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- SMASHING PUMPKINS INTO SMALL PILES OF PUTRID DEBRIS
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- THE OFFICIAL COMPLETELY EDITABLE VERSION 3.00
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- A JAMÜL SOFTWARE PRODUCTION
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- * * * THIS IS SHAREWARE. GIVE ME MONEY. * * *
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- THE STORY
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- DATELINE - October 30, 1993.
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- All the pumpkins of the world cower in fear again, as another Halloween
- approaches. As always, they are destined to be culinarily transformed
- into grotesque icons of a pagan tradition. Their only hope was to steal
- all of Earth's candles and take them away to the distant pumpkin planet,
- Pumpkinia.
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- DATELINE - November 4, 1993.
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- Despite tremendous security measures, the pumpkins succeeded and now
- Earth has no candles. If the power goes out, everybody is SCREWED. The
- only hope is Bouapha, the Gourdslayer. He hops into the specially designed
- TX-34Z Rocket Ship and blasts off for the Zeta Toejam star system.
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- CAN BOUAPHA AND HIS MIGHTY HAMMERS OVERCOME THE PUMPKINS!?
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- THE WORLD
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- Some people say the world is what you make of it. In this case, it really
- is. Worlds are files that have the extension .SLF. Type SMASH <filename> to
- play any world you want to. But don't type the extension.
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- THE BADGUYS
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- Baby Pumpkins : Not very dangerous, but they can suck your life away if they
- make contact. They come in several varieties.
- Big Pumpkins : Dangerous, but stupid.
- Sea Pumpkins : They swim, and spit green blobs at you.
- Robo Pumpkins : LOOK OUT! These things are lethal! They spew energy blasts
- all about, and charge towards Bouapha.
- Squash : May look small, but these buggers are fast and vicious.
- Massive Pumpkin: He rules IntroLand, vomiting up baby pumpkins at will.
- Chef Liem : An evil chef, who throws pumpkin pies.
- GXR-0932b : A horrid mutant pumpkin. Kept in a containment tank.
- Yeti : Fuzzy creatures that live in the snow. Sympathetic to the
- pumpkins' cause.
- Centipumpkin : See it to believe it.
- Sea Serpent : Spits out semi-guided swarm bullets, and lives in the water.
- ???????????????: King of Pumpkinia. Too powerful for words.
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- THE CONTROLS
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- /\ Arrows to move!
- < >
- \/
- Enter, Space, or Ctrl to throw hammers, if you have them.
- ESC to quit (INSTANTLY!) to DOS
- F4 to toggle COOL Sound FX
- F5 to TURN THAT CRAP OFF! (music off)
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- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- |F10 IS THE DANG OPTIONS MENU!!!|
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- -don't forget that-
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- IF YOU HAVE A SOUND BLASTER:
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- Use the SETINTR program to set the interrupt to what your sound
- card uses (i.e., "SETINTR 7" for IRQ 7).
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- TROUBLESHOOTING
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- This game requires virtually nothing to be loaded. If you have a sound
- driver, like MVSOUND.SYS for the Pro Audio Spectrum, load that to get sound
- effects (CT-VOICE.DRV for the Sound Blaster is not necessary, as it is
- loaded automatically by the program). Now, since this is the case, please
- free up as much as you can to run it. I have 606k free on my system
- (SPISPOPD only uses base RAM), and it works fine. I'm sure it would be okay
- with quite a bit less too, but just to be safe, try booting with only smartdrv
- loaded if you're having problems. You'll want smartdrv going.
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- - IF YOU KEEP GETTING "VOC FILES MISSING" ERROR MESSAGE -
- and you know you have the voc file in question, this means there was not
- enough memory to load the sound.
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- - IF THE GAME CRASHES OR HANGS -
- Let me know. That's not supposed to happen.
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- SHAREWARE STUFF
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-
- This game is most definitely shareware. Support the concept, but mostly
- support me and give me money. I'm asking that if you like this game and
- play it for more than... oh... thirty-six seconds (although that may be
- a bit unrealistic) that you send me the paltry sum of five bucks. That's
- 5 American dollars (in check or money order form PLEASE!).
- Now I understand that NOBODY pays for shareware these days... Such is the
- declining state of affairs on our once proud planet. Do everything you can
- to prevent this horrid decline, mostly by sending me money. If you think it
- will help prevent the downward slide of ethics, send me an extra dollar or
- thirty. If you feel that you absolutely CANNOT spare the money, for instance
- you live in a cardboard box with a 286/12, then spare thirty cents to send
- me a cool looking postcard from your hometown, or from wherever you happen to
- be at the time. Make all checks out to Mike Hommel (NOT JAMÜL SOFTWARE!).
-
- Mike Hommel
- Sierra Madre 14H
- Cal Poly
- San Luis Obispo, CA 93410-2000
- USA (in case the Cal Poly didn't clear it up for you)
-
- However, if you DO pay the fee, you'll receive a special commemorative 1st
- edition SPISPOPD bag of Pumpkin Seeds! That's right! Individually hand-
- numbered! Be the first kid on your block to own your very own bag of pumpkin
- seeds with the SPISPOPD logo attractively emblazoned across the front, as
- well as the Jamül Software emblem. NOT AVAILABLE IN STORES!
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- THE CREDITS
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- Programmer Mike Hommel (mhommel)
- Sound Engineer Joe Reiter (jreiter)
- Level Design Derek Moore (damoore)
- Musician at Large Burnt Christian (bchristi)
- Associate Compiler Technician Cornell Nieh (cnieh)
- Chef Liem Le (llle)
- Hero Bouapha (ignore him)
- Transportation Engineer Greg "The" King (ghking)
- Graphics Management Mike Hommel (mhommel)
- Vocal Effects Kevin "Toasty" Fong (kfong)
- J.T. "Toaster" Gilkeson (jgilkeso)
- Burnt "Bleah" Christian (bchristi)
- Osvaldo "Hlyargh" Boggart (no-account punk)
- Cornell "Bingo" Nieh (cnieh)
- Mike "DumbAss" Hommel (mhommel)
- Derek "Door" Moore (damoore)
- 286 Playtesting Jeff "Jèfe" Cullins (jcullins)
- Mike Kong (mkong)
- 386 Playtesting J.T. Gilkeson (jgilkeso)
- 486 Playtesting Cornell Nieh (cnieh)
- Unique 486 Playtesting Joe "Mobeetie" Reiter (jreiter)
- EGA Nothing Whatsoever Mike"pleasepleaseplease"Kong (mkong)
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- - All Internet addresses are @oboe.calpoly.edu -
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- I bet you thought it would mention secret stuff down here, huh?
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- Well too bad! All I'm gonna say is RINLEY.
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