Here's Fly Swatter 2.0 (version 1 never left my hard disk). Fly Swatter is a fairly primitive game that I originally wrote a few years ago. A couple of friends thought it might be worth releasing. So what the heck, I cleaned it up somewhat, and here it is. It is freeware. So try it out, and if you like it, keep it! If not, well... Fly Swatter should run on most any Macintosh, running System 6.04 or higher. I think.
Playing Fly Swatter is pretty simple. Select New Game from the File menu, and a fly appears on your screen. Your job is to use the mouse cursor to swat it. Just move the cursor over the fly and press the mouse button to swat the fly, and a new fly will appear. If you don't swat the fly after one second has passed, the fly leaves and another one appears. Your score is displayed in the lower-left hand corner of the window. If you hit the fly, you score a point; if the fly moves on before you swat it, you lose a point. I said it was simple, right?
You can use the menus to set the number of flies per game, how long they stay before they move on, and the scoring method. Although it's such a simple game, it is kind of fun to see just how fast you can keep up with the flies. My high score for a 1/2 second fly time is 17 out of 20 flies. Beat that! :-)
There is an invisible grow-region that you can use to resize the fly window where you normally see the grow box, at the lower-right hand corner of the window. If you resize the window to its smallest size, you pretty much can't miss swatting the flies!
I'm aware that there are a few graphical anomalies. Especially noticable is when a new fly appears where a dead fly is, and then moves on. It erases a chunk out of the dead fly. To be honest, I was too lazy to fix this. Resizing the window is a quick way to get the window to redraw correctly.
If you do like Fly Swatter, it would be nice if you could write me a note and let me know. It might encourage me to make it better. As of February, 1996, you can reach me electronically at Victor_Franco@es.xerox.com or vfranco@cp10.es.xerox.com. All comments are welcome. Sorry that the artwork is so poor. I can program (kind of), but I sure can't draw! (Feel free to use ResEdit to spruce up the icons.)
Disclaimer: Fly Swatter does absolutely nothing harmful that I can think of, in any way that I can imagine. That said, I'm giving this to you AS-IS, with no warranties whatsoever. I am pretty responsive in the way of bug-fixes, though. I hope animal-rights activists are not offended. I hope fly swatter salespeople are not offended. I hope that anyone who appreciates a half-way decent game is not offended.
Have fun,
Victor Franco
PS: Check out my other freeware application, O'Clock 1.1.0, on info-mac and its mirror sites. Or, if you have $45,000 to spend, you can buy a Xerox 4700 II color laser printer. That's something I worked on in my real life.
