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══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ C A T C H If You Can! (C) Copyright 1992 Colin Buckley All Rights Reserved Mailing Address: Catch, If You Can c/o Colin Buckley 151 Roxanne Cresent Scarborough, ON Canada M1V 4G7 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Introduction ════════════ Catch, If You Can! is a simple but, action packed and addictive game that everyone will enjoy! Your purpose is to catch baseballs hit by the batting coach. You start at Spring Training and can work your way up to the Major Leagues, although no one has ever made it that far! Catch is shareware, allowing you to try before you buy, with a very low registration price. Source code may be purchased as an option. Catch's only requirement is VGA. Catch supports the Sound Blaster through a Creative Lab driver. Setting Up Catch ════════════════ The first time you play Catch, it will display the Set Up screen. However, you may bring up the Set Up screen anytime by using "CATCH /S". If you have a Sound Blaster, alter your Sound Selection, and select the address and IRQ used by your Sound Blaster. Sound Blaster support is provided by an internal CT-VOICE.DRV, I have used the most recent version I could find. I myself own the original Sound Blaster. If your sound card claims compatibilty with a Sound Blaster, then I don't see why it shouldn't work. Sound Blaster mode requires more memory due to numerous samples. Now select your Input method. Even if you plan on using the default selection of Keyboard, select the keyboard option since you'll have to define your keys. NOTE: Please note some keys are used by the game, see "Playing Catch" later in the documentation for a list of these keys. You will not be able to use these keys as intended if you select them as input keys. Now select the difficultly level you wish to play Catch with: Easy requires you to catch 50% of all balls hit. Medium requires you to catch 70% of all balls hit. Hard requires you to catch 90% of all balls hit. God requires you to catch all balls hit. I suggest you select Easy for now, until you are familiar with the game and can control the catcher effectively. Now your ready to play the game. Your Set Up will be save automatically. Playing Catch ═════════════ Catch requires 265 000 bytes of memory for regular operation, and an additional 25 000 bytes for Sound. The game will display the title, credits, and high scores in a cycle. You may press ESC at any time during this cycle to exit back to the operating system. Press your Button A key to interrupt this cycle and play the game. You'll be presented with a display of the stadium's JumbleTron, with the Wave Title, the Wave Number, and a Get Ready prompt. After a few seconds, the stadium will appear. You control the catcher (#8) at the bottom of the screen. Your purpose is to catch the balls hit by the batting coach standing on home plate. During the wave, the following keys are in effect: (providing you did not select these if you're using Keyboard Input.) P - Pauses/UnPauses the Game S - Toggles Sound On/Off (Only during Game itself) ESC - Returns you to the Intro cycle. Double ESC - Exits to your operating system The catcher can perform the follow moves as selected by your input device: Up - Catcher stands with glove above head in catching position Left - Catcher runs left with glove at side in catching position Right - Catcher runs right with glove at side in catching position Up+Left - Catcher runs left with glove above head in catching position Up+Right - Catcher runs right with glove above head in catching position Down+Left - Catcher stands with glove at left side in catching position Down+Right - Catcher stands with glove at right side in catching position With Button A pressed once: Left - Catcher dives left with glove in front in catching position Right - Catcher dives right with glove in front in catching position With Button B pressed held: Catcher runs faster than the speed of sound, but even that isn't enough. The Wave is over after the batting coach has hit all the balls. The JumbleTron is shown again with your status for that Wave. If you have failed to catch the percentage required by the difficulty level you selected during Set Up, your Average will be shown in red and the game will be over. If you have made the high score list, you'll be asked to enter your name. Wave difficulty increases every 5 waves. The Wave Title with change every 10. There are 49 waves in total, no one has finished at any level except Easy, without cheating. The following is a list of how many balls are active and how many will be hit by the batter per wave: Wave Active Balls Number of Balls Hit 1..9 1 10 10..19 2 15 20..29 3 20 30..39 4 25 40..49 5 