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- ~05Gun Boat Duck Hunt~07
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- v1.2
- ~07
- ~01 By Michael VanFleet
- ~07
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- ~85 Brought to you by Loco Ware
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- ~07
- ~02 To see
- ~81 ------> ~02how to get a copy of the full Duckhunt source code ~81<------
- ~02in Turbo C++ check the end of this file!
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- ~07 Game: Graphical game of the mindless slaughter of ducks by
- a battle ship.
- ~07
- ~02 Controls:
- ~07 Aiming:
- Crosshairs up & down .......... Move mouse up & down
- Crosshairs left & right........ Move mouse left & right
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- The movement of the mouse is 'speed sensitive' that is there
- are three speeds that the turret will rotate according to how
- fast the mouse is moved. This allows for tracking of the slower
- moving ducks.
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- Fire cannon.................... Hold left mouse button down
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- The mouse routines that were used in making duck hunt (Mouse++)
- don't handle the pressing of the buttons while the mouse is
- moving very well. So when moving the turret there is sometimes
- a slight delay between pressing the mouse button and the firing
- of the cannon. To some this is a big deal but I think it adds
- to the difficulty of a very easy game. I do, however, recomend
- holding down the mouse button the entire time while playing.
- There is no limit on ammo.
- ~07
- ~02 Menus:
- ~07 Bring up 'Keys' menu & return.. F1
- Bring up Background selection.. F2
- Bring up Duck selection ....... F3
- Pause game .................... P
- Turn off mask ................. M
- Turn off duck radar ........... R
- Different sight choices ....... S
- Slow-mo death toggle .......... D
- Stop sound .................... X
- Frame rate adjust ............. +/-
- Quit game ..................... Esc, Y
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- ~07
- ~02 Selecting a new background:
- ~07 By pressing F2 you will be taken to a menu in which you may
- select a new background in which to play duckhunt. There are
- three different default choices plus there is the option of
- putting your own personal background in. Here's how:
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- *since I put duckhunt into a batch file to do the following
- you must go into the batch file and type the pcx file name
- after 'duck.exe'
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- At the command line c:\whatever\> type
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- ~07~04 duckhunt [filename in pcx] ~04~07
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- -for example, if you have duckhunt in the c:\duckhunt directory
- and you what to play with a background fick.pcx which is
- in the c:\love directory type
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- ~07~04 duckhunt c:\love\fick.pcx ~04~07
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- or
- -you may put the desired background into the same directory
- as duckhunt and leave out the path name like
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- ~07~04 duckhunt fick.pcx ~04~07
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- Now, when you go into the background selecting menu ( 'F2' )
- there with be a choice there called 'personal' . Select this
- and sha-bam! you got your own graphic as a duckhunt background.
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- -Note: There are no splashes associated with the personal
- background selection, nor are there splash sounds.
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- ~07
- ~02 Selecting new ducks:
- ~07 Similar to the background select, but you may not input your
- own personal ducks.
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- ~07
- ~02 Speed Requirements:
- ~07
- This game was writen on a 486Dx2 66Mhz Machine and will run
- optimally on a machine of similar speed. The game has been tested
- on a P5-90Mhz machine it and runs a little quick, but is still
- playable. For those of you unfortunate people with machines
- slower than a 486Dx 33Mhz. duck hunt could run a little slow. If
- the game runs too slow for you I recommend turning of the 'mask'
- option. Although, it takes away from the coolness of the game,
- the ducks will move considerably faster.
- ~07
- ~02 Memory Requirements:
- ~07
- Duck hunt does not require any type of EMS or XMS since it
- only runs in the 640K of conventional memory. I've estimated
- that it takes at like 490K +/- 25 to run duck hunt which is not
- too bad. A bootdisk may be required as a last resort. If you
- don't have enough room on your hard drive for this game then
- you've got serious problems.
- ~07
- ~02 Sound Support:
- ~07
- By typing setup in the duckhunt directory you can turn on the
- sounds and music in duckhunt. I don't think that the io address,
- or dma channels selection will work. Although it has only been
- tested with 220 and 1. Irq selection is the most important thing.
- Your settings are saved in the duckhunt.cfg file.
