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- IMPACTOR by Seimitsu Software
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- NOTE: Unregistered version has only one level.
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- Installation
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- Just install as normal.
- This game tries to allocate itself a fair sized chunk of memory
- If you have problems running this game, try the following:
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- * De-frag your pilot
- * temporarily uninstall other apps
- * remove Hackmaster extensions
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- This game should work on all Pilots, PalmPilots, and Palm 3s
- Please report any bugs to the address at the end of this document
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- Title Screen
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- up select
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- ▌ () () /\ () () ▌
- ▌ \/ ▌
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- down
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- Control the cursor up / down and select the required option
- You may also use the stylus to select an option
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- Controls
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- left action right pause
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- ▌ () () /\ () () ▌
- ▌ \/ ▌
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- Controls are remappable from the options screen
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- Stylus
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- You you may use the stylus to control the bat.
- Just drag the stylus to where you want the bat to go, and it will follow.
- Don't drag into the Graffiti area, as this can currently slow down or stop the game
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- Pause
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- Press one of the pause buttons to pause the game.
- During pause mode, press left and right simultaniously to return to the
- title screen
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- The Game
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- Use the bat, knock out the bricks, get the pickups, and avoid the nasties.
- Destroy all the destroyable bricks to advance to the next level
- You start with 3 lives, and get an extra one every 50,000 points
- There are 32 levels in this release.
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- The Nasties
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- The nasties come out of holes in the top of the arena.
- They try to get down past the bottom row of bricks, where they
- do their best to get in the way.
- If the ball hits them, they are destroyed, but the ball will
- ricochet off unpredictably. Beware, this can be very annoying!
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- The Pickups
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- C - Catch
- Your bat becomes magnetic, and keeps hold of the ball(s).
- Press the action button to release the ball. The ball will
- release itself after a short time.
- S - Slow
- Slows down the pace of all balls
- X - Extra Life
- This rare pickups awards you with an extra life
- 3 - Multiball
- Splits the ball up into 3
- L - Laser
- Press the action button to shoot the nasties and the tiles.
- (or the laser will fire automatically if Autofire option is on)
- E - Extended bat
- Your bat grows long. This can be extremely useful
- N - Next level.
- This opens up a portal in the right of the play area.
- Enter this to skip the current level.
- X - SuperBall
- The ball grows to gigantic proportions, and smashes
- it's way through even indestructible bricks!
- T - Tiny
- This shrinks your bat
- R - Random bat surface
- This makes your bat wholly unpredictable. The ball will
- bounce off it in random directions.
- F - Fast
- This increases the speed of the balls
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- Options
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- There are many options to help you play.
- Bat speed / Bat acceleration
- - adjust these to your play technique
- Ball Size / Ball trails.
- - These dont actually change the size of the ball in relation
- to the bricks. They are purely there to help you see the ball
- more clearly on the Pilot screen
- Difficulty
- This alters the speed and increase in speed of the balls over time.
- Level Set:
- This allows you to choose Standard levels or User levels
- Laser Autofire: (yes/no)
- Setting this will make you shoot lasers continuously when
- you have the laser pickup.
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- Level Editor
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- Select level editor, then use the stylus to design your own levels.
- It's straightforward. Using the stylus, just click on the tile you want,
- and draw with it.
- You can design up to 32 levels.
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- Select User level set from the options to use these levels.
- When playing through the levels, if the game comes upon a level that is
- empty, or has no killable tiles, it will act as if the game is over.
- The levels will be saved between sessions.
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- When progressing through the user levels, the 'maximum level you have reached'
- counter doesn't increment. It only does so with the standard levels.
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- but only if there is adequate interest! Please support shareware authors.
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- -updates-
- v1.00 : Palm IIIx and Palm V compatability
- : Hilights last high score on name entry
- v0.99 : Better memory allocation routines
- : Laser autofire option
- : Small graphical changes
- : Fixed auto-off bug
- : Smaller size and optimizations
- : Title screen stylus support
- v0.95 : 12 new levels! Fixed memory allocation bug in version 0.94
- v0.94 : Included level editor
- v0.92 : much smaller memory requirement. Should work on more machines now.
- v0.91 : bugfix involving finishing the level before all the bricks are gone!
- v0.9 : initial release
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- THE UNREGISTERED VERSION IS LIMITED TO ONE LEVEL
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- Comments to :
- impactor@seimitsu.demon.co.uk
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- Please review this game at http://www.eurocool.com
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- Registration fee is 10 US dollars
- for this you will get the full game and future updates.
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- Register online at PilotGear HQ
- http://www.pilotgear.com
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- or from my web page
- http://www.seimitsu.demon.co.uk/pilotprogs.htm
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- (c) Julian Scott 1998
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