The year was 3086. The world was ruled by the Evil High
Supreme. The Evil High Supreme's number one sport was
killing and his number two sport was driving. When both
became boring he found that there was only one logical
thing to do, combine them. His Highness called out upon
the lands to find the best people in the recently
demised auto industry. His goal, to build the ultimate
killing machine, to build a car that even the thought of
may cause death in some, to build the DEMON CAR. The
Evil High Supreme succeeded in building his car. Many
people were impaled on it's razor sharp grille work.
Soon running over people at excess speeds just didn't
fulfill his needs any longer. The Demon Car was garaged
much to the cheers of the people. The Evil High Supreme
and the Evil High Mistress had a child, Evil High Prince
(what else!). The prince grew to be a duplicate of his
father. The year is now 3104. The Evil High Prince had
heard about his fathers adventures and decided to try
them himself. He had the DEMON CAR removed from it's
garage prison. Seeing that is was now way outdated he
upgraded it's evilness to present day standards of
machines capable of mass murder. And now it stalks on a
whole new generation of victims. Victims who now, as
their fathers before, them yell "Beware the DEMON CAR !"
After many years of this sport the now aging Evil High
Prince found that his reflexes were slowing so that many
of those lowly computer people were living. The Prince
never got married so he never had a Prince of his own.
So what was he to do? The n a fabulous idea came over
him. He sent out invitations to the rulers of other
nearby worlds to come to his world and try their hand at
wiping out some of the computer people and the best
would then take the Prince's place as DEMON CAR
operator. You are one of those invited. This is
something you really want to become instead of ruling
over your desolate world. You feel that you must succeed
at this. You must!HISTORY: Demon Car was first written by me many years ago on a
Commodore Vic-20. Through the years I wrote many DOS version,
but none of them ever captured the same feeling as the first
one until this windows version. I hope you like it as much as
I have.
OBJECT: The object of Demon Car is rather straight forward. You try
to run down as many computer people as possible in the two
minute time limit. You goal is hindered by the skill level
you choose. The skill level determines how long the people
stay in the same screen position.
KEYS: The keys available are as follows: Cursor keys, Esc key,
various Alt-key combinations. I'm sorry but in this version
the mouse is restricted to only being used to select menu
options and assorted buttons. The keys and selection
mentioned may also be activated by the keyboard. Something in
windows that primarily uses the keyboard for its main source
of input is indeed an oddity but is the way Demon Car
operates.
KEY DESCRIPTIONS
CURSOR: Sends the Demon Car one position in the direction you have
chosen. The Demon Car does not wrap around the edges of the
window. In other words going off the right does not bring you
to the left of the window and like wise going off the top
does not bring you to the bottom and visa versa on both
examples.
Esc: The only time that this key operates is during play. If you
should get yourself trapped or just decide to abort the game
you can press this key and end the game presently being
played.
Alt- : These key options are noted by the underlining of the key to
be pressed with the Alt key to activate that certain option.
These are found on all the menu options and buttons. All of
the menu selections and the command buttons may also be
operated with a left button click on your mouse.
MENU CHOICES
OPTIONS:
SKILL: Changes the skill level of game play. This is done
by altering the length of time that the man appears
on the screen before he moves to another place on
the screen.
HIGH You may choose any of the four high score tables to
SCORES: view. There is one for each skill level.
Field Gives you 11 different playing field grid sizes to
Size: choose from. This amount varies according to what
screen size you are using. The playing grid may also
be sized by grabbing any of the sides or corners of
the frame with your mouse and moving it to the
desired size. The closest grid size will be set and
the grid is then centered on the screen. It is
possible to get different size grid with this method
than what is provided by the menu.
SETTINGS: This option tells you what grid size you have for
the playing field and which skill level you have
selected.
RUN:
Self explanatory
HELP:
STORY: Shows the fictitious story of DEMON CAR "The Next
Generation"
DIRECTIONS: Shows you what you are reading now.
ABOUT: The best screen in all of Demon Car land. The place
where I get to ask you to send me money. All kidding
aside if you like DEMON CAR or if you just
appreciate all the work that went into it please
show me your appreciation by sending the amount
requested to the address listed so I will be
encouraged enough to make another DEMON CAR or
tackle some other programming chore.
EXIT:
Again no explanation needed
ABORT:
This choice becomes enabled when you start DEMON CAR while all
others become disabled until you finish the round. The abort
selection works exactly the same as pressing the ESC button
during play.
GAME RULES
Each person you run down is worth 100 points. After you run them down
a cross marker appears to mark their existence. You can not drive over
a cross marker you must negotiate your course around them. This sounds
rather simple and it is until you get efficient in killing the
computer people and you have more and more crosses blocking your way.
These cross blockades are what make the game of Demon Car fun, but it
is not all fun you need to have quick fingers and be a fast thinker.
REGISTRATION
If you like DEMON CAR as much as I do why don't you show me and send
me a registration/donation fee of $10.00 to further any possible
future enhancements of Demon Car and not to mention anything else I
may or may not write. Send any and all fees to:
Steve Modica
320 Modica Drive
Ruskin FL
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