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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.