From megalith!errors@uunet.uu.net Thu Nov 10 05:37:37 1994 Received: from relay3.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA06254; Thu, 10 Nov 94 05:30:45 PST Received: from uucp7.UU.NET by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxpko28183; Thu, 10 Nov 1994 08:30:42 -0500 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp7.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Thu, 10 Nov 1994 08:30:43 -0500 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (wUUCP 1.10) id <2uha@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Thu, 10 Nov 94 04:51:01 -0500 Sender: CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsgatesoftware: Amiga Newsgate V1.6 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 04:50:59 -0500 Reply-To: rddrenna@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Robert Drennan) Message-Number: 977 X-Newssoftware: CSAA NMS 1.2 From: rddrenna@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Robert Drennan) (CSAA) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) Subject: (CSAA) Viper AGA V1.2 Status: RO TITLE Viper AGA VERSION V1.2 AUTHORS Robert Drennan rddrenna@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca 1028 Centre St., R.R.#5 Fenwick, Ontario L0S 1C0 Canada Nathaniel Myhre nmmyhre@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca 1 Blackwood Cres., P.O. Box 785 Fonthill, Ontario LOS 1E0 Canada DESCRIPTION Viper is a snake game, but is not just another snake game. It has many features that put it above typical snake games: - Ability to turn at any angle (rotation is controlled by two keys for each player) - One to six players (3 max in shareware version) - Computer controlled players - Suicide speed for maximum challenge - Extensive tournament program to keep stats on games played - OS friendly, multitasks, runs from Workbench - Runs on virtually any screenmode (704 x 467 overscan) - AGA only graphics (128 colours) - Neat sound effects The essence of the game is this. You cannot control the speed of your snake, all you can do it turn. As the game goes on the game gets faster. The longer you live the more points you get. But, as you travel along, you leave little spaces in your trail. With some practice, you can "thread" these holes not only for bonus points, but also to escape being trapped by other players. The game continues, round after round until someone reaches the winning score (selectable). REASON FOR EXISTENCE The idea for Viper came from a shareware game called Dune III (which has nothing to do with the commercial games Dune I and Dune II). Unfortunately, Dune III doesn't like NTSC nor the AGA chipset, runs in low resolution, and doesn't multitask. NEW FEATURES This lastest version will try and pick the best compatible screen mode to use. If you do not like the screen mode chosen, you can force any screen mode by using a tooltype. An included program will give this tooltype for you. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS You need an AGA Amiga with 1.1MB of memory free from Workbench and 0.7MB of hard drive space. Viper will run in PAL or NTSC. HOST NAME Available on Aminet wcarchive.cdrom.com (192.216.191.11) DIRECTORY available via anonymous FTP in /pub/aminet/game/2play FILE NAMES ViperAGA12.lha (399722 K) PRICE Shareware $12 US. DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyright 1994. Robert Drennan and Nathaniel Myhre Shareware ($12 US) -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu. ============================================================================ This is part of a mailing list gateway maintained by Carlos Amezaga. Bugs & comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. Subscribes, UnSubcribes, help and faq requests should be sent to announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu.