Short: Shoot-everything-that-moves Type: game/shoot Architecture: m68k-amigaos Amega Race 0.81, released 1991-02-21 ------------------------------------ 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 ------------------ 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 ----------- 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 ----------------- 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 ------------ 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 -------- 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 ------------- 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 -------------------- 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 +---------+ |HAVE FUN!| +---------+ ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 0 0 0.0% 16-Jun-92 20:27:56 + 20 20 0.0% 20-Feb-91 07:10:46 +AmegaRace 792 387 51.1% 20-Feb-91 08:56:00 +AmegaRace.info 204384 92619 54.6% 20-Feb-91 07:09:00 +AmegaRaceGame 2577 463 82.0% 20-Feb-91 08:49:32 +ReadMe.info 4843 2300 52.5% 20-Feb-91 08:53:16 +Readme 894 336 62.4% 20-Feb-91 08:49:36 AR.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 213510 96125 54.9% 02-Sep-95 00:00:00 7 files