Copyright & Disclaimer This software is shareware. The unregistered version may be freely copied if no modifications are done with the entire drawer! Any commercial distribution is strictly forbidden. There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software for any purpose. It is provided solely "as is". If you like it, please register by sending 20 DM or $15 US cash to the address below. You will get the keyfile to enable all features in this and newer versions! If you additionally send me an envelope with your address, 2 DM stamps and a disk, you will also get the actual version from aminet. ...the master of battles... · Requires 1 MB chipmem and a 68020 CPU or better · Supports the four player joystick adapter for the parallel port! · Compatible with any screen that supports custom bitmaps! · Doesn't stop multitasking! The game is designed for PAL and 50Hz, so you should take this mode! All other display modes require more CPU power (the screen has to be updated more often). Use them only if you have a fast Amiga! This is dedicated to Alex, Dany, Gabi, Katja and especially to Sandra. (May they greet the devil in hell) · F1-F4: Selects 1-4 player game · F5: Pause · F6-F8: Selects arcade mode, battle mode, hires battle mode (battle mode requires 2-4 players) (hires battle mode additionaly requires the AGA chipset) · F10: (Re)Start game · Esc: Quit game JOYSTICK CONTROL: MOUSE CONTROL: =================== ================ thrust! .---. .-. | | | .-' `-. |---| turn left | O | turn right turn left <-| |-> turn right `-. .-' | | `-' `---' hyperspace! The joystick port, the mouse port Push F10 and the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON and the two ports on the four player in the title page to start with mouse adapter for the parallel port are control. Left button is fire, right supportet. Push F10 and fire on the button is thrust, hyperspace is desired joystick to start! impossible with mouse control! KEYBOARD CONTROL 1: KEYBOARD CONTROL 2: ===================== ===================== "Y": turn left cursor left: turn left "X": turn right cursor right: turn right ".": thrust! cursor up: thrust! " ": hyperspace! cursor down: hyperspace! "-": fire! left alt key: fire! (right amiga) Press F10 and "-" at the title Press F10 and left alt key at the to start with keyboard control. title to start with keyboard control. MONITOR=// MONITOR=PAL/320/256) Selects the monitor and the screen resolution of the game display. This works only with Kickstart 2.0 (V37) or better. If no MONITOR tool type is specified, it uses the default monitor and 320/200. INPUTDEVICE=OFF›-> Disables mousepointer and input device to get full CPU speed. In pause mode, both are active again. ADAPTER=OFF›-> Disables access to the parallel port. Usefull if there is no four player joystick adapter. Data sent to another device at the parallel port will be scrambled otherwise in multiplayermode! Technical: · Poweroids does not disable multitasking, so some bad coded screen blankers may blank your screen while playing. This is definitely not a bug in Poweroids! Use BlitzBlank V2.0 or the blanker in MagicCX and you will not have any trouble. · Requires mathtrans.library and icon.library from workbench disk! Tested on... · Amiga 1000 (50 Mhz 68030, AGA chipset, 2 MB chip, 4 MB fast, KS 3.0) Ways of contact: · You will get the keyfile if you send me 20 DM or $15 US cash. The keyfile enables all features in this and newer versions for you! · Please add your email address if you have one. (speeds up transfer) · Cheques will be rejected! Germany only: BLZ=79050000 - Konto-Nr=5024914 · If you want to get the actual version from the aminet, then include... -> A return envelope with your address, 2 DM stamps and a disk · Outside germany, please add 5 DM or $5 US instead of the stamps/disk · If you think it is worth more than 20 DM, then add what you think. You may get an extra disk with some of the games below... · The files could also be found in Aminet or at INCUBUS BBS: (phone +49-931-781464 or telnet incubus.franken.de) Interested in other games like this? Take a look at... MonstersOfTerror: Beat the wizard of wor, up to 4 players! Poweroids (V1.2): Asteroids with raytraced graphics, up to 4 players! MineRunner(V1.7): The classic platform game, up to 4 players! Zerberk (V1.4): An arcade game like Berzerk, up to 4 players! TubularWorldsDemom: A fantastic SF game with lots of enemies! Future plans StarDefender - Accelerated scrolling, Aliens and the Defender! lightNdark - Battle between the light side and the dark side... If there are enough registrations for MineRunner or Poweroids, then I will release a super version of the game, your keyfile will be accepted! PoweroidsII - New features, extras, enormous super-aliens... MineRunnerII - New features, extras, extra large playfields... Did you like the game? If you want to encourage me to write more games like this or if you have any suggestions, bug-reports or other old games then let me hear! E-Mail: starfox@incubus.franken.de (prefered) or matt@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.d400.de (will expire soon) (__) _ Matthias Bock (oo) _ // Mähderweg 16 /-------\/ \X/ 97225 Zellingen / | || ` Thank you, Amiga... Germany * ||w---|| ^^ ^^ Amiga fan cow›[0m›[1 p