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Welcome To Bob's Bricks '96...
Thank you for downloading "Bob's Bricks '96™", Armadillo Software's first Macintosh game. We hope that you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed creating it. By the way, "Bob's Bricks '96™" is freeware, so you can (and we hope you will...) distribute it to whomever you choose, so long as you don't alter the program in any way, and you make sure that this "Hello..." file is included with the application.
History...
"Bob's Bricks" originally appeared on the PC format several years ago, although we didn't actually publically release it at the time. The original version looked rather crude compared to what you are about to run (or have run already...), hence the "96" tacked on to the end of "Bob's Bricks" in this version ... to show you that things have been brought up to date. This brings us to our "Game Features" section...
Game Features...
• Full 16-Bit colour graphics ("Thousands" of colours mode)
• Mouse support (no more pushing arrow keys ... ick!!)
• New game-play features
... and lots of other neat stuff!!
System Requirements...
Requirements are preceded by a "•" symbol; recommendations are preceded by a "~" symbol...
• System Software version 7 or greater
• 3.5 MB free RAM (for a Power Macintosh)
• A colour display (minimum 4-Bit)
~ 68040 or higher processor (preferably in the Power Macintosh family)
~ 4 MB free RAM (just to be on the safe side...)
~ The following fonts: "Machine", "New Century Schoolbook" (both included in the "Apple Font Pack" that comes with most new Macs)
~ A 16-BIT COLOUR DISPLAY IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! (16 or 256 colours will still work, but won't look as nice. If your monitor can't display thousands
of colours, switch to the closest mode you have. If your display is in a different bit depth it may affect game speed, so don't go trying to display millions of colours or something...)
~ A mouse, and a sense of humour... :)
About Memory...
"Bob's Bricks '96™" will work if you have virtual memory turned on, however, it is recommended that you turn it off if you can for the smoothest possible operation. It is also recommended that you occasionally "compact" the program. You see, "Bob's Bricks" is in fact a HyperCard standalone application. As you may or may not be aware, HyperCard stacks have a tendency to "grow" with use, eating up extra memory that they don't really need. If you compact the stack periodically (say, every other time you launch it) it will ensure that the game always runs at its optimum capacity.
How To Play...
The concept behind "Bob's Bricks" is quite simple. You control the horizontal movement of Bob , the man at the bottom of the screen, by moving the mouse pointer to a specific point on screen and then having Bob follow it. You must attempt to catch the falling bricks on your head by moving under them before they land. You must also make sure that no more than 5 bricks get past you, or it's Game Over. Every 10 bricks you collect, the game level increases and things get more challenging (the bricks start falling faster).
You are awarded 50 points for every brick you successfully ... errm ... get hit on the head by, in an effort to beat the top score held by me (5200, thank you, thank you...). If at any point in the game you see a brick falling at the other side of the screen and fear that you may not get Bob there in time, if you have at least 500 points you can take a risk and press the mouse button. This warps the falling brick to another (hopefully closer) location on the screen, but it also lowers your score by the aforementioned 500 points. It's your choice whether you feel this is worth it or not...
...By the way, Bob's travel speed changes depending upon how far away the mouse pointer is from him (the farther away the pointer is, the faster Bob travels to catch up with it). Also, if you point off the left or right side of the window, Bob will disappear off of the corresponding end, and reappear at the other. This can be handy, or if you're not careful, disastrous...
We Need You!!
"Bob's Bricks '96™" was created and tested on a Power Macintosh with 8MB of RAM and a Power PC 603 chip @75MHz, running System Software 7.5.1. If this is your hardware configuration, the game should work fine. If not, we at Armadillo would be interested to hear about the results that you have had with your setup. You can E-Mail us at the following address:
azwald@io.org
Or, come to our home page on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.io.org/~azwald/armadillo.html
Also, if you have any questions or comments about us or our games (including upcoming releases...), please feel free to contact using the methods listed above.
ENJOY "BOB'S BRICKS '96!!™"
By The Way...
Although this game is freeware, the author (Greg Gillis) would appreciate being informed of any compilation discs or similar promotional material being released that contain "Bob's Bricks '96 Version 1.6d". A complimentary copy of the material in question would also be nice... Please use the methods listed above to get in touch with him in such a situation...
