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- ║ - AVENGER v1.0a - ║
- ║ SHAREWARE ║
- ║ Made in Finland ║
- Copyright(C) 1996, Deadline/Rooster
- Check out our web site: http://www.megabaub.fi/~sjv
-
- 1: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- 2: ABOUT THE GAME
- 3: HOW TO ORDER THE REGISTERED VERSION OF AVENGER
- 4: WHAT WILL BE IN REGISTERED VERSION
- 5: ABOUT DEADLINE
- 6: DISTRIBUTING
- 7: SPECIAL THANKS
- 8: HISTORY
- 9: FILES
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-
- 1: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- Required:
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- -386 processor
- -little bit over 500k of base memory
- -with sounds, about 630k XMS
-
- Recommended:
-
- -Fast 486 or Pentium
- -Soundcard
-
- If sounds doesn't work try these modifications:
- -disable EMM386 from your config.sys
- -set highdma from (Avenger's)soundsetup to zero
- -set low dma to zero and high dma to your setting(5 usually)
-
- If sounds are too quiet with SB16, use setting's of normal SB.
-
-
- 2: ABOUT THE GAME
-
- Finally Avenger is ready. The making of this game took about 1 year.
- We hope you enjoy playing and register Avenger.
-
- You must run setup.exe before you can play Avenger.
- Your mission is to destroy everything that moves(YES!).
-
- KEYS
- F1 - Speed adjustment
- F2 - Frames per second
- ESC - Menu
-
- Player 1:
- Arrows - Move ship
- Right Alt - Fire primary weapon
- Right Ctrl - Fire secondary weapon
-
- Player 2:
- A and D - Move ship
- Tab - Fire primary weapon
- Left Ctrl - Fire secondary weapon
-
- ITEMS
- S - More shields or weapon speed upper
- D - Doubles your gun
- G - Some new weapon or weapon speed upper
-
-
- 3: HOW TO ORDER THE REGISTERED VERSION OF AVENGER
-
-
- A. Ordering by credit card from ALTUS SOFTWARE MARKETING:
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- Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted. The price is
- 15 U.S Dollars, no other currencys.
- For your convenience, you may order by credit card in any of the
- following ways:
-
- 1. Online: http://www.axxis.com/cgi-bin/order-avenger
-
- You can order over the World Wide Web using a secured form.
- All information sent this way is encrypted for your
- protection. This is the fastest way to order. Your order
- will be sent within minutes to the developer for fulfilment.
-
- 2. Toll-free Phone: 1-888-AT-ALTUS (1-888-282-5887)
-
- When ordering by phone, please provide the information
- requested in order.txt. Orders placed by phone may take up to one
- business day to be verified and sent to the developer.
-
- 3. Phone Voice-mail for Int'l callers: 801-523-8221
-
- When ordering by phone, please provide the information
- requested in order.txt. Orders placed by phone may take up to one
- business day to be verified and sent to the developer.
-
- 4. FAX: 801-576-5663
-
- When ordering by FAX, please provide the information
- requested in order.txt. Orders placed by FAX may take up to one
- business day to be verified and sent to the developer.
-
- 5. E-mail: altus@axxis.com
-
- When ordering by e-mail, please provide the information
- requested in order.txt. Orders placed by e-mail may take up to one
- business day to be verified and sent to the developer.
-
- 6. Postal Mail:
-
- Altus Software Marketing
- 12257 South Business Park Drive
- Suite 108
- Draper, UT 84020
-
- When ordering by mail, please provide the information
- requested in order.txt. Orders placed by mail may take up to one
- business day to be verified and sent to the developer.
-
- You may also order by check or money order. Please fill out the
- form (order.txt) and send it with your check or money order (in U.S.
- dollars only) to:
-
- Altus Software Marketing
- 12257 South Business Park Drive
- Suite 108
- Draper, UT 84020
-
-
- B. Ordering by cash or bank transfer from THE AUTHOR:
-
- |-------------------------------------------------------|
- | Prices: |
- | ****** |
- | Finland 40 FIM Sweden 80 SEK |
- | USA / Any country 15 USD Canada 20 CAD |
- | Great Britain 10 GBP Germany 20 DEM |
- | |
- |-------------------------------------------------------|
-
- Only cash and bank transfer are accepted when ordering from the
- author.
-
- You will find the order form from "order.frm" file, and finnish
- version from "order.fin" file. Fill in the form and print it, or
- write the needed information to a paper CLEARLY.
