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- ThinkAMania
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- © 1991-1995 Dirk Respondek und Thomas Schwöppe
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- Shareware - Full version 2.99
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- SHAREWAREFEE: 10 DM or 10$ (US)
- Please read section 2: Why Shareware!
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- Thomas Schwöppe Dirk Respondek
- Rolandsgärten 5 Liegnitzer Str.12
- 33102 Paderborn 33098 Paderborn
- Germany Germany
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- ths@uni-paderborn.de e93854@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de
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- 1.Disclaimer
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- This program and its accompanying files are NOT public domain. We release them
- under the concept of SHAREWARE. We'd like to encourage you to distribute the
- complete and unmodified package in any non-commercial way. The following
- limitations are to be considered: Any disk containing ThinkAMania V2.99 must be
- at least 90% full and mustn't cost more than 1.50 DM / 1 $ (US). Any CD
- containing ThinkAMania V2.99 must contain at least 500 MB of data and mustn't
- cost more than 20 DM / 13 $ (US).
-
-
- The following individuals, publishers and/or companies are hereby given the
- exclusive permission to distribute this ThinkAMania shareware full version
- V2.99 without any price limitation as long as we get a free sample of the
- distributed media:
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-
- Fred Fish - AmigaLibrary on CD
- Urban Dominik Müller - Aminet and Aminet CD
- The makers of Meeting Pearls CD
- Amiga Magazin - Public Domain Diskseries
- Amiga Plus - Cover-Disk and CD
- CD ³² - Gamer
- Amiga Games
-
-
- 2.Why SHAREWARE?
-
- This program is in no way crippled oder partially unfunctional. By sending the
- shareware fee of 10 DM or 10$ (US) you register yourself as an user of
- ThinkAMania V2.99. You'll get a reply postcard to acknowledge your
- contribution.
-
-
- Please send the SHAREWAREFEE to the following address:
-
- Dirk Respondek
- Liegnitzer Str. 12
- 33098 Paderborn
- Germany
-
- YOU ONLY GET A POSTCARD, NO DISK!
- YOU ONLY GET A POSTCARD, NO DISK!
- YOU ONLY GET A POSTCARD, NO DISK!
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- 3.So, what's this game about?
-
- Well, ever heard of >>concentration<< (aka >>Memory<< in Germany)? The aim of
- this game is to find all pairs of matching cards (or stones). A pair of
- matching cards is a pair of stones with identical images on them.
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- 4.Installation
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- To install, simply drag the program's icon into the desired destination drawer
- or you can copy the files 'ThinkAMania' and 'ThinkAMania.info' into that
- directory.
- If you run ThinkAMania, you will be asked if you'd like to accept the default
- (which is PAL/NTSC:Hires Interlace) or last saved screenmode. Click on "Use"
- to proceed with this mode, click on "Select new" to choose a new one or click
- on "Cancel" to abort the program. If you clicked on "Select new", you can
- choose a screenmode via an asl.library screenmode requester. After that you
- will be asked, whether you'd like to "Save" this screenmode for further use,
- "Use" it only in this game or "Cancel" the program. If you selected "Save",
- your choice will be stored as a tooltype entry in the accompanying icon.
- If you wish to bypass this selection to always use the default (PAL/NTSC:Hires
- Interlace), simply add a tooltype USEDEFAULT. This can be useful if you have a
- screenmode promoter enabled which does the trick for you.
-
- Note: Make sure the selected mode is able to display a region of 640x400 pixels
- or you will get an autoscrolling screen.
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-
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- 5.How to play with this program
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- You can turn a stone and thus make its image visible by clicking (left button
- :-)) on it. Only two stones can be examined at each draw. If both stones show
- the same image, the active player gets one point (score display). If the images
- differ, the draw counter is incremented and it's the other player's (if there
- is any other player) turn. The active player's score and draw display is
- display in red letters, the inactive's in gray. After finding all matching
- pairs the best players can enter their names in the highscore list. If no
- player qualifies for a highscore the program just proceeds to the main menu.
-
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- The menu offers you the following choices:
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- ONE PLAYER/TWO PLAYERS * Toggle one and two player mode.
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- SOUND ON/SOUND OFF * Toggle soundeffects on/off.
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- COLORS * Change background and stonecolors. We provided a few
- colormaps that we think reduce flickering without
- flickerfixers or AGA chipset.
-
- HIGHSCORES * Show highscores. To leave the highscore window just
- click into it. There are separate lists for one and
- two player modes. Only the list for the active mode
- is shown. You can reset highscores by simply
- deleting the file ThinkAMania.HIGH in the current and
- in the S: directory.
-
- DEFAULT * Every possible option is reset to its default setting.
-
- NEW * A new game is started. If you want to continue your
- current (not yet finished) game, press ESCAPE
- instead.
-
- QUIT * Leave program. The highscore list is saved to either
- the current or the S: directory (depends on where it
- was read from (default is S:)) under the name
- ThinkAMania.HIGH. You should enable write access if
- you like to have up to date highscores.
-
-
- Furthermore you can use one keyboard command:
-
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- ESCAPE * Toggle between menu and game mode without leaving the
- current game. If you only change uncritical options
- (colors, sound on/off), the current game can be
- continued by pressing ESCAPE again. But if you
- changed the number of players, it wouldn't make any
- sense to continue the current game (a single player
- always has to find all pairs, so only the draw count
- is considered for a highscore). In this case a new
- board has to be build.
-
-
- 6.Changes
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- Versions prior to 2.99: no recorded history
-
- Version 2.98: - added screenmode requester
- (see Installation)
-
- Version 2.99: - added possibility to discard/use/save selected screenmode
- (see Installation)
- - sound starts playing AFTER stone has turned now
-