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$VER: carnage.doc 1.00 (11.03.95) by Joseph Carlson and Randall Richards == PANDAGUN SOFTWARE PRESENTS ================================================= --------------- C A R N A G E --------------- Copyright ©1994 Randall Richards and Joseph Carlson, All Rights Reserved This software, in its SHAREWARE RELEASE form is freely distributable as long as no files in the archive are modified or deleted. This program is SHAREWARE so if you like it, please send $20 (US) to the authors and in return you will receive the full featured REGISTERED VERSION which includes more maps, fully functional weapons, more lives per player, PLUS full support for Sega(TM) Genesis(TM) control pads (with purchase of optional hardware adapter - more info later in the docs), and more... The registration form and mailing address are at the end of this file. == SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ======================================================== Requires Kickstart 2.0 or higher, 1 meg Agnus or AGA. Any Amiga from A500 to A4000. This program uses the best available screen mode for a 640x400 screen (including ECS/AGA modes). It's a little slugish on a stock A500 in Local Game mode, but plays nicely over modem. Requires 1.5 Meg total RAM, 1 Meg of it must be CHIP RAM! Tested on an Amiga 4000/EC030 and Amiga 1200 running AmigaDos 3.0 and an Amiga 500 using AmigaDos 2.04. Recommended system: 68020+ with AGA chipset and harddrive. == PROGRAM DESCRIPTION ======================================================== CARNAGE - An addictive two player game in which you must seek out and kill your opponent with the nastiest weapon you can find. This 2d split screen overhead scroller features high-res graphics, well thought out stereo sound, mazes, teleports, all kinds of weapons ranging from rifles to bazookas, and terrifying killer robots that seem to know your every move. Also features serial/modem link support for playing against a friend (or foe) who is only a phone call away. And you can type messages to each other in real time so you can express your true feelings about having a grenade tossed at you. Carnage is written by Randall Richards and Joseph Carlson. Sorry about the delay on this one... -- THIS ARCHIVE INCLUDES: ------------- ROOT: Carnage.info - The drawer icon. Carnage/Carnage - The game and its icon. Carnage/Carnage.info Carnage/Carnage.doc - This file and its icon. Carnage/Carnage.doc.info Carnage/Carnage_Data/cargfx.000 - 11 data files Carnage/Carnage_Data/console.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/laugh.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/level.000 Carnage/Carnage_Data/level.001 Carnage/Carnage_Data/link.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/loading.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/main.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/nolink.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/pgshare.mcr Carnage/Carnage_Data/sound.mcr == INSTALLATION =============================================================== This archive decompresses into its own drawer. Just copy or move the drawer and its icon into whatever directory you want to keep it in. Sorry, there's no install script yet, but you really don't need one, do you? == OVERVIEW =================================================================== Welcome to the world of CARNAGE, where death and dismemberment is your purpose in life. In this world, your only friends are your speed, quick wit, and your custom-deluxe fully-automatic battery-powered ammo-replicating weapon of mass destruction (aka gun). You know only one thing...kill..kill until there is nothing left to kill. To assist in your vengeful quest, you are equipped with your aforementioned "gun", a custom-deluxe fully-automatic solar-recharging energy storage cell (battery), and a custom-deluxe object-sensitive fully-configurable solar-powered multi-purpose scanning device (radar). -- WEAPONS ---------------------------- Your gun is the latest advancement in weapons technology. It is light- weight, battery powered and can replicate and fire any type of ammo based upon the programmable ROM installed. ROMs for different ammo can be found laying around the playfield. Unfortunately your weapon only has one ROM slot, so you must carefully decide which ROM will serve your twisted desires best. Each ROM defines a set of unique properties for its ammo. These properties affect, among other things, the amount of battery power and time required to regenerate the ammo. There are several ROMs available to choose from: ROM FIRING BATTERY TYPE RANGE RATE DAMAGE USAGE COMMENTS ---- ----- ------ ------ ------- -------- RIFLE long fast medium tiny surprising potential SHOTGUN long medium medium small covers large area LASER long medium large medium fast and brutal SHIELD short slow small tiny protects you from any damage when activated GRENADE short medium large large* goes over walls and explodes BAZOOKA long medium large large* high-speed, exploding weapon MISSILE medium slow medium large* seeks other player * In the freely-distributable demo version, battery usage is 100% for these weapons (ie. only one shot from a fully charged battery. Just enough to