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AstroPanic 94!
Beta Version - Register for only $5
copyright 1994 Dan Ackerman
THE DOC FILE...
What's this game all about?
Well your homeland is being attacked
by aliens in flying saucers. Luckily for
you they are extremely stupid. Unluckily
for you they are extremely stupid. You
are on the frontier in your state of the
art astro cannon, blasting the badies from
the stratosphere. Watch out, as time goes
on they just get more numerous.
Compatibility:
Any TOS compatible computer. In any planar
video mode (2,4,16,256 colors) with sprites
designed for each mode. Heavily tested on
numerous atari graphics cards.
DMA sound recommended but not necessary.
Blitter equiped machines prefered, but not
strictly necessary.
Enemies:
In this release there are only two
types of aliens. DRONES which simply fly
around the screen, inadvertantly running
into you from time to time. And BOMBERS
which of course drop bombs.
Want more aliens REGISTER.
Game Play:
Well, just a few quick notes about how the
game works. If you don't already know ;)
First you fire with the right mouse button.
Game is entirely mouse driven. *almost*
Keyboard commands...
'Esc' quits the game during play
'left arrow' moves ship left
'right arrow' moves ship right
'up arrow' fires missile
Any other key will pause the game during
game play.
Notes about game:
If you don't have a fast machine rename the
.IMG files. Or at least PANIC.IMG, which is
a 256 color image and takes a long time to
dither down to whatever resolution your in.
PANIC16.IMG only took a minute or so on my
1040STe so it's not too cumbersome. The game
will start normally and just bypass the title
screen, if you rename it.
The high score table is now saved in the file
PANIC.DFT. This must be in the same directory
as PANIC.PRG. If you don't have one, you can
create a new one by viewing the high score
list. Do this before you play a game, or your
high score will not be saved.
DMA Sound:
If you don't have DMA sound (ie. Stacy, Mega,
ST[non E]), then you can delete all of the
cumbersome .AVR files.
If you have DMA sound, you can change the sound
files that are used. These can be replaced by
any .AVR sound file you might want to use.
You can also delete or rename any .AVR file you
want. Astropanic does not need all of the
.AVR's, if it encounters one that doesn't exist
it just skips it.
Sound file names:
BOMB.AVR - Bombers dropping bombs
BOOM.AVR - Saucers exploding
EXPL.AVR - You exploding
DONE.AVR - Level over
INTRO.AVR - Intro sound
SHOT.AVR - Cannon firing missile
TADA.AVR - Bonus sound
Known problems.
It doesn't like SpeedoGDOS on the Falcon.
If you disable the IMG files (see above)
then you shouldn't have any problems.
If you can't seem to get the sounds to load
try running poolfix. This may fix the problem.
Other ideas.
If you have a Jaguar controller and your machine
can use it. Get PowerMouse. It allows you
to use the Jag controller in place of the
mouse.
Use a .MOD player. The game is GEM legal
so you should be able to use any .mod player
you wish in the background.
Authors notes:
If you like what you see register it. If you
see some promise in what's here then register.
I now have a game engine going. What happens
from here is up to you. There is alot more
that can be done with this game and I could
do some others as well. Anyone for a 256 color
asteroids clone?
If you register this game you will get two
more alien types and I will also listen to your
suggestions on what to do with it next.
I could put it all in a window.
Add even more aliens.
Different weapons.
Code some other game (suggestions open)
As far as I know, this is the first arcade type
game that will run on virtually any configuration
you throw at it. TT's, Falcon's, STe's,
MegaSTe's, Mega's even 520's & 1040's.
And do you have a graphics card, well this game
loves them.
I just ask that you show me the small amount
of encouragement that I ask for.
My address:
D. Ackerman
P.O.Box 361
Mt. Vernon, Oh 43050
If you have an Internet account include that
with your registration and I will send you a
registered copy electronically. This way saves
me money so you just pay the straight $5
registration fee.
If you want me to mail you a disk with the
current version of Astropanic 94!, then please
enclose an extra $5 for shipping and handling.
Or a total of $10. (This applies for people
in the lower 48 continental U.S. states.) If you
are over seas, please contact me to find a local
distributor.
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Well that's all for now. Have fun and let me
know if you find any bugs.
Dan Ackerman
baldrick@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu