Mac Invaders is a fast paced Video Game for Apple Macintosh Computers.
What’s cool about it?
Two player modes, key configuration, great graphics and sound, full colour, high resolution, remembers high scores, mouse control, two player mode, you name it. Unlike many Mac Arcade games Mac Invaders is fairly system friendly. You can pause the game, hide it, carry on with your work then return to it later. The game will also be upgraded in due course.
What does it require to run?
Motorolla 68040 or better
8 Megs of ram
256 colour capable machine and monitor
System 7.5 or later
Sound Manager 3.0 or later
Mac Invaders runs on most, but not all 68040 machines. A new version will be available in June that works on most machines.
How much is it?
Just $10.
How do I pay for it?
Mac Invaders is ShareWare, use the enclosed Register program to send payment to Kagi Software, who handle BoneHead Project’s registration.
Site Licenses and World Wide Licenses are available.
A Site License covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100 miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
A World-Wide License covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth.
To pay for Mac Invaders, open the Register program that accompanies Mac Invaders. Enter your name, your (optional) email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi handles my payment processing.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-NJ
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.
Registration codes are only available to those supplying email addresses, sorry.
Why should I pay for it?
Because Mac Invaders is not free, it’s shareware. If you like the game you have to pay for it. Every registration I receive pays for new software and hardware so I can write more and better games. I’ll be writing games anyhow, but with a little more money I can pay a graphic artist, provide better support and testing, you name it. If you have an email account you get the following benefits:
• Unlock code which removes the annoying startup panel
• You receive advance information and previews of new BoneHead video games before anyone else.
• You receive BoneHead World, a eZine produced 3 times a year
• You get entered into a Prize Draw for free copies of the next BoneHead Game
People who register who don’t have email can get the code by asking for a Postcard in the registration program.
How do I get technical support?
Technical Support is only available to all users, registered or unregistered via bonehead@kagi.com. Most issues are covered in the Readme so read this first.
I want to include Mac Invaders on my CD ROM or cover disk do I need permission?
No, go for it!!! As long as the archive or unpacked directory remains intact, you can place it where you want. You can even charge what you like for the CD, and make a profit. What you can’t do is take ShareWare registrations in place of Kagi. If you want to ship registered versions of BoneHead games on your disk, give me an email at bonehead@kagi.com for a bulk rate.
And finally...
Why is it so slow on my system?
Ahhh... <*Blush*> Errrmm... Mac Invaders isn’t based on the sprite toolkit every other Macintosh arcade game seems to be based on(Hello Ingemar! ;-}). I made the decision to write my own because I was looking into the long term. This is BoneHead’s first game and the first outing for the game toolkit too. New versions of Mac Invaders will be released in the coming months that will be faster and better. Hang on! Why is it so slow? Because it’s fully double buffered, and is moving around 60 odd big fully animated sprites and a moving background. And you need a big computer to do that at this resolution. New versions will have faster double buffering. Look out for new version. Your unlock code will unlock any version of Mac Invaders produced any time in the future.
