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v2.0 Made by Edgar M. Vigdal Recoded By C Kinghorn.
WHAT IS SHAREWARE ?
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Shareware is a way of getting good software in a cheap way.
You get hold of the software for almost nothing, and can test it
for a while before deciding if you want to pay the programmer
for his/her hard work. And remember that if you don't pay and
nobody else do pay than it's pretty sure that the programmer
will NOT make any more shareware software. And that will in the
end lead to no public-domain software for your machine.
So, please pay the author of the software.
NOTE! This program is in fact shareware!
IF YOU LIKE THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE !
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If you use this software and you like it, than I (Edgar M. Vigdal)
would be eternal grateful to you, if you send me 10 US Dollar,
£5, 50 NOK or any amount you like, as payment for the game.
If you would like 1 year of free update (at least 2 update (If I
get any bug rapport, or suggestions for improvement)), than send
me $20, £15 or 150 NOK.
If you also want the latest version of Deluxe PacMan, than
add $5, £5 or 50 NOK.
If you become a registered user and send me a disk, I will send
you a super version with more levels, more sound effects, speech
and other improvements. (maybe an AGA version?!) With an internal
greeting list of the 20 greatest fans/supporters. (Limited fame!!)
**PLEASE**
Send me a disk for the replay, as I can not afford the disks!
This is my address...
Edgar M. Vigdal
583O LUSTER
NORWAY (I do not like whale hunting!)
(But than again, I don't like
bull fights either!)
Or you may use my bank account....
3785.10.05774 Luster SpareBank
5830 Luster
NORWAY
Or you may use my PostGiro account...
0826.0658124
The following methods are accepted when paying.
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- Cash: Preferably by registered mail.
- International Postal Money Order: Send an International P.M.O
in NOK (other currencies are not accepted).
Contact your post office for further information. Please note
that Canadian / US Postal Money Orders are *not* accepted.
These are worthless in Europe.
- EuroCheques: Send a EuroCheque written out in Norwegian kroner.
(other currencies are not accepted). Make the cheque payable to
Edgar M. Vigdal.
- PostGiro: Transfer NOK to the PostGiro account 0826.0658124.
Please make sure that your full name, address, postal code, city
and country is included. If you have an Internet email address,
please include that one too, as I will soon be on the internet.
To those that support my hard work, I send my warmest regards to!!
NOTE! Please check that the address listed above is the same
as the one in the game !
NOTE! If you send a disk you may put some stuff on it.
Demos, games, utilities or music modules.
NOTE! To all of those that send my the fee for Deluxe
PacMan, I _WILL_ send you the update!!!
NOTE! If you have bought this game from any public-domain firms
you have NOT paid me anything, you have only supported
some 'thieves' who are earning lots of money on other
peoples hard work!! If you want to support the
programmers, then subscribe for the Fred Fish disks and
send the shareware fee to the peoples that should have
had it in the first place.
TO MAGAZINES!
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If you want to use this game on your coverdisk or you are
reviewing the game, then please send me a copy of the magazine.
DELUXE GALAGA
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Deluxe Galaga is based on the game StarBattle on the old VIC20.
That was one excellent game, that I had a lot of fun with.
It's also some features from the games Galaga and Galaxions.
I played Galaga on an arcade machine, but it was so long ago that
I have forgotten how it looked like.
My version of Galaga (or StarBattle) is a simple (?) shoot'em up
game with good game play, but not so much fancy graphics. Many of
todays game have lots and lots of graphics, but when it comes to
game play they really sucks. They have manuals covering hundreds
of pages, and you need hours and days to get into the game. What
I want from a game is some relaxation for a couple of minutes, and
then be able to quit the game and do some more work. And not to
mark the calender for when I want to play the 30MB hi-tech game!
YOUR MISSION...
You are in control of a small starfighter, and your mission is
to protect the earth from alien attackers. When you start, your
ship have limited supply of bullets and are moving a bit to slow,
but by shooting the aliens you can collect the falling bonuses and
get all sorts of weapons, extra speed and a lot of other goodies!
There are double shoot, triple shoot, super weapon, extra life,
smart bombs, money, warps, secret bonus level and much more.
Look out for mother ships, rockets, warp malfunctions,
super guardians and Super Cash Ship!
There is also a lot of secrets in the game, you can find this
secrets yourself, or you can buy them in space-shop.
The space-shop will appear every fourth level, but you must
have more than 50 credits to enter the shop. There are more than
10 secrets hidden in the game.
