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Amega Race 0.81, released 1991-02-21
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Authors: Mika Achren, MACHREN@kontu.utu.fi
-75% of code
Henrik Herranen, h112706@cc.tut.fi
-25% of code
-graphics
-sound samples
-distribution
-these instructions :-)
This game is Shareware. Use it if it pleases you but remember, if you
REALLY like it and PLAY it, send $10 to the following address:
Leopold-Soft
Henrik Herranen
Tuomoniementie 4B25
26200 Rauma
Finland
If you send $15 and an empty diskette you will get the next major
release as soon as it is published. Also comments via Internet or
normal mail are welcome.
What is Amega Race
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You remember back in the old days in 1982 when you were playing Omega
Race on your VIC-20 and thought it was the best game ever made? Well,
after I bought my C64 I could not get over the fact that the C64
version of Omega Race sucked. So, in 1989 I and Mika Achren alias AD-
soft started making this Hires interlaced version of the game to our
Amigas. The game runs in 640x512-mode (sorry, no NTSC version will be
available) and as we have made every attempt to avoid flickering and
keep the screen refresh rate as high as possible (50 Hz most of the
time), we think we succeeded quite well (you may disagree if you want
to).
How to play
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The idea is simple: Shoot everything that moves. There are three kind
of enemies: Crawlers which can change into viruses if left alone for
too long a period and mines. You can use either Keyboard, Paddles or
Joystick to control your ship. Every 4th lever is a special level
which has something especially difficult in itself. There are totally
32 levels. I don't think it is possible to play through them, but if
you do, please let me know and I'll create more.
Keyboard commands
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USA Finn Function
keyb keyb
D D Fire
L L Rotate ship counter clockwise
; Ö Accelerate ship
' Ä Rotate ship clockwise
F1 F1 Increase red to border color
F2 F2 Increase green to border color
F3 F3 Increase blue to border color
S-F1 S-F1 Decrease red to border color
S-F2 S-F2 Decrease green to border color
S-F3 S-F3 Decrease blue to border color
F6 F6 Increase red to image color
F7 F7 Increase green to image color
F8 F8 Increase blue to image color
S-F6 S-F6 Decrease red to image color
S-F7 S-F7 Decrease green to image color
S-F8 S-F8 Decrease blue to image color
ESC ESC Interrupt Game / Quit Amega Race & Save Top-10 lists
Top-10 lists
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There are two Top-10 lists in the game. The first one is a conventional
who-got-most-points top list. The other shows what is the smallest
amount of points each level have been played through with. To get to
the rightmost list you must play fast and accurately. The Top-10
lists are stored to disk after you have hit ESC to quit Amega Race.
Included in the end of the game are my top scores. If you can play
better, just let me know and I'll make up something :-)
HD users
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The file AmegaRace is just a script to start AmegaRaceGame, which is
the actual game. There is a 6 second added delay so that floppy drives
have time to stop after loading the game into memory. If you are using
AmegaRace from HD (it seems to be totally safe, at least for me), you
might want to remove the delay to run the game faster. All you have to
do is change the only line in file AmegaRace from:
"AmegaRaceGame delay"
to:
"AmegaRaceGame"
Compatibility
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Amega Race has been tested on a stock 1/2 Meg A500 with old PAL Agnus,
A PAL A1000 and my 9-Meg 68020 A2000HD and it seems to work just fine.
Actually, the explosion of players ship does look better if you have a
turbo card installed. If you have problems with your Amiga, please let
me know, since this version is still a test version and modifications
may be made if bugs are found. But notice that NO NTSC version will be
made of this game, since all the graphics should be redrawn to keep
the screen aspect ratio as it should be and that's too much trouble.
If you have problems
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This game is still a test version. I'm particularly conserned about the
rumor I have heard that this game would not work in all Amigas. If you
have an Amiga which refuses to run the game or crashes when running it,
please mail me and tell exactly what the problem is like. Don't forget
to as exactly as possible tell me your computer configuration. Thanks
in advance.
Leopold's TOP 10 list
Top Score: 2026
Lowest scores for each level:
Level Score
16 1887
15 1600
14 1297
13 1159
12 1006
11 817
10 698
9 612
8 517
7 331
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|HAVE FUN!|
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