After several months of exhaustive testing on all Amiga models from an armada
of testers, I have determined that all of my games will work on all Amigas
with sufficient memory. If any of them don't work, then go into the cli,
and type either "SET CPU" or "RESET VBR" or both, this will fix all previous
loading difficulties. Thanks to the people who told me that too :) :D (Actually, my A3000 uses the 030 chip, and some of my games were developed with it, so they definately work with it :).
******* MISDECLARATIONS... *******
I would like to fix a few misdeclarations floating around:
First of all, SplatterPaint wasn't used for my artwork, DPaint and
Brilliance were my tools for creating them (although they certainly
could have been made with Splatterpaint, but it would have taken
lots longer for me to pull it off :).
All of my games work with WB 1.3 (Including Mangled Fenders!),
the culprit there is noted above, that SET CPU and RESET VBR fix.
Also, I seem to have a new cellar, as well (a perfectly harmless
misdeclaration :).
I have also heard that my snow sculptures have melted, well, that is true :)
******* REVOLUTIONARY PRICING STRATEGY *******
Here it is! You can get any 2 disks of my armada of games for $5,
or just 1 disk for $3. These prices effectively negate previous declarations
(since it might be possible to combine them with this one and wind up with
the entire fleet of games for something less than I can afford :).
These are the FULL VERSIONS, which are only available directly
from me :).
Disk #1) Incinerator and CheckersConquest
Disk #2) Castle Incinerator and Conundrum
Disk #3) Mangled Fenders (V1.1)
Disk #4) SplatterPaint Version 1.67 (with some of my artwork)
SplatterPaint is freely distributible in it's full form, so spread this one :)
Puzzler Special) CheckersConquest and Conundrum
(Version numbers may increase, which is a good thing)
Mangled Fenders V1.1 has memory conservation code, and will
try to fit the game in available memory by substituting car graphics.
******* LEGAL STUFF FIRST :) :D *******
SplatterPaint must be distributed with all of it's files unaltered and present,
and all of it's files must be accompanied by SplatterPaint. All of the Icons
are copyright 1995 Pete W Storonskij, and only the icon that is saved on picture
files by SplatterPaint may be spread separately from the SplatterPaint program.
Any fees that anyone charges for distributing individual copies of SplatterPaint
MUST be at or below cost of materials plus cost of postage plus 50% of cost of
materials plus 50% of cost of postage. "materials" are defined as the disk or
CD plus and any correspondance mailed with the disk or CD plus the mailer.
******* CONSEALED FEATURES *******
Well, there are features that are not obvious if you didn't write any of the
code First, try any keyboard shortcuts that Brilliance or DPaint utilize, as
about half of them are supported. Other key strokes: ESC (escape key) will
quit the program, there is currently no other way to quit :) The "x" and "y"
keys flip the brush, and now have their own control panel. All other features
can be accessed from the control panels.
Some tools can be clicked on in different places to activate the filled mode.
Other tools can be clicked on with the non-left button on the mouse to activate
a preference requester for that tool.
******* EXCLUSIVE FEATURES *******
SplatterPaint has some rather weird features, like the regular polygon mode.
That isn't as weird as the Amoeba mode, which pales in comparison to my
lavishly exotic SPLATTERPAINT feature, for which my paint program gets
it's name :) :D
The SplatterPaint tool contains lots of awesome features:
* A flow rate bar so you can slow down the super fast fill for fine work.
* A size bar that, when used with both mouse buttons (one at a time), can
make donuts of various sizes.
* 2 different nozzle shapes, round and square.
* 3 different splatter settings, a regular area spray, a drip spray, and a
splatter spray.
* All of these functions may be used synergisticly to produce a tool of
awesome power.
The Amoeba tool can make blobs of various shapes and sizes. It can also be
filled, like all of the shape tools. The Polygon tool can make regular
polygons in the same way as the Amoeba mode. The newly added "curl" option for the Amoebas give this tool added usefulness.
******* SPLATTERPAINT'S FEATURES *******
SplatterPaint also sports lots of standard features that should be found in
all paint programs. I have about 50 features in this great program!
* 64 colors
* Color and Matte Modes (check updates for other modes)
* Coordinates
* Crosshairs
* Use either button for any tool
* Dotted Freehand
* Continuous Freehand
* Line
* Rectangle/Box
* Circle/Disk
* Ellipse/Filled Ellipse
* Regular Polygon: Open/Filled
* Regular Amoeba: Open/Filled
* SPLATTERPAINT Operations (Spraycan)
* Adjust Density
* Size Nozzle (donuts available)
* Shape Nozzle: Circle/Square
* Spray Type: Regular/Drip/Splatter
* Area Fill
* Magnify
* Select ANY size area for magnify.
