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Howdy!
CREEPS is copyright(c) 1989 by Bob Applegate. This program is
shareware, not public domain. You are free to post it on bulletin
boards, give copies to friends, etc, as long as both the
CREEPS.EXE and CREEPS.DOC files are distributed together. If you
like this game, please be kind and send the registration fee of
ten dollars ($10) to:
Bob Applegate
102 Peachfield Court
Marlton, NJ 08053
What do you get for your registration? The nice, cozy, warm-all-over
feeling of knowing that you've encouraged yet another shareware
author to continue developing inexpensive software. If you have
bug reports or suggestions, please send them also.
In case you're wondering, CREEPS was developed in C and assembly.
Yes, the source code is available for the right price, namely $100.
Unless you tell me otherwise, the source comes on a single HIGH
DENSITY (read: AT) format disk. I'll put it on regular PC floppies
if you ask. Buying the source gets you the most recently released
version, including some very generic CGA graphics drivers that
can be used for high-speed motion and collision detection.
I'm not a game expert, but these routines seem to be useful for
games other than CREEPS.
Now, on to the game!
CREEPS requires a PC compatible machine to run. I've done my
development on a 12MHz AT clone, but my nieces and nephews use
it on their XT machines with no problems. You must have CGA.
Yeah, I've got an EGA screen too, but CGA is widely supported,
so why not use it? Hey, I want every PC in the world to run my
program (and at least half their owners to register).
When the game is running, these are the magic keys:
Arrows Controls the desired direction of the player (you).
Space Shoots your gun.
s Toggles sound on and off.
p Pauses the game. Press p again to continue.
q Quit. Exits CREEPS entirely.
ESC Aborts the current game but stays in CREEPS.
You are the green triangle. The creeps are red triangles. There
are a lot of them, but they are pretty stupid. Shoot them with
your gun to kill them or just ram into them. Ramming them costs
you a life and some points, so don't do this very often.
Your score and level are displayed on the bottom left hand edge of
the screen. The right hand edge shows the number of lives left,
up to 5. If you have more than 5, the excess will not be shown.
You earn a free life every 2000 points.
You can shoot only a few bullets at a time, so don't go crazy with
them. Currently, there is no penalty for shooting a bullet.
After level 4, a blobix might appear. Nothing destroys a blobix.
Creeps bounce off them. They eat your bullets for lunch. They
destroy you if you hit them. At first, they wander around aimlessly.
After a while, they being to chase after you. They move REAL slow,
so this isn't a problem.
Go forth and kill creeps! I'd like to hear your comments, so feel
free to write.
Bob Applegate
11/25/89
Compuserve: 70406,567 (I'm not on CS much, so this is a last choice)
Usenet: bob@linc.cis.upenn.edu