get a brief glimpse of the awesome firepower available in the REGISTERED VERSION.) The rifle ROM allows the weapon to fire small bullets rapidly. It uses little battery power, so this is more useful than you might think. This ROM comes with the stock weapon. With a shotgun ROM, your weapon fires pellets that cover a larger area, making it easier to hit an opponent. Although this ammo travels faster than rifle ammo, it takes slightly longer to regenerate the ammo and uses more power. A laser ROM makes your weapon fire a high speed laser beam. While this beam causes extreme damage, it also takes more power and time to regenerate. The shield ROM allows your weapon to create a protective barrier that completely surrounds you. This barrier protects you from incoming ammo and inflicts damage to any oppenents that it touches. It uses little power. The grenade ROM makes your weapon fire a deadly grenade. Grenades are unhindered by walls and detonate after hitting a player or travelling a fixed distance. They cause much damage but drain your battery quickly. Your weapon can fire a devastating blast when equipped with a bazooka ROM. Much pain is associated with all who come in contact with its ammo. However, its battery drain can be equally devastating. Watch out for the ever-popular homing missile ROM. This fire-and-forget missile has a radar-tracking system that will seek out your opponent. It causes much damage, however, it has a limited range, does not travel around obstacles, and cannot track a player with a stealth chip. NOTE: a missile will travel in a straight line while your button is pressed. -- RADAR ------------------------------ To aid in your grueling quest, you are equipped with a multipurpose programmable radar. It's purpose is to display locations of objects or enemies (depending on ROM) relative to your position. You will always be centered on your radar. Blips indicate distance and direction of objects being tracked. The ROM chips affect function as follows: The GREEN chip is a standard issue enemy locator. All blips indicate hoverbots or opponents. This gives you advanced warning of approaching threats and helps you find your enemy. The BLUE ROM is a weapons locator. It indicates the position of all usable weapon ROMs and batteries. It also detects the other player's weapon chip, but does not detect hoverbots. The RED chip helps you find medical kits (large and small). This is very helpful when you are low on health. Be forewarned... It doesn't detect hoverbots or your opponent (unless he also has a red chip). Finally, the chip of choice. There is a chip that renders you undetectable to standard radar. The YELLOW chip is the stealth chip. It operates just like the GREEN chip, except you won't show up on standard radar. Hoverbots can no longer track you (unless you are within visual range) and a homing missile fired at you will only go in a straight line. Also note that each radar chip will indicate other radar chips of the same type. (i.e. red chips locate red chips...) This includes the radar chip carried by your opponent. (if you both have YELLOW chips, you can see each other on radar.) -- OTHER EQUIPMENT -------------------- Medical kits (medikits) are dispersed randomly throughout the terrain. There are two types of medikits, large and small. When picked up, the large one increases your health by 25%, and the small one by 15%. Then the medikit is placed in another random location. Batteries also come in two sizes. The large batteries hold twice as much charge as small batteries. Since the battery display reports percent of total capacity, the small battery appears to charge/discharge faster than a large battery. Rest assured, both charge/discharge at the same rate (i.e. the large battery is better than the small one in every imaginable way). Both players begin the game with fully-charged small batteries. Other batteries can be found lying about the terrain with random charges. Any battery recharges automatically when installed in a weapon. -- HOVERBOTS -------------------------- The terrain is patrolled by nasty hoverbots. Their mission is to kill any humans. They are equipped with radar to hunt down players. They shoot lightning balls when a player is within visual range. These balls stun and hurt you so its difficult to get away from them. You can kill them, but when you do, another reappears in a random location, even faster and more viscious than before. If you're lucky enough to find a Stealth Chip, you won't be visible on their radars either. But if you get too close to one, it'll still attack you. == STARTING THE GAME ========================================================== When you run the program (from a shell or Workbench) a title screen will appear. Your first options are: F1: LOCAL GAME - Both players playing on same computer. F2: MODEM LINK - One player per computer with the two computers linked by modem. This uses your serial preferences settings. F3: DIRECT LINK - Same as modem link but uses fixed settings (19200 baud). For use with NULL modem cable between two Amigas. -- LOCAL GAME ------------------------- If you select "F1: LOCAL GAME" the next screen will give you a choice to either "F1: START GAME" or "ESC: QUIT". -- MODEM LINK ------------------------- When