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- ROBOT BATTLE INTRODUCTION
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- Thank you for playing robot battle!
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- COPYRIGHT (C) 1995 BRAD SCHICK ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- Installing Robot Battle
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- - Robot Battle should be placed in its own directory
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- - If you obtained Robot Battle in a compressed format (ie .zip)
- uncompress the game in its own directory
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- - Robot Battle requires no further installation
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- - Start Windows and run the game, its called "winrob.exe"
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- - Once the game starts, press the NEW button to load your robots
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- - After you select your robots, hit the START button and you are set
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- - Press the Help button or hit F1 at any time for instructions
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- - Have fun!
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- Version 1.2 Additions
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- Usability Enhancements
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- - Automatic reload button added to robot selection dialog
- - Debugger style inspector available from robot information dialog
- - Complete file dump utility available from robot information dialog
- - Kill robot button on information dialog
- - Match place displayed in information dialog
- - Added alt hotkeys to toolbar
- alt-n new match
- alt-s start match
- alt-p pause game
- alt-r resume game
- alt-e end options
- alt-x exit Robot Battle
- alt-t setup options
- alt-h help options
- - Added ctrl hotkeys for common tasks
- ctrl-g ends game
- ctrl-m ends match
- ctrl-r automatically reloads match
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- Language Enhancements
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- - Modulus operator (see math operators)
- - Abs command
- - Max command
- - Min command
- - Event on/off commands only rest their corresponding
- variables when the event state is changed
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- About The Game
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- Can you design a robot to best all challengers? To survive, your robot
- must have better tactics, intelligence, and adaptability than all others.
- Can you out think and out gun your opponents? This is the place to find out!
- Build a robot and match your wits against up to five other robots in head
- to head battles to the death. Watch your ANIMATED robots come to life with
- stunning sound effects in matches of 1 to 65,500 games.
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- Robot creation starts by dreaming. How can your robot stay alive in an
- open arena with five other deadly robots hunting it down? How can you
- find and destroy the enemy before they find you? Of course the only way
- to answer these questions is trial by fire. Build a few robots and watch
- them get crushed by the simple sample robots provided with this game.
- Eventually, you will be able to match wits with other skilled robot
- designers.
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- If you are up to the challenge, enter your robots in the CONTEST. Send in
- your robots to compete in a tournament against robots written by others
- from all over the world.
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- Robot Creation
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- Robots are created using a simple scripting language that is clearly
- described in on-line help. All you need is an ASCII text editor and an
- imagination. Although helpful, no previous programming knowledge is
- required. In fact, Robot Battle is a great way to start learning how to
- program. Most modern computer systems are based on event driven techniques
- very similar to those you will learn playing Robot Battle.
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- To learn more about designing your own robots, start the game and click
- the help button. When the help dialog opens chose the 'Help Creating Robots'
- option then press OK. This will start on-line help that explains how to
- design robots. The on-line help is fully cross-referenced very easy to
- use.
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- Most of the information provided in on-line help is also provided in a DOS
- text file called 'manual.txt'. This file is provided for printing. It
- contains information about designing robots, a commented sample robot,
- descriptions of all scripting language functions and variables, and tips
- and techniques.
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- Robot Battle File List
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- CLDCOOK.WAV -Sound effect
- CLDMINE.WAV -Sound effect
- CLDMSL.WAV -Sound effect
- CLDROBOT.WAV -Sound effect
- CONTEST.EXE -Prepares robots for entry in to the Contest
- CONTEST.TXT -Brief description of contest.exe
- CORNERS.PRG -Sample robot
- CREATE.HLP -Help file for designing and writing robots
- CTL3D.DLL -3D look-and-feel library
- DISTRIB.EXE -Scrambles robots for distribution to others
- DISTRIB.TXT -Brief description of distrib.exe
- EVENTS.PRG -Sample robot
- FILE_ID.DIZ -BBS online file description
- FIRE.PRG -Sample robot
- FIREMSL.WAV -Sound effect
- INTRO5.WAV -Sound effect
- MANUAL.TXT -Printable reference manual
- ORDER.FRM -Printable registration form
- RAMMER.PRG -Sample robot
- README.TXT -This file
- SHELL.PRG -Sample robot
- SIDE.PRG -Sample robot
- SPRITE.DLL -Animation library
- TARGET.PRG -Sample robot
- WINROB.EXE -The Robot Battle game
- WINROB.HLP -Help file for using the Robot Battle game
- WINROB.INI -Robot Battle initialization file
- WRIMGS.DLL -Robot Battle images library
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