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- Drip
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- by
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- Art Skiles
- 908 Elm Street
- Huntington, IN 46750 USA
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- Copyright (c) 1989, Art Skiles
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- This program is released into the public domain. It is intended
- for non-commercial use only, and no fee will be charged for its
- distribution besides a minimal charge to cover disk costs. This
- manual should accompany the program at all times. Also entire
- ownership of this program and manual are retained by the author,
- Art Skiles.
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- NOTE: This game is written to run on a 68000 microprocessor based Amiga.
- If you are using a multi-processor system, such as an Amiga 2500,
- MAKE SURE you are in 68000 mode before loading this game.
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- DRIP: THE STORY
-
- Like...can you believe it!?
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- It was the annual Bubble Bursters Bash in the basement and all the big
- drips were there. When like right in the middle the party juice got
- sucked up through the pipes! Totally tubular exit! Someone or some thing
- had crashed our party. It was like this big flying crystal ball that spit
- bolts of lightning. Everyone dripped for cover except this one drip that
- was too cool to be... like... afraid. Like as fast as this ball came it left
- crashing up through floors all the way to the 16th floor. And this one cool
- drip pulls a detective gig and goes after it! Hope it's got insurance.
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- It's up to you, Drip, to rust your way up 15 floors and get the juices
- flowing again.
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- DRIP: THE GAME
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- Drip is an arcade style game with 15 floors (levels). You must move along
- the pipes of each floor and rust them to advance to the next level. Every
- 3 floors completed will entitle you to a bonus round where extra drips can
- be won. An extra drip will also be awarded for every 10,000 points. Bonus
- rounds at the ends of floors 3 and 9 contain... ah... ah warp zones.
- Something about the combination of hits. Collect as many drips as you can.
- You'll go thru them like water.
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- Avoid running or dripping into the acid, plasma and icecubes shooting out
- of pipes. Also avoid electric bubbles and coils, lasers and the crystal
- balls followers chasing you. Every now and then clouds float by and clean
- the pipes. Stop them by dripping into them.
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- You can get a little help from party balloons and bubbles that float by.
- A red heart balloon will cause chasers to rust pipes. A yellow star balloon
- will allow you to chase them. A flashing drip balloon makes you almost
- invincible. Bubbles are useful for riding around in while still being able
- to rust pipes. They also protect you from acid, plasma, icecubes and
- electric coils. You may exit a bubble by pressing the firebutton.
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- Floor 16 is where no drip has gone before. You must do what you do best
- and then shut down the pumps atop the pipes by shorting out their flashing
- switches. This may make the head honcho bent out of shape so be prepared.
- Look for its weak spot and you'll go down in 'Drip' history with a golden
- drip displayed next to your score (If you make the top ten).
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- DRIP: TO PLAY
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- Drip requires 512k of memory, including almost 300k of CONTINUOUS CHIP
- MEMORY, and may be loaded from CLI or Workbench. From the CLI, type
- "DripGame" and press RETURN (include the full pathname). From Workbench,
- double click on its icon. Plug a joystick into port 2. Use the firebutton
- to 'drip'. Pressing 'e' will exit the game. Pressing 'p' will pause.
- Pressing 'i' will display a short information screen. Press '1' or '2'
- to play either a one or two player game. High scores will be saved to disk
- if it is enabled. If no disk is present or the disk is write protected this
- operation is bypassed without warning.
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- NOTE: As mentioned above Drip requires almost 300k of CONTINUOUS CHIP
- MEMORY. If Drip fails to load this may be the reason. Simply reboot and try
- again.
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- DRIP: THE PROGRAM
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- Drip was written on an Amiga 500 with 1.5 meg and Kickstart 1.3 in ROM
- using Lattice C 5.0.4. It was fairly well play tested but if you find any
- bugs or have any comments please let me know.
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- DRIP: CREDITS
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- Special thanks to my wife, Joanne, for putting up with this computer nut
- and to Rick Henly, the ultimate beta tester.
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- DRIP: DONATION
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- If you play this game please make a $5.00 donation to your favorite
- charity (i.e. American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, etc.). Thank you.
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- AGS - December 7, 1989
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