The game screen....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Show if music or
| SFX are selected
Red for player1, blue for pl2 | for the 4 channels.
Show how many| __________________________________ |
ships you | | 00000000 | |
have. |-»|Ships mmmm|«-' | Show what kind of
| x5|«---' multiplay you have.
When EXTRA is|-»|E 250|«--.
spelled, you | |X | | Show the amount of
will get an | |T | | cash you have.
extra ship! | |R |
|A Meteor-|
| Meter|«--. Show how much there
If you have |-»|Rank | | are left of the
six marks,you| |marks | | meteor-storm.
will be pro- | | |
moted to a | | |
new rank. | | |
| |
| |/\| «-------------|--| Your ship!
| ==== | | If it's flashing
|__________________________________| | you have the shield.
INSTALLING THE GAME
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o DISK
Start your machine with workbench, than insert the Deluxe Galaga
game disk in one of the diskdrives, and open up the disk by
double clicking on the disk icon. Than open up the Deluxe Galaga
directory by double clicking on the directory icon. You than
start the game by double clicking the Galaga game icon.
If you want to make a bootable game disk than format and install
a disk. Than make a 's' directory on the disk...
Makedir DF0:s [RETURN]
Copy all of the Deluxe Galaga files on to the disk. Or just copy
the Deluxe_Galaga directory over to the empty disk.
Copy the 'CD' command on to the disk.
Make a startup-sequence in the 's' directory like this...
CD Deluxe_Galaga ;If Deluxe_Galaga is the games directory!.
;If you don't use a Deluxe_Galaga directory
;you must use a 'CD DF0:' to get the game
;to start!!.)
(Add44K) ;Include this line if you run out of memory!
Galaga
Reboot with the disk and test if it works!!
o HARDDISK
Copy the Deluxe Galaga directory to the desired directory on
your harddisk, by dragging the directory icon from the
Deluxe Galaga game disk to the selected harddisk directory.
To start the game just double click on the Galaga game icon.
You should select the 'SAVE ON EXIT' option, if you are playing
the game from a harddisk, and end the game by pressing the
'ESC' key. Read more about the options below.
o GAME OPTIONS AND PREFERENCES
When you start the game for the first time, a preferences screen
will appear. On this screen you can select what chips your
Amiga have, the video system and how to save the hiscore list.
_____________ ___________________
| | | |
| 68000 | | |
|_____________| | |
________________ _____________ | |
| | | | | |
| PAL (50Hz) | | 68020 | | O K |
|________________| |_____________| | |
________________ _____________ | |
| | | | | |
| SAVE ON EXIT | | 68030/40 | | |
|________________| |_____________| |___________________|
This are the gadgets that will appear on the preferences window.
________________
| | This gadget will switch between PAL
| PAL (50Hz) | and NTSC video system. (Only on ECS Amigas!)
|________________| I hope this will work!
If this option don't work you may try the 'hertz' program, that
should be in the Deluxe_Galaga directory. This little utilitie
will try to toggle the video system between PAL (50Hz) and
NTSC (60Hz). You must start this utilitie from SHELL, like this..
Hertz <n> ;Where n is either 0 or 1
For this to work you must have an RGB or Multisync monitor!!
Or use the composite signal!?!
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| | This gadget will switch between
| SAVE ON EXIT | 'SAVE ON EXIT' and 'SAVE IN GAME' for
|________________| the hiscore saving option.
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| | This gadget will select the
| 68000 | MC68000 processor mode. Used in A500/A600.
|_____________|
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| | This gadget will select the
| 68020 | MC68020 processor mode. Used in the A1200.
|_____________|
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| | This gadget will select the
| 68030/40 | MC68030/MC68040 processor mode.
|_____________| Used in A3000, A4000/030 and A4000/40
The 'OK' button will save the preferences and start the game.
The 'PAL', 'NTSC' options is for those Amigas that have the
fat Agnus chip (the chip with the video system switch), this
option have no function on older Agnus chips. The 'PAL' option
is for those living in Europa or other countries that uses the
PAL video system. The 'NTSC' option is for those living in the
U.S.A., Japan or other countries that uses the NTSC system.
If you are playing the game from harddisk, you may select the
'SAVE ON EXIT' option, this will save the hiscore list when
you quit the game with the 'ESC' key. You can also use this
option if you have any problems with the 'SAVE IN GAME' option.
If you use the 'SAVE ON EXIT' option you must use the 'ESC' key
to save the hiscore, if you reset the machine (CTRL,AMIGA,AMIGA)
the hiscore will be lost! The 'SAVE IN GAME' will save the
hiscore each time the hiscore list is updated with a new hiscore
entry.
