Anoid is a clone in the mould of Breakout (bats, balls, bricks ect). Its powerfully adictive and great care has gone into the gameplay factor which is sadly missed in a lot of games these days. Anoid has been tested for 2 months after its completion by games players of all ages and I have listened to their feedback and tweaked Anoid to provide a Game that is challenging but not so hard as to cause disinterest.
In this version there are 10 levels to complete and if you wish to register I will send you the full version containing 50 levels plus the ability to start on higher levels.
How to play.
Anoid can be run from your hard drive or floppy, just enter ANOID at the dos prompt. Anoid checks the speed of your computer so it will run at the same speed on an old 386 or a Pentium.
At the title screen F1 starts the game, F2 shows the high scores (which are saved to disk) F3 displays registering info and F4 exits to dos.
The bat is moved left and right by the mouse and the left mouse button is used for releasing the ball and also for certain power-ups like lasers.
You can control the angle the ball bounces off the bat by hiting the ball in the middle or edges of the bat, the nearer the edge the steeper the angle.
During the game F1 & F2 will turn the sound on and off, "P" will pause the game and "esc" will exit to the title screen.
The space bar is also used to advance to the next level when there are 5 or less bricks left on screen, although when using this you forefeit your end of level bonus. This was implemented because some players got fed up taking ages trying to hit the last few bricks on screen.
Sometimes when a brick is hit it transforms into a power-up tile, these float down the screen and to obtain the power-up you must catch them with your bat. Some are a godsend (some are not!)