* Brush Operations (Z rotation added in updates)
* Cut Brush
* Copy Brush
* Flip X
* Flip Y
* Matte
* Undo
* Lock (protect current screen)
* Wipe (clear screen)
* Palette Operations (new options in updates)
* Pick colors
* Modify colors
* Swap colors
* Copy colors
* Spread Range
* Load/Save IFF Format Pictures
* IT'S FREE!!!
******* VERSION 1.67 FEATURES UPDATE *******
* F1: COLOR painting mode
* F2: CYCLE painting mode
* F3: XOR painting mode
* F4: RANGE Painting mode
* F10: hide/show Control Panel.
* Default brush now expands to rectangles upto 100 pixels in the
x and y directions, independantly adjustable.
* Sprites used to mark current color and center of some functions
* Radiant Line (rays) drawing tool.
* "z" rotates custom brushes 90 degrees.
* New Control Panels:
click right on brush tool for brush options, x,y,z.
click right on coords for color mode options.
* Custom Brush size increased.
* TEXT! handled as a brush (type it in and place), found in brush tool.
* 8 Ranges of 8 colors (pick from any colors) in palette requester.
* CURL option added for Amoeba tool.
* PAL mode now auto-detected (and supported), YAY!
Discreprencies in some tools and options fixed (This one line is beginning to
cover a lot of ground, fixing old bugs, I just hope that I don't add any new ones).
I also fixed a couple of crashes. One crashed the program, and was my fault.
The other happened when you fill a star field with the fill tool, it crashed the
entire computer (causing it to make speaker noises too!). This was Blitz 1's
fill function (in my code, the fill function had only one line (FILL x,y,c)). Anyway,
I have developed my own fill algorithm that doesn't use a stack, and doesn't crash.
I have discovered that Blitz 1 truncates an angle before applying COS or SIN
functions to it (which caused my Amoebas to leave enormous gaps in the filled
shapes). I made an interpolation algorithm to fix this :). I also polished the
amoeba tool and added another option to "curl" the amoebas more or less.
I did some repairs to the Palette Requester, like giving the R,G,B sliders a
larger grab area and making the other buttons larger. I also added a cancel
button and a range construction area, at the special request of Patrick Pestel,
(I have implemented as many of his requested bug fixes as I could :).
(This list feels a bit short, but the new modes and tools have a synergistic
effect on the previous drawing tools)
******* AWESOME GAMES BY ME *******
In 1994, I have developed and released an entire fleet of 5 games.
These games have set new standards in the games industry, as will this paint
program, as it contains originality, professionalism, and an increasingly long
list of great features, standard and exclusive to me.
My games are simply the greatest ever to exist. They have the highest
quality graphics, gameplay, and ingenuity that exist only in my games!
In the first part of this document, I declared cheaper prices for my games, so
I have removed the original prices for full versions from the descriptions below.
CONUNDRUM is my abstract hexagon based board game, where the object is
to negate all of the colored tiles by placing them next to each other. This
game was inspired by all of those hexagonal floor tiles you commonly find on
bathroom floors. Despite the high level of abstraction, Conundrum is very
simple to play, and it is very addictive for any puzzle gamer.
MANGLED FENDERS is my top view, 6 player demo derby game, where the
objective is to destroy all of the other vehicles, by crashing into them.
There are cash awards to all the players, depending on the order in which
they are destroyed. There are different types of vehicles, so you can pick
the one that suits you. You can even pick multiple cars to one input device,
as a novelty feature.
* Both Joysticks Supported in Full Version! (as well as continued play)
* Skid marks are left on the ground when crashing.
* Cars have 3 stages of graphical portrayal of damage level.
Missing hood, Smoke, and Fire (then the explosion).
* Cars skid and slide realistically, and explode when destroyed.
* Intelligent computer opponents that seek you out.
(but the computer players still act stupid sometimes)
* 2 keyboard control sets added for people without joysticks.
Keyboard players are for just in case people don't have any
joysticks for the game. The keys must be presses repeatedly and not to be
held down (another Blitz 1 thing).
* NTSC & PAL modes supported and uses 64 colors.
* Hard Drive installable.
* Professional style fades between screens.
INCINERATOR is THE 3D missile attack/defend game, where you defend your city
from the enemy's missiles and helicopters, with your laser cannons, forcefields,
and super bombs. Every other round, you get to pulverize the enemy city, with
missiles of your own. It supports NTSC/PAL, is hard drive installable, has high
scores, and a secret cheat mode. It is shareware, and I throw in
Checkers Conquest, since it fits on the disk.
