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Droids 1.1
Programming by Colleen Wirth
Guidance, support and encouragement by James Shaw
Date: April 25, 1997
email: qnote@kagi.com
URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhs/shareware
Droids system requirements
Droids can run on most Macintosh systems and doesn't require anything
too fancy. The following is a minimal system configuration for the game:
A Mac with a 68020 processor or better (68030 recommended).
System 7.0 or greater.
A monitor supporting 256 colors or greys (color highly recommended).
A screen resolution of 640 x 480 or bigger.
Sound Manager 3.0 or greater.
3 Meg of available RAM.
1.5 Meg of hard drive space.
If you have any problems running the game, send us email and we'll do
our best to figure out why.
How to play
Droids is a pretty simple strategy game and is based on the great
Macintosh classic called Daleks. To start playing, run the Droids
application and read "About Droids..." under the game's apple menu.
The "About" pages describe the goal of the game, what you'll encounter,
and the scoring. The game controls are the mouse or the numeric keypad.
If you don't have a numeric keypad, you can change the default keys by
choosing "Keyboard Setup..." in the Preferences menu.
A super enhanced version of the classic game, called Super Droids, is
also included. In Super Droids, you'll meet more advanced androids then
the basic (and pretty easy to retire) Sexus androids that you meet in
Droids. The Plexus androids (the orange ones) can jump single piles, so
you won't be able to just hide behind a pile anymore and wait for them
to fall! And the Nexus androids (the yellow ones) can teleport in
addition to jumping piles.
To play Super Droids, select "Super Droids" under the Game menu.
Droids history
I decided to write Droids early in 1996 after I moved to Europe and
missed playing Daleks on my old 128K 1984 Mac. I'd kept my toaster
around all these years mostly because the Daleks version that ran
on it was my favorite. But now my toaster was in storage and I needed
a Daleks version that would run on our brand-new Power Mac 7200/90.
I was very fortunate to begin my venture into Mac game programming
after the publication of "Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus,"
by Jamie McCornack, Ingemar Ragnemalm, and a whole lot of other
people who know a whole lot more about the Mac than I do. If you've
ever thought you might want to try your hand at Mac game programming,
then buy a copy of this book and read it. I highly recommend it and I
never could have written Droids without it.
Droids is my first solo Mac programming project, but I learned a lot
about working with the Mac by helping James out on Frog Xing. James's
many years of programming experience, always helpful advice, and
support on this project made it possible for me to keep forging ahead
when I would have given up otherwise.
As for the origins of the game, I'm not sure who originally dreamed
it up, but a long time ago I used to play an ASCII/UNIX version of the
game called Robots. I think this version might have been the very first.
If anybody out there knows who first conceived the game, please let
me know, since to this day Robots/Daleks/Droids remains one of my
favorite games and I'd like to credit the original creator.
What's new with version 1.1
Fixed a Sound Lib bug that caused Power PC Macintoshes to crash at
startup if the Sound Lib was not installed. Droids no longer uses the
Sound Lib so the problem won't occur in version 1.1.
Added an "Are you sure you really want to clear the high scores"
dialog so that users don't accidentally destroy their high score list.
Added a feature to allow users to select a "fixed background pattern".
If you are running Droids in grey scale or on a Power Book, this should
make it a lot easier to see the player and androids since the pattern
I chose is a pretty simple one.
How (and why) to register
Droids is shareware and costs U.S. $15.00. This means that you can
try out the program for 30 days and see if you like it and enjoy
playing. If you do continue to enjoy the game, then please send in
your shareware fee. Shareware authors are not salaried employees
who draw a paycheck no matter what. We only get paid if honest
people send in their payments.
Without continued support from the Macintosh community, we cannot
afford to continue developing games. I already know far too many
people who say: "I have a PC cause there aren't enough good Mac
games". That phrase depresses me more than any other and I make
every effort to convert people to the Mac whenever possible. And
quality games go a long way in converting people. If you're trying to
decide whether or not to register, just ask yourself if you'd really
like to live in a world where you can only run Windows 95.
Registering Droids is pretty easy. Just run the register program that
came in the Droids folder. If you don't have a register program, then
run the Droids application, select "Register Droids..." under the
Preferences menu and then click in the "Create Register" button at
the bottom of the dialog. Once you have the registration program, run
it and choose the payment method that you would like to use and enter
your personal information.
If you pay by credit card, then you can either email, fax, or postal
mail the form, whichever you prefer. If you pay by email, then send
the appropriate form to sales@kagi.com. If you prefer to fax the
information, the fax number is: 1-510-652-6589.
To pay by postal mail, print out the form and mail it with your
credit card information or a check or cash to:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-JS
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You will receive your registration code via email (preferred) if you
have an email address. It will usually be sent within 3 to 5 business
days after Kagi receives your payment. If you don't receive it after a
week, send email to qnote@kagi.com and we'll investigate.
If you don't have email, please request a postal receipt and your code
sould arrive with it in about 1 week or so (more or less, depending on
where in the world you live). If there's a long delay, then send a note with
your original payment information and an explanation of the problem to
Kagi who will handle your request. If possible, please enclose an email
address, since this is the easiest way for us to reach you. Thanks!
To CD distributors
Droids is shareware and may be distributed freely, provided permission
is asked for and received from the author. To contact me, send email
to qnote@kagi.com. All documentation and registration information must
accompany any distribution of the program. In order to ensure that you
have a complete "package", download the copy on our Web page: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhs/shareware.
© Copyright 1997 Quarter Note Software. All rights reserved.