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- DX-Ball 2, Copyright 1998-2000 by Longbow Digital Arts.
- By: Seumas McNally
-
- Longbow Digital Arts Web Site:
- http://www.LongbowDigitalArts.com/
-
- DX-Ball 2 Web Page:
- http://www.LongbowDigitalArts.com/dxball2.html
-
-
- Be sure to drop by the web site to find other goodies
- and how to get more board-packs!
-
- Game Play:
-
- Playing DX-Ball 2 is very simple. Just use the mouse to move your
- paddle back and forth along the bottom of the screen, bouncing the
- balls back up into the field of bricks to break them. Once they're
- all broken you'll proceed to the next level. Along the way you can
- pick up random Power-Ups, some of which are good, others are bad,
- and some may have good aspects and bad aspects.
-
- If you think the game is too hard, try Kid-Mode (press the F4 key on
- the Title Screen). Don't mind the name, it's fun for grown ups too!
-
- If on the other hand you find the game too easy, try going for a
- mega high score! You can get four times (4x) as many points while
- you're using a Tiny Paddle (get a shrink paddle or a super-shrink),
- a Tiny Ball, and a Fast Ball (grab the Fast Ball power up or just
- wait a while and avoid Slow Ball like the plague). You don't need
- all three at once either, one or two will still give you more points
- than normal.
-
-
- In Game Music:
-
- DX-Ball 2 now supports in-game music! Just hit F5 on the title
- screen or during the game (you can press it twice while playing to
- select a different music module). By default the only in-game
- music is the three title screen songs, but you can add more by
- going to our web site and downloading the DX-Ball 2 Music Pack
- with a bunch of free tunes by SideWinder, or by downloading your
- own favorite MOD, XM, or S3M format songs and placing them in
- the DXBall2\InGameMods directory. If you use songs with more
- than 8 voices, you'll have to increase the music voice count
- in the config.cfg file, and due to technical limitations, 32
- voice songs aren't supported.
-
-
- Troubleshooting:
-
- If you're having trouble running the game, first make sure your
- graphics card is capable of a 640x480x16-bit display by changing
- your Windows desktop resolution to at least 16-bit or High Color
- or 65536 color (please note, NOT "16 color"). Most other problems
- are related to old or buggy display drivers. Go to your video
- card manufacturer's web site and download and install the latest
- drivers for your graphics card, and then download and install the
- latest version of Microsoft's DirectX. One way to find it is to
- search for "DirectX" on www.download.com.
-
- If after installing the latest display drivers and the latest
- DirectX you are still encountering problems, please send us a bug
- report with as much detail on your system and the exact nature
- of the problem as possible, and we'll try to help!
-
- If you're an advanced user, be sure to check out the config.cfg
- file in the DXBall2 directory (open it in Notepad, it's just a
- text file). It includes a number of specific configuration
- options not accessible from inside the game itself.
-
- Also see http://www.LongbowDigitalArts.com/support.html for a FAQ
- and more technical support info.
-
-
- DX-Ball 2 Credits:
-
- Programming by Seumas McNally 1979-2000
- Seumas McNally died on March 21st, 2000
- after a 3 year battle with Hodgkin's disease.
- http://www.gamedev.net/community/memorial/seumas/
-
- Additional Graphics by Philippe McNally
- Email: saunter@longbowdigitalarts.com
-
- Lead Board Design by Wendy McNally
- Email: wendy@longbowdigitalarts.com
-
- Additional Sound and boards by Jim McNally
- Email: jim@longbowdigitalarts.com
-
- Music by SideWinder (Eric Gieseke)
- Email: sidewind@txdirect.net
-
-
- History:
-
- Version 1.0, December 1998:
- Initial release.
-
- Version 1.2, May 1999:
- - In game music.
- - Hot-seat Multi-Player support.
- - Improved fire effect.
- - White sparks from invisibles.
- - Better High Scores graphic.
- - Hotter looking Fire Ball.
- - Easier to miss Death Capsules.
- - Less time required to zap gold.
- - Board reached saved with High Score.
- - Major speed improvements.
- - Config file for advanced tweaks.
- - Half-Bright background mode.
- - Better documentation.
-
- Version 1.25, July 2000:
- - Sound fix for Windows 2000
- - Memorial to Seumas
-
-
- Additional:
-
- Synthetic Audio Library (SEAL) Copyright 1995, 1996 Carlos Hasan.
-
- Longbow(r) is a registered trademark of Longbow International
- Corp. in the U.S.A. Longbow International Corp. is not
- affiliated with Longbow Digital Arts.
-