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- Fly your spaceship around various space rocks, while shooting at them and
- defending yourself against hostile alien saucers!
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- ROCKS requires a 486sx with a Super VGA card and monitor. If you only have VGA
- try runing 'ROCKSVGA' it is slower and has slightly different colors. A slower
- machine can be used, but it's not as fun.
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- Controls:
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- Rotate left: Left arrow
- Rotate right: Right arrow (duh :-)
- Fire: Left ALT key
- Thrust: Left SHIFT key
- HyperSpace: SpaceBar
- Force next ship: Right CTRL key
- Start new game: Enter
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- After a ship has been destroyed, the game will wait for a clearing in the
- center of the screen and place your next ship there. If it takes too long for
- this to happen, just hit the Right CTRL key to force the new ship to appear.
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- Hyperspace sends your ship to a random location on the screen. This is very
- dangerous, as it could very well land you on top of a rock. There is also
- some danger that your ship will be destroyed in Hyperspace even if it doesn't
- land on anything! (use only in case of emergency)
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- Customizing:
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- To adjust the controls for different keyboard layouts, hit F1 and select
- the reconfigure controls option by pressing r. Other options are available
- on the help screen and during game play (see the F1 help screen). Saving
- options will cause ROCKS to use the same ship controls and color the next
- time you run it.
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- BUGS: (Hey, at least I'm letting you know)
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- There is a bug which sometimes causes the program to lock-up on the help
- screen. I'm not sure why, but it seems to go away if you turn off NumLock
- before starting the program.
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- ROCKS has one minor but potentially nasty bug. The program speeds up the
- computers internal clock about 3 times. So if you play for one hour starting
- at 1:00, then check the time, the computer may say about 4:00. The clock will
- return to normal the next time you turn on the computer or reboot. This is
- no concern of mine, but it may be inapropriate for some people. I have no
- time to fix this (some assembly required), so maybe next game :-)
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- ROCKS is shareware, so go ahead, give all your friends a copy of rocks486.zip
- Please don't distribute the unzipped files. If you continue to use/play ROCKS
- for more than a week, you must register your copy with me by sending $10.00
- along with your name to:
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- Paul H. Kahler
- 52325 Southdown Rd.
- Shelby twp MI, 48316
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- At this time registration has no benefits except allowing you to legally
- continue using the program, and encouraging me to produce more games. So
- support the shareware concept and register!
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- Disclaimer:
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- The author of ROCKS assumes no liability of any kind for any damages
- or loss of productivity caused by the use of the program or anything else.
- You have been warned of all bugs known to me, and any others are strictly
- your problem :-)
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- :-) Just type 'rocks' and get on with it! :-)
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