From psygtech@world.std.com Wed Oct 20 10:08:32 1993 Received: from world.std.com by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.4) id AA25153; Wed, 20 Oct 93 10:08:28 PDT Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA17779; Wed, 20 Oct 1993 13:08:18 -0400 From: psygtech@world.std.com (daniel robbins) Message-Id: <199310201708.AA17779@world.std.com> Subject: Hired Guns from Psygnosis To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 13:08:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3935 Status: RO TITLE Hired Guns COMPANY USA: EUROPE: Psygnosis Ltd. Psygnosis Ltd. 675 Massachusetts Ave. South Harrington Building Cambridge, MA 01239 Sefton Street, Liverpool L3 4BQ USA United Kingdom Order Line: (800)438-7794 Tel: +44 51 709 5755 Tech Support:(617)497-7794 AUTHOR A DMA Design Production DMA Design by Scott Johnston Discovery House Dundee Technology Park Dundee, Scotland DD1 1TY Fax: 0382 562333 DESCRIPTION Hired Guns is a truly unique role playing/adventure game. Apart from sensational graphics and outstanding playability, it features a multi-player interface which allows four players to act independently on the same machine at once! Includes an online inventory encyclopedia, auto-mapping, over 1.2 Megabytes of incredible soundtracks, and more (see the FEATURES list below). This is a game that needs to be experienced. We encourage you to try our free demo, which includes its own fully playable mini- adventure offering hours of gameplay in itself (see the DEMO information below). FEATURES o Four first-person perspective 3D views on screen o Up to four independent players on one machine o True 3D levels (the campaign spans 1.7 million cubic meters) o Auto-mapping via the Guild VII Digital Terrain Processor o Transparent water effect o On-line encyclopedia o Hard disk installation Instantly switch between Hired Guns & Workbench o Full use of available memory o Customizable graphics Edit the character graphics to your liking - You can even put yourself in the game! o Choose from a selection of 12 characters o 1.2 Megabytes of original music and sound effects o Various environments (outdoors, caves, hi-tech, tombs, etc.) o At least 80 hours of playing time in the campaign game o An extra 20 stand-alone action levels o 24 types of enemy o 8 Megabytes of data packed onto 5 disks o Comprehensive literature SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS o Any Amiga model with at least 1MB RAM (any configuration). o Users with 1MB CHIP RAM and an additional 512K of other memory will experience greatly enhanced sound effects. o Hard drive operation requires 1.5 MB RAM (1 MB CHIP memory). o Hard drive/enhanced sound operation requires 2.0 MB RAM (1 MB CHIP memory). PRICE & DISTRIBUTABILITY $59.99 US Suggested Retail Price The full game is available from Amiga dealers worldwide. Hired Guns can also be ordered directly from Psygnosis. Hired Guns is a commercial product Copyright 1993 Psygnosis, Ltd. FREELY-DISTRIBUTABLE DEMO AVAILABLE A fully playable demo of Hired Guns is currently available on ftp.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) and will be appearing shortly on all Aminet sites. DIRECTORY AND FILE NAME pub/aminet/game/demo/HiredGunsDemo.dms HOW TO DECOMPRESS THIS DEMO Use the 'dms' command, which will write the data directly on to a disk in DF0:. Type the following, and you will be prompted to insert a blank disk in the drive: 1.> dms write HiredGunsDemo.dms DMS is available on Aminet: pub/aminet/util/arc/dms111.sfx (this archive will self-extract on execution) DEMO DISTRIBUTABILITY The Hired Guns Demo is Copyright 1991-1993 DMA Design and may be freely distributed, provided that the contents of the archive are not modified in any way. Announcement by: Daniel Robbins Psygnosis Ltd. Tech Support Representative 675 Massachusetts Avenue & Telecommunications Liason Cambridge, MA 02139 psygtech@psygnosis.com