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C Y B E R W A R S Version 1.1 Written by John Gibbs Produced by Emerging Ventures and Arts Copyright 1992 John Gibbs Written with Fastgraph by Ted Gruber Software An excellent graphics library --- LICENSE AGREEMENT --------------------------------------------- Cyberwars is NOT Public Domain, but Shareware. You now have the NON-REGISTERED version of Cyberwars, which means you are free to evaluate the game for 15 days, and see if it's something you might like to keep. After 15 days, you are required to either delete the program and all files, or register the program. Please feel free to distribute this non-registered version so others will be able to use it also. It must be distributed in its complete, unaltered form (i.e., all manuals, files, etc.). Commercial distributors of Shareware must obtain written permission from the author before making this product available. You may charge no more than $5 to cover the cost of disk fees, etc. Do not de-compile or disassemble this program. Doing so, or violating any other part of this license agreement, is a breech of the copyright notice. --- ORDERING INFORMATION ------------------------------------------ To register Cyberwars, print out the form ORDER.FRM and send it complete with U.S. funds. For more information about ordering, see REGISTER.DOC. --- WARRANTY ------------------------------------------------------ Cyberwars is provided AS IS without any kind of warranty. Neither EVA nor the author can be held liable for any damage of computer systems or data by the use of this program. In no event will EVA or the author be held responsible for damages, lost profits, or incidental or consequential damages by this program's use. If you find any bugs in Cyberwars, please write to: Cyberwars Support 1119 Azul Way Boulder City, NV 89005 Also include the following information: Computer type (XT, 286, 386, etc.) DOS version VGA card type Your phone number Afterwards, you will be contacted as soon as possible. --- INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------------- Your people are at war with a common enemy in order to maintain control of your home planet. You have been assigned a cyberwarrior-- a newly designed walking machine of destruction--in order to better annihilate your foes. Cyberwars requires the following hardware: IBM compatible PC VGA card with 256K video memory (most cards have at least that much) To setup the game, create a subdirectory on any drive (i.e., C:\CW). Then just place all files contained in the Cyberwars archive into this directory. You may play off of a floppy disk. To begin the game, type CYBER. These are the files which should have been in your Cyberwars archive: CYBER.EXE CYBER.DOC REGISTER.DOC ORDER.FRM 6X82.FNT GRAFX.VGA DESERT.VGA FACTORY.VGA ICE.VGA RUINS.VGA LAYOUT.VGA TITLE.VGA DESERT.DAT FACTORY.DAT ICE.DAT RUINS.DAT READ.ME Once the title screen appears, you will see a description of your next mission, including the location, the enemy strength, and the specifications of your cyberwarrior. Just press a key when you are done reading these screens to start playing. A screen like this will appear before each mission. --- STARTING THE GAME --------------------------------------------- As soon as the screen appears, the enemies start approaching you so be prepared. The playing screen is divided up as follows: In the center is the playing area, where you should see your own player (the blue robot) and your enemies (the red). In the lower right-hand corner are two indicators. When you've pressed SPACE or ENTER to fire a weapon, one of these lights up to prompt you to enter a direction in which to fire. At the lower left corner are red-yellow-green bars representing your armor. Once you take a hit, a certain number of these disappear. The numbers of missiles and mines you have are also displayed at the bottom. --- CONTROLLING YOUR PLAYER -------------------------------------- Your player is free to move anywhere in the 10x20 playing area (feel free to wade through the water). In some places, walls or other obstacles block your path. These, however, can be obliterated with one missile (except for a few obstacles, such as the light blue wall in the FACTORY terrain--nothing will destroy that wall). An unlimited amount of laserfire and a limited supply of missiles are the weapons at your disposal. To fire a laser, press the SPACE bar followed by a direction key representing the direction in which to fire (with a numeric keypad, you can fire in any of the eight directions surrounding the 5). To fire a missile, press ENTER followed by a direction key. Notice that lasers won't destroy obstacles, nor will they damage your opponent as effectively as missiles. Missiles, however, CAN be used to destroy obstacles (rocks, walls, trees, etc.). Each player is supplied with one mine at the game's start. To lay a mine, stand in the square you want the mine in, press M, and move off. Note that you can be damaged by your own mine if you move back onto the square. Mines inflict the most damage of all three weapons. To move your player, use the cursor keys or the numeric keypad with NUMLOCK off (Cyberwars turns off NUMLOCK at the start of the game). At any moment in the game, press F1 for a display of all the commands. Press P to pause the game. ALT+X exits the game. For a help screen, press F1. Here is a list of commands: F1 - Help SPACE followed by DIRECTION - Fire laser ENTER followed by DIRECTION - Fire missile M - Lay mine ALT+X - Exit P - Pause --- CHANGES SINCE VERSION 1.0 ------------------------------------- Only minor changes have been made since version 1.0: A text introduction storyline to set the setting for Cyberwars. After each frame the keyboard buffer empties itself, so it won't fill up so quickly, avoiding that annoying beeping sound. A few documentation fixes here and there. --- OTHER NOTES --------------------------------------------------- Your player begins with 48 * your armor class armor units. Moving onto a land mine deducts 24 points from your armor. Laser and missile hits deduct 8 and 14 points respectively. (However, throughout the game your cyberwarrior will have a chance to use more powerful missiles.) Your enemies always share one land mine amongst themselves. Therefore, once one of your enemies has a chance to lay a mine, he does so, and the enemies' mine supply is exhausted. --- TECHNICAL INFORMATION ----------------------------------------- If you have any technical questions with Cyberwars, write to: Cyberwars Support 1119 Azul Way Boulder City, NV 89005 Include a description of any problems you have with Cyberwars or questions. You may also contact myself by calling Dust Devil BBS and writing E-mail to John Gibbs. The phone number is: Dust Devil BBS Las Vegas, Nevada --- SPECIAL THANKS TO... ------------------------------------------ Diana Gruber of Ted Gruber Software. Thanks for all the extra help! Mitch Harhay, my partner. Thanks a lot for getting me started again and for all the help here and there! The Lord God Almighty for being there all the time when I needed Him. --- JUST ONE LAST THING ------------------------------------------- Be sure to look at the Las Vegas Bingo Club by Emerging Ventures and Arts, an excellent VGA bingo game (highly recommended by myself), as well as future EVA products! Fastgraph is a registered trademark of Ted Gruber Software.