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Space Blaster(C). Copyright John Wagner 1992. All rights reserved. JW Software Proudly Presents: SPACE BLASTER, By John Wagner 256 Color VGA Space Adventure Another fine game written with the FastGraph graphics library for programmers. Backrounds created with Fractint and DKB Trace, assembled with IMPROCES. All other graphics created exclusively with IMPROCES. For more information on the software used to create this game, see the end of this docement file. Shareware: Space Blaster is being distributed as shareware. Users are encouraged to evaluate the game and if you like the game, you should register a copy with the author. The specified evaluation period for Space Blaster is 14 days from when the package is recieved. After 14 days is up, please decide on whether you will use Space Blaster again or not. If not, just delete your copy of the program. If you would like to continue using the game, please register your copy. Why register?: Registered users will recieve a commercial version of the game that features over half a megabyte of new, full color backdrops that really add some spice to the game. The registered version loads a new backdrop after each level, 8 different backdrops in all. You will also recieve an evaluation copy of IMPROCES. These graphics are simply wonderful to look at, and even better to play Space Blaster over! Registered users also have the option of getting: GIF2BST.EXE. A utitlity to convert any 320x200 GIF file into a backdrop file that Space Blaster can use. Thats right, you can use ANY 320x200 GIF file as your backdrop! GIF2BST is a commercial product that is only available to registered users. The price for GIF2BST.EXE is $10(!) and it must be purchased at the time of registration. Registration for Space Blaster is only $15 (outside of North America, add $5). Funds must be drawn on a US bank. Specify disk format, 3.5 inch 1.44 meg or 5.25 inch 360K. Also specify whether you wish to purchase the GIF2BST.EXE utility program to convert any 320x200 GIF file to a backdrop that can be used by Space Blaster. The price for GIF2BST.EXE is only $10. GIF2BST.EXE must be purchased at the time of registration. Please mail all registrations to: John Wagner 6161 El Cajon Blvd., Suite B-246 San Diego, CA 92115 Master Card and VISA Accepted!: You can also register by telephone with a Master Card or VISA. Call (702)735-1980 (voice) and have your card ready. Registrations for IMPROCES are also accepted at this number. Call in orders are accepted Monday through Friday from 10 AM to 5 PM, PST. You may register with a credit card by telephone only, please use a check or money order only for mail in registrations. The number for credit card registrations is that of Ted Gruber Software and is for orders only, not product support for any JW Software programs. Unregistered Version Distribution Policy: You are encouraged to share the shareware version of this game with others. If you are a shareware vendor, I do not require a notification that you intend to distribute the software. I do INSIST however that any catalog or advertisment that Space Blaster is to be included in contain a statement that this software is shareware and what the shareware concept is (as I stated above is fine). NOT LOW COST SOFTWARE, but shareware that must be registered if it used past the specified evaluation period. All of the files included in this pack must be included when the program is distributed and NONE of the files (including this one) may be modified in any way. Fetures: Amazingly colorful 256 color screens, super smooth animation and exciting action, all coupled in a VGA/MOUSE controlled deep space adventure that you won't want to miss! THE GAME: The year is 1999, alien invaders have destroyed much of the earth. From your command bunker, you will guide a radio controlled space craft and do battle with the evil forces that want to destroy you and your kind. Your radio controlled space craft is equipped with a full blown high powered laser that can burn through almost anything. From your command center you control your ship and it's weapon tracking system. Your target tracker gives you up to the second coordinates and indicates when it has a "lock-on" an enemy target, you make the decision to fire. Your ship is powered by a remote energy source. Your laser uses power, your ships engines use power, any enemy bombs that get through will sap your power, if you get to near the planets surface you will lose power at an alarming rate. Don't run out of power, you will crash and die on the planets surface. Attempt at drawing screen: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ┌───┐ │ │ ┌─────────────┘ │<-Bomber │ │ ───┴─────────────────┘ │ │ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ <-Alien Landing Crafts │ │ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ ┌┐ │ │ ││<-Bomb │ │ ││ │ │ | └┘ │ │ ----|---- │ │ | <-Target designator (Move with mouse, fire with │ │ left mouse button) │ │ ┌───┐ │ │ ┌───────┘ └───────┐ <-Your ship │ │ ─┴───────────────────┴─ Move with arrow │ │ keys, or Right │ │ Mouse Button │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Alien landing crafts inch their way towards the planets surface, destroy them all and you will be rewarded with extra fuel. An unstopable alien bomber drops hydrogen bombs, if they reach the planet they will slowly eat up your precious energy supply - blast them out of the sky before they hit! You will be rewarded with extra fuel for each bomb you hit. After each round of enemy invaders is over, you will have a chance at the "Bonus Round". During the round, the alien bomber will drop a bevy of bombs on you, each one you shoot will increase your fuel stores. During the bonus round, your laser will not use up any of your precious fuel and you will float above the surface of the planet without using your thrusters. As you progress through the levels, the amount of bombs that the alien bomber drops on you will increase, until the bomber is saturation bombing you! Good luck! To start Space Blaster: 1. Make sure you are in the directory that Space Blaster is located. 2. Type BLASTER from the DOS command line and press enter. 