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- BEAST 1.2, by Chuck Shotton
-
- Beast 1.2 Instructions
- ======================
- (Use Monaco or Courier font to view)
-
- You find yourself trapped in a room filled with huge blocks which slide
- effortlessly, at the slightest touch. Suddenly, from out of nowhere pops
- a huge, hairy beast that looks like a refugee from some long-dead video
- game. You run for your life, scattering blocks before you. Walls shift
- and change, with the beasts dodging around them, hot on your trail. Welcome
- to Beast!
-
- Beast is a simple little game. The object is to push blocks around on the
- screen, trapping all the Beasties so they have no free space to move to.
- You drive your man (the little guy with the hat) by using the keyboard
- keys I,J,K, and L as shown below:
-
- UP
- "I"
- LEFT "J" + "L" RIGHT
- "K"
- DOWN
-
- SPACE BAR drops Glue
-
- The beasts have an advantage over you. They can move diagonally, so be
- sure that you close off diagonal paths too when building walls.
-
-
- Program Features
- ================
-
- Beast is Multifinder compatible and should run on ALL Macs. It requires
- less than 64k of memory to run. Be careful when playing under MultiFinder,
- since moving the program to the background allows the beasts to keep
- moving towards you! Use Pause to stop play temporarily.
-
- NEW FEATURES FOR VERSION 1.2:
- Version 1.2 of Beast adds "beast glue." Pressing the space bar will leave
- a puddle of glue behind when you move away. This glue will only stick to
- beasts and holds them for a few seconds (between 0 and 15). If you run
- through it, or push a block through it, it will disappear. You have a fixed
- amount of glue that you can drop, so don't get too dependent on it.
- Also, the beasts are a little smarter in 1.2, and change facial expressions
- when they are trapped.
-
- Help and other info is available on-line under the About Beast menu option.
-
- The number of beasts, their speed, and the density of blocks in the room
- can be adjusted from the Settings option under the File menu. The speed
- of the monsters is specified in 60th's of a second intervals. The bigger
- the number, the slower the beasts. If you want the beasts to move once every
- 2 seconds (REALLY Slow!!!) set the delay to 120 (2*60), for example. The
- new entry for Glue Stickiness uses the same time units as Beast Delay. If
- you want the glue to hold a beast for ten seconds, enter "600" (10*60).
-
- The block density describes how many random blocks will be generated in the
- room. The higher the number, the fewer blocks available for building walls.
- A density value of 5 means that there's a 1 in 5 chance that a block will
- populate a given space.
-
- Beast creates a small (1k) file in your system folder called
- "Beast Game Settings" that contains the last settings you supplied in
- the Settings dialog. This allows you to configure Beast for a level of
- play you are comfortable with.
-
- Note that changing some of the Settings while a game is in progress can
- have some interesting results!
-
- Virus Info
- ==========
- Beast is virus-free as distributed. There are no self-modifying features
- of the program file. The size of Beast 1.2, as distributed is 20,072 bytes.
- You can check this value from the Get Info function in the Finder. If this
- value changes, there is a good chance that something or someone has
- modified your version of Beast.
-
- ShareWare Stuff
- ===============
- Beast 1.2 is shareware and is copyrighted 1989 by Chuck Shotton and BIAP
- Systems. If you like Beast, please send me $2. If you're interested in
- how Beast works, Lightspeed Pascal source is available for $8.
-
- Other BIAP products:
- ====================
-
- Zippy, the Talking Pinhead
- --------------------------
- Zippy is a Talking Moose-like program for use under Multifinder. Zippy
- will speak phrases you supply at random intervals. Zippy is completely
- configurable, allowing you to change the picture used for his face, etc.
-
- MacPhone
- --------
- This is an AppleTalk telephone. It supports multiple zones and all Macs. It
- allows two users on Appletalk to carry on a conversation. Supports Multifinder
- and operates as a message service in the background.
-
- HyperComm
- ---------
- HyperComm is a collection of HyperCard XCMDs that allow HyperCard stacks to
- communicate over the Mac's serial ports. It supports baud rates from 300 to
- 19.2k, send, receive, and serial port configuration.
-
- PopUpMenus
- ----------
- A XFCN for HyperCard that provides PopUp menus for stacks. This is one of the
- few PopUp XCMDs that works with large screen Macs.
-
- Source code is available for all of these products.
- Contact BIAP for more info.
-
- Chuck Shotton
- BIAP Systems
- Box 580622
- Houston, TX 77258-0622
-
- BIAP BBS: (713) 480-7422
- (1200,8N1,24hrs)
- FidoNet node 1:106/260
-
- GEnie: C.SHOTTON12
- CI$: 72460,764
- AppleLink: D1683
-