⌐ 1997-99 Yellow Lemon Software, all rights reserved.
What is Hyperspeed?
Hyperspeed is a Space Invaders type game, just a lot better than most of what╒s out on the Mac market nowadays. You are the pilot of an Exodus SSC-12 spacecraft, with which you will fight off an alien invasion threatening to crush the Alliance of Unioned Planets.
The SSC is at first equipped only with a plasma cannon, but soon you will get a number of great power-ups that will upgrade your cannons with tripple shots, grenades, and more. More details can be found on the help screens in the game. (Press H on the main screen.)
Requirements
Hyperspeed requires 6 mb of RAM, a 640x480 screen and a PowerMac. External speakers of some sort is nice to have if you want full sound enjoyment. Hyperspeed is fully OS 8 and 8.5 compatible. In addition, Hyperspeed requires that you have Apple's DrawSprocket installed, version 1.1.2 or later. This, as well as all the others of Apple's Game Sprockets can be found at these URLs:
<http://til.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/search> [Do a search for Sprockets]
<http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Misc/GameSprockets_1.5.smi.bin> [This link may change]
Shareware
Hyperspeed is a shareware product. That means that if you like it, you should pay $15 to register it. You can use the provided Register application or pay with cash or a money order directly to the address below.
* Please note that there are discounts available. Each copy up to the tenth costs $15, if you buy more copies that that, each copy is $10. If you buy more than 25 copies, each copy of Hyperspeed is priced at $7. Site and world licenses are available at $500 and $2000 (not very realistic for a game, though).
More information on payment can be found in the document Paying for Hyperspeed, which includes useful information about how to use the Register program and what to do when you have used it.
Yellow Lemon Software can be contacted via e-mail or snail-mail at these addresses:
E-mail:
yls@kagi.com [notice: this is a forwarding address to stoedle@online.no below]
stoedle@online.no
Snail-mail:
Yellow Lemon Software
Daniel St┐dle
Fogd Dreyersgt. 21
N-9008 Troms┐
NORWAY
Please support shareware and pay for Hyperspeed. Upon registration, you will receive a code which will allow you to personalize Hyperspeed. This code will also prevent the registration reminder from being displayed every time you run Hyperspeed. Please make sure you enter your name and registration code exactly as typed on your registration card, and the number of copies you bought. If you have problems entering your code, contact me on any of the above addresses, and I will try to help you out.
If you have any comments, bugs, or suggestions, please report them to either of the above addresses. You can also send any questions you may have to those addresses.
Documentation for Hyperspeed is included in the document Hyperspeed Docs, which should be in a folder called "Documentation". More extensive information about paying for Hyperspeed can also be found in that folder.
For updates, info and other products from Yellow Lemon Software, please check out the YLS web page, located at <http://home.sol.no/~stoedle/YLS/>.
Important
Do not change the name of the Hyperspeed Levels file. If you do, Hyperspeed will not be able to find the levels. If you do rename it (for whatever reasons you may have), you have to options:
- double click on the renamed Hyperspeed Levels file (this will temporarily tell Hyperspeed to use this file) or
- re-rename the file to "Hyperspeed Levels"
Multiple monitors and resolution switching
Hyperspeed does not currently allow you to select a monitor to play on. This will, however, change in a future version. I did not have the time to implement monitor selection for 1.1, even though the basic functionality exists within DrawSprockets.
Hyperspeed will not mess up your desktop icon arrangements when changing the resolution.
Level editor
Hyperspeed obviously has a level editor. This editor doesn╒t have the benefit of a 100% Mac-like user-interface, which is why it is not included with Hyperspeed. It is, however, available upon request. You do not need to be a registered user to use the level editor, though be aware that it does have some bugs (it doesn╒t crash, sometimes it just behaves odd). The level editor requires Apple╒s Navigation Services to work.
Known bugs
- Occasionally, static pixel residue will occur on screen during games.
- Sometimes, the sounds will be played after the action has taken place.
- If you attempt to drag any of the "draggable" dialogs in Hyperspeed around on the screen, the screen may not be updated correctly. Sorry about that...
Legal stuff
Hyperspeed is ⌐ 1997-99 Yellow Lemon Software, all rights reserved.
You have permission to distribute Hyperspeed on any media you wish.
The Apple Game Sprockets, DrawSprocket and Apple are all registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
Yellow Lemon Software does not take any responsibility for loss of data, crashes or other bad things that can happen to your Mac while playing Hyperspeed. Hyperspeed has been tested extensively on a variety of Macs, and has been found to be quite bug free. The known bugs are stated above in the section "Known bugs." There are to my knowledge no bugs that will crash Hyperspeed.
