First Start

Some people react on flashing lights in a very unpleasant manner: they experience epileptic seizures. Even if you did never have such a seizure, you may still be affected by those induced seizures. Since Armagetron Advanced contains rhythmic flashing lights (the grid you race over...), there is a higher risk of induced seizures than in normal computer games. FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, do NOT play Armagetron Advanced on a wide TV screen or in a dark room and always keep a good eye distance to your monitor. WE DO NOT FEEL RESPONSIBLE for anything that might happen to you while playing Armagetron Advanced, even if you do respect these advises (See legal stuff below).

The rules are simple: you ride a lightcycle, a kind of motorbike that can only turn 90 degrees at a time, leaves a wall behind and cannot be stopped. Avoid running into a wall while trying to make your opponent run into a wall. Just in case you do not know: this idea is best known from the Disney movie "Tron" from 1982. However, that's not the origin of the game idea: The earliest arcade game of that type was Blockade from 1976, the first known home versions SNAFU on the Intellivision from 1981 and Surround for the Atari 2600.

Acceleration is possible by driving close to player walls, be it your own wall or the wall of your enemy. Every time you make a turn, you lose a little bit of your speed, so don't be too nervous; speed is your only resource against other players!

First, you'll be confronted with the selection of your favourite language. Use CURSOR LEFT/RIGHT to select, then CURSOR_DOWN to move to the "Accept" menu item. Then, press ENTER/RETURN three times. You'll immediately be set to fight against one weak AI opponent.

turn left	: y,z,w
turn right	: x
brake	: v
switch camera	: c
glance	: cursor left/right/down
show scores	: TAB
scroll message console	: page up/down
toggle fullscreen	: f
pauses/unpauses the game	: p
quit to the game menu	: q/ESC

SHIFT-ESC is the "boss key" and quits Armagetron Advanced as fast as possible.

Move up one item	cursor up
Move down one item	cursor down
Change item	cursor left/right
Enter Submenu/Activate item	return/enter/space
Leave Menu	ESC

Press enter or space on the control you wish to change, then press the key/mousebutton you want to assign to that control. Moving the mouse also works.
Press delete or backspace to reset the control binds for the selected functions.

After your first matches, you should go into the "Player Menu", set your name, your keyboard and mouse configuration. Then, get some friends together and try the multiplayer modes!

Visit the main webpage for up to date information about Armagetron Advanced and the latest stable builds. Check out the Forums for keeping in touch with current development and venting your anger that we broke your favorite feature in the current release. Visit the SourceForge project page to get informed by email or RSS when a new release is out. Get the latest alpha and beta builds on AABeta.

The AA-DevTeam currently consists of (alphabetic username order):

Real name           SF username     Forum name (empty if identical to SF name)

Dave Fancella       davidfancella   Lucifer
epsy                epsy
Fred                guru3           Tank Program
Jochen Darley       jarrt           joda.bot
Peter               klaxnek         klax
Kurt Johnson        k_at_work       K
Luke-Jr             luke-jr         
Daniel Harple       nemostultae
Philippe Villeneuve philippeqc
Mathias Plichta     wrtlprnft
Manuel Moos         z-man

E-Mail addresses can be generated by taking the SF username and appending
"@users.sf.net". The forum is at http://forums.armagetronad.net.

guru3, z-man and davidfancella are the Administrators, any spam goes to them.


Honored former members:
Alex E. Kelly : former Project Administrator
? ? subby     : where and when did he go?


Additional contributions from:
Ben Hines                : first working Mac OS X port
Fabrice Holbe            : original Moviepack and font
Tomas Birraux            : french accents in font
Christian Reitwiessner   : contributed name rendering above cycles
Edd Keefe                : contributed Mac OS X icon and the title screen
hang3r                   : skeleton for more accurate timer on Windows
Jonathan                 : Headlight (needs activation) and overhead map (will be in 0.3.X)
Meriton                  : Replacement for the old buggy Lag-O-Meter
Oscilloscope             : Most default instant chats
Belenus                  : OpenBSD support sniplets
hoop                     : Zone rendering settings

Translators who aren't already cited above:
Rafal Cieslak            : Polish
mygal                    : French
tang322                  : French


External code merged in from:
ID Software         : first version of the low level networking code
David McAllister    : particle system API
Aladdin Enterprises : MD5 Hashsum implementation

• Chaz Guarino ( ) for extracting the sounds from the movie in high quality.
(Both the moviepack and the movie sounds are available for download separately on the old Addons page because of their size and copyright issues)
• Max Rudberg( ) for the Mac icon
• All the other fans that sent their suggestions and comments, especially eRVee and Andrew Macks!

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

For you, this means that you are absolutely free to redistribute the binary and source archives of this game in any way you like: send them to your friends, mirror them on your FTP server or put them on magazine cover CDs.

This document was created by Manuel Moos

Last modification: Feb 20 2010