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     v1.5   Made by Edgar M. Vigdal




        WHAT IS SHAREWARE ?
        -------------------
        Shareware is a way of getting good software in a cheap way.
        You get hold of the software for almost nothing, and can test it
        for a while before deciding if you want to pay the programmer
        for his/her hard work. And remember that if you don't pay and
        nobody else do pay than it's pretty sure that the programmer
        will NOT make any more shareware software. And that will in the
        end lead to no public-domain software for your machine.
        So, please pay the author of the software.

        NOTE!   This program is in fact shareware!





        IF YOU LIKE THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE !
        ------------------------------------
        If you use this software and you like it, than I (Edgar M. Vigdal)
        would be eternal grateful to you,  if you send me 10 US Dollar,
        £5, 50 NOK or any amount you like, as payment for the game.
        If you would like 1 year of free update (at least 2 update (If I
        get any bug rapport, or suggestions for improvement)), than send
        me $20, £15 or 150 NOK.

        If you become a registered user and send me a disk, I will send
        you a super version with more levels, more sound effects, speech
        and other improvements. (maybe an AGA version?!)

        PLEASE Send me a disk for the replay, as I can not afford the disks! 

        If you also want the latest version of Deluxe PacMan, than
        add $5, £5 or 50 NOK.


        This is my address...

                Edgar M. Vigdal

                583O LUSTER

                NORWAY                  (I do not like whale hunting!)
                                        (But than again, I don't like
                                         bull fights either!)

        Or you may use my bank account....

                3785.10.05774            Luster SpareBank
                                         5830 Luster
                                         NORWAY



        To those that support my hard work, I send my warmest regards to!!

        NOTE!   Please check that the address listed above is the same
                as the one in the game !

        NOTE!   If you send a disk you may put some stuff on it.
                Demos, games, utilities or music modules.

        NOTE!   To all of those that send my the fee for Deluxe
                PacMan, I _WILL_ send you the update!!!

        NOTE!   If you have bought this game from any public-domain firms
                you have NOT payed me anything, you have only supported
                some 'thieves' who are earning lots of money on other
                peoples hard work!! If you want to support the 
                programmers, then subscribe for the Fred Fish disks and
                send the shareware fee to the peoples that should have
                had it in the first place.
                

        TO MAGAZINES!
        -------------
        If you want to use this game on your coverdisk or you are
        reviewing the game, then please send me a copy of the magazine.





        DELUXE GALAGA
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        Deluxe Galaga is based on the game StarBattle on the old VIC20.
        That was one excellent game, that I had a lot of fun with.
        It's also some features from the games Galaga and Galaxions.
        I played Galaga on an arcade machine, but it was so long ago that
        I have forgotten how it looked like.
          My version of Galaga (or StarBattle) is a simple (?) shoot'em up
        game with good game play, but not so much fancy graphics. Many of
        todays game have lots and lots of graphics, but when it comes to
        game play they really sucks. They have manuals covering hundreds
        of pages, and you need hours and days to get into the game. What
        I want from a game is some relaxation for a couple of minutes, and
        then be able to quit the game and do some more work. And not to
        mark the calender for when I want to play the 30MB hi-tech game!


        YOUR MISSION...

        You are in control of a small starfighter, and your mission is
        to protect the earth from alien attackers. When you start, your
        ship have limited supply of bullets and are moving a bit to slow,
        but by shooting the aliens you can collect the falling bonuses and
        get all sorts of weapons, extra speed and a lot of other goodies!

        There are double shoot, triple shoot, super weapon, extra life,
        smart bombs, money, warps, secret bonus level and much more.

        Look out for mother ships, rockets, warp malfunctions and
        super guardians!

        There is also a lot of secrets in the game, you can find this
        secrets yourself, or you can buy them in space-shop.
        The space-shop will appear every fourth level, but you must
        have more than 50 credits to enter the shop. There are more than
        10 secrets hidden in the game.





        INSTALLING THE GAME
        -------------------

 o      DISK

        Start your machine with workbench, than insert the Deluxe Galaga
        game disk in one of the diskdrives, and open up the disk by
        double clicking on the disk icon. Than open up the Deluxe Galaga
        directory by double clicking on the directory icon. You than
        start the game by double clicking the Galaga game icon.



 o      HARDDISK

        Copy the Deluxe Galaga directory to the desired directory on
        your harddisk, by dragging the directory icon from the
        Deluxe Galaga game disk to the selected harddisk directory.
 
        To start the game just double click on the Galaga game icon.

        You should select the 'SAVE ON EXIT' option, if you are playing
        the game from a harddisk, and end the game by pressing the
        'ESC' key. Read more about the options below.



 o      GAME OPTIONS AND PREFERENCES
              ________________   _____________   ___________________
             |                | |             | |                   |
             |  ECS/ORIGINAL  | |    68000    | |                   |
             |________________| |_____________| |                   |
              ________________   _____________  |                   |
             |                | |             | |                   |
             |   PAL (50Hz)   | |    68020    | |        O K        |
             |________________| |_____________| |                   |
              ________________   _____________  |                   |
             |                | |             | |                   |
             |  SAVE ON EXIT  | |  68030/40   | |                   |
             |________________| |_____________| |___________________| 

        This are the gadgets that will appear on the preferences window.


