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- SDI by Jimmy Tonn
- SDI (C) Copyright 1994 Jimmy Tonn
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- Requires:
- VGA
- Mouse
- 512k conventional memory
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- Traditionally, the intended use for a laser SDI system is to destroy
- nuclear missiles at the height of their arc, so they don't hit the Earth
- and cause a big mess. One day, some world leaders wised up and said, "Hey,
- since we've got this great weapon, let's use it to blow up everything!"
- Thanks to SDI INC., all of the lasers could only fire upwards and no one
- could fire one at another sea-level country. Disappointed, the presidents
- and kings left their lasers only for defense, but they were ready. Later,
- a president decided to try out "The Button". Waves of nuclear missiles were
- launched at a nearby country... Fortunately, that country was able to fend
- off the nuclear attacks for a while with its laser. The insane president
- was having so much fun firing missiles, he decided to send out paratroopers
- to infiltrate the target's cities and shut down its SDI. When he ran out of
- men to send, he shifted to livestock... Guess what! You get to man the laser
- and blow stuff up!
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- The game starts out with a cheesy opening screen. Laugh at it for a minute
- and then press a key. A screen will come on that says "Wave 1" for about 3
- seconds. Then the game begins. Use the left mouse button to fire the laser
- at anything that moves, but watch your laser battery; you have to take your
- finger off of the button to let it recharge, and if it goes to zero, you'll
- have to wait a few seconds before it even starts recharging. The green tanks
- on the left represent your laser battery. The top tank is your normal tank,
- and the lower one is your backup tank. When you run out of normal energy,
- you'll dip into the backup. (The backup recharges a little bit slower than
- the normal tank, and the storage capacity of the backup tank will increase
- with each wave.) Your other weapon is the nuke, which wipes out everything
- in the sky. You start out with five of these and get an extra one each wave.
- You launch a nuke with the right mouse button. Make sure none of the enemy's
- weapons reach the city below. Five hits and you're dead.
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- You progress to the next wave when you hit 20 enemies with the laser.
- (And only with the laser; enemies killed with the nuke do not count as
- hits.) There are 10 waves to complete. I only beat them all once without
- cheating, see if you can beat my record :). Have fun.
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- This program was written in QuickBasic 4.5, with the help of a library
- called "SVGAQB" (version 2.1 - By Zephyr Software). This is a very good
- library and I would recommend it for any QuickBasic project. (I think there
- are also versions available for C, Visual Basic Dos, and PowerBasic.) This
- program (SDI) is freeware-you can copy it, give it to people, upload it to
- BBS's, (provided the game is in its original archive) and you don't have to
- pay anything, but the game is copyrighted, and cannot be reverse engineered,
- decompiled, or dissasembled.
-
- No warranties either expressed or implied. Though I've tested this on my
- machine without any problems, I can't be held responsible for any damages.
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- If you want to give me lots of money, or have any questions or something,
- I can be reached on Compuserve at 75022,401. (I don't want to give out my
- address so that the ASPCA doesn't come to house for that cow thing. :))
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