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- Tronic Instructions
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- Within this file:
-
- Cursor up / down
- to scroll
- or
- Page Up / Page Down
- to scroll fast
-
- ESCape, Enter, or Space
- returns to DOS.
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- System Requirements
-
- - 80486 or higher recommended
- - 1 Meg of memory
- - 2 Megs free hard drive space
- - VGA graphics card
- - MS-DOS (or DOS shell in Windows)
-
- Optional
-
- - mouse
- - SoundBlaster, SB 16, SB Pro, PAS 16,
- Gravis Ultrasound, Ensoniq Soundscape,
- Windows Sound System, GUSMAX CODEC,
- or Aria sound cards
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-
- Tronic GAME PLAY (Finally!)
-
-
- Goal
- ----
- Use the racket, controlled by the arrow
- keys or mouse, to hit the balls. The
- balls will destroy the bricks. When all
- the bricks for a level have been
- cleared, the player will advance to the
- next level.
-
- Special Keyboard Controls
- -------------------------
-
- ESCape key: Go back to the main menu
-
- m: Toggles music on/off
-
- p: Pause the game in progress
-
- Racket
- ------
- Use the left and right arrow keys or
- the mouse to move the racket. When the
- vertical racket is in play, the up and
- down arrow keys may also be used.
-
- There are 6 different kinds of rackets,
- all with different properties. The
- rackets will change when the appropriate
- 'gadget' is caught. In addition, the
- racket will grow longer or shorter,
- depending on the gadgets caught.
-
- Some of the racket types are:
-
- Normal Racket:
- Use left and right arrow keys or the
- mouse to control
-
- Vertical Racket:
- Move up and down with the arrow up/down
- keys or the mouse
-
- Glue Racket:
- Ball will stick to racket until space
- or mouse button is pressed
-
- Fire Racket:
- Will allow player to 'shoot' bricks with
- the spacebar or mouse button
-
- Robot Racket:
- Works by itself to automatically hit
- balls
-
- Balls
- -----
- The racket is used to hit the balls.
- The balls will become larger if the
- appropriate 'good' gadgets are collected
- with the racket. There are 3 types of
- balls:
-
- Yellow:
- The normal ball
-
- Purple:
- Use the spacebar to control direction of
- these balls
-
- Green:
- Will destroy everything in their path
-
- Bricks
- ------
- The bricks are destroyed when hit by a
- ball. All bricks must be cleared before
- advancing to the next level. Bricks can
- also be destroyed by using the fire
- racket or using Gigablitz. There are
- 3 different types of bricks
-
- Destructible:
- Will disappear immediately when hit by
- a ball
-
- Semi-Destructible:
- Must be hit several times before they
- are destroyed, depending on the size or
- 'strength' of the ball
-
- Indestructible:
- Can not be destroyed by a yellow or
- purple ball. However, can be destroyed
- with the 'Gigablitz' weapon (see below).
-
-
- Gigablitz
- ---------
- The racket can fire rockets at any time
- by using the special Gigablitz weapon.
- To activate Gigablitz, hold down the
- 'ALT' key and wait for the red Gigablitz
- indicator to reach the top. The trick
- is, in order to use Gigablitz, NO balls
- must hit the racket, or the Gigablitz
- sequence will be aborted!
-
- Scorebar
- --------
- The scorebar will display the number of
- gems collected so far, the current
- player's name and current score,
- the current level and remaining lives,
- as well as the high scorer's name and
- high-score on the right-hand side of the
- Tronic screen. The Gigablitz indicator
- is located on the very bottom of the
- scorebar.
-
- Aliens
- ------
- Aliens will appear and fly around the
- playfield. The aliens can be destroyed
- with the balls, rockets, or Gigablitz.
- Sometimes when an alien is destroyed, it
- will release a special 'gadget' piece
- (see below).
-
- Gadgets
- -------
- Gadgets fall when a brick or alien is
- destroyed and may be caught with the
- racket to activate that gadget.
-
- BEWARE! There are good and bad gadgets.
- If an indestructible brick is hit,
- sometimes it will release a bad gadget,
- so try to minimize the number of hits
- to this type of brick.
-
- Good Gadgets:
- B: More balls
- R: Activate robot racket
- T: Enlarge racket (tall racket)
- A: Anti-brick gun (fires rockets)
- P: Power balls (enlarge balls)
- V: Vertical racket (use up/down arrows)
- G: Glue on racket (spacebar to release)
- S: Slow down racket
- M: Mega racket (actived for 30 seconds)
-
- Bad Gadgets:
- S: Subtract points
- I: Invert racket movement
- F: Fast racket
- T: Shrink racket
-
- Special Gadgets:
- N: Next level
- L: Last level
- X: Surprise!
-
- Level Editor
- ------------
- To make your own Tronic levels, use the
- level editor. The level editor only
- works with the mouse, not the arrow
- keys!
-
- Hit the spacebar to toggle between the
- level and the brick selection screen.
- Use the left mouse button on the brick
- selection screen to select a brick color
- and style.
-
- On the level screen, use the left mouse
- button to stamp down the piece selected
- and use the right mouse button to erase
- a piece.
-
- When you are satisfied with your level,
- hit the 's' key to save it to disk.
-
- Hit the ESCape key to try the level out!
- Then hit ESCape again to return to the
- main menu.
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-