              ________________  
             |                | This gadget will switch between
             |  ECS/ORIGINAL  | ECS/ORIGINAL and AGA chipset.
             |________________|

              ________________ 
             |                | This gadget will switch between PAL
             |   PAL (50Hz)   | and NTSC video system.
             |________________|

              ________________ 
             |                | This gadget will switch between
             |  SAVE ON EXIT  | 'SAVE ON EXIT' and 'SAVE IN GAME'.
             |________________|

              _____________ 
             |             | This gadget will select the
             |    68000    | MC68000 processor mode. Used in A500/A600.
             |_____________|
              _____________ 
             |             | This gadget will select the
             |    68020    | MC68020 processor mode. Used in the A1200.
             |_____________|
              _____________ 
             |             | This gadget will select the
             |  68030/40   | MC68030/MC68040 processor mode.          
             |_____________| Used in A3000, A4000/030 and A4000/40

          The 'OK' button will save the preferences and start the game.


        When you start the game for the first time, a preferences screen
        will appear. On this screen you can select what chips your 
        Amiga have, the video system and how to save the hiscore list.

        If you have a A500, A500+, A600, A1000, A2000 or A3000 you must
        select the 'ECS/ORIGINAL' option. If you have a A1200, A4000 or
        any new computer with AGA chips, you may select the 'AGA' option.
        If you have a A1200 and do NOT have a harddisk, you may have to
        use the 'ECS/ORIGINAL' option!

        The 'PAL', 'NTSC' options is for those Amigas that have the
        fat Agnus chip (the chip with the video system switch), this
        option have no function on older Agnus chips. The 'PAL' option
        is for those living in Europa or other countries that uses the
        PAL video system. The 'NTSC' option is for those living in the
        U.S.A., Japan or other countries that uses the NTSC system.

        If you are playing the game from harddisk, you may select the
        'SAVE ON EXIT' option, this will save the hiscore list when
        you quit the game with the 'ESC' key. You can also use this
        option if you have any problems with the 'SAVE IN GAME' option.
        If you use the 'SAVE ON EXIT' option you must use the 'ESC' key
        to save the hiscore, if you reset the machine (CTRL,AMIGA,AMIGA)
        the hiscore will be lost! The 'SAVE IN GAME' will save the
        hiscore each time the hiscore list is updated with a new hiscore
        entry.

        You may also select the kind of main processor your Amiga is
        using.

         68000    If you got a standard Amiga (A500,A600,A1000 or A2000)
         68020    If you got a A1200 or any 68020 accelerator.
         68030/40 If you got a A3000, A4000/30, A4000/40 or any 68030/
                  68040 accelerator.

        If you don't select any of the processor options, the program
        will automatically select the right kind of processor.

        If you have a faster processor, the game will have more objects
        on the screen, bigger explosions, more bullets, more bonuses,
        more background stars and........
        
        You may also force the program into using more objects, by
        choosing a faster processor than the one you have. This may
        slow down the game when a lot of objects is on the screen at
        once, and the graphics may begin to flicker.

        The preferences that you have selected will be saved for
        later use. If you want to change the preferences you most
        hold down the fire button on the joystick (Port 2)(NO auto fire)
        when the game is loading.
        Or you can delete the GALAGA.PREFERENCES file in the S: 
        directory of your boot disk.


        NOTE!   This game will NOT work on any 24bit graphics card.
                If Commodore had made a machine with a fast enough
                processor to use system functions in games, it would
                have worked, but didn't and they never will!
                Sorry !!!

                Amiga is the best home computer in the world, it's
                just to bad that Commodore got hold of it !!!!




        HOW TO CONTROL THE GAME
        -----------------------
        
        ESC     Stops the game in play, and quits the game if you are
                on any of the menu pages.

        F1      Selects 1 player mode.
        F2      Selects 2 players mode.

        1       Selects beginner mode.      (4 bullets, more speed)
        2       Selects normal mode.        (2 bullets, normal speed)
        3       Selects hard mode.

        P       Pauses the game, and starts the game again.
                You may also start the game again by using the fire button.

        E       Selects sound effects or music.

        +, -    Adjusts the music volume.

        J       Joins two hiscore lists together. If a friend of you
                have the game you can use this function to make a
                new hiscore list with the best hiscores on. The new
                hiscore lists will contain only the best hiscores.


        You control the game with a joystick in port 2.


                BUTTON  = Shoots at the aliens.

                LEFT    = Moves the ship to the left.

                RIGHT   = moves the ship to the right.





