Steel Fighters is a traditional 2d space shoot-em-up, where two to eight players fire at each other with odd weaponry while trying to maneuver their own ship in narrow caves. The element of exitement is produced by almost continous action and the task of protecting your own ship while trying to destroy the others.
Steel Fighters is a shareware product. You are allowed to test this software for 30 days. After test time you should register (see Registration dokument) or remove it from your computer. Unregistered version has some limitations.
2. Requirements:
- CPU: PowerPC or better
- Screen: 16 bit color and at least 640x480 resolution
- Memory: 4541 kb
- Disk space: 2 Mb
- Input Sprocket
- QuickTime
3. Players
Steel Fighter 1.2 has five CPU players plus three CPU or human players. Players can be set on from PLAYERS section.
Steel Fighters has five control buttons for each player. Three control buttons and two gunning buttons. Controls can be modified in Options/Controls.
Default Controls:
Throttle Left Right Primaryweapon Secondweapon
Player 1: ArrowUP ArrowLEFT ArrowRIGHT Ctrl Option
Player 2: Num8 Num4 Num6 Num5 Num0
Player 3: W A D S Shift
Esc: Pause
F1: Reinit pointers
F2: Screenshots
4. Troubleshooting
Errors
Out of memory: Increase the amount of memory allocated to Steel Fighters.
Other problems
No sounds: Make sure that the sounds file is located in the same folder as the Steel Fitghters application.
No graphics during game: Press f1. If this does not help, change the screen copy mode to "QuickDraw" from the graphics menu.
Freezing and crashing:
1. Make sure that virtual memory is off.
2. Do no put wrong files to the "Stages" or "Musics" folders.
3. Remove "Data" -file
5. Info screen
Speed tips:
1. Increase the framerate
2. Set parallax (background) to off.
3. Set the resolution to 640x480
4. Set screen copy to interlace
5. Set the game to two player mode
6. Switch the music off
7. Reboot your machine with as few extensions as possible
8. Set Filesharing to off, AppleTalk to off and quit other applications
9. Set virtual memory to off
10. Switch RAM doubler off
Setting the resolution - Press option while starting the game.
Custom levels - Put custom levels to the "Stages" folder. Levels can be creates with StageIT editor.
Music - Put music files to the "Music" folder. Supported formats are QuickTime, MOD and s3m.
6. Important
This software and manual are distributed “as is” and without any warranty, express or implied, including but not limited to non-infringement of third party rights, performance or merchantability.
This program is distributed without any express or implied warranties whatsoever. Because of the diversity of conditions and hardware under which this program may be used, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. The user is advised to test the program thoroughly before relying on it. The user must assume the entire risk of using the program. The author will assume no liability for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of this software, including loss or interruption of business, accidental loss of data, or damage to computer equipment, or for any claim by a third party.
The author does not guarantee that this Software will work in every environment. Specifically, no guarantee is made about the performance of the Software under a network, served disk, or multi-user system. This Software is not guaranteed to work on Macintosh-compatible computers not manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc., or on Macintosh computers that did not exist at the time the program was written. It is not guaranteed to work in the presence of INITs, system extensions, or other software which modifies the operating system, system traps, or other portions of the software as provided by Apple Computer.
Redistribution of registartion numbers is prohibited.
7. History
1.2 (5 December1999)
-Fixed memory error
-8 players (3 human/CPU -players +5 CPUs)
-Better documentation
-CPU upgrade
-Bug fixes
-”Killed by Untitled” = “Self-destruction”
-etc..
1.1 (16 November 1999)
-First global release
8. Authors:
Programming: Pekka Sarkimo: psarkimo@hotmail.com
Graphics and level design: Ilkka Jahnukainen: nukeware@dlc.fi
Web: www.intsys.fi/steelfighters/ or:
www.steelfighters.cjb.net
Comments, bug reports and quiestions can be freely sent to us.
