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AutoMobiles 1.11
V 1.0. Release Date 09.4.1994
V 1.1. Release Date 21.5.1994
V 1.11 Release Data 22.5.1994 ;)
Overflow Productions 1994
Coding, Menu Graphics And Sound-
Tero Heikkinen (Scotty)
Font, Track Graphics And Car Sprites-
Runelord
Musique-
Lagers
Call The OverFlow's BBS For Comments, Bug Reports And For Possible Updates
The Unknown Sector BBS - Node #1 - +358-0-8793935
And Leave Mail To "Scotty"
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Introduction:
Automobiles is a top-down car racing game for one, two or three players.
The three player option is only available with 14mhz or faster amigas.
If You want to play from Hard Disk, just copy the drawer _Automobiles_
and all its contents into a suitable position in your drive.
No external libraries are necessary to play Automobiles, everything
the game requires is present.
If you are playing from floppy drive, leave the disc write enabled.
This is because the game saves the 20 best laptimes to the disc.
Automobiles currently includes ten different tracks. Extra tracks
can be installed easily into the game (when they are available,that is;)
The Trackdata.dat file contains the information on the currently
available tracks; do not alter this unless you have tracks to install.
(Track data "disks" will contain more information on the
installation procedure)
Main Menu
Menu options can be either selected using either a joystick or a mouse
to control the arrow pointer, or directly by keyboard.
1.2.3. START : Pressing 1,2 or 3 starts the game with 1,2 or 3
players. If this menu item is accessed using the
joystick, the game is started with the number of
PLAYERS selected.
P.PLAYERS : Swaps the number of PLAYERS, one, two or three.
(As mentioned, the three player option is only available
for faster-than-8mhz machines)
L.LAPS : Increase the number of laps, maximum of 9.
T.TRACK : Enter the track selection menu.
K.CONTROLS : Enter the control arrangement screen.
A.ACCELERATION : Choose between the two acceleration methods.
H.LAP TIMES : Shows the top twenty lap times of the Current Track.
S.SKID MARKS : If turned on, cars leave traces on the road
C.COLLISIONS : If turned off, cars do not have any effect on
each other.
(This is if two or three players wish to beat the
lap record at the same time, without letting
other players to interfere)
B.ABOUT : Displays The Essential About Screen.
X.EXIT GAME : Exits the game immediately.
This option is only accessible from the keyboard.
Controls:
By Default;
Player One uses the joystick in the joystick port.
Player Two uses the keyboard.
Left Alt - Steer Left
Left Amiga - Steer Right
Right Alt - Accelerate
Right Amiga - Brake
Player Three uses the joystick in the joystick port.
The control arrangement is alterable, via the CONTROL submenu.
There are two different methods of acceleration available.
Other uses the fire button to accelerate, the other method allows
you to accelerate with pushing the joystick up.
Braking is always done by pulling the joystick down (but who needs
brakes anyway?)
The two acceleration methods have no effect on keyboard, player
on keyboard always accelerates with the Right Alt key.
The Dashboard
During the game, the players' progress is represented by symbols
at the bottom of the playscreen. These become active when a player
has crossed the goal line.
These are displayed with the same color as the player's car.
The number shows the number of laps to go.
A waving Checkered Flag appears, when the car has reached the goal.
It is not necessary to drive on any longer.
If your current best laptime in the current race has improved,
a clock appears.
A 'X' mark appears if you have driven an unnecessary lap.
Version 1.1
I have come across an "ECS/AGA Fixed" version of Automobiles, by
some "scene" group. I could not make it work with my A500 so to
me it seems like that version is just a load of old rubbish.
The version should have worked fine on any Amiga, since it was
tested on an (AGA!) A1200, A500 (1.3) and A2000/030.
Get rid of that and of any other old 1.0 versions of Automobiles.
The track file format has been changed and therefore the possible
extra tracks cannot be loaded into it.
New Features 1.1
- Music during menu selections, composed by Lagers.
- Cars have a stupid whining sound, just like in reality.
- Bigger and better sound effects
- Alterable control arrangement.
- Improved Dynamic Menu Operation(TM).
- Cars do not get stuck into the top right corner.
- Compressed track data.
- Massively improved graphics.
- 'Information' screen was replaced by 'Control'.
- Extra track.
- Longer documentation file.
New Features 1.11
- Players are now referred as colors, Player One is red,
Player Two is blue and Player Three is Yellow.
In 1.1, if you changed the control arrangement, player "names"
(joy1,joy2,keys) did not make any sense.
- In some control arrangements, the mouse interfered with the
joystick control. Not anymore!
- Improved mouse operation.
Automobiles 1.11 Presented By
OverFlow Productions 1994
Memberlist:
Hay Coding, SysOp, (Co-founder).
Spinky Pal Graphics, Design, CoSysOp, (Co-founder).
Mr. Spaghetto Trader, (GFX, SFX, Co-founder).
* Runelord Graphics, Design, MesOp.
* Scotty Coding, Surrealistic painting.
Author of The Famous "Automobiles".
Gun Coding, Music.
Rogue Coding, Noise.
Reaver Music (techno).
* Lagers Music, SFX.
(Members marked with * were directly involved with
the 'Automobiles' Project).
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