203      6950-6999: 115      8300-8349: 392

Occasionally during the game, the text will refer you to a footnote. You can
read footnotes by typing FOOTNOTE <number>. For example, to read footnote 3,
type FOOTNOTE 3.

Use SAVE to save your current game, and RESTORE to load a saved game.

Further Information
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All Infocom games came with additional reading material and objects that set the
atmosphere for the adventure. Among the things that were included with
Stationfall was a Stellar Patrol patch, and a picture of it is included in this
ZIP file. You can download the material for Stationfall and other Infocom games
from The Infocom Gallery at this URL:

<http://infocom.elsewhere.org/dsinclair/>