Short: AF's PD Select. Now play attached to ELASTIC! Author: Ben Wyatt, bwyatt@paston.co.uk Uploader: Ben Wyatt, bwyatt@paston.co.uk Version: 2.01 Type: game/2play Replaces: Knockout.lha Action: NoAGA; NoCache 4 ################################################################################ __ __ __ __ ______ _____ __ __ ______ __ __ _____ / /_/ / / | / / / __ / / ___/ / /_/ / / __ / / / / / /_ _/ / __/ / , |/ / / / / / / / / __/ / / / / / / / / / / / /\ \ / /| ' / / /_/ / / /__ / /\ \ / /_/ / / /_/ / / / /_/ \_\ /_/ |__/ /_____/ /____/ /_/ \_\ /_____/ /_____/ /_/ v2.01 ################################################################################ Instructions ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The idea of the game is to knock all the other players off the ever shrinking circle, and then drive off on the bridge. There are some variations on this theme included in this version : NORMAL - normal game, as described above. BALL - a ball is placed in the centre of the circle to be knocked into the players goals. There are only 4 players allowed in this game. A point is scored for getting a goal, and for knocking all the other players off. TEAM - this game mode allows 4 teams of 2 players each to play. MAGNET - all the vehicles are made into magnets and are all attracted to each other. ELASTIC - pieces of elastic join pairs of vehicles together. Great for swinging them off the circle! (Best played with 4 or 6 vehicles, otherwise it's too crowded) Configurations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Knockout 2 does it's best to configure itself to your particular Amiga setup. Here is a list of configurations made : KS1.3 Amigas - will get as far as the intro and crash. UPGRADE! A500/A600 with 1Mb - 5 players on screen. A500/A600 with fast mem - 6 players on screen. A1200 with 2Mb / A500/A600 with 020+ accelerator - 8 players on screen. A1200 with fast mem - 8 players on screen, with no names restrictions. NTSC - can't have maximum circle size, and the title screen is snipped slightly. History ~~~~~~~ The latest version of Knockout is version 2.01, released on to the internet on April 1st 1996. The extremely boring history of Knockout : 2.01 Added Elastic and Magnet games. 2.00 Added new menu system, team games, variable circle size, variable friction, different vehicles, play first to "n" wins, naming of the players, music, 8 sets of controls, vehicle editor, music editor, intro sequence. Reorganised the sprite bank to eliminate a few bugs and to make it more flexible. Made it so it did actually work on all Amiga set-ups, unlike the previous version! Improved CPU intelligence. Stopped vehicles from going on top of each other. 1.02 Fixed a few bugs. Added a "Knockout_Easy" file, with less skidding. Added an option to turn cars "off". Made it work on less powerful Amigas, restricting the number of cars. 1.01 Added 4-player parallel port adapter, to make it 7 human players. Fixed a few bugs in the ball game. Rendered an intro screen. 1.00 Written on the Amiga, but limited to 8 cars (for technical reasons), only 5 of which can only be human controlled. Added a ball game. Added a bridge for when a player wins. 0.99 Test version written on the Acorn Archimedes computer, with 16 simultaneous players. Very slow, and lots of keyboard control clashes, but very popular at school! @{b}Famous Moments@{ub} Version 1.01 put on to AMIGA POWER's coverdisk on the APRIL 1996 issue. Version 1.00 reviewed in AMIGA FORMAT in the FEBRUARY 1996 issue. Made PD Selection of the Month. Why are such out of date versions used??? Those versions are both about a year old! ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 46948 28913 38.4% 26-Feb-96 21:57:26 +amos.library 4280 2486 41.9% 26-Feb-92 09:09:06 +mathtrans.library 43628 28530 34.6% 26-Feb-92 09:09:06 +reqtools.library 27896 26852 3.7% 26-Mar-95 10:56:14 +1 33408 31322 6.2% 26-Mar-95 10:56:30 +2 72920 72920 0.0% 26-Mar-95 10:57:02 +3 105120 100486 4.4% 26-Mar-95 10:57:56 +4 2438 1615 33.7% 28-Jan-96 22:45:42 +1 228248 153072 32.9% 01-Apr-95 02:45:48 +Banks 2982 1715 42.4% 26-Mar-95 07:28:28 +Example_Vehicle.iff 123736 69727 43.6% 01-Apr-95 05:46:58 +Knockout 48936 29289 40.1% 30-Mar-95 23:44:38 +Music_Editor 1122 405 63.9% 30-Mar-95 23:44:38 +Music_Editor.info 44124 25550 42.0% 30-Mar-95 23:44:48 +Vehicle_Editor 1122 403 64.0% 30-Mar-95 23:44:48 +Vehicle_Editor.info 2438 1539 36.8% 25-Mar-95 05:39:54 +2 14783 6359 56.9% 01-Apr-95 06:13:16 +Knockout.guide 2578 456 82.3% 30-Mar-95 23:37:04 +Knockout.guide.info 1122 405 63.9% 01-Apr-95 05:46:58 +Knockout.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 807829 582044 27.9% 02-Apr-96 12:49:30 19 files