- ~07
- ~02 Programming:
- ~07
- This program was writen using Turbo C++ for DOS. It runs in
- mode 13h ( 320x200 256 colors) which is supported by all the
- graphics cards that I know of. The book Flights of Fantasy by the
- Waite Group Press was used for reference on graphics. It is a
- very good book that I recomend to anyone interested in the art
- of game programming. The graphics were drawn with Deluxe Paint
- II Enhanced. The sound blaster support for Duck hunt was part of
- the Wordup graphics toolkit, unregistered version.
- ~07
- ~02 Things not included in this version, but will be in the next version:
- ~07
- - More tyes of 'ducks'
- - Ability to put your own ducks in
- - Better and more sounds
- - Rocket launcher
- - More death types
- - Better mouse support
- ~07
- ~02 Problems:
- ~07
- My mouse doesn't work, what do I do?
- -either your mouse driver isn't loaded or its not
- compatible with duck hunt. My mouse driver is a
- Logitech and Nate's is a Microsoft so I know it
- works for those two.
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- Some of the graphical images look like square masses of random
- pixel colors, whats the matter?
- -You do not have enough free memory to hold all of
- duck hunt's images. The first thing to be effeceted
- is the closing screen with Nate's and my name on it.
- Free up more memory like you would with any other
- game.
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- The game doesn't start up or locks up the computer.
- -The same problem as above.
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- Duck hunt locks up with the message 'stack over flow'.
- -I'm not sure what causes this error. I have found
- that it occurs most often after I have been going in
- and out of Turbo C and Deluxe Paint alot. This will
- happen every once and awhile. Sometimes you can
- recover from it by typing 'mode 80' and then return.
- Otherwise you must reset your computer.
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- ~07
- ~02 How to get duckhunt source code:
- ~07
- Send me $10 at the adress below in an envlope with your
- adress, and I will send you a copy of all my source code and
- documentation on how I made duckhunt. If you have any questions
- at all please contact me.
- ~07
- ~02 Me Begging for money and/or a job:
- ~07
- Below is my address and e-mail address, etc... I am going
- be indept about 50 grand or more after I get out of college.
- I spent a ton of time and late nights working on duckhunt
- just to bring a smile to your face. If you like duckhunt please
- be kind and send me a small contribution, thanks. If you
- work for or own a company that makes computer games and are
- looking for summer work or work anytime, Nate and I would
- kiss you feet to be able to work for you/with you. We live
- in a north western suburb of Philadelphia and are about 25
- minutes southeast of Reading, Pa. We are both computer
- engineering students at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa
- who love to program. We are forced to take Fortran programming
- classes which is personally enough to make my heart stop
- beating from boredom. So Please have pity on us and send us
- money, or atleast e-mail me.
- Thank You.
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- ~07
- ~02 About Me:
- ~07
- ~01 Michael R. Van Fleet
- ~07
- College: Jan 95 - May 1 95
- ~07 ---------------------------
- ~05 Lehigh University Box H187
- 39 University Drive
- Bethlehem, PA
- ~05 18015
- ~07
- phone: 1-610-758-0201
- ~07
- ~05 email: mrv2@lehigh.edu
- ~07
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- Home: May 2 95 - Aug 20 95
- ~07 --------------------------
- ~05 292 Levengood Rd.
- Douglassville, PA
- ~05 19518
- ~07
- phone: 1-610-689-5867
- ~07
- ~02 Special thanks:
- ~07
- -Mr. Simmons and Daniel Boone High School
- -Authors of 'Flights of Fantasy' and Waite group press
- -Creators of the wordup graphics toolkit.
- -Chris S. Price & Ross J. Michaels for concept ideas
- -Kieth P. Graham
- -Mouse++ and its creators
- -My parents
- -And of course, my inspiration and reason for living,
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- ~07~04 Katie Fick ~04~07
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- P.S. If you are an animal rights activist or just some rich person
- who has nothing better to do than protest and complain about
- hunters and/or voilent vidoe games, and you do not like Duck hunt
- or my sence of humor then you can call the Loco Ware complaint
- Hot-line at:
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- 1-800-2-BAD-4-U
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- -Thanks for your time!
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- ~07 --->~85 THE END~07 <---~07
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