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- VGA Muck Men from Mars
-
- Version 1.11
-
- (c) Copyright 1991, 1992 Christopher R. Kraai
-
- Portions of code
- (c) Copyright 1985-89 Borland International, Inc.
-
-
- System Requirements:
- ====================
-
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or 100% compatible.
- VGA compatible graphics card and monitor.
- 256k RAM
-
-
- Introduction:
- =============
-
- You are Duke Skytripper, space explorer extraordinaire. While returning
- to earth from a successful beer run to a small planet somewhere in the
- vicinity of Betelgeuse, your ship was hit by a wandering piece of space
- debris. Fortunately, you managed to steer your crippled star ship
- towards a nearby planet. Drawing on all of your piloting luck, you
- managed to land, er... crash your ship in one, er... several pieces.
-
- After salvaging what you could from the wreckage, you set off across the
- noxious swamp land that seemed to cover the entire planet. Suddenly, a
- loud phawaumphing sound arose from the mire. Swinging around, you were
- confronted by a group of hideous greenish colored slime-creatures. You
- recognised them instantly as Martians. How they got to this backwater
- planet you don't know, but one thing is certain. They are not happy to
- see you.
-
- Gripping your napalm blaster, you prepare for the first wave of the Muck
- Men from Mars...
-
-
- Game Instructions:
- ==================
-
- To execute the game, simply enter VGAMUCK at the DOS prompt.
-
- The objective is to kill all of the muck men without getting killed
- yourself. There are two ways to do this. First, if two muck men run
- in to each other they will become stuck together in a big glob of
- quivering muck. The other way to incapacitate the muck men is with your
- handy AG-46 assault napalm blaster. Unfortunately, it was damaged when
- your ship crashed and will only recharge fast enough for you to get one
- shot off each level.
-
- The game controls are simple:
-
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- 4 6 -- The cursor keys control movement.
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-
- F1 -- Engages your Blink-O-Matic teleportation device. The teleporter
- is totally random, so user beware. You may teleport to a spot
- even worse than the one you left!
-
- F2 -- Fires your napalm blaster. This will destroy EVERYTHING in any
- adjacent areas. Due to damage taken when your ship crashed, you
- will only be able to fire it once per level.
-
- F3 -- Toggles the sound on and off.
-
- Esc -- Quits back to DOS.
-
- Alt-H -- Brings up the on-line help screen.
-
- Hitting any other key will cause you to stand still for that turn.
-
-
- Scoring:
- ========
-
- As Duke Skywalker, you recieve 50 points for every Muck Man you lure into
- getting stuck. You also get a bonus 500 points for every level you
- successfully complete. You do not recieve any points for killing Muck
- Men with your napalm blaster as this is a cheesy and underhanded way to
- destroy Muck Men. Any satisfaction gleaned from crisping Muck Men with
- your napalm blaster is, however, yours to keep.
-
- The high score file(s) may be reset at any time by typing RESETSCR at the
- DOS prompt.
-
-
- Version history:
- ================
-
- 1.11 -- Fixed bug in high score checking.
- Cleaned up high score display.
- (Released 12/17/91.)
-
- 1.10 -- Fixed scoring so that a Muck Man running into one that had
- already moved was figured correctly.
- Added the 500 point bonus for completing a level.
- Added status box displaying score and the number of Muck Men
- remaining on the level.
- Increased maximum score range from 32,000 to a whopping 2 billion.
- Fixed the Exit key so that it was not registered as a move.
- Improved background colors and added graphic screen clear.
- Added an on-line help screen.
- Added high score files.
- (Released 12/15/91.)
-
- 1.04 -- Fixed the sound on/off toggle so that the sound no longer turned
- back on at the start of each level.
- (Released 12/12/91.)
-
- 1.03 -- Fixed program so that sound on/off would not be registered as
- a move.
- Also fixed program so that attempting to fire an "empty" napalm
- blaster would not be registered as a move.
- (Released 12/11/91. See a trend here?)
-
- 1.02 -- Added scoring to allow for competition.
- (Released 12/11/91.)
-
- 1.01 -- Fixed keyboard input so that Num Lock no longer needed to be set
- to off.
- (First version released 12/9/91.)
-
- 1.00 -- First working version.
- (Unreleased.)
-
-
- One final note:
- ===============
-
- This program is absoluteley free. It may be copied and exchanged freely.
- It may not be sold, nor may it be included as part of any commercial
- package without the author's express written consent. If for some reason
- you are weird enough to wish to make a contribution to the author
- (whether in gratitude or out of lunacy), donations may be sent to:
-
- Chris Kraai
- P.O. Box 3601
- Mankato, MN 56001
-
- $5 is suggested. Shareware distribution houses may charge no more than
- $5 to recoup copying and distribution fees for this software.
-
- Alternately, the author may be contacted via e-mail on internet at the
- following address:
-
- Oogla@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
-
- I hope you enjoy this program.