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 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 the aminet. Star Defender · Requires 1 MB chipmem and a 68020 CPU or better (fast 68030 recommended) · Supports two button joysticks! · Compatible with any screen that supports custom bitmaps! · Doesn't stop multitasking! The game is designed for PAL and 50Hz: smooth animation can only be done with 50Hz screens! (e.g. PAL or DblPAL) All other display modes require more CPU power (the screen has to be updated more often) and irregular screen updates will show up. What is it? Star Defender is an arcarde game like Defender and Stargate. It offers a large number of moving shapes, fast accellerated scrolling and digi sounds. The object of the game is to protect humanoids on various number of moons from alien attack waves. The Defender: Your ship! Equiped with the latest engines, offensive weapons and defense systems. The engines enable your ship to fast accelaration and auto reverse. The quickfire laser, which is the main offensive weapon, has great power and is capable of fast recharging. Additionally, your ship can fire smartbombs (2nd button on your joystick or space bar), which will destroy all enemies on the screen. Smartbombs are limited, so use them with care! Finally you can use the scanner, which shows all enemies on the moon. The attack waves: The enemies are attacking in waves, which are limited to each moon. If you succeed in defending the humanoids from all attack waves, you will be send to the next moon, otherwise the moon detonates and you have to reject the remaining attack waves. Humanoids: Your mission is to protect humanoids! They can be hit by your laser beam, they can be killed if captured by Landers, and they can be killed if a Lander drops them too far from the ground. Landers: These enemies are slow and do not fire much. But they can capture one of your Humanoids and beam it to the top. At this point the Lander will transform the Humanoid into a Mutant. Mutants: Fast and deadly killers that try to eliminate you! Bombers: There are four different types of bombers, especially on later attack waves. Miners are dropping a mine from time to time, elsewere they're mostly harmless, Beamers are fireing a dangerous wide range laser device, Twisters are equiped with a fast recharger that enable them making turn & fire manouvers and finally there are Pluggers which are equipped with plasma lasers and one detachable Swarmer. Pods: These enemy ships are coordinating the attack waves. They are slowly drifting around and mainly harmless. But if they are hit, they divide into four deadly Swarmers! Swarmers: Not as dangerous as mutants, but smaller. Baiters: Appear only in the later part of an attack wave. They're hunting you and are shooting at your ship. Because of they are very small and fast, it is difficult to destroy them, so be carefull! Carriers: These transporters carry usefull equipment: An extra smartbomb (grey), more energy for the laser (red), extra shield power (green), or a satellite (blue). Destroy the carrier and capture the equipment. Stargates: Activating a stargate will teleport you to another location on the moon. Special keys: F5: Pause F10: (Re)Starts the game Esc: Quits the game JOYSTICK CONTROL: MOUSE CONTROL: =================== ================ up! up! .-. .---. .-' `-. | | | left button: fire! thrust left | O | thrust right |---| right button: thrust! `-. .-' | | middle button `-' | | or shift key: reverse! down! `---' space bar: smartbomb! down! button: fire! 2nd button Press F10 and RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON in or space bar: smartbomb! the title page to start with mouse control. Press fire in the title page to start with joystick control. Tool types: 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: This game does not disable multitasking, so some bad coded screen blankers may blank your screen while playing. This is definitely not a bug in this game! Use BlitzBlank V2.0 or the blanker in MagicCX and you will not have any trouble. Tested on... Amiga 1000 (50 Mhz 68030, AGA chipset, 2 MB chip, 3.5 MB fast, Kick 3.1) (yes, this Amiga 1000 has the AGA chipset) History: (26.Jun.1996) First public release. Ways of contact: You will get the keyfile if you send me 20 DM or $15 US. The keyfile enables all features in this and newer versions for you! If you don't like sending money with mail: Konto-Nr=5024914 - BLZ=79050000 (but don't forget to mail me your address!) Please add your email address if you have one. (speeds up transfer) 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. (For 50 DM ($35 US), you can register three games at once!) Interested in other games like this? Take a look at... Star Defender (V1.0): Accelerated scrolling, Aliens and the Defender! Monsters of Terror (V1.0): 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! TubularWorldsDemo: Horizontal scrolling action, up to 2 players! Future plans: lightNdarkm - Battle between the light side and the dark side... 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 ideas for other games then let me hear! Voice: (0931)16139 (May change in future) E-mail: starfox@cow.mayn.de starfox@incubus.franken.de (prefered) (Try another e-mail address or standard mail if you get no response!) (__) _ Matthias Bock (oo) _ // Mähderweg 16 /-------\/ \X/ 97225 Zellingen / | || ` Thank you, Amiga... Germany * ||w---|| ^^ ^^