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- ARGUS V1.2 -
by Craig Burlock
© Copyright 1995
Argus should work on all Amigas with at least 1Mb of Chip RAM. Argus runs
in both PAL and NTSC screens.
It has been tested and works on:
- A500 1 MB (Chip)
- A600 1 MB
- A600 1MB, 40 MB Hard Disk
- Standard A1200HD/40
- A1200, Blizzard '030 with Fast RAM
The Story:
Due to the surplus of B grade fighter pilots, you have been volunteered
to undertake a morale boosting mission which involves attacking the
invading alien's home world, causing as much damage as possible before
being shot down and killed.
If you survive attacking the invader's home world, than you are ordered
to assist in the defence of a strategic mining moon which the enemy is
using as a base.
If successful in attacking the alien's home world and reclaiming the
strategic point, then, due to the improbability of surviving both
missions, you are ordered to single handedly destroy the alien invasion
fleet as it moves towards Earth.
Register Now:
There is more than one good reason for registering your own copy of
Argus, that is giving an old computer a well earned rest. My A500 has
worked hard for a very long time, is now very, very tired and would
like nothing better than to retire for a well earned rest and be
replaced by an A1200. Not only would you be making my A500 very happy,
but your investment will be well used in purchasing Amiga hardware and
helping to ensure the financial wellbeing of Amiga technology for
yourself and your children.
To register, just send your full name and address and the equivalent of
10 Australian Dollars to the address below:
Craig Burlock
14 Stevens Avenue
Salisbury Heights
South Australia
Australia 5109
I can be contacted via email at pjmulhol@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au
before March 1996 or e3pjmulh@brunel.aelmg.adelaide.edu.au after then.
This shareware version can (and should:) be freely distributed provided
all files remain intact. Ofcourse the registered version may not be
distributed.
I give my permission for Argus to be used for magazine coverdisks
(providing I recieve a free copy :-))
See my other Aminet contributions:
"Kill the Little Dudes" - Action platform shoot-em-up.
game/jump/KTLD.lha
"Tetriz" - Polished Tetris clone.
game/think/Tetriz.lha
Controls:
Use the Joystick in port 1.
Hold Fire down to use the Red "L" Beam Weapon powerup.
Use the left mouse button to pause the game in play.
Use the Esc key to quit from the title screen.
Why Version 1.2:
Why version 1.2, you ask... Well, I recieved feedback about my original
upload, in which the following points were made...
- There just aint nothin' good on telly.
- My head hurts.
- My stomache hurts.
- Although easier than many fine, not to mention top selling, commercial
shoot-em-ups, Argus is just too hard.
- I wanted a white Christmas.
Seeing this error in my judgement when determining just how difficult a
shoot-em-up should be, I immediately neuted my original code so that
even the non-sentient members of our society can now complete the first
few stages with relative ease, and then dance around at thier enormous
personal achievement.
The origional registration system has not been changed, so that any
registration codes from the first version will still work in this one.
Seriously though, thanks for the feedback :-)
This game was written to the following Albums:
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Verses
Pearl Jam - Vitology
Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Single)
R.E.M - Automatic For The People
Live - Throwing Copper
Live - Mental Jewelry
Nirvana - Bleach
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Big Heavy Stuff - Covered in Bruises (EP)
Once more, thanks to Fil (Philip Mulholland) for his time, patients and
coffee.
Bugs :(
Argus should be run from the Workbench (If you want sprites :) not the
Startup-Sequence (This is due to a bug in the compiler).