100 Great Games for Palm OS 2/PalmV2012301.ISO/action/Space Trader/Version.txt

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SPACE TRADER VERSION HISTORY
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Version 1.0.2 (October 5, 2000)
* You can no longer get to the average price list for an
  out-of-range system. In 1.0.1 you could. You could even
  warp to an out-of-range system. This could get you an
  impossible amount of fuel in your tanks, which could
  crash the system later on in the short range chart screen.
  Thanks to all of you who helped me finding out the cause
  of this annoying and elusive problem.
* Your police record score converges to "clean" faster than
  before, if you don't do anything special, especially
  when you're a criminal. Your score won't rise above
  "dubious" in this way, however. So, even if you're keeping
  quiet, the police won't trust you when you were a criminal,
  until you undertake some positive action.
* When you get arrested, you are convicted according to your
  police record. A criminal therefore gets off a lot easier
  than a villain. If you can pay the fine with your credits,
  you don't lose your ship. Mercenaries, however, will leave
  and any insurance will also be lost. During your time
  in prison, if you have debts, you will pay the interest and
  if needed, your debt will increase during that time.
* If tribbles eat narcotics, they eat at most three bays of
  them, and their furs are left behind.
* You can now use the physical scroll buttons to scroll
  through the systems within range in the average price list
  and the target system screens.
* Added "Crook" to police records. A crook will be attacked
  by the police, but will be dealt with faily easily when
  arrested. The other levels have been moved a bit.
* You can now also see information on ships which aren't for
  sale at a space station.

Version 1.0.1 (October 1, 2000)
* The black and white version of the end-game picture
  was corrupted on earlier versions of the Palm OS.
  This proved to be due to the picture compression.
  I turned compression for the black and white pictures
  off, which solved the problem.
* If you would specify a loan amount, you were limited to
  four digits. This has been fixed. Paying back was even
  worse: you could enter five digits, but the game could
  crash if you did.
* Shortcut buttons have been added to most screens to go
  immediately to Buy Cargo, Sell Cargo, the Ship Yard or the
  Short Range Chart.
* On the average price list screen, it is now possible to
  toggle between absolute prices and price differences.
* On both the average price list screen and the target system
  screen, you can now scroll through the systems within range.
* On the short range chart, the last system you have
  consulted is marked with a cross.
* Tapping a system on the short range chart will load either
  the average price list screen or the target system screen,
  depending on which of these two screens was loaded last.
* Tribbles can now bring even greater profits. Also, selling
  a tribble infested ship will get rid of the tribbles, but
  your ship won't be worth much. If your ship is destroyed,
  this will also destroy the tribbles.
* Water now brings slightly higher profits.
* Criminals and villains can surrender to the police. This
  will cost you your ship and cargo, and you have to spend
  some time in prison. You will live, however. After that
  time, your police record will have reverted to dubious.
  Psychopaths do not have the option to surrender.
* Attacking a police ship while you are still dubious, or
  attacking a trader while you are still clean, will ask
  you for confirmation.
* The Options menu now has a shortcut.
* In the Options menu, you can now specify that you want to
  leave some cargo bays empty when buying trade goods. This
  makes it easier to leave some room for picking up cargo
  during flight, especially if you are an avid user of the
  Max button.

Version 1.0 (September 25, 2000)
* First release.