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- ________________________________
- | Bandit |
- | ___________ |
- | A simulated slot machine |
- |_______________________________|
-
- by Michael Brandon
- 115 Alaczar St.
- Royal Palm Beach,Florida 33411
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- ________________________________________________________________________________
- | |
- | LEGAL NOTICE |
- | |
- | Copyright (c) Michael Brandon (aka George Duffer) 1986,1987 |
- | Copyright (c) Absoft Corp 1987 |
- | *** ALL RIGHTS RESERVED *** |
- | |
- | The program BANDIT and it's associated Files including this document and |
- | including the ICON distributed with it are herby released to the PUBLIC |
- | DOMAIN and may be freely copied and distributed by the public under the |
- | following conditions. |
- | 1. The programs including this document and the ICON must be distrib- |
- | uted together in unmodified form as an archive package under the name of |
- | "BANDIT.ARC". |
- | 2. The programs are for the exclusive use and enjoyment of the general|
- | public as a whole and may not be marketed or used in a commercial inviorn- |
- | ment in any way without the express written consent of the author. |
- | 3. Indivudals and non-profit bullliten board services may Upload and |
- | download the software freely. BULLITEN BOARDS OPERATED FOR PROFIT MAY NOT |
- | COPY THIS SOFTWARE WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. |
- | |
- | Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft corporation. |
- | Absoft is a registered trademark of Absoft Corporation. |
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-
- I wrote this game along with several other "gambling" games in 1984 that were
- originally intended to be marketed as a "Gambler's Dream" disk. All of the
- games are designed to simulate as close as possible, the actual feel and thrill
- of a Las Vegas weekend. This one never got quite finished because I did not
- have a Micro that could handle the graphics in 1984. (The games wer originally
- created on an Alpha-Micro Mini). Anyway - to make a long story short - by the
- time I got the Amiga, someone had published a very similar game for the
- Macintosh in a book called "Macintosh Midnight Madness" published by Microsoft
- Press* (A VERY good book for Mac owners as well as Amiga and other MS-DOS based
- machines). Although we made no infringement on their copyright, we must give
- them credit for the idea of our final design of the machine and the animated
- way in which we stack the coins. Also, there were so many good gambling
- games on the market by then that we decided to drop the whole project. So I
- am starting to release these games to the public domain.. This is the first.
-
- The games are all in compiled code and execute very fast. They all need some
- brushing up but to my knowledge are fairly well bug free. I want them to be
- so, even in the public domain. Therefore, if you find any bugs or have any
- suggestions or would just like to have the game operate a little different for
- you, I would appreciate you telling me so. If you send me a disk and a $5.00
- handling charge, I will (if practical) change it to run like you want and send
- a revised game back to you. For instance, this Bandit Game is very generous
- as is - The odds favor the PLAYER rather than the HOUSE - which makes it
- somewhat impractical for realism. But I just don't presently have the time
- to do any more work on it. (Enough response from you will justify my taking
- the time.)
-
- I will be releasing some of the other games soon.
-
- To play the BANDIT, just double-ckick it's icon from the workbench. When the
- machine appears, You will be given four stacks of coins to start with. To
- deposit a coin, click on the coin slot. You may continue to deposit as many
- coins as you want (no limit) by holding the button down over the slot.
-
- After you have "made your bet" - Click on the round knob of the handle. The
- handle will pull down and the slots will spin and..... good luck!
-
- Send all comments, suggestions, (no complaints!), etc. to:
-
- Software by Michael Brandon
- 115 Alcazar Street
- Royal Palm Beach, Fla. 33411
-
- or leave a message for Michael Brandon on Commodore Forum (305)-832-7369.
-
- "Software by Michael Brandon" is a commercial software development company
- now developing software for the Amiga line of computers. We are not interested
- in profiting from the distribution of PUBLIC DOMAIN software. However, we
- want ALL of our software (including public domain) to be of commercial quality.
- Realizing that this first release of games to the public may not be of such
- quality, we will incorporate suggested improvements (at our discretion) that we
- feel are warrented. We will also make changes for any INDIVDUAL or NON-PROFIT
- Bulliten Board for an agreed upon fee (AT COST to us) upon request.
-
- Finally, I want to give credit to Absoft Corporation in Royal Oak, Michigan
- for their fine compiler that we use A LOT especialy in the development of
- games. I have never met nicer people to do business with and highly reccomend
- their products to anyone.
-
- Enjoy the game---
-
- -- Michael Brandon
-