-
- Send money and the form to following address:
-
-
- Deadline Those who don't have scandinavian
- Listakuja 11 letters, note that town's name is
- 04440 Järvenpää <------ Jarvenpaa with dots on the
- Suomi / Finland a-letters.
-
-
- If you pay by bank transfer, send the receipt.
-
- Read additional information from the form!
-
- Delivery may take from couple days to one month. This depends on how
- fast the mail is. We send all foreign registrations by AIR-MAIL!
-
- GAME WILL BE DELIVERED IN 1.44 FORMAT ONLY.
-
-
- 4: WHAT WILL BE IN REGISTERED VERSION
-
- The registered version will contain:
-
- -55 levels total
- -35 new, longer levels
- -challenge mode to 2 player game
- -MORE WEAPONS
- -more different enemys
- -story continues... more animations!
- -latest version (if available)
- -cheat codes
-
- And all this costs only 15 USD (see other currencys from chapter 3)
-
-
- 5: ABOUT DEADLINE
-
- Deadline is: Rooster coding, design, sounds
- Mustang graphics
- Junkhead sounds, game testing, some ideas
-
- This was our first game and we hope you have liked it.
- Our real names are not published because of personal reasons(fame?).
-
- WE DON'T COVER ANY DAMAGE WHAT THIS GAME MIGHT CAUSE TO YOUR COMPUTER
- OR TO SOMEONE.
-
-
- 6: DISTRIBUTING
-
- As you may already know, this game is shareware and you can
- FREELY DISTRIBUTE it and please do it!
-
- FOR COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTERS:
-
- If you wish to include this game to a cd-rom collection or something else
- you can do it freely, but we would recommend that you send us a letter
- and tell where you putted it or contact us via our distribution site:
- http://www.megabaud.fi/~sjv
-
-
- 7: SPECIAL THANKS
-
- Thanks to Ethan Brodsky for his SMIX sound utility, which Avenger
- uses.
- We would also like to thank Lee Hamel for Keyboard INT 9
- handling routines.
-
- Also thanks to everybody who have helped us in making of this game.
- And thanks to those, who have distributed the shareware version of this
- game to some bulletin boards, internet or to friends, because that's
- the way shareware gets distributed.
-
-
- 8: HISTORY
-
- Version 0.55: First released version
-
- Version 0.55a: Same as above, but some more info included.
-
- Version 0.6:
- -one enemy more
- -weapon/shield upgrades
- -enemys don't come anymore at the sametime
- -better explosions
- -sounds in whole game(only registered version)
- -sound setup
-
- Version 0.7
- -little animations
- -more sounds
- -better and longer levels
- -enemy flashes when hit
- -two enemys more and big bastard in the end
- -game is faster
- -plus some more changes
- -works with lower base memory(below 500k)
-
- Version 0.8
- -second backround
- -new menu system
- -own ship rotates
- -extra weapon
- -two new levels and one new enemy
- -much new graphics
- -plus much more unlisted changes
-
- Version 0.9 (not distributed as shareware)
- -two kinds of explosions
- -shields displayed graphically
- -couple new sounds
- -more these "little animations"
- -and much more
-
- Version 0.92
- -SPARKS
- -second sound in menu and a sound in get ready thing
- -game's speed is saved to disk
- -one new enemy and two new levels(in registered version)
- -15th level little bit changed
- -one old enemy has animation
-
- Version 0.95
- -TWO-PLAYER GAME
- -explosions are little bit better
- -no other changes, 'cause we had difficulties with the two-player game
-
- Version 0.99
- -one new enemy in shareware and registered version
- -more weapons
- -much new graphics
- -couple new sounds
- -much new levels: four in shareware and 18 in registered version
- -a REAL highscore table
- -and much more unlisted changes
-
- Version 1.0
- -appropriate story-line
- -animations
- -plus some other changes
-
- Version 1.0a
- -credit card ordering information added
-
- 9: FILES
-
- Avenger contains these files, do not delete any of these:
-
- avenger.exe main program
- setup.exe soundsetup
- file_id.diz description of zip
- av.cfg configuration file(setup creates this)
- *.gfx pictures
- *.raw sounds(22khz, 8-bit)
- readme.txt this file
- order.frm order.fin order forms
- readme.bat quick way to read this
- levels.dat level data
- score.hi highscores
- *.res animation data
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