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- 3d Cyber Blaster
- Dungeon Entertainment
- Introduction:
- It is the far future where all competive energies are channeled into
- sports. CyberBlaster is one of the new sports, it is a one-on-one soccer
- game where the player is in a small hovercraft and this complete protects the
- player from harm.
- The object of the game is to score 5 goals by shooting the magnetic floating
- ball into the opponents goal. Goals shot from a greater distance will earn 2
- points.
- To create a further challenge the arena that the game is played in is
- an irregular shape and the goals move.
- Every game must be completed in a limited time. The quicker the game is
- completed the more your earnings. These earnings can be used to purchase
- enhancements to you hovercraft, or obstacles that can be dropped in the
- arena to obstruct the opponent.
- Once you pick up the ball you slow down and the opponent can "punch" the
- ball away from you by shooting magnetic pulses at you. You can increase
- your punch strength and your shield by buying power-ups.
-
- Shareware:
- The shareware version includes 5 different arenas with the first ones
- being very easy and the latter becoming harder. You are also restricted
- to having only 4 different "weapons", ie. land mines, gravity wells,
- walls and turbo-boosters. There are also 4 power-ups, namely: increased
- ball catch radius, increase punch power, increase shield and decrease
- ball drag.
-
- Registered Version:
- The registered version will allow playing over the network where
- 2 people can play against each other. It will include background music and
- many more weapons and power-ups.
- The registered version will also include 50 levels, 20 of which will
- have a computer opponent and the other 30 will be for the 2 player
- network games.
-
- Win a Free Copy of the Full Version:
- To win a free copy of the full version send us a design for a level.
- If the level gets used we will send you a free version of the full
- game. The design can be sent to us in electronic format or through
- snail-mail. Our addresses are at the end of this file.
- PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION ABOUT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU HAVE
- AGREED TO BY SUBMITTING LEVELS TO US. WE DON'T WANT ANY NO FUTURE
- MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT THE REVIEWS YOU SUBMIT TO US.
-
- Briefly stated, you give up all rights to the level, HomeBrew
- becomes the owner, we can make changes, we don't have to include it
- in CyberBlaster, and you won't be paid for your work. You will,
- however, get a free registered version (not necessarily including
- your level!)
-
- We will delete any and all of your levels at your request.
-
- We have some special walls that can be included these are:
- 1. Speed up and Slow down walls:
- The walls speed up and slow down the ball by any fixed amount.
- 2. Teleport walls
- These walls teleport the ball from one teleport wall to another.
- If the ball goes in A and comes out B, this does not mean that
- if it goes in B it will come out of A. This can give some
- confusing effects. :->
- 3. Gravity Wells
- These objects attract the ball to themselves. This can cause the
- ball to curve. The radius of influence can be set.
- 4. Mines
- Mines will explode when the ball comes near them and send it in a
- random direction.
- Other effects are walls that are visible that the ball can pass through,
- the goal can rotate and bounce, and anything else you can think of (well
- almost!).
-
- Installation:
- CyberBlaster comes in a self extracting archive. Place the file in
- the directory you want CyberBlaster to be in, then run it. Answer 'yes' to
- all the questions.
- Afterwards you can delete the file "BallBlas.exe".
-
- System Requirements:
- The basic system requirements are:
- * 386DX40
- * 2Mb of Ram
- * 540Kb free Base memory
- * 4Mb of Harddisk space
- * VGA Card and Color display
- * SoundBlaster or compatible (optional)
- In addition the config.sys file must contain the lines.
- device = himem.sys
- files = 30
- buffers = 20
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- Last words:
- If you have any bug reports, ideas please feel free to contact us:
- Wayne Paverd Peter Hinz
- wayne@cs.uct.ac.za peter@cs.uct.ac.za
- 206 Clarewood
- Frederick Rd
- Claremont
- 7700
- Cape Town
- South Africa
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