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- Short: Very original simultaneous 0-8 player game
- Author: Ben Wyatt (bwyatt@paston.co.uk)
- Uploader: Ben Wyatt (bwyatt@paston.co.uk)
- Type: game/2play
- Replaces: game/2play/Knock*ut.lha
- Version: 2.02
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- Instructions
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The idea of the game is to knock all the other players off the ever shrinking
- circle, and then drive off on the bridge.
-
- There are some variations on this theme included in this version :
-
- NORMAL - normal game, as described above.
-
- BALL - a ball is placed in the centre of the circle to be knocked into the
- players goals. There are only 4 players allowed in this game. A
- point is scored for getting a goal, and for knocking all the other
- players off.
-
- TEAM - this game mode allows 4 teams of 2 players each to play.
-
- MAGNET - all the vehicles are made into magnets and are all attracted to
- each other.
-
- ELASTIC - pieces of elastic join pairs of vehicles together. Great for
- swinging them off the circle! (Best played with 4 or 6 vehicles,
- otherwise it's too crowded)
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-
- Configurations
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Knockout 2 does it's best to configure itself to your particular Amiga setup.
- Here is a list of configurations made :
-
- KS1.3 Amigas - will get as far as the intro and crash. UPGRADE!
-
- A500/A600 with 1Mb - 5 players on screen.
-
- A500/A600 with fast mem - 6 players on screen.
-
- A1200 with 2Mb / A500/A600 with 020+ accelerator - 8 players on screen.
-
- A1200 with fast mem - 8 players on screen, with no names restrictions.
-
- NTSC - can't have maximum circle size, and the title screen is snipped
- slightly.
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
- Knockout 2.02 is released on to the internet on May 5th 1996. This version
- has been lying dormant on my HD waiting for me to do some work on it for
- about a month so I just decided to upload it even though there's nothing
- much new.
-
- The extremely boring history of Knockout :
-
- 2.02 Speeded up scores screen. Fixed prefs saving bug. Changed colour of
- elastic so it's less flickery. Fixed sample squeaking bug (Thanks
- Chris!). Improved the AI of the CPU players slightly. Altered Magnet
- slightly. Removed demo game from beginning.
-
- 2.01 Added Elastic and Magnet games.
-
- 2.00 Added new menu system, team games, variable circle size, variable
- friction, different vehicles, play first to "n" wins, naming of the
- players, music, 8 sets of controls, vehicle editor, music editor, intro
- sequence. Reorganised the sprite bank to eliminate a few bugs and to
- make it more flexible. Made it so it did actually work on all Amiga
- set-ups, unlike the previous version! Improved CPU intelligence. Stopped
- vehicles from going on top of each other.
-
- 1.02 Fixed a few bugs. Added a "Knockout_Easy" file, with less skidding.
- Added an option to turn cars "off". Made it work on less powerful
- Amigas, restricting the number of cars.
-
- 1.01 Added 4-player parallel port adapter, to make it 7 human players. Fixed
- a few bugs in the ball game. Rendered an intro screen.
-
- 1.00 Written on the Amiga, but limited to 8 cars (for technical reasons),
- only 5 of which can only be human controlled. Added a ball game. Added
- a bridge for when a player wins.
-
- 0.99 Test version written on the Acorn Archimedes computer, with 16
- simultaneous players. Very slow, and lots of keyboard control clashes,
- but very popular at school!
-
- Famous Moments
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Version 1.01 put on to AMIGA POWER's coverdisk on the APRIL 1996 issue. (I
- didn't send it to them!)
-
- Version 1.00 reviewed in AMIGA FORMAT in the FEBRUARY 1996 issue. Made PD
- Selection of the Month.
-
- Version 1.00 included on the AMIGA FORMAT subs disk (I've been told).
-
- Why are such out of date versions used??? Those versions are both about a
- year old!
-