You may also select the kind of main processor your Amiga is
using.
68000 If you got a standard Amiga (A500,A600,A1000 or A2000)
68020 If you got a A1200 or any 68020 accelerator.
68030/40 If you got a A3000, A4000/30, A4000/40 or any 68030/
68040 accelerator.
If you don't select any of the processor options, the program
will automatically select the right kind of processor.
If you have a faster processor, the game will have more objects
on the screen, bigger explosions, more bullets, more bonuses,
more background stars and........
You may also force the program into using more objects, by
choosing a faster processor than the one you have. This may
slow down the game when a lot of objects is on the screen at
once, and the graphics may begin to flicker.
The preferences that you have selected will be saved for
later use. If you want to change the preferences you most
hold down the fire button on the joystick (Port 2)(NO auto fire)
when the game is loading.
Or you can delete the GALAGA.PREFERENCES file in the S:
directory of your boot disk.
NOTE! This game will NOT work on any 24bit graphics card.
If Commodore had made a machine with a fast enough
processor to use system functions in games, it would
have worked, but didn't and they never will!
Sorry !!!
Amiga is the best home computer in the world, it's
just to bad that Commodore got hold of it !!!!
HOW TO CONTROL THE GAME
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ESC Stops the game in play, and quits the game if you are
on any of the menu pages.
F1 Selects 1 player mode.
F2 Selects 2 players mode.
1 Selects beginner mode. (4 bullets, more speed)
2 Selects normal mode. (2 bullets, normal speed)
3 Selects hard mode.
P Pauses the game, and starts the game again.
You may also start the game again by using the fire button.
E Selects sound effects or music.
F5 Print out the hiscore-list. The boot-disk must contain
the printer driver, parallel.device and the port-handler.
F6-F9 Toggle the 4 sound channels between music and SFX.
F10 Selects the next music module.
* Mute. Toggles volume between max(64) and min (0).
+, - Adjusts the music volume.
J Joins two hiscore lists together. If a friend of you
have the game you can use this function to make a
new hiscore list with the best hiscores on. The new
hiscore lists will contain only the best hiscores.
You control the game with a joystick in port 2.
BUTTON = Shoots at the aliens.
LEFT = Moves the ship to the left.
RIGHT = moves the ship to the right.
EXTRA FUNCTIONS
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o MUSIC & SFX
If you get sick and tired of the music you can change it with
one of your own favorite protracker modules. You do this by
changing the name of the original music or delete it.
Example
rename GALAGA.MUSIC as GALAGA.MUSIC.reserve
And then you copy your module over to the Deluxe Galaga directory
and rename it as 'GALAGA.MUSIC'
Example
rename MOD.SUPERTUNE as GALAGA.MUSIC
You may also change the jingles (this are small tunes that are
played at special occasions), as they are also protracker
modules.
NOTE! The modules that you want to use must be compatible
with ProTracker 1.1b. If you test your selected
module and it's not played back correctly, then it's
most probably not compatible.
NEW FOR VERSION 1.3
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You may now have many different music modules, and have one
random module selected and loaded.
First copy all of your favorite ProTracker modules to the
Deluxe Galaga directory. Then you must rename them to...
GALAGA.MUSIC0 (The number at the end of the name -
GALAGA.MUSIC1 starts on 0 and goes up to as -
GALAGA.MUSIC2 many modules you have copied.)
. (Max is 9!! (0..9))
.
.
GALAGA.MUSICN (n is the number of modules)
NEW FOR VERSION 1.7B
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You may now have a file containing a list of your favorite
ProTracker modules. The file must be named 'GALAGA.MODULES'!
Example file.....
Music:PT/Modules/mod.HideawayBlues
Music:PT/Modules/mod.DontYouWantMe
Music:PT/Modules/mod.FeelTheBase2
Music:PT/Modules/mod.Guitarslinger
*** Add a dummy line at the end ***
When the game starts it will load as many of modules as the
memory allows.
o SFX
If you have more than 512K of memory and you get sick of the
sound effects, then you may try the small sound effects.
Example
rename GALAGA.SFX as GALAGA.SFX_reserve
The game will now use the 'GALAGA.SFX_SMALL' as sound effects.
o 512K MEMORY
If you only have 512K of memory, then you may have to use the
program 'Add44K', to get a little bit more free memory. The
music will not be used and the small sound effects will be used.
The game must have approx. 453 K of free memory to start.
(I have managed to get it started with only 436K free chipmem!)