ONLY INCINERATOR IS 3D, ONLY INCINERATOR IS AWESOME!!! ONLY INCINERATOR
ALOWS YOU TO DESTROY AN ENEMY CITY!!! YAY!!!
CASTLE INCINERATOR is a graphics rewrite of Incinerator, with castles instead
of cities, and horses instead of missiles. The graphics are the only real
change, but WOW, they are so awesome. Well, I have had the chance to improve
it a bit more than that, as I have improved the sounds and gameplay too. I have
made what used to be the helicopter more powerful, as it can now drain the
shields with a special beam. Actually, the helicopter is now a giant bird, with
flapping wings instead of rotor blades. It was fun rewriting the docs for it.
It looked silly in text, having to defend a castle from flatulent horses, with
laser wielding mages. It will be available from me only, since I am greedy (well,
not really :), so it is another incentive to register with me.
Castle Incinerator is not distributible, and is only available directly from me.
CHECKERS CONQUEST is a checkers game with lots of features, and has
intelligent computer opponents. There are lots of options, including changing
the board layout, and showing possible threatened positions. There is no
demo version of Checkers Conquest, as the freely distributible version of it is
available almost anywhere, another testiment to my generosity. It is
"shareware" however, for a token amount, as it took a lot of my resources
to develop the game, and the graphics are really awesome too.
Gee, let's see, thats one... two... three... four... FIVE games, all released
in 1994, that was a lot of stuff, I should be exhausted by now, but no!
******* FUTURE GAMES *******
I am in the process of making an all new fleet of games, as well as
revamping my awesome originals, and anything else I think of :) :D
******* WRITE TO ME *******
My address is:
Pete W Storonskij
Incinerplex Games
200 A street
Lincoln, NE 68502
USA
Please specify which games you want, as I have written many games.
***** SHORT STORY *****
Here is a short story I wrote back in 1990, so the plot might be a bit rusty, and any acronyms of modern events is purely coincidental (ITO, oops :). You can consider the Armada pictures that are on the disk as illustrations of the story, whether they really are or not :)
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Several Years after the Thrantoxian planetary cloaking device became operational, and with the completed construction of a new and much larger fleet of Planet Cruisers, the Thrantoxians felt they were safe to explore the galaxy. The entire fleet of 10,000 Planet Cruisers was ready to leave the planet when the Ambiance Inhibitor was powered down. The energy plasma generators at the planet's poles slowly ceased pumping energy into the electromagnetic field and the image of the planet slowly emerged. The planet of Thrantox 4 was surrounded by a vast network of hexagonal space station sections, loosely interconnected by shafts of blue light. It was this design that enabled the Ambiance Inhibitors to cloak the planet.
Immediately, the Planet Cruisers began streaming through the spaces between the stations. Once all of the ships were clear of the planet, the Ambiance Inhibitors started to rebuild the field that would disguise the planet once again. The fleet of Planet Cruisers set their course to the location of the last battle. All of the ships powered up their main engines and left orbit of their planet in three thick waves and exited the star system.
After several days of flight, when the constellations deformed out of recognition, the Thantoxians knew they were getting close so they started to power down their engines. When they arrived at the battle area after a relatively short journey, they found that all of the ships destroyed in the last battle had formed sort of a globular asteroid field in the region that the battle was in. The Thrantoxians analyzed the debris and discovered that everything constructed by the enemy empire had been reduced to globs of radioactive dust. The Thrantoxians figured that the enemy empire had sent ships to the battle area and vaporized anything that could give away the enemy's technology. The debris from their own ships was still largely intact, so they decided to collect spare parts and install any undamaged weapons they found within the field.
After the Planet Cruisers were refitted, they powered up their engines and proceeded to go to the enemy's home planet, it's location still marked by a thin trail of radioactive dust. The planet was still covered with Super Planet Cruisers, but there was nothing orbiting the planet, and there was very little activity detected on the planet. The Thrantoxian fleet sent several messages to the enemy planet, and none of them received a reply. Half of the Planet Cruisers activated their Ambiance Inhibitors and broke off to explore the neighboring planets for ambush fleets that could unexpectedly ruin their efforts to destroy the enemy planet. The ships analyzed the other planets and found no signs of activity.
