|2-Snail Racing! __ __ __ _ __ (_ (_ (_ |_) (_ A __)uperb __)imulation by Miss (__.| \. __)ummerfield Who's E.R.Summerfield? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm 18 and currently studying Pharmacy at University, I taught myself a bit of AMOS, and this is my first serious program. It took me a month to write and I'm pretty proud of it myself, considering the last programming I ever did was on the Speccy... For those Red-Blooded Males who are interested, I'm 5'7'', blonde, grey eyes, and 8½ stone with a 35-25-35 figure. I like computers and waterfalls (although not at the same time...), and I'm a dedicated Military Plane-Spotter. =========================================== Overview ~~~~~~~~ Snail Racing is a game for 1 to 4 players with two different modes of play, either the feeding game or the betting game. This game is Shareware, if you like it then please be a sweetie and send me a fiver so that I can eat while I'm at Uni! Send any cheques/Postal Orders (payable to "Miss E.R.Summerfield") to: Superb Simulations. P.O.Box 42, Grimsby South Humberside. DN33 1RY =========================================== System Requirements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An Amiga Computer (doh!), er... It was developed on an A1200 and an A500+ but was not compiled on the 500+. Both machines have 2Mb Chip RAM, though it should work on a 1Mb Chip RAM machine, I'll test this. =========================================== The Options Screen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here you can decide whether to play the Feeding game or the Betting game, how many players there are (1 to 4) and wether you'd like music or sound effects during the game. The default is the Feeding game, with one player and sound effects. =========================================== How to Play - Feeding Game ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Each player enters the name of their snail (max 12 characters) and the food that their snail will eat on each day of the week leading up to the race on Saturday morning (Sunday being a day of rest of course!). These foods all have diffrent properties and will affect your snail's performance accordingly, some will affect their stamina while others will affect their energy level. Some foods need to be eaten on certain days, others need to be eaten several days in the week, it's all up to you to decide which is which. There are five foods: Sugar; Crisps; Cabbage; Lettuce and Apple. =========================================== How to Play - Betting Game ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once you have sussed out how the five food types affect each snail then you'll want to play the betting game more often instead of the feeding game. After seeing what the snails have been fed on for the week, each player enters their name or initials (max 6 characters) and decides which snail they want to bet on. =========================================== The Race ~~~~~~~~ All five snails start at the same time, obviously, and a list is displayed in the upper left hand corner of the running order so that you can see who's in the lead. The display will lock on to and follow the lead snail until it has completely crossed the finish line, and once all five snails have reached the line the podium screen will be loaded and the winners are announced. =========================================== The Betting Results ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After the winners are announced (assuming you're playing the betting game) then the balance screen is loaded and the amounts won or lost are deducted from the total balance for each player. Any player whose balance falls below zero is out and is removed from the game. If for example, player 2 is out, then player 3 becomes player 2 and player 4 becomes player 3. The names are automatically changed to handle this. If your snail won, you'll get double your stake back, if it came second, you'll get your original stake back. =========================================== Advertisements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ B·A·L·L·S·! -=-=-=-=-=- The 89% AUI-rated Lottery Number generating program now works on any OS2 machine with 2Mb RAM, and possibly even less! For a demo version send a blank formatted disk and a SAE, for the full version send a cheque for £5.00 to: R. Monks - P.O.Box 42 - Grimsby South Humberside - DN33 1RY Coming soon, all registered copies of "Balls!" will inclide a utility to check whole lists of Syndicate numbers against the winning lines of a lottery week, it saves you time and ensures you don't miss any important numbers! "SynWin" will only be available to registered "Balls!" users, existing registered users will receive an update soon! =========================================== Greets & Acknowledgements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Programmed in Amos professional by Weasel (Eloise Summerfield) with some help from Freak of NFA. All graphics and art work by Weasel. Comments and criticisms by Barnell productions (Mum and Dad). Various sounds and music from the public domain. Hello to... Ashco Stingsoft Loftsoft Sumosoft Gaff Computing Pex le Sex/Quantum Inc \ Gentry/iNDi \ Video/iNDi / from the scene! Aladdin Sane/iNDi / & speciality greets to Alex & the CWAT. =========================================== End