HOW TO PLAY HUGO GAMES: ----------------------- In order to run a Hugo interactive fiction game, you must have both the game file (generally ending in the extension .HEX) and the Hugo Engine. The name of the Hugo Engine program may differ from system to system; on PC-compatibles running MS-DOS it is HE.EXE. The engine may be found in this archive (the Interactive Fiction Archive at ftp.gmd.de) under the directory /if-archive/programming/hugo/executables. The format for starting the engine will also differ from system to system. As an example, the MS-DOS invocation is: he [.HEX] where is assumed to have the extension .HEX if none is explicitly given. For example, to run the game "Spur" (from the game file SPUR.HEX), an MS-DOS user would type: he spur (As the Hugo Engine is ported to other platforms, specific instructions will accompany those ports if the method for running games differs substantially from that described above.)