30 The excitement comes when past Wave 30, when the it's impossible in most cases to get perfect (or advance to the next wave!). You'll be diving every where, franticly trying to catch the balls and make it to the Show. If by luck you make it to the show, you'll start all over again at the next difficultly level. Scoring ═══════ Scoring is as follows: Standing Catch - 1 000 Points Running Catch - 2 500 Points Diving Catch - 25 000 Points Bonuses: Catch - 500 Points Make any catch and recieve 500 points. Example: Catch 5 balls any way and you'll receive 2 500 points added to your bonus score. Consecutive Catch - 5 000 Points Make consecutive catches of any type and recieve 5 000 points for each. Example: Catch 5 balls consecutively any way and you'll receive 25 000 points added to your bonus score. Perfect Wave - 100 000 Points Catch all Balls Hit during Wave and recieve 100 000 points added to your bonus score. Example: Catch all balls and the coach offers words of encouragement, oh, and a 100 000 bonus. Shareware ═════════ Catch is copyrighted software, however you are encouraged to copy and freely distribute the Shareware version as long as all files are included. Shareware allows you to "try it before you buy it". Why register? Registration will ensure future games will be released and with the same high quality. You are also supporting the entire Shareware concept, without which, many excellent programs would not be available. Registered copies come directly from me. I do not receive a penny when you receive a disk with Catch from a Shareware Library, or download it from a commercial information service, such as CompuServe, or from a BBS. In most cases, it cost us money to distribute it. Upon registering you will receive a registered copy and with your name proudly displayed, all Shareware notices removed, methods of cheating, and a "how this game was made" text file detailing every step and product used. You will also be notified when new products are available if you desire. If for some reason you don't want to register Catch, but still enjoyed playing it, then please upload it to a couple of boards in your area. Read "ORDER.DOC" for price and other registration information. Source Code (Game Programming) ══════════════════════════════ Alot of people are interested in writing games, but not much information is available on the subject. There are two conferences/newsgroups I follow on the subject. Game Design on RIME and Rec.Games.Programmer on Usenet. Rec.Games.Programmer is definately the place to be on the subject, and mainly PC domminated. I can be reached in both for whatever reason. This game was programmed in Turbo Pascal v6. C is not required to write a game, although "they" will tell you otherwise. I have decided to sell source code as a marketing angle at a reasonably cheap price. Unfortunately, some of the code has been purchased by me and can not be distributed. The code you will get will not compile into Catch. However, I will include other PD/Shareware code equivilent to what is missing. There is minimal comments throughout the source, however, Turbo Pascal is english oriented and VERY easy to understand. What you will get and may use, but not distribute, written by me: o The actual Catch Source code. o A Unit to play .VOCs over a Sound Blaster using embedded CT-VOICE.DRV. o A very fast VGA unit, written entirely in BASM (Built-In Assembler) What you will not get: o Text Display Unit (used to display Shareware Info and Set Up) o Resource File Unit (used to store/extract all files in one .RES) o Input Driver Unit (includes keyboard & joystick drivers) o Memory Unit PD/Shareware equivilent replacement code o Text Display Unit o Joystick Unit o Keyboard Unit What's still missing: o Memory Unit (Replace all memory calls with TP's equivilent) o Resource Unit (Read/write individual files) Source code costs $20, in addition to registering the game. Read "ORDER.DOC" for more details. Disclaimer ══════════ Catch is provided AS IS without any warranty what-so-ever. I have placed our best effort into testing Catch, however, I do NOT promise Catch to be bug free. I shall NOT be liable in any event for incidental or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, performance, or use of Catch. Use at YOUR own risk. Catch has been played extensively on the following machines... 286-12Mhz with VGA 386DX-40Mhz with VGA & Sound Blaster 486DX-33Mhz with VGA ...with no side-effects. Legalities ══════════ Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of Creative Labs, Inc. Turbo Pascal is a registered trademark of Borland International. Other brand and product names listed are trademarks or registered trademarks of their repsective holders. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════