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- SPIN.EXE
- Copyright 1995,1996 Ground Up Software
- SPIN is freeware!
- 01/06/96
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- What is SPIN?
-
- SPIN is a single player shoot-em-up game. Your mission is to protect
- the freighters from the pirates, to clear the freighter lanes of
- the pirates and to arrest as many pirates as possible.
-
- Freeware:
-
- SPIN is freeware!!! You may distribute it freely as long as all
- the original files are included. You may NOT distribute it if
- you make any changes to any of the files.
-
- You do not have permission to sell SPIN for profit. However, we
- do grant permission for SPIN to be bundled with Public Domain software
- collections.
-
- Running SPIN:
-
- CD to the directory with SPIN.EXE
- Type SPIN to start the game
-
- Playing SPIN:
-
- Upon starting SPIN, you will be presented with a series of
- title and information screens. Pressing the spacebar will take you
- past each one of the screens and into the game.
-
- Pay attention to the information screen that shows you each of the
- items you will encounter in the SPIN universe. You will see
- a picture of the item and a brief description of the item.
-
- Also pay attention to the Control screen. It will identify the
- keys used to play SPIN.
-
- [SPACE] Fire Weapon
- [ALT] Fire Weapon Backwards - Only on Advanced Weapons
- <-- and --> Spin Left or Right
- <W> Toggle WARP drive On or Off
- ^ and v Accelerate / Deaccelerate
-
- Other Keys
-
- [+][-] Set the music volume
- [F1] Change to the next song
- [F10] Clear stuck keys
- [ESC] Quit playing SPIN
-
- Items found in the SPIN universe can be collected by touching them
- with your ship.
-
- SCANNERS:
-
- Long Range Scanner:
-
- You are in the center (The purple crosshair). Objects appear
- as colored dots in the scanners. Pirates are RED and they blink!
- To fly towards an object point the nose of the ship in the
- general direction of the object from the crosshair. Use the
- <W>arp drive to quickly move towards the object.
-
- When a freighter is being attacked by a pirate you will see a
- little blue crosshair at the location of the freighter.
-
- Short Range Scanner:
-
- Again you are in the center. Watch for the object you are closing
- on to appear in the short range scanner. Once it does press <W>arp
- again to shut down the WARP drive. Steer the ship towards the item.
- Fly over the item to collect and/or activate it.
-
- BAR Indicators:
-
- Energy Indicator:
-
- Along the LEFT edge of the screen is the energy indicator.
- Your ship can initially store 2000 energy units, indicated
- by the WHITE bar. The colored bar on top of the WHITE bar
- indicates the energy remaining. When it turns ORANGE or RED
- your energy reserve is critical!!!
-
- By adding addition storage tanks you can increase you capacity
- to 6000 units. Look for objects in the SPIN universe that add
- storage capacity.
-
- There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your energy status.
-
- Speed Indicator:
-
- Next to the energy indicator is a speed indicator. It shows your
- speed from 0.0 to 9.90. It turns blue when you are in warp.
-
- There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your speed.
-
- Other Indicators:
-
- Weapon Indicator:
-
- You will see an alpha-numneric indicator of your current weapon
- type and the shots remaining on it.
-
- Shield Indicator:
-
- When you first start you have no shield, the indicator will
- show an OFF status. Collect shield objects to increase your
- shields effectiveness. Higher values are better here!
-
- Run-Time Options:
-
- SPIN will load up to 10 MOD music files for background music.
- These can be any MOD's you like. Copy your favorite MOD's to your
- SPIN directory. Remember that <F1> will change to the next song.
-
- STATIC: On some sound cards there is an annoying static with
- the music. Pressing <F4> should clear this static up!
-
- Several Options can be specified at run time.
-
- spin -s no sound at all
- spin -m no music but spill play sound effects
- spin -q for slow PC's, will make it run quicker.
- spin -? get quick help on these options
-
- Multiple options can be specified. IE: spin -m -q
-
- Now go at it!!! Type SPIN and enjoy our little demo!!!!
-
- -Neil
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- Why SPIN?
-
- SPIN was written to demonstrate the capabilities of VAT and GUG.
-
- The SPIN source code and graphics are available for $50.00 US.
-
- What is VAT?
-
- VAT is Varmint's Audio Tool's, a Sound Blaster library for playing
- music and sound effects in the background. VAT supports MOD, S3M,
- MID, and WAV files.
-
- Both 16-bit and 32-bit versions are available.
-
- For more info:
- smeagol@rt66.com
- http://www.rt66.com/smeagol/html/vat.html
- Registered version with source code: $50.00 US
-
- What is GUG?
-
- GUG is Ground Up Graphics. A library for mode 13x (320x200x256)
- graphics. It is designed for Watcom 10.x 32-bit. It supports
- compiled sprites, keyboard handling, joysticks and fixed point
- math.
-
- GUG has been tested against the CauseWay and DOS4GW extenders.
-
- For more info:
- nbreeden@groundup.com
- ftp.groundup.com /pub/groundup/
- http://www.groundup.com/~nbreeden
- Registered Version with Source code: $50.00 US
-
- CauseWay DOS Extender
-
- SPIN uses the CauseWay DOS Extender from Devore Software & Consulting.
-
- Why CauseWay?
-
- CauseWay offers several advantages over the extender that ships
- with Watcom c++, a few advantages are:
-
- Robust Error Handling
- All hardware Int's supported
- Binds directly to your application - No extra files to ship
- EXE file compression
-
- For more information contact:
-
- Devore Software & Consulting
- PO Box 4283
- Naperville, IL 60567-4283
-
- 1-708-717-6369 (Voice)
- 1-708-717-9679 (BBS)
-
- 71540.62@compuserve.com (EMail)
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