        EXTRA FUNCTIONS
        ---------------

o       MUSIC & SFX

        If you get sick and tired of the music you can change it with
        one of your own favorite protracker modules. You do this by
        changing the name of the original music or delete it.

                Example

                rename GALAGA.MUSIC as GALAGA.MUSIC.reserve

        And then you copy your module over to the Deluxe Galaga directory
        and rename it as 'GALAGA.MUSIC'

                Example

                rename MOD.SUPERTUNE as GALAGA.MUSIC


        You my also change the jingles (this are small tunes that are
        played at special occasions), as they are also protracker
        modules.

        NOTE!   The modules that you want to use must be compatible
                with ProTracker 1.1b. If you test your selected
                module and it's not played back correctly, then it's
                most probably not compatible. 


        NEW FOR  VERSION 1.3 

        You may now have many different music modules, and have one
        random module selected and loaded.

        First copy all of your favorite ProTracker modules to the
        Deluxe Galaga directory. Then you must rename them to...

                GALAGA.MUSIC1   (The number at the end of the name -
                GALAGA.MUSIC2    starts on 1 and goes up to as -
                GALAGA.MUSIC3    many modules you have copied.)
                .
                .
                .
                GALAGA.MUSICN   (n is the number of modules)

     
o       SFX

        If you have more than 512K of memory and you get sick of the
        sound effects, then you my try the small sound effects.

                Example

                rename GALAGA.SFX as GALAGA.SFX_reserve

        The game will now use the 'GALAGA.SFX_SMALL' as sound effects.



o       512K MEMORY

        If you only have 512K of memory, then you must use the program
        'Add44K', to get a little bit more free memory. The music will
        not be used and the small sound effects will be used.

        The game must have approx. 453 K of free memory to start.
        (I have managed to get it started with only 436K free chipmem!)

        Remember to disconnect any extra diskdrives, to get some more
        free memory.




        THE NEXT DELUXE GAME
        --------------------
        The next game in the Deluxe series, will probably be Deluxe
        Donkey Kong. I actually started on this game after I had
        finished Deluxe PacMan. But then I got another public-domain
        version of Donkey Kong, that looked almost like the version
        that I had on my old C64, and that look almost like the one I
        had in mind. After I released Deluxe PacMan many have written
        to me and asked my to make a version of Donkey Kong, so now
        I am going do that. A super duper version of Donkey Kong.
        If you have any tips for Deluxe Donkey Kong then send them
        to me. (graphics, maps, sounds or ideas)
        But when I am finished with Donkey Kong I would really want
        to make a version of JumpMan, one of my all time favorites!
 

        If you have any suggestions for improvements or if you have
        found any bugs then lett my know.

        Good luck and have a lot of fun !!!!  PEACE !!!!


        Life sucks !!                 - Al Bundy

        Where's that damn hamburger   - Kelly Bundy

        Sorry for all the spelling errors and bad syntax!!


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History

        VERSION   SPECIFICATIONS                              DATE
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         v1.0     First version of Deluxe Galaga              20/10/93
         v1.2     Added 'Hurry Up!!', and fixed
                  a possible trouble spot.
                  Fixed some routines in 2-player mode.
                  Added exploding rubbish to small aliens     27/12/93
         v1.3     Speeded up some routines.
                  Added the Warp Malfunction routine.
                  Changed the music routine with the
                  prorunner routine (very fast!)
                  Fixed the ProRunner routine, so it would
                  not GURU on machines with the interrupt
                  vectors moved to fast RAM.
                  Added the volume adjust routine.
                  Added the random music loader routine.      14/01/94
         v1.4     Speeded up even more routines.
                  Channel shearing between music and sfx.
                  Faster vector, Random and BOB routines.
                  Test for HIRES SPRITE and DBLPAL screen.    17/02/94
         v1.5     Fixed the BOOM when the rocket dies.
                  Set the interrupt handler priority
                  a bit higher.
                  Same random in the meteor-storm mode.
                  Fixed a bug in the 'save hiscore in game'
                  routine.
                  Shows the rank mark, when new rank.         25/02/94


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Technical info.

        568395 bytes of source code, 22822 lines of assembler code.
        Assembler time : 38.13 seconds on a 7.14 MHZ 68000 A2000 
        241920 bytes of raw graphics.
        Over 400 frames of animations.
        Over 90 sprites on screen at once (68030)
        Over 185 BOB'S on screen at once (68030)
        78 sound effects, 4 jingles, 1 music pieces.

If you are interested in making your own games or assembler programming
then you can buy the whole source code and development tools for
only $75, £50 or 500 NOK

You will then receive the following...

        Source code     (assembler, with comments)
        Data files      (graphics, animations, sound effects)
        Level Creator   (make new levels for Deluxe Galaga)
        SFX Creator     (Synthetic and sample sound effects creator)
        Converter 5.0   (Graphics convertor and cruncher)

You will also receive all the source code for all the tools.
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