StarRunner "Return To Nemesis" is a fast arcade game featuring:
• Fast 60 fps and smooth animation.
• Digitized sounds
• Over 100 levels
• Over 20 different kind of smart aliens
YOUR TASK
• Your mission is to flight from planets to planets rescuing stranded humans and destroying all other low-life creatures - if it moves, shoot it! If it is still there, blast it!
HINTS
• The new and improved StarRunner can now fire while flying backwards. Quite useful to shoot up lines of aliens. It can also handle progressive speed.
• Don't let aliens kidnap the little waving people on the ground. You don't want to know what happens if none are rescued...
• Some aliens follow you from planet to planet. Therefore, don't stay too long on one particular planet; they might come get you... Heh heh...
• One type of aliens leaves flashbomb capsules behind when shot down. Catch them before they hit the ground... or run after them later...
• Holding the shift key while loading the game will give you an extra thousand points (not).
• Aliens aim at you when shooting, therefore change direction often.
• Aliens are better at shooting at you when you're at low speed. Run, run, run...
• You get a bonus ship every 10,000 points
• Check out level 5...
NOTES
• StarRunner requires a 68020 CPU or better to run. It will work on any Macintosh screen set to B/W.
• StarRunner now works with both System 6 & 7.
• Multi-monitor setups: StarRunner always tries to use the main monitor first (i.e. the one with the menu bar on it). In case the main monitor is not set to B/W, the program will scan for the first available B/W screen. Therefore, if you have both an internal B/W screen and a external color screen and want the external screen (set to B/W) to be used, set the external monitor as the main one and run StarRunner.
• StarRunner was tested on the following Macintosh computers: SE/30 (system 6.0.7 and 7.0), II (system 7.0), IIci (system 7.0), IIsi (system 7.0), LC (system 7.0), IIfx (system 7.0), PowerBook 170 (system 7.0) and Quadra 700 (system 7.0).
• System 6 users: StarRunner is now totally System 6-compatible provided System 6.0.7 or higher is used and 32-bit QuickDraw is installed (the 32-bit QuickDraw init can be found in the Color folder on the Printing Utilities disk ).
STAR-RUNNER IS *SHAREWARE* (REALLY)
StarRunner is shareware. This means that if you enjoy this program and decide to keep it, or in other terms, you've played it for a couple of days and like it, you are required to send me a small fee of US $15. I'm asking for this because I've spent so much time creating this game and I think I deserve something in return. It's a fair deal since that's as cheap as it gets for a decent Macintosh game and plus, this registration will entitle you to receive a level editor (check this out!) to create your own levels and be informed of any future release of this game. I can be reached at the following address during my 92-93 senior academic year:
Tuan Huynh
Douglas Hall, G31-2
3851 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
CANADA
DISTRIBUTION
Please feel free to give away StarRunner to your friends. However, StarRunner cannot be sold for profit or included in a commercially available package without my consent. Suggestions, comments, questions and bug reports are gladly accepted at my E-mail address: Iceman@CS.McGill.CA.
• More error handling: really checks for B/W monitor, 32-bit QuickDraw and 68020 availability.
• New pause module: you can now switch out of StarRunner back to the desktop by pressing the mouse button when the Pause box is onscreen.
• Preferences dialog box by hitting Cmd-K: (why Cmd-K? P is usually used for Pause and K is a home key so don't lose sleep on that...)
• Allows USER-CONFIGURABLE KEYS (yeah!). You can even have the One-Does-It-All key by setting every control keys to the same key (kind of fun but not very useful).
• Sound on/off toggle.
• Biodegradable.
• Online hints thru the 'About StarRunner...' option.
• Mouse control for keyboard-o-phobic people.
• Fixed position for the StarRunner. Some people get confused when the screen swings back and forth when you flip over. The 'Ship always centered' option always leaves the ship centered on the screen. You see more backwards but less forwards. Life's full of compromise...
• Note to AutoDoubler users: AutoDoubler 1.XXX screws up when an application saves stuff in its resource fork. I wrote Salient and was told that AutoDoubler 2.XXX would now let StarRunner saves its preferences correctly.
• The asteroid scene is now easier and less random. You also get 10 points per asteroid avoided and a huge, enormous, gigantic (well, not really) bonus of 200 points if you pass the whole asteroid field.
• Beginner's game. For those who get frustrated after keeping on losing after 0.147 microseconds, there's a now beginner's mode. The difference is that aliens are made artificially constipated and therefore don't shoot at you. Plus, you only get 1 point everytime you should get n points. Yeah, the Hall of Fame is a long way to go...
• The computer now counts up the human rescue bonus and adds it real time to your score. Just for kicks.
• Cmd-N starts the game for Macintosh brain-washed people. <hit the space bar to start> also does the trick (undocumented feature!). There's also a key combination which makes you pass levels (Well, maybe...).
• The overall game was made a little bit easier.
9.0 (2001/9/2)
• Real time 32-bit color animation at 120 frames/sec.
• Requires a 10 TeraHertz PowerPC chip and System 32.0.1 Super Tuned Up to run.
• Blows up one of your monitors when your ship explodes.
• Written in LISP so people can customize it to their liking without bugging me.
• Displays subliminal obscenities, turns your dog into a turkey and negates your GPA if you don't pay your shareware fees.
