Hey, someone else grabbed the most excellent EV Bible! (okay, that would be me)
Dilithium is a plug-in for Ambrosia's Escape Velocity. Escape Velocity is the latest threat to my marriage and has become quite the cool addiction.
At this time, the plug-in adds two new weapons (2 types of phaser) and a new power supply (guess what kind of power plant?) for your ships. The new weapons can be found on Tech level 5 planets and above. (this includes Stardock Alpha). The power plant can be bought once you've completed missions. These are keyed to your combat rating, so be a little patient if you just started a new pilot. Other than that, the missions are random but in sequence.
Some hints:
1. The phasers gulp fuel. Lots of it. At least have a ramscoop.
2. The plug-in should have a tilde (~) in front of it's name. Drop it in the EV Plugins folder in your EV folder. The tilde makes it load last, which is necessary for the graphics to work properly. (shades of ATM?) This is due to a resource conflict with the 1.0.1 update. (the master picture of all the stuff.) It was this, or ask everyone to hack their EV 1.0.1 plug-in file. I think I made the right call...
3. As far as I know, this plug-in should work okay with most of the others released to date. It works with Velocity Plus without any conflicts, in any case. It is compatible with EV version 1.0.1. The impending release of 1.0.2 should not break it, but you never know. <grin>
4. Send in your shareware fee. Mine is on the way. The cool folks at Ambrosia are single handedly validating the continual existence of the Macintosh as a way of life. Let's make it worth their while.
This plug-in may be distributed freely. If it blows up your computer, too bad. It's not my fault.
