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SUPER BREAKOUT
Another brick in the wall from Mark Overmars
Many different type of Break-Out like games exist for the Atari ST, so why yet
another one? Well, there are a number of reasons. First of all because all the
existing games are missing something. They all have some great ideas but are
lacking others. Secondly, because most games work on colour monitors only and
this one will work on a monochrome monitor (only). Thirdly because it is fun to
write something like this.
However, the main reason is that Super Breakout is special. It contains
most of the good ideas of the existing games and many new features. There are
over 40 different types of bricks, all with special features. There are many
different types of bonuses, dozens of monsters, five different types of level
and so on.
Of course, you won't encounter all these things straight away - on later
levels new things appear that you didn't see before. To avoid geting bored
Super Breakout allows you to continue on the level you got killed, so you don't
have to start from the beginning.
Some other nice features include high-score files, the program remembers
its players and knows what your current status is, level files that can easily
be changed, added and edited. For this a special level editor is provided with
the program.
When playing Super Breakout a file called SBREAK.SCR for the scores will be
created and also files ?????.SBR that contain information about players. Don't
keep your disk write-protected when playing otherwise no information can be
stored.
PLAYING
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Simply click the SBREAK.PRG icon on the desktop. The object, as you probably
know, is to knock out all the stones with the ball. During the game the left
mouse button may have a special effect, such as releasing the ball, shooting
bullets and so on.
Sometimes little bonuses fall down. They tend to help you by such slowing
down the ball, turning your bat into a machine gun, giving an extra life and so
on. When you catch them with the bat the feature will start. Bonuses are
indicated by a letter. The following types exist:
A: An automatic moving bat. Press the left mouse button to continue
doing it yourself.
B: Bonus points.
D: A destructive ball that kills all bricks.
E: Extra life.
G: Gun. You can shoot bullets with your left mouse button. Two different types
of bullets exist.
H: Hold the balls. Release them with the left mouse button.
K: Kills all monsters.
L: Long bat.
N: Next level by shooting a ball into the exit stone that appears.
R: Removes all stones of the type you hit next.
S: Slows down the balls.
T: Three balls that reappear when lost.
W: Build a wall of stones to keep the ball high up. Great when the ball is at
the top of the field but a disaster when it is near the bat.
2: Two extra balls.
5: Five extra balls.
?: A surprise. Can be very good but also bad. Do you take the risk?
Of course also nasty things can happen, like bombs falling down, but don't
worry as they only appear on higher levels. Also some monsters run around. They
are usually harmless, but change the direction of the ball when hit. High
scores and special LIFE stones will give extra bats.
After you lost all your bats you are given the choice to either continue at
the last level, start at the beginning or quit. If you continue, the game will
start again at a level just before the last one. To progress further you will
have to get through at least three more levels.
The higher level you start, the more points you can get. The score is
computed as follows: 100 for every normal stone hit, 2500 for completing the
level, 400 for each bonus caught and 100 for each monster destroyed. After
completing a level the score for that level is increased by a percentage
depending on the level number
The following keys are important:
q: Quit the game.
k: kill your bat (useful when you locked yourself up).
r: restart the level (useful when the level locks up).
N: Continue on the next level. This costs you 2 lives and is only useful
when you don't manage some particular level at all.
p: pause the game. Any key continues.
b: Changes the speed of the bat.
s: Toggles sound on off.
f: Saves the current situation such that you can continue playing later.
The game will be saved under your current name. To continue later
simply start SBREAK and type in your name.
space: Will give you an empty screen such that nobody will see what you are
doing. Any character continues.
HARDWARE: ALL STs, MONO ONLY