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Galaxis Short Description
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Galaxis is a game of strategy and some luck.
As one user put it: 'A very good cross of Mastermind and Battleships'.
Your object is to try and find four lost capsules on a 9x20 grid
in as few turns as possible. In a turn, you try to figure out the best position
to send a probe to and analyse the data returned. If you use a good strategy,
this data may help you locating the capsules or the next position to send a probe
to.
This new release (v 1.1) features two major improvements over the last (v. 1.02):
- You can play against the time. This introduces an important stress factor.
- Galaxis 1.1 has high-quality background music.
Galaxis comes in two versions, one for b/w monitors and one for grayscale monitors
with at least 16 levels of gray. The b/w version runs on any Mac, the gray version
on a Mac LC or better.
The multiplayer network version will come if enough of you send in their postcard.
I'm in the early planning stages.
Galaxis is distributed under XMas-Ware System: It was a XMas Gift for my
Girlfriend. If you like it, send her a postcard.
Galaxis-Version History
* 1.1 Okt 20, 1992
NEW: Introduced Time Limit
NEW: Background Music using the Sound Trecker Drivers by
Frank Seide
Fixed bug in marking: now you can unmark a position again.
removed Balloon Help. If you want it back, please tell me.
* 1.02 Mar 18, 1992
Fixed bug in saving a game: if all capsules where found and you reloaded
the game it told you that 4 ships are still lost.
Fixed bug in saving game: now you cannot save a finished game.
Fixed bug in saving game: now you cannot save an uninitialized game.
Created b/w version for support of older and monochrome Macs. Now there
will be two Galaxis games: Galaxis and Galaxis b/w. First incarnation for
Galaxis b/w is 1.02.
Galaxis BW screen drivers had to be rewritten to support the smaller
screen size of the 9" Mac Plus, SE and Classic. Had to redo all the PICTs
for this, too.
In later versions I will try to do a better job on the b/w graphics since
this was a quick-and-dirty job.
Added a new menu item 'View Best Missions' to the settings menu. Now you
can look at your best missions any time you want.
If you doubleclicked on the Galaxy Scores File to start Galaxy it will
now display the Highscore List instead of terminating. Thanks to
<Daniel.H.Williams.IV@Dartmouth.edu> for reporting this bug.
* 1.01 Jan 22,1992
Made Soundfile optional. Now, if you remove the soundfile, Galaxis simply
remains silent instead of terminating.
If no Soundfile present, the 'Sound' item gets disabled.
If you doubleclicked on a seen-from-here indicator, this indicator will
be crossed out to signify that it can be neglected in further
considerations. Doubleclicking on it again will reset it to normal
display. Thanks to Stefan Trachsler in Zuerich, Swizerland for this
improvement hint.
Don't have to press Shift to mark multiple. Simple click-and-drag is
enough.
Included Bug Report Form for easier troubleshooting.
This version posted to sumex-aim
* 1.0 Dec 20, 1991
Removed typoo in 'record-breaking score' - thanks to
<JOHNSON_DOUGLAS_W@LILLY.COM>
Installed Ballon Help. Had to redo all DITL-IDs for this.
Released this version to Barbara, Dec 25. Never released to public.
* 0.9b1 Dec. 18, 1991
Initial Release, posted to sumex-aim