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- ** HELLZONE © IS SHAREWARE AND WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE **
- ** TO CONTINUE TO CREATE QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE FOR THE AMIGA. **
- ** AS A SHAREWARE PRODUCT YOU ARE OBLIGED TO PAY THE FEE IF YOU USE **
- ** THE SOFTWARE. **
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- BRIEF HELLZONE DOCS
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- Use your joystick & fire button to destroy the ravaging hordes of alien
- scum.
-
- P - Pauses (fire button restarts)
- Esc - Exits/Restarts
-
- When some aliens explode collect the tokens:
-
- P - extra plasma shot
- M - missile or extra missle (sought of)
- B - smart bomb
- Split - splits weaponry
- (and many undocumented power-ups)
-
-
- HELLZONE TRIVIA
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-
- HELLZONE © is ultimately copyrighted by INTERSCAN but has been released
- shareware and may be freely distributed as long as all the files on this
- disk including this readme file are distributed as a whole intact and not
- altered.
-
- The 4 main distribution files:-
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- Name Size(bytes) Size(Imploder V4 Compacted:range 8)
- ---- ---- ----
- Intro 164208 125720
- Level1 332964 150088
- Level2 362224 178716
- ReadMe 6221 N/A
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-
- HELLZONE © is a demontration game that has been developed by four poor
- Australian university students in between their extremely boring studies
- (Computer Science is not what what it used to be - there are more babes in
- Humanties or Arts degrees). Anyway, this collective group of dudes decided
- to call themselves INTERSCAN. We would would very much like to continue
- our foray into the world of Amiga game programming with the development of
- future exciting titles. However there are obstacles that will hinder us
- from further development efforts, e.g. Pepsi (TM) & Coke (TM) costs, movie
- rental costs to supplement creativity and late night programming efforts,
- CD's for aural stimulation, equipment maintenance, software costs (e.g.
- Dpaint, Devpac upgrades), food (KFC) costs and other miscellaneous expenses
- all pertinent to Australian Game development. To make this possible, if
- you have enjoyed playing HELLZONE © PLEASE send a donation of say AU$12 or
- more :-) made payable to:
-
- Cullhane Gibbs,
- 1 Coronado Street,
- Browns Plains,
- Brisbane, QLD, 4118,
- Australia
-
- (Preferably as an International Money order or
- bank cheque payable to the above dude.)
-
- Letters discussing comments/anything (except bugs) are also welcome
- and appreciated.
-
- Since we are aspiring to develop commercial quality software we would
- like to hear from interested publishers and distributors.
-
- If you like a copy of the source code for HELLZONE in its current form
- (i.e. rough & easy), we WOULD be tempted by AUS$50 sent to the above
- address.
-
- *** NOTE TO ANY PD OR SHAREWARE DISK VENDORS THAT WISH TO INCLUDE THIS
- *** ON THEIR LIBRARY LIST, THIS IS POSSIBLE IF YOU EXPLICITLY EXPRESS
- *** TO US THAT IS YOUR WISH AND PAY THE DONATION FEE.
-
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- HELLZONE TECHNICAL TRIVIA
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-
- (1) HELLZONE may crash on exiting -
- Originally designed to run in a non-DOS system.
- It needs alot of chip memory!
- Because each level has been transfered into a single DOS
- file to run from CLI, the game will only load on 1 meg
- systems (unless you can release the system beforehand).
- (Try disconnecting your external drives!!!!!)
-
- (2) Written In: 100% 68000 assembler
-
- (3) Hints to budding games programmers:
-
- * Stick to assembler, but plan everything thoroughly !!!!!
- ( We wish we did! :-( )
-
- (4) Definitely works with KickStart 2.04.
-
- (5) Files compacted with Imploder v4 (by Peter Struijk & Albert J.
- Brouwer) with range 8 to fit onto one disk.
-
-
- QUESTIONS YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED THE ANSWERS TO
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-
- 1. Who are the members of INTERSCAN?
-
- Ans:
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- NAME EDUCATION STATUS JOB
- ---- --------- ------ ---
- Cully (BInf) Single coder
- Alex (BInf) Single coder
- Brad (BInf) Hmmmmm gfx
- 'MegaDrive' Thomas. (BSc) Single gfx
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- 2. What inspires these men?
-
- Ans:
- Cindy Crawford
- Elle MacPherson
- ... and all other beautiful women
- Queen (R.I.P. The legendary musical legend that is Freddie Mercury)
- Pink Floyd
- Grateful Dead
- AC/DC
- Kiss
- Dave Sim
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Timothy Leary
- Ridley Scott
- Sam Raimi
- George Romero
- Dario Argento
- David Lynch
- George Lucas
- Ken Russell
- James Cameron
- Robocop / Judge Dredd / Sláine
- William Gibson
- Clive Barker
- Raymond E. Feist
- .
- .
- .
-
- 3. Is anyone still reading this doc file?
-
- Ans: ??
-
-
- 4. Why isn't HELLZONE completed?
-
- Ans:
- As it was such a large undertaking to have commenced during
- University Study it's conception was fraught with poor design.
- The end result became slightly unwieldy & therefore released
- as was (kludged & not as great as it could have been).
- Not deterred though, we wish to continue building upon
- past experience with new, exciting game releases
- (Hopefully commercially, as none of us can stand the shear
- boredom and stifled creativity of business software).
-
-
- 5. Do INTERSCAN members like the new Pepsi logo?
-
- Ans:
- Cully: Very geometric, but yes.
- Brad: More Bladerunner-esque than the logo of old.
- Alex: Yeah, it's cool.
- Thomas: Hmmmmmmmmmm (does he really care?).
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-
- 6. What are INTERSCAN's favourite movies?
-
- Ans:
- Evil Dead Trilogy,
- Star Wars Trilogy,
- HellRaiser Trilogy,
- Dead Trilogy,
- Highlander 1 (only),
- Akira
-
- Plus many more Sci-fi/Horror/Animation genre items.
-
-
- 7. What or Who do INTERSCAN despise?
-
- Ans:
- IBM owners,
- 80x86 assembly,
- Overpriced hardware,
- Micheal Bolton,
- Highlander 2,
- Uni in general (glad that's over!),
- Late video rental fees,
- Stephen King,
- Soaps and associated musical (?????) stars.
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-
- 8. What are INTERSCAN's favourite Tourist Destinations?
-
- Ans:
- Downtown Baghdad during Gulf War,
- South-East L.A. during riots,
- London Underground during IRA bombings,
- East Timor during recent protests
-
- 9. Is this the last question?
-
- Ans:
- YES!
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- INTERSCAN thank friends & family (too numerous to mention & therefore type).
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