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- ORM(6) Amiga Games ORM(6)
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- NAME NAME
- orm - a simple snake game
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- SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS
- From the shell: orm
- From Workbench: double-click on the icon
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- DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION
- Orm is played on a 40*40 matrix which fills a window on
- the default public screen (usually the Workbench). You
- are the grey dot (assuming the default colours) in the
- centre - to increase in length (the object of the game)
- you must eat frogs (the white dots) while avoiding
- bricks (the blue dots). Frogs come and go randomly,
- but there are always four of them at any moment. One
- in ten disappearing frogs is replaced by a brick. If
- you hit yourself, a side wall or a brick you die; once
- your length is greater than one you cannot reverse your
- direction.
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- Movement is with the cursor keys; once a game has
- started you cannot stop moving. Press a cursor key to
- start each game. Other keys are SPACEBAR to pause (any
- key to unpause) and ESC to quit.
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- The game adjusts itself to give a decent aspect ratio
- on screens of different resolutions.
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- REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENTS
- Orm requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.
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- FILES FILES
- (PROGDIR:|LOCALE:)catalogs/#?/orm.catalog
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- TRIVIA TRIVIA
- The word Orm means worm or snake in Danish.
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- AUTHORS AUTHORS
- The original game, called Snake, was written and put in
- the public domain by Michael Warner, who also the
- original version of this manual page.
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- This improved version was written by Torsten Poulin,
- who, as you may have guessed already, is a Dane, which
- explains why the grammar of this docomentation may be
- slightly odd.
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- To honour Michael's decision, this version is also in
- the public domain; let's keep it that way!
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- BUGS BUGS
- Adjustment to the screen mode should be better. The
- window is a bit too tall on NTSC screens, and looks
- really awful on VGA-ExtraLoRes screens.
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- The situation where the user has specified a system
- default font, that makes the dragbar so tall that the
- window won't fit the screen, isn't handled gracefully.
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- October 21, 1993 1
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