This archive is provided to the user at no charge and is freely distribuable.
You are encouraged to distribute the Vitamin demo for non-commercial use with the following restrictions:
• You may distribute the full Vitamin archive but not individual files.
• You may not modify this archive in any way.
• You may not charge any fee for the use, copying or distribution of the product.
• User groups may charge a nominal fee (not to exceed $10) for expenses while distributing Vitamin. All other organizations must obtain written permission to distribute copies of the Vitamin demo if any fee is charge for the use, copying or distribution of the product.
II) Registration
If you like Vitamin and continue to use it beyond the 30 day free trial period, you are required to register.
When you register you receive the complete unlocked game which includes several new levels and many many incredible new strange monsters and animations. Look at the registration form for more informations.
III) The Game
The main purpose of Vitamin is to attempt to stay alive up to the last level where you'll have to fight with the insane BigRedHead which lives in the Valley of Dead (brrrr...). But it is not so simple, because you're only a small mosquito (oooh no!) and there are some hideous ghastly atrocious (and stupid) monsters who enter into an alliance with the horrible BigRedHead and they will try to eat you (to say not more). Good news are that all these monsters are
full of vitamins and when they explose you have the possibility to get these famous pink vitamins. Can't you guess? Sure a mosquito does not really need to eat vitamin, but these vitamins will allow you to buy some incredible weapons if you stay alive up to the shop.
Note about the shop: Try to buy the right stuff at the right time. If you think that one of your objects (a shield for example) is very damaged you can rebuy a new one, even if it is has not been destroyed. The old object will be replaced by the new one (but you don't receive vitamins for the old object!).
IV) Configuration
• Direct-to-screen draw: To allow fast animation, Vitamin draws images directly to the screen without using the MacOS. It may cause some problems if you're using a special graphic card. If you disable this option Vitamin will use the MacOS to update its animation (it will slow down the game).
• Allowing multitasking: By default Vitamin stops multitasking during the game play. If you want that background applications continue to work during the game just enable this option (it will slow down the game).
• Low resolution vs high resolution: A special low resolution mode has been designed to allow the game to work on 680x0 systems. Most of the time Vitamin requires at least a 68040 to run correctly (even in low resolution). Low resolution graphics are not included in the archive and are built at the run time (it takes a couple of minutes). First time you start the application on a 680x0 Macintosh, Vitamin will ask you if you want to build low resolution graphics. If you cancel, high resolution graphics will be used. You can at any time enable or disable low resolution graphics in the configuration dialog box. If you're running Vitamin on a PowerMac, high resolution is always used by default.
• Keyboard control: If you're not using a joystick, Vitamin requires that you press several keys at the same time (specially in the two players mode). Pressing more than two keys on a Mac keyboard does not always work. Default keys have been selected to allow you to play in the one or two players modes using a standard extended Mac keyboard. You can change these default keys in the configuration dialog box, but some key combinations not always work (it is an hardware limitation).
Vitamin supports three special key controls:
Escape: During game play, allows you to return to title page.
s: Sound on/off
Command-q: Allows you to quit at anytime.
V) About speed
Vitamin has been designed for PowerMac and fast 68040 Macintosh. The version 1.0.1 introduces several new optimizations which allow the game to be really faster on 680x0 Macintosh. However Vitamin is a very
CPU intensive application and the game can slow down when too many objects are displayed on screen
depending of the power of you 68k CPU.
Please note that the two players mode requires more CPU power than the one player mode.
