Almathera Ten Pack 4: Demo 1/almathera_demo1.bin/demos/wbhacks/aboutyaboing

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                                YaBoing!

                             By Ali T. Ozer


   This game owes a lot to Leo L. Schwab's "Oing!," where little sprite
   versions of the famous "Boing!" demo ball bounced around your screen...
   This program demonstrates some hardware sprite stuff, collisions, colors,
   etc...

   Try to get the red balls with your mouse (+1) while avoiding the
   green ones (-1). Your score is displayed after 100 red balls have been
   thrown to the screen and the game restarts.

   The game can be interrupted at any point by just deactivating the
   window. The sprites disappear, and you can do whatever you want. To con-
   tinue, simply click in the YaBoing window, and voila, you're back in your
   game where you left it. YaBoing is a great game to have running in the
   background as you compile or do other time consuming things. Note
   that YaBoing does not start automatically --- You have to click
   on the window to get it running... This allows you to start it up from
   your startup sequence, for example!

   The game sets its priority to -1, so it should not steal many CPU cycles
   from other processes. It also uses only 10K memory + whatever your
   stack size is. Thus you can afford to have it in the background and
   come back to it from time to time. Of course, if your other processes
   grap the cpu, then YaBoing will suffer. But, hey, it just makes the game
   more random! You can set the priority yourself by specifying the
   priority (-128..+127) as the argument to the "yaboing" command.

   I compiled YaBoing! with Manx Aztex C v3.20a, without the +l option.
   I haven't tried it with Lattice.


   -Ali Ozer


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