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- SkidPan by Seimitsu Software
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- NOTE: Unregistered version does not allow you to progress through levels
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- Installation
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- Just install as normal.
- This game tries to allocate itself a fair sized chunk of memory
- If you have problems running this game, try the following:
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- * De-frag your pilot
- * temporarily uninstall other apps
- * remove Hackmaster extensions
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- This game should work on all Pilots, PalmPilots, and Palm 3s
- Please report any bugs to the address at the end of this document
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- Title Screen
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- up select
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- ▌ () () /\ () () ▌
- ▌ \/ ▌
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- down
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- Control the cursor up / down and select the required option
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- Default Controls
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- left right accelerate pause
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- ▌ () () /\ () () ▌
- ▌ \/ ▌
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- Controls are remappable from the options screen
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- The Game
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- You must drive round the arena avoiding bombs.
- Rotate left and right, and accelerate. To brake, release the accelerate key.
- You will notice the car is quite skiddy to control.
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- To progress to the next arena, you must collect ten balls, and take them
- each in turn to the goal, marked G.
- Drive over a ball as it bounces around, and it will attach itself to the
- rear of your car. You cannot carry more than one ball at a time.
- Along the top of the screen is a timer bar, indicating how long you have
- to return the next ball to the goal. If you don't get it back in time,
- another bomb will appear, and you will have one more ball to collect.
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- Do not drive into a bomb! You will lose a life, and you only have three!
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- Also in the arena are oil slicks and sand pits.
- You will slow down when you drive through a sand pit.
- You will lose a little traction as you drive through an oil slick.
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- There is always a bonus pickup to collect in the arena.
- This appears randomly, and has four settings.
- T : This will reset the current ball timer
- B : This will introduce another bomb to the arena
- + : This increases the multiplier bonus
- - : This decreases the multiplier bonus
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- You will notice half of these are good for you, and the others are bad.
- If there is a bad pickup, don't despair. If you drive over the bouncing ball
- while you are already carrying a ball, the pickup will randomly change to
- another type.
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- Scoring:
- You get 100 points for picking up a ball,
- and you get 50 points times the bonus multiplier for returning it to the goal.
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- The multiplier starts at x1, and can go all the way up to x10 by collecting
- the correct pickups. This is the way to get a really big score.
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- There are 16 different level layouts, and the game gets progressively
- more difficult after these are cycled.
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- Releases
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- Please let me have any suggestions for improving this game.
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- v0.96 : 2-4-98 : added Palm 3x and 5 compatability
- : added more sound effects
- v0.95 : 31-12-98 : initial release
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- THE UNREGISTERED VERSION IS LIMITED TO ONE LEVEL
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- Comments to :
- skidpan@seimitsu.demon.co.uk
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- Please review this game at http://www.eurocool.com
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- Registration fee is 10 US dollars
- For this youget the ability to access all the levels
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- Register online at PilotGear HQ
- http://www.pilotgear.com
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- or from my web page
- http://www.seimitsu.demon.co.uk/pilotprogs.htm
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- (c) Julian Scott 1998
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