SPIN.EXE Copyright 1995,1996 Ground Up Software SPIN is freeware! 01/06/96 ============================================================================== What is SPIN? SPIN is a single player shoot-em-up game. Your mission is to protect the freighters from the pirates, to clear the freighter lanes of the pirates and to arrest as many pirates as possible. Freeware: SPIN is freeware!!! You may distribute it freely as long as all the original files are included. You may NOT distribute it if you make any changes to any of the files. You do not have permission to sell SPIN for profit. However, we do grant permission for SPIN to be bundled with Public Domain software collections. Running SPIN: CD to the directory with SPIN.EXE Type SPIN to start the game Playing SPIN: Upon starting SPIN, you will be presented with a series of title and information screens. Pressing the spacebar will take you past each one of the screens and into the game. Pay attention to the information screen that shows you each of the items you will encounter in the SPIN universe. You will see a picture of the item and a brief description of the item. Also pay attention to the Control screen. It will identify the keys used to play SPIN. [SPACE] Fire Weapon [ALT] Fire Weapon