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- CRACKOUT
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- by Thom Robertson
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- 8/2/90
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- This little game was written in Lattice C 3.10 on an Amiga 1000 with 2.5
- megs of memory under Workbench 1.2 and subsequently upgraded with Lattice C
- 5.04 in Workbench 1.3. It takes up just over 19K on disk and
- uses 24k fast RAM and 15K chip RAM when running. It also uses around 15
- percent of your processor time (unless its window is in-active, in which
- case it uses next to none).
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- The ball is sprite 2, and the blocks are RectFills. I used to use sprite
- 7, but for some reason, my Amiga 1000 cannot properly display sprite 7. I
- am convinced this is a hardware breakdown.
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- Crackout runs on the Workbench screen.
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- I made this game because I wanted a compiler-time game; that is, a game that
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- 1. runs on the workbench screen
- 2. uses little memory or processor speed
- 3. is very polite, multi-tasking-wise
- 4. is at once fun and mindless
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- and I think Crackout fills the bill nicely.
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- There are 10 levels, which should keep nearly everyone busy for a while.
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- When you run Crackout, you will notice that the pointer disappears. This
- only means that it is invisible; you can still use it to select different
- windows. When you select another window, Crackout will freeze and your
- pointer will re-appear. Crackout will stay frozen (in a state that uses
- minimal processor time) until you click on its window again.
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- All seriousness aside, though;
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- This program was created by me, Thom Robertson. I take no responsibility
- whatsoever for damage done to anyones computer or disks or data that occurs
- through use of this program. I have satisfied myself that it works fine on
- the system I developed it on, and I believe it will work equally well on all
- other Amiga computer systems. Liability-wise, though, you are on your own.
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- I give anyone the right to use and copy this program, Crackout, for
- non-commercial purposes only. Just keep the .info and .doc files with it.
- However, this program is shareware. The price is a letter, from you to me,
- telling me how you like it, how you use it, what could make it better, etc.
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- If you have any problems, comments, or questions, please feel free to
- contact me by U.S. snail.
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- Thom Robertson
- 803-C Autumn Circle
- College Station, TX. 77840
- (409) 268-7759
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