home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
- Welcome to SPACE-TAXI
- ---------------------
- Version 2.0
-
- SpaceTaxi is Freeware. Play it and spread it.
-
- This is a clone from the old game on the C64.
- There can be up to three players simultaneously
- or six players after another. You must pick up
- those tiny men and bring them to another pad.
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
- First you have to copy the fonts into the FONTS:
- Directory.
-
- 1> copy FROM SpaceTaxi2/Fonts/#? TO Fonts: all
-
- Also the 'diskfont.library' is needed in the
- LIBS:. The game should run on all Amigas.
- There is an OptionWindow to switch between PAL
- and NTSC.
-
- Scores
- ------
- After a passenger has enterd your taxi, a clock
- starts to count down. When the passenger
- arrives, you get the remaining points or at
- least 10 points. If you complete a level before
- the bonus-time has run out, you'll get 10 points
- for every remaining second. After you made all
- levels of one skillgroup, you'll get 100 points
- for every remaining taxi. Crashes will cost you
- points. At first 100, then 50 and then 25
- points for each.
-
-
- Keys
- ----
-
- Keys in the titlescreen:
-
- F1 - number of players
- F2 - teammode or singlemode
- F3 - skill
- SPACE - start game
- F9 - option-window
- ESC - end game
- F10 - clear hiscoretables
-
- InGame keys:
- ESC - abort game
- P - pause game
-
-
- Technical Details
- -----------------
- Tested on A2000 and A1200, should also run on
- all others. Multitasking is switched off only
- temporary while on gamescreen. The music is
- replayed by a routine from Teijo Kinnunen's
- great MED3.2.
-
- If you have problems with your
- harddisk-controller, then you should try to
- start the game by clicking on the icon
- "SpaceTaxi_from_ram". This script will copy all
- data into ram: and after the program ended will
- copy back the hiscore and pref-files. But you
- may need 2 MB ram for that.
-
-
- OptionsWindow
- -------------
- If you press F9 in the titlescreen, an option
- window appears. Here you can make your choices
- via mouse or keyboard:
-
- -Music on/off
- : turns on/off titlemusic and jingles between levels
-
- -SFX on/off/music
- : if switched to 'music' a med-module will be played
- : in game. Use your own modules by copying them
- : into data/meds/ and renaming them to 'med.0' to 'med.4'
-
- -Intro on/off
- : if you turn it off, the intro won't come
- : up the next time you run the game
-
- -Anim Speed slow/fast
- : 'fast' means faster fade in and out
- : and faster passenger-animations
-
- -Thrustsound on/off
-
- -Path to SpeechSamples
- : here you can specify a path to a different sampleset
-
- -Display NTSC/PAL
- : NTSC 236 rasterlines overscan or Pal 256 lines
-
- -4PlayerAdapter on/off
- : turn it off if a printer is connected or some
- : minor errors in the joystick-routines may occur
-
- -Load from HD/Disk/Ram
- : if switched to disk, the program will wait
- : after loading to let the diskdrive turn off
- : ram means, that datas are loaded from ram:
- : the "SpaceTaxi_from_ram"-script uses this option
-
- -Speed slow/medium/fast
- : the joystick-sensibility
-
- -Port1,Port0,Keyboard
- : if you choose keyboard you also can use
- : a joystick plugged into a 4PlayerAdapter
- : port0 is the mouseport
-
- -AutoGear on/off
- : if on, the landing-gears are drawn in
- : automatically after lift-off
-
- If you leave the window via the 'save'-Gadget,
- the settings are written to the file 'data/pref'
- and will be loaded the next time.
-
-
- Your Own SampleSet
- ------------------
- If you have an audiosampler, you can sample your
- own set of speech-samples. Put your samples
- into a new directory as IFF-8SVX samples. Then
- specify the path in the options-window. Now you
- should hear your own samples. You'll need the
- following ten sample-files:
-
- 1.8svx 6.8svx
- 2.8svx heytaxi.8svx
- 3.8svx pad.8svx
- 4.8svx please.8svx
- 5.8svx thankyou.8svx
-
- Send me your own creations (uuencodet E-mail)
- and I will add them to the next version of
- SpaceTaxi.
-
- History:
- ---------
- v1.0 06/06/94
-
- v1.01 06/20/94
- NTSC version only with 236 lines overscan
- titlescreen now has got intuition-screen-name "SpaceTaxi"
- one version with verticalblank-musicplayer
- level 6 (what a silly bug was that)
- choose every level
- consuming fuel only at thrust
- in PAL-mode taxi has to leave screen completely at end of level
-
- v2.0 09/29/94
- you can hear and see thrusts
- some bugs removed
- new levels
- taxi won't crash on running out of fuel
- rough landing
- options-window
- different sample-sets
- skill groups with their own hiscores
- single game mode
- intro
- AllocMiscResource for 4JoystickAdapter
- titlepic and congratulations-screen
- Author
- ------
- Comments, suggestions or more-level-requests should go to
-
- Andreas Spreen
- Zum Hilgenpad 2
- 32351 Stemwede-Arrenkamp
- Germany
-
-