Remember to disconnect any extra diskdrives, to get some more
free memory.
o HISCORE PRINTING (New for version 1.9)
When you press F5 on the menu screen, you will enter the print
hiscore function. For this function to work, the boot-disk (DHX
or diskette) must contain the following files...
DEVS: Parallel.device
printers/<printer driver for your printer>
L: port-handler
The printed hiscore-list will list the following info...
#, Name, Score, Rank, Shoots, Hits, %, Game Time
and will print for easy, normal, hard and meteor-storm.
THE NEXT DELUXE GAME
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The next game in the Deluxe series, will probably be Deluxe
Donkey Kong. I actually started on this game after I had
finished Deluxe PacMan. But then I got another public-domain
version of Donkey Kong, that looked almost like the version
that I had on my old C64, and that look almost like the one I
had in mind. After I released Deluxe PacMan many have written
to me and asked my to make a version of Donkey Kong, so now
I am going do that. A super duper version of Donkey Kong.
If you have any tips for Deluxe Donkey Kong then send them
to me. (graphics, maps, sounds or ideas)
But when I am finished with Donkey Kong I would really want
to make a version of JumpMan, one of my all time favorites!
If you have any suggestions for improvements or if you have
found any bugs then lett my know.
Good luck and have a lot of fun !!!! PEACE !!!!
Life sucks !! - Al Bundy
Where's that damn hamburger - Kelly Bundy
Sorry for all the spelling errors and bad syntax!!
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History
VERSION SPECIFICATIONS DATE
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v1.0 First version of Deluxe Galaga 20/10/93
v1.2 Added 'Hurry Up!!', and fixed
a possible trouble spot.
Fixed some routines in 2-player mode.
Added exploding rubbish to small aliens 27/12/93
v1.3 Speeded up some routines.
Added the Warp Malfunction routine.
Changed the music routine with the
prorunner routine (very fast!)
Fixed the ProRunner routine, so it would
not GURU on machines with the interrupt
vectors moved to fast RAM.
Added the volume adjust routine.
Added the random music loader routine. 14/01/94
v1.4 Speeded up even more routines.
Channel shearing between music and sfx.
Faster vector, Random and BOB routines.
Test for HIRES SPRITE and DBLPAL screen. 17/02/94
v1.5 Fixed the BOOM when the rocket dies.
Set the interrupt handler priority
a bit higher.
Same random in the meteor-storm mode.
Fixed a bug in the 'save hiscore in game'
routine.
Shows the rank mark, when new rank. 25/02/94
v1.6 Removed the AGA/ECS gadget as it had
no function anymore. 27/02/94
v1.7B Switched from AsmOne to DevPac 3.04.
(The DevPac is a bit slower, but the sources
gets a bit cleaner?!)
Speeded up the movements of the players ship.
Now uses TCPA (Time Coded Pointer Array) to
check for alien hits (No big loops, and no
clearing of a hash array each frame!)
Speeded up the program even more, using a
global variable pointer.
The switching of HiRes sprites to LoRes is
tested and it is now working 20/03/94
v1.8 Found one nasty bug. After the bug was
removed my machine has not guru'ed once!!
(It's stayed on for almost a month)
Added a credit meter and some other info.
Fixed some other small 'faults'. 04/04/94
v1.9 Fixed a bug in the show-secret function.
Added two new weapons and the Cash-Ship.
Added the print hiscore function.
Made the game work on only 512Kb memory.
Changed the PAL-NTSC switch to bit 5 in
$DFF1DC.w 25/04/94
v2.0 Fixed Bugs in module sercher and plasma
Added game secrets to text and taken echos off
After killing big ships coin ship has more green coins
fireball weaopn has been modified and warp fail's
eased. 16/05/94
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Technical info.
568395 bytes of source code, 22822 lines of assembler code.
Assembler time : 38.13 seconds on a 7.14 MHZ 68000 A2000
241920 bytes of raw graphics.
Over 400 frames of animations.
Over 90 sprites on screen at once (68030)
Over 185 BOB'S on screen at once (68030)
78 sound effects, 4 jingles, 1 music pieces.
If you are interested in making your own games or assembler programming
then you can buy the whole source code and development tools for
only $75, £50 or 500 NOK
You will then receive the following...
Source code (assembler, with comments)
Data files (graphics, animations, sound effects)
Level Creator (make new levels for Deluxe Galaga)
SFX Creator (Synthetic and sample sound effects creator)
Converter 5.0 (Graphics convertor and cruncher)
You will also receive all the source code for all the tools.
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