idin 2.1 - July 1998 - Please visit http://gemjm.home.ml.org or write to gemjm@kagi.com - ReadMe! file.
• Package
• Basics
• Loading external files
• The computer IE
• Comments
• Where to find more external files
• This is shareware so…
• Distributing
• What about idin 1.0
• Legal Words
Package:
This game should come with some more files:
- This file, named ReadMe!
- A file named "Building your level"
- A Netscape™ Navigator link to our internet site (http://gemjm.home.ml.org )
- The Register application, to register every Gemjm product
- Three playable .idin files, including the file standard.idin that will automatically be loaded every time you start idin 2.0
If the file standard.idin isn't there, you'll not be able to start playing idin, so don't trash it.
Basics:
The game is quite simple: Each player controls a (flying) machine (an helicopter in the files that came with the app) and has to make the other one crash. When one of the players (or maybe both) has crashed, the game can be restarted from zero, and you can continue like this for hours and hours. For informations about the Human vs. Computer option, please read the chapter "The computer artificial intelligence".
Loading external files:
The standard file that was used in idin 1.0 was getting a little boring, so I developed an external files reading structure. To load one of the external files, select the menu "Select Scenario" (or type Option - O). Select the file that you want to load, and click OK.
The computer artificial intelligence:
Heh... the computer AI is not really intelligent: Probably, if you let the computer fly without touching your controls, it will be hit by something in no time. But that isn't fun: try playing against him as you'd do against a friend, and so it will be fun, really fun.
Comments:
Thaaaaaanks to Jonas Echterhoff for his GREAT bug fixes, and to Ramon Cohenzli for the Splash Screen.
Where to find more external files:
Now that i'm writing this ReadMe file, the only .idin files all around the world are here on my HD. Try visiting our homepage: if you're searching for .idin files, that's the right place. There's only one limitation for external files: the size. the person who wrote the external file can decide the size of the level, and every other option.
This is shareware, so…
So till you register you'll be annoyed a lot by dialogs, writings and so on... To pay, open the Register app bundled, fill the fields and follow the given steps. There's also another way to register, and it's also a bit faster: online! Go to http://order.kagi.com/?G98 and follow the steps given there. This is 10$ US.
Distributing:
idin 2.0 can be distributed on magazines if first you ask us! single users can give it to friends, brothers, but only distributing the original version and not distributing the #code they paid for. more infos? gemjm@kagi.com !
What about idin 1.0?
That was the first app i ever developed. It was quite one year ago, and toke me months of developing. It had no computer IE, no external files and the input keys were a lot limited. You still can play it, playing the file standard.idin that is automatically loaded every time you start the game.
Legal words:
This software, idin 2.1, is provided to the user "AS IS". Gemjm makes no warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the software, idin 2.1, and/or associated materials supplied to the user, including but not limited to any merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or against infringement. Gemjm does not warrant that the functions contained in the software will meet your requirements, or that the operation of the software will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects in the software will be corrected. Furthermore, Gemjm does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the result of the use of this software or any associated documentation in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. No oral or written information or advice given by Gemjm authorized representatives shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of this warranty.
