_____________________________ / \ _______________________/ RUEDA v1.3 FREEWARE \___________________ \ \_______________________________/ / / __ ___ ___ ______ \ \ / ) / / / / / / / / /__/ /__ /__/ / /__/ \ \ /__) /____/ /___/ ____/ / / \ \ s o f t w o r k s / / _______________________________ \ \______________________/ \__________________/ \ README FILE / \_____________________________/ This is the release 1.3 of RUEDA, originally a registered version of the game, but distribution of the game was nonexistent and I couldn't leave it sitting around--new features in 1.3 include: · Theme songs · Great graphics · New effects · Sound effects · A Computer player · 100% Fruit Juice! _______________________________ ______________________/ \__________________ \ COMPATIBILITY / \_____________________________/ Well, this is you're standard AMOS program, so it is pretty compatible with the spectrum of wonderful Amiga computers. I have used it on an Amiga 1200 (I think we used the ECS or Original mode though). I wrote it on an Amiga 500, 2.04, 3 megs, 52 megs, ADSpeed, in AMOS and the AMOS compiler (Wonder- ful programs). It is fully compatible with 500/2000 .. but with faster machines, there is a slight problem in the final round. I used a cheap timing routine that counts an integer instead of using the clock, so on my new 3000UX at 25mhz it doesn't work correctly. The clock whips by in about 5 seconds instead of 15. I wrote the program ages ago, but if there is enough support (EMAIL ME!!) I will update to 1.4 or maybe even a full 2.0 update (uhh... animation, faces, more sfx, real time clocks, maybe AGA graphics, but _atleast_ a higher resolution of graphics.) Write me, write me, write me! I need the support...if I hear from anyone I will start on 1.4! _______________________________ ______________________/ \__________________ \ THE GAME / \_____________________________/ This game is based on Wheel of Fortune, but with a lot of bells and whistles added (actually just nice graphics). It started out as a project to learn AMOS, but two months later turned out to be a commercial-quality game. The game was written in the (wonderfully easy to use yet powerful) AMOS language, then compiled with the AMOS Compiler. This version of Rueda can be played by one or two players. If one player chooses to play solitaire, he competes with the computer in three rounds of fun to see who can accumulate the most money..if the human wins, he gets to play the final round! If two players is selected, two humans compete in the same fashion of three rounds of blood and sweat to an exciting finish in the final round! The rules are the same as the Wheel of Fortune game show..pretty much, you spin the wheel, guess a consonant, and you get the amount on the wheel times the number of that letter in the puzzle. Example: say the puzzle is "AMIGA COMPUTER". You spin and get $200, then choose an M. You would receive $400. Simple, huh? You can buy vowels for $250, which will get you as many letters as there are in the puzzle. (If there are 4 A's, you don't have to pay $1000, just $250.) You can solve the puzzle anytime you want, and the current version does not have a time limit. Future versions will allow about 20-25 seconds to type in the puzzle. If you guess the puzzle, you win that round, and your current score is added to your total score. Whoever has the most after three rounds plays the Final Round. In the Final Round, you first must choose a letter out of RUEDA to decide your prize. Then you are given a puzzle to solve in 15 seconds. You will first be shown the letters R, S, T, L, N, and E in the puzzle. Then you choose 3 consonants and 1 vowel. After these are shown, you have 15 seconds to solve the puzzle! _______________________________ ______________________/ \__________________ \ SETUP / \_____________________________/ To setup Rueda, you must assign "Rueda:" to the directory where all the graphic files reside. As it was compressed originally, you must assign "Rueda:" the the DATA directory. After that, you can stick the actual program anywhere you want, it just needs to find its files in the assign "Rueda:". Example: "Assign RUEDA: ram:DATA/" _______________________________ ______________________/ \__________________ \ EMAIL ADDRESS / \_____________________________/ Look for other Beaty Softworks releases on the Net... like: ----> SIMPLICITY v1 <---- Which is a cool icon collection, much different than all the others..it is designed ... well, just dload it, it's only 30k, and see what it's like! Contact me at: nbeaty@csugrad.cs.vt.edu -- or Nathan Beaty Virginia Tech 328 Barringer Blacksburg, VA 24060-0001 - Nathan Beaty (skur) eof