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Readme for !Caves by Matthew Willson
willsons@x-stream.co.uk
This is the second PD release of Caves 1.
Caves 2 will be available commercially, and will
have a full set of features and more levels.
You may distribute this version freely, but you
mustn't charge more than distribution costs for it.
The game now has a far easier method for controlling
the spaceship. The keys are different too (go to
the info page from the game menu).
The game is a platform/space flight/obstacle course/
shoot-the-aliens type game. There is no implausible
plot line. For help on the game see the !Help file,
or my online guide to completing the game at:
http://www.willson68.freeserve.co.uk/guide.htm
There are no major bugs I have noticed HOWEVER:
It may not run quite right on StrongArm/RPC or
RISC OS 4 - I don't know. I gather it works OK
on most machines though, and it won't run too
fast on a RISC PC.
The movement of the space buggy is a little dodgy
at times. This is really just down to lazy
programming.
If it runs a bit slow on old machines, TURN THE
MUSIC OFF.
The nice turny pointer was nicked off an Acorn User
disc (sorry!). For some reason best known to whoever
wrote it, it leaves your mouse pointer yellow.
Full source code in C and assembly code, with
a primitive level editor, a game sprite converter
utility and some documentation is available for
those who want to customise the game. Please e-mail
me if you want this.
Matthew Willson
willsons@x-stream.co.uk
By the way, there is a list of passwords hidden away
somewhere in the game if you're getting stuck on an
annoying level.