you select this mode, a miniature split terminal screen will appear. The Transmit window will show any keys you press and any messages from your computer (like "<START>"). Any messages received from the modem will appear in the Receive window. This mode opens the Amiga serial port using your saved serial preferences (See AmigaDos manual.) You have to type in modem commands manually. Usually what I will do is call a friend up, both of us will run Carnage. When we both are looking at the terminal windows, one of us will type ATX3D <enter> and the other will type ATA <enter>. The two modems will then connect to each other. Once they are connected, anything you type will show up in your transmit window and in the other players receive window. One of you can press F1 to START or ESC to QUIT. When you are finished, you can continue voice conversation on the phone if you both pick up the phone before pressing Escape. Another method of connecting would be to set up one modem for auto-answer and have the other player dial in with his modem (with Carnage running on both machines.) See your modem manual for more details. "ATA" is the command to make your modem pick up the phone in Answer Mode. "ATX3D" is actually 2 commands, the "X3" tells the modem to ignore dialtone and the D instructs the modem to pick up the phone and wait for the answer tone. -- DIRECT LINK ------------------------ This mode is for 2 Amigas linked via a NULL modem cable. It works just like MODEM LINK except there are no modem commands involved. Your serial preferences are ignored in this mode and the serial port is opened at 19200 baud, 8N1 data/parity, and RTS/CTS handshaking. You should immediately be able to type to each other. Pressing F1 STARTs the game, and Escape quits. == PLAYING THE GAME =========================================================== After pressing "F1: START" the title screen and music will fade out and the gamescreen fades in. In Local Mode players will be centered in the left and right halves of the screen. Both these windows scroll independently as each player walks off in his/her own direction. In Link Mode, one half of the screen will show your player while the other displays a split terminal screen. You can type messages to each other during the game. -- TERRAIN WINDOW --------------------- This is the large window which displays the player and his surroundings. The player is centered in this window and the terrain scrolls in whatever direction the player moves. -- STATUS WINDOW ---------------------- Underneath the terrain window is a status window for each player. The status window displays the players radar, health, battery power, lives, and inventory. Note that in Link mode the other player's status window only shows health, battery power and lives, not inventory or radar. The bar at the top of the status window is a bar graph showing the player's health. The bar displays health of 0 to 100% and also changes color depending on the amount of health left. The bar immediately below the health bar is a bar graph showing the player's battery power. The battery bar operated the same as the health bar. The Radar shows objects (the type of objects depends on the radar upgrade you're using) relative to the player. The player is always in the center of the radar scope. The inventory boxes show Radar Chip, Weapon, and Battery. To the right of the inventory boxes is a box showing the player's movement and number of lives remaining. -- PICKING UP OBJECTS ----------------- To pick up medikits, all you have to do is walk over it. To pick up weapons or radar chips, you must walk on top of it and press your button. The item will be picked up, and the one that it replaces will be dropped. You can only carry one weapon and one radar chip at a time. To trade/steal weapons from another player, you must touch that player and press your button. This gets very interesting if one player has a killer weapon. -- TELEPORTS -------------------------- A teleport is a device which will instantly move you to a random location. It is very useful for escaping when you are in danger. To teleport, just walk over it. -- YOUR PURPOSE ----------------------- You have only one sole purpose in life. Kill the other player. Kill him before he kills you. Game ends after one player loses all his lives*. The player that survives a level, keeps his inventory. The other player starts with standard equipment. * NOTE: Each player has only two lives in the unregistered version. == WARNING! =================================================================== On Amigas with KickStart v3.0 and up: If you have monitor types in your "devs:monitors/" drawer that your monitor or computer do not support, the game might try to use that mode! We are not responsible for any damage done to your monitor because YOU had an unusable monitor file in your "devs:monitors/" drawer! On my AGA system, the game will check for the availability of the following monitors in order: DblNTSC hires noflicker, Euro72 productivity, Euro36 hires lace, NTSC hires lace, VGA productivity, DblPAL hires noflicker, PAL hires lace. So make sure any modes your monitor doesn't support are moved back to the "sys:storage/monitors/" drawer. (Under 2.x or with no monitors