Short: MegaBall v2.1. New boards! Bug fixes! OS2.0 compat! etc. Version 2.1 note: 9/20/92 This is the first version of MegaBall to be released since I got my new Amiga 3000. I have to thank a few hundred registered users of previous versions of MegaBall for helping me afford this new hardware. I have improved some parts of the MegaBall game to work better on the 3000, without losing 1.3 compatability. Here they are: * Invisible ball finally fixed. * Music code modified -- should not skip notes on fast machines now. * Paddle crashing through wall bug during overscan fixed. However, there is also a "bug" where on systems that used to have the paddle-thru-wall bug, clicking the left mouse button too far to the right would pause the game. This is because intuition is letting you click outside the screen -- MegaBall gets a message that the user has started using some other program, so it pauses. This is likely to happen if you have an overscanned WB 1.3 screen, or if your overscanned WB 2.x screen is visible somewhere. It is just the way the OS works. If it happens to you, then don't use the left mouse button! The right mouse button and the left mouse button have precicely the same functions in MegaBall. So if the left is causing the game to pause at unwanted moments, use the right! * A certain form of cheating (without using the cheat keys) has been brought to my attention. Some people would pause the game as the ball was coming down, think about where it was going to land, position the mouse pointer over that spot, and continue the game. These people are in for a suprise. * The paddle is a bit more responsive this version. I tried to accellerate it just a bit, without losing that MegaBall "feel." * The default board set has changed. There are 50 new boards! * Quicksand has changed. Muhahahha. * Because of the above two changes, the name of the high score file has changed from MegaBall.scores to MegaBall2.scores. This will have the effect of reseting most people's high score list for the default board set. The original boards can be found in a file in the Boards subdir called "TheOriginal.BDS". If you want to put your old high score list on this file, you should open a CLI, and type something like the following: cd dh0:games/megaball ;or wherever you have MegaBall installed copy MegaBall.scores Boards/TheOriginal.BDS.scr A lot of people asked me how to reset a high score list. All you have to do is delete or rename whatever file contains the scores. All MegaBall score files are compatible; the format has not changed. * Funny colors in top-left corner fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 690 235 65.9% 20-Sep-92 15:30:54 MegaBall.info 151 113 25.1% 20-Sep-92 15:30:38 MegaBall/.info 3885 1692 56.4% 19-Sep-92 22:41:02 MegaBall/BoardEd.pics.README 831 395 52.4% 20-Sep-92 15:12:28 MegaBall/BoardEd.pics.README.info 15804 3386 78.5% 17-Jan-87 08:56:20 MegaBall/BoardEd1.pic 466 284 39.0% 20-Sep-92 15:13:10 MegaBall/BoardEd1.pic.info 17284 8598 50.2% 17-Jan-87 08:56:26 MegaBall/BoardEd2.pic 466 284 39.0% 20-Sep-92 15:13:10 MegaBall/BoardEd2.pic.info 690 233 66.2% 20-Sep-92 15:12:28 MegaBall/Boards.info 966 499 48.3% 20-Sep-92 12:59:00 MegaBall/Boards.README 831 399 51.9% 20-Sep-92 15:12:28 MegaBall/Boards.README.info 13356 7412 44.5% 01-Jan-06 00:22:14 MegaBall/Boards/Advanced.BDS 9296 5029 45.9% 16-May-91 17:34:02 MegaBall/Boards/Easy.BDS 7376 3862 47.6% 23-Aug-92 22:23:26 MegaBall/Boards/Nasty.BDS 12828 7123 44.4% 28-Aug-92 00:55:20 MegaBall/Boards/TheOriginal.BDS 264 31 88.2% 01-Jan-06 00:22:06 MegaBall/fonts/MegaBall.font 2632 1408 46.5% 01-Jan-06 00:22:04 MegaBall/fonts/MegaBall/8 829 397 52.1% 20-Sep-92 15:29:24 MegaBall/Installation.DOC 831 400 51.8% 20-Sep-92 15:12:28 MegaBall/Installation.DOC.info 2352 1726 26.6% 01-Jan-06 00:22:10 MegaBall/libs/iff.library 18012 11857 34.1% 14-Jul-92 16:40:30 MegaBall/libs/req.library 284728 188976 33.6% 01-Jan-06 00:24:20 MegaBall/MegaBall.Music 416 279 32.9% 20-Sep-92 15:12:30 MegaBall/MegaBall.Music.info 12853 5502 57.1% 20-Sep-92 14:10:44 MegaBall/MegaBall2.1.DOC 831 397 52.2% 20-Sep-92 15:12:28 MegaBall/MegaBall2.1.DOC.info 886 268 69.7% 20-Sep-92 15:12:30 MegaBall/MEGABALL2.1.info 2401 1196 50.1% 15-May-91 15:10:40 MegaBall/read.me 1750 444 74.6% 20-Sep-92 15:12:28 MegaBall/read.me.info 198200 124273 37.2% 17-Sep-92 19:44:32 MegaBall/MEGABALL2.1 -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 611905 376698 38.4% 26-Oct-92 19:10:10 29 files