3. Blast 'em up! REGULAR PLAY: How to fly your ship: Your radio controlled ship is controlled with the follow keys: Right Arrow or 'D' key = right thrust Left Arrow or 'A' key = left thrust Up Arrow or 'W' key = down thrust Down Arrow or 'X' key = up thrust Rignt Mouse Button = up thrust 'P' key = Pause There is really no reason to move left or right, but you can if you want to. The Right Mouse Button is the same as the down arrow key in that it fires your up-thrusters. You really don't have to use the keyboard at all. Make sure you keep your ship away from the surface of the planet, it will eat up fuel FAST! How to use your laser: Moving the mouse will move your target designator. The current position of the target designator is shown in the bottom right hand corner of your control panel. When the target designator is over a hitable enemy ship, a yellow '*' will light up on your control panel next to the current designator position, press the Left Mouse Button (LMB) to fire your laser. Each time you fire your laser, you will lose fuel. If the target designator is over a hitable enemy bomb, a yellow '!' will light up on your control panel next to the '*' hitable enemy ship designator. If a you are lucky enough to catch a bomb and a ship together and you get your designator over them in time and fire, you will get them both! Enemy ships: The enemy landing crafts move from left to right. When they get to the right edge, they move down one level. If they are on the bottom level and make it to the right edge, they land and you can no longer hit them. The enemy bomber moves from the right edge of the screen to the left edge. It drops its bombs in a random pattern, the higher the level, the more bombs. SCORING: Each enemy landing craft that you destroy will earn you 10 points, but it will cost you fuel to destroy them. If you destroy all of the enemy landing crafts (40 per level), you will be rewarded with 300 units of fuel after the bonus round. When you destroy an enemy bomb, you will be rewarded with more fuel, but you will not receive any points. If you let a enemy bomb hit the ground, it will cost you fuel, but it will not cost you any points. THE BONUS ROUND: After all of the enemy ships are gone, you will go to the bonus round. In the bonus round, your space craft will hover over the planets surface, without using any fuel. The enemy bomber will drop drop a full load of bombs and you should try to hit them all. Firing you laser in the bonus round will not cost you any fuel, but each bomb you hit will increase your fuel. TIPS: Don't stay on the bottom of the screen, doing so will eat your fuel like it's going out of style. Don't let the bombs hit the planet, they will eat up your fuel stores. If there are bombs falling and you only have a few enemy ships left to shoot, shoot the enemy ships first, the bombs will not hit and will still be falling when the bonus round starts up so you can shoot them to get extra fuel, without using your own fuel up (in the bonus round, the laser is a freebie). Use the Right Mouse Button to control your altitude, you really never have to touch the keyboard. Watch the '!' and '*' lights next to your target designator coordinates. When they are lit (yellow), the target designator is over a hitable target, fire and you will hit it! The '!' is for a bomb and the '*' is for a enemy landing craft. Tools used to create Space Blaster: IMPROCES: IMPROCES is a VGA/SVGA image processor for GIF, PCX, and True Color Targa files. IMPROCES can be called many things - a paint program, an image editor or an image enhancer. All of the tools associated with a standard paint program are included: Paintbrush, Rainbow, Dodging, Burning Paintbrush, Airbrush switch, Line, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon, Text. All shapes can be filled with any of eleven different fill patterns. Twelve Paintbrush styles. Five Fonts in five sizes. Eight line styles. Floodfill, gradient floodfill, circular gradient floodfill. Copying, Scaling and a FAT-BIT editor. Plasma fractal, terrain fractal, mirror, flip, spin, rotate, color cycling, palette editor, color reduction. IMPROCES includes several image processing tools: Area Histogram, Point Histogram, Contrast Stretching. Sharpening, Laplacian, Vertical, Horizontal, Vertical, Average, Median and Custom filtering for both color and greyscale images. IMPROCES includes a clipboard that allows you to cut and paste pieces of images. You can then copy the clipboard from image to image, using the remap palette feature of the clipboard and you can save the clipboard to disk for later use. IMROCES supports GIF/PCX and 24 bit TGA image file formats. You can average or overlay images and use virtual screens if you want to edit large (up 2048x2048x256) images and don't have an SVGA card. IMPROCES is a must have for any graphics enthusiast. For the latest version, call the Dust Devil BBS (702)796-7134 or register this program and the IMPROCES evaluation pack will be sent to you automatically. If you wish to purchase a registered copy of IMPROCES, mail $25 ($35 outside of North America) to the address above and specify disk format. Credit card orders for IMPROCES are also accepted, call (702)735-1980 (voice). GIF2BST.EXE: GIF2BST was used to convert the 320x200x256 GIF files to backdrops used with Space Blaster. It is available to registered users of Space Blaster for $10. To order GIF2BST, register Space Blaster and state that you would like the GIF2BST.EXE utility program. Be sure to include add an extra $10 for GIF2BST. FastGraph: From Ted Gruber software comes the FastGraph graphics library for programmers. Simply put, it is the best graphics library available today. You can write games and do animation that you never dreamed of using this library. The users guide is a wonderfully written guide to graphics programming. A must have. Fastgraph isn't limited for writing games, any application requiring robust graphics can make use of FastGraph. FastGraph supports C, Pascal, Fortran and Assembly language. This game wouldn't have happened without FastGraph or the support I've received from Ted Gruber Software. For a copy of the FastGraph evaluation kit, or to order FastGraph, call the Dust Devil BBS, (702)796-7134(data) or for more information on FastGraph you can call the number given above for credit card orders. Fractint: Fractint, fractal generator by the Stone Soup Group. Simply the best fractal generator available anywhere. Widely distrubuted on BBS systems. DKB Trace: The registered version of Space Blaster includes Ray Traced images made with DKB trace. The Targa image files produced by DKB trace were loaded into IMPROCES and then further processed for use with this game.