The Thrantoxian fleet grew tired of waiting, so they targeted the enemy ships on the planet, but their laser guidance systems were compromised by the thick atmosphere. The Thrantoxians knew they couldn't use their laser weapons, so they started to bombard the enemy fleet with their arrays of missiles. The missiles appeared to be hitting their targets, but there was no damage. The Thrantoxians were about to give up when one of their missiles had detonated in the center of a region of ships and had destroyed all of the ships in that region. Analysis of that region showed that there were large amounts of radioactive dust in the atmosphere around the destroyed enemy ships. The Thrantoxians were confused by this, so they started a simulation to comprehend this phenomenon.
The enemy ships didn't respond. There didn't seem to be anyone on the entire planet. There were no defence systems, and the enemy ships were being destroyed too easily. They decided to wait until the simulation was solved. When it was, they discovered that there were large deposits of radioactive metals in the ground located under the centers of the regions of ships. This coupled with the atmospheric phenomenon would produce the effect of magnifying and multiplying the images of anything sitting on the deposits from an orbital viewpoint.
The Thrantoxians decided to continue their target practice, concentrating their efforts on the centers of the regions of ships. Soon the planet was blanketed with a thick cloud of radioactive dust, rendering it uninhabitable. The fleet that was sent off to explore had discovered that there was a second, faint trail of radioactive dust that continued out of the system in another direction. They had once again powered up their engines and decided to follow the trail to whatever lies ahead.
After travelling about twice as far as they had come, they had followed the trail to a system of synthetically constructed planets. They immediately cloaked half or their ships for protection. There was an asteroid belt here, similar to the debris field at the battle scene so the Thrantoxians figured that the enemy fleet was vaporized. Further analysis of the asteroid belt showed something very strange. There was very large lettering written in the radioactive dust that said "WELCOME TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE INTERGALACTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION". The fleet had recieved a message directing them to land on one of the planets in the system and meet in the conference room in the largest planet. After docking their ships in convienent parking garages burrowed deep into the synthetic planets, the Thrantoxians took transport ships to the conference room where they met the leaders of the enemy empire.
The enemy leaders continued to explain how there was a really large battle between all of the intergalactic empires at this location, and that the loss of ships was so great that they could no longer defend their empires. They continued to explain how they all got together to build a system of synthetic planets that would be the Headquarters for the Intergalactic Treaty Organization. they also said that they had mistakenly built their fleet of Super Planet Cruisers out of radioactive metals that decayed in a few years.
After a discussion concerning he future of the universe, the leaders of the enemy empire said that they would send transport ships to Thrantox 4 to fill them in on the details and show them around the synthetic star system. The Thrantoxians wanted to use their own ships, and this is when the leader of the enemy empire said that this was all a trick to destroy the planet of Thrantox and all of it's inhabitants. They also said that the Thrantoxian Planet Cruisers were already being destroyed by their own forces. The conference room had become a war zone. The Thrantoxians headed off to the transport ships and signaled their fleet of the fiasco.
This is when half of the Thrantoxian fleet emerged from the asteroid belt where they were waiting to make sure this wasn't a trap or anything like that. 5,000 Thrantoxian Planet Cruisers armed to the teeth with lasers and missiles came down on the planets in gigantic sheet-like formations and blasted away at the surfaces of the planets. They destroyed several hundered enemy Super Planet Cruisers that were streaming out of the planets, and damaged the surfaces of the planets. Panels broke away from the planets revealing natural planets plated with extensive armor that was designed to make them look artificially constructed.
About a thousand Thrantoxian ships and a few hundered hijacked transport ships escaped from the parking garages that looked suspiciously like incinarators. 20,000 enemy Super Planet Cruisers emerged from the planets firing all of their weapons at the attacking Planet Cruisers. The Thrantoxian fleet flew their ships close to the planet surfaces in their sheet-like formations that wrapped around the planets. They bombarded the planets as they fired thick laser volleys at the enemy Super Planet Cruisers. The Thrantoxian ships broke out of their orbits simultaneously and flew in their formations like gigantic intergalactic knives, splitting up the main mass of the enemy fleet.
The enemy Super Planet Cruisers were picking off the Thrantoxian ships much faster than the Thrantoxians were destroying them, so the largest Thrantoxian sheet formation proceeded to the smallest planet in the system and wrapped themselves evenly around the planet. This is when they extended their Field Ambiance Inhibitors around the planet making it disappear. The rest of the Thrantoxian fleet led the Super Planet Cruisers on a collision course with the cloaked planet. The plan had worked as the enemy ships crashed into the planet thinking that the Thrantoxians were trying to retreat.
After the battle, all of the enemy ships were destroyed and only one quarter of the Thrantoxian ships had survived. The Thrantoxians sent their ships home, as they were once again victorious over a really large enemy empire.
