Spacewar version 1.00 1996 Hello! This is Spacewar, for the amiga. Based on the version I saw on the Atari ST (Yergg, but the game was good), I dont know who wrote it, but for a while we were all hooked sitting around the playing for hours. So here it is. NOTE! This is shareware (Cause Im gonna be about 4 grand in debt by the end of my stay at Uni), so if you like it and use it please send me MONEY. Anything, but 2 quid would be fine by me. Whats this then? Controls? Look at all the options! Special stuff Files in the archive should be: Spacewar Spacewar.info Spacewar.guide Spacewar.guide.info Spacewar.exe Spacewar.shapes Spacewar.palette Spacewar.gui.shape Engine.8svx Shot.8svx Explosion.8svx Sound effects 'borrowed' from the best 2 player game on the Amiga - Gravity Power Spacewar was brought to you by the letter B and B, and the number 2 from, the Childrens Acid Workshop. You can contact me at iking@cs.strath.ac.uk or snail-mail (for MONEY and stuff) at Iain King Blairs Croft Creetown Newton Stewart Scotland DG8 7DF Dont feel bad about sending ideas but no money, I dont mind. But if I dont get any money then none of the ideas will be implemented. N.B. DO send bug reports, and these will be fixed. Just cause Im a Monopolistic Greedy Bastard dont mean that I dont care. Spacewar is a combat game set in some solar system. In the middle of the system is a Sun (or a Black Hole, or maybe nothing), which draws the players ships toward it. Perhaps there's a planetoid orbiting the sun as well. The players have a ship each and have to kill there opponent. Simple Heres a clip from the Jargon File on the subject: :SPACEWAR: n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1960-61. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became {{UNIX}}. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are still {feep}ing in video arcades everywhere. Player 1 uses a joystick in the joystick port, player2 uses the cursor keys and the right shift key: Joystick: Fire | | Rotate left ------ ------rotate right Fire button=thrust | | Special Keys: Fire | | Rotate left ------ ------rotate right Right shift=thrust | | Special The special weapons: Shields give you temorary immunity from bullets and crashing into the other ship. Cloaks turn you invisible Flip spins you ship 180 degrees Hyper jumps your ship to a random point on the screen E-Thrust gives you emergency thrust (5*normal) Each of the special weapons has a different cost, which is taken of a level. Once you run out of special you cant use it any more. BUT - your level is connected to your opponents, so when he uses his special it gives you some more yourself! There are a few options for this game so Ill work round the window, starting at the top left bevel-box, then moving round clockwise. Ill cover items in the boxes top->bottom, left->right Player box: Plr 1/Plr 2 buttons. These sit beside the string gadgets containing the players names. Clicking in the string gadgets lets you edit the players names. Clicking on the Plr 1/Plr 2 buttons opens up the player list - (see the specials page) Below these are the 2 lists of XTRAS - select the special weapon for each player. System box: Gravity - set the gravity of the sun Thrust - set your engines thrust force Target - lets you set the target score The list lets you select if there is a sun, a black hole or nothing at the centre of the solar system Planet lets you select if there is a planetoid orbiting the sun/whatever Distance lets you choose how far away the planetoid orbits the sun Spacewar box: Game - starts a game About - some info Save - save the current config (see specials Options box: The various sliders let you select game values for the following: Shots - number of bullets/player on screen at once Shotspeed - Speed of the bullets through space on firing Shot life - Distance the bullets can go before they dissapear Fire speed - firing rate of the ships gun - higher=slower ReBirth Time - time between player dieing and player reappearing There are a couple of extra features for this game: On hitting the Save button, the current setup is saved to the file: s:spacewar.config This setup will be used every time the game is run also: The game has a player list. If there is a lot of you playing (winner stays on kinda thing) this speed up typing in everyones names: When the program is run it reads a list of names from the file s:spacewar.playerlist Hitting the Plr 1/Plr 2 buttons pops up a menu with these names. To edit the names, just edit the s:spacewar.playerlist file, i.e. if you can use 'ed' typ at the cli prompt: ed s:spacewar.playerlist Then type in the names, then hit esc-x return An example playerlist: -------snip----------- Iain Stephan Kevin Charles ------snip--------- NOTE- the program will probly choke if you leave a line empty but put a RETURN on the end of it. N.B. Player names are a max of 13 characters long.