available, the game will come up in either NTSC or PAL hires lace) == KNOWN BUGS ================================================================= - We calculated that the theme music (a looping sample) will stop playing after 3 days, 15 hours, and 57.3 seconds (though we don't want to positively confirm this). We may be switching to MOD support in future versions. == THE AUTHORS ================================================================ Carnage is a PandaGun Software production: Coding, graphics, and sound are by: "Psycho Panda" Randall Richards and "Gunner Joe" Joseph Carlson All work was done using: Amiga 4000/EC030 and Amiga 500 - (Company Pending) SAS/C 6.51 - ©1993 SAS Institute Cygnus Ed Professional V3.5 - ©1993 CygnusSoft Deluxe Paint 4.6 - ©1992 Electronic Arts Perfect Sound 3.0 - ©1989 Anthony J. Wood Too many manuals. Too many hours. Too many trips to Carl's Jr. ("You hungry?") Too many months (about 15 so far) We have tried our hardest to rid this game of all bugs. We have tested this again and again and again. Some problems had only occured once every two weeks! But we finally found them... Amazingly enough, another bug popped up on an A1200 when the same thing NEVER happened on an A4000 or A500. (Weird...) But finally, we figured it out. Should you find a bug, please notify us of the problem. We will either fix it (sending the 1st person reporting it a free registered version with the fix) or hold a mass suicide pact depending on our mood. Contact us at GEnie: J.CARLSON10 or internet: j.carlson10@genie.geis.com xjcarlson@csu.fullerton.edu == ALSO FROM THE AUTHORS ====================================================== QMousePrefs - This program gives you a preferences window for adjusting any options for QMouse by Dan Babcock. Also includes icon for your WBStartup drawer so you don't have to modify s:User-Startup to use QMouse. By Joseph Carlson. Slider - Slider is a puzzle similar to those little number slide puzzles we have all played with at one time or another. It features a nice high res marble background with embossed wood pieces and was decribed as "elegant" by AmigaWorld. The size of the puzzle is adjustable in width and height from 2x2 to 8x8. It is AGA & ECS compatible. By Joseph Carlson. ControlPad.Library and CP-1 ControlPad Adapter: Tired of the old joysticks that only have one button? Having trouble finding an old standard joystick? Well this little adapter allows you to use any controlpad made for the Sega Genesis(TM) with your Amiga. Sega Genesis Controllers are easy to find (any Toys 'R Us) and inexpensive (about $13 for the SEGA brand). The joypad and trigger (B) button will work for any game, and we developed a simple shared library that other programmers can use to utilize the A, B, C, and START buttons in their games. Future games we release will (of course) use these extra buttons. The registered version of Carnage already does!. We both are currently using the adapter with SEGA infrared cordless controlpads on our Amigas. It is cool not being tied to the computer during games! SEGA and GENESIS are trademarks of SEGA. -- COMING SOON ------------------------ Read - A fast text file reader which adapts to any screen mode and any fixed width font. Fast (and fine) scrolling via mouse or cursor keys. Scrolls left and right as well as up and down. (Just when you thought you've seen enough text readers...) By Joseph Carlson. (Very soon...) KNAPSACK - A file utility that allows you to effortlessly copy as many files as possible onto floppys of any size or format (or device for that matter) that your system understands including the diskspare.device (by Klaus Deppisch) which lets you save up to 2 Megs of files onto a single 3.5" High Density disk! Great for those who download lots of files and need to move them off their hard drive. Full intuition interface. More efficient than anything else like it that I've seen. Knapsack is written by Randall Richards. This ones been hanging around on our systems for a while now. We're adding support for PFS and PC file systems before releasing this (if we ever get around to it). == CARNAGE REGISTRATION FORM ================================================== Cut here: ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------- PandaGun Software Registration Form for: CARNAGE - Copyright ©1994 Randall Richards and Joseph Carlson Please mail this registration form to: RANDALL RICHARDS 7773 LONGS PEAK DRIVE RIVERSIDE, CA 92509 NAME:_____________________________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS: _________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ EMAIL: ___________________________________________________________ PHONE: (optional) ________________________________________________ Cost is $20 (US) for each registered version. Quantity:________ Amount Enclosed: $________________ Payments accepted in US currency or personal checks with funds drawn on a US bank only. For the latest information on the Control Pad Adapter or if you have any problems or questions concerning Carnage, you can contact Joe Carlson at the following email address: j.carlson10@genie.com ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ===============================================================================