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SDI2040
What is it?
How do you play it?
Benefits of Registration?
What is it?
In the simplest sense, SDI2040 is an Invaders-like arcade game
with a twist or two. It is available for both the Macintosh II
and IBM PC compatible line of personal computers, with both
versions having digitized sound (PC version requires Soundblaster
for digitized sound) and full-color graphics (VGA required for
PC version). SDI2040 is also much more. It is our friendly
attempt to introduce the world (or even a small subset of the
world) to EAST WING SOFTWARE, a company we hope you will be
hearing much more from in the future. We are very small, just a
Mac-guy and a PC-guy who have played computer games since they
were brand new. Now we want to use our experience programming
graphics systems and playing computer games to do something really
productive, bring you quality computer entertainment at very
reasonable prices. SDI2040 is our way of letting you know.
How do you play it?
SDI2040 is as classic and simple as a computer game gets. The
aliens (aka invaders, creatures, etc.) are BAD, BAD. They are
invading our beloved planet and our only hope is to use the old,
forgotten Strategic Defense Initiative hardware left over from
a 20th Century republic known as the United States of America.
Your job is to use the SDI cannon to destroy wave upon wave of
these god-less creatures (A violent goal, yes, but simple.)
The invaders have a few surprises for you, so be ready. All the
keyboard definitions and other related documentation can be
found in the file SDI.DOC included with this distribution.
Benefits of Registration?
At EAST WING SOFTWARE we want to make contact with YOU, and that
is what registration of SDI2040 is all about. We would really
like to hear from you, so we want you to register, whether you
send the small registration fee or not. If you don't send
the fee, we will still appreciate any comments or suggestions
that you have and we will place you on our mailing list. If you
do enclose the modest fee, we will send you a disk with the
latest version of SDI2040 along with enhanced digitized sounds.
You will also be placed on our mailing list and will be notified
in advance of future releases and will be eligible to become beta
testers for future releases. (Our current project is a 3D space
combat game with a plot that is both unique and exciting.) The
registration form is the file SDIREGIS.DOC and is complete with
full instructions on the registration process. Another way to
register SDI2040 is to purchase the full C source code for the
game. This is an option that provides additional incentive to
anyone who would like to explore the techniques required to
produce smooth animation, game logic, sound, etc. The fee is
still small and includes all the aforementioned registration
benefits. Finally, if you just want to leave your address, a
quick comment or question, you can E-mail us on America Online.
Our screen name is EastWing. Whichever method you choose, we
sincerely look forward to hearing from you.
Disclaimers and Necessary Legal Stuff
SDI2040 is provided "AS IS", with no warranty, implied or otherwise,
regarding fitness or merchantability for any given purpose. Under
no circumstances will East Wing Software or the authors be liable
for any loss, addiction, or other damage associated with the use
of this software, including but not limited to incidental,
consequential, special or other damages. The full responsibilities
and risks of having fun with this program are yours.
TRANSLATION
This is a simple game that we are providing as shareware, bottom
line. Since this game has been a quick project to get in touch
with potential customers for our future games, there are probably
bugs. If there are, we would like to know about them. We might
even fix them. We have purposely left out a lot of features that
we would normally include in a piece of entertainment software.
Things like joystick support, better sound from the PC speaker,
expanded memory support, better art-work, music, etc. will all be
included in future products, but were beyond the scope of this
project. If you would like to add them yourself, send for the
source code. SDI2040 was tested on a Gateway 2000 386-25 and a
Mac IIsi. It runs fine under DOS 4.01 and 5.0 on the PC and
System 6.07 and 7.0 on the Mac. We weren't able to test it on
any other platforms, so if you have problems with yours, again
send for the source code and tweak it for your environment.
With all that in mind, we want you to enjoy SDI2040, but we just
can't accept any responsibility for any problems it might cause.
James Mayes (PC Development)
Hank Burns (Mac Development)
East Wing Software
P.O. Box 1735
Clarksville, VA 23927
AOL: EastWing