 
                      ::[ MAKE MAP ]::
                                    ::[ GOOD LUCK ]::::

                So, you want to make your own murder motel map ?
                Well, first a lot of planning should be done.

START:

        Try to adapt a theme for your motel.  If your motel is going to
        be short-and-easy, perhaps now is the time to decide.  As with
        anything, good things take time.

        You are given a range of 30-300 rooms (I'd suggest keeping it to
        less than 200 since larger motels are hard for users to map)

        Speaking of mapping, this is exactly must must be done.

        DRAW (on paper) the rooms of your motel.  Planning for a NAME,
        and NUMBER for each of these rooms.  Familiarity of the North
        South, East, West, Up, and down directions is of course helpful!

                             Here's a sample map of a 41 rooms,

                       Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ
                        13 Ĵ 12 Ĵ 14 Ĵ 15 Ĵ 16 Ĵ 17 Ĵ 18 
                             
         Ŀ               Ŀ                      Ŀ
          31                 11                        19 
                                              
         Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ        Ŀ Ŀ
          32 Ĵ 40 Ĵ 41 Ĵ 10 Ĵ 04 Ĵ 07          20 Ĵ 25 
                       
         Ŀ               Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ        Ŀ Ŀ
          33                 09   03 Ĵ 06          21   26 
                                   
         Ŀ Ŀ        Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ
          34 Ĵ 39          08 Ĵ 02 Ĵ 05   28 Ĵ 22 Ĵ 27 
                       
         Ŀ Ŀ Ŀ        Ŀ        Ŀ Ŀ
          35   38 Ĵ 38          01          29 Ĵ 23 
                            
         Ŀ Ŀ                             Ŀ Ŀ
          36 Ĵ 37                               30   24 
                                        

Using the above map for instance, room #1

-----------------------------------------
    NAME of room #1 : Front Porch
         Directions : N

    [N] North to room # : 2
-----------------------------------------

    NAME of room #2 : Lobby
         Directions : SWE

    [S] South to room # : 1
    [W]  West to room # : 8
    [E]  East to room # : 5

-----------------------------------------

Just carry on the basic idea.  Once complete, run the MAKEMAP.EXE program
and begin the data entry.  Again, once that's complete you can TEST the map.
Run still another program TESTMAP.EXE.

Once you are satisfied you made no mistakes, just COPY YOUR.MAP MURDER.MAP,
and run MAKENEW.EXE.  Its important to MAKENEW the motel if you make your
own map since one map might have a different number of rooms, where its
possible that a user will be in room 300, and have no way to escape from
a motel that doesn't include such a room!

      Good luck, I must admit these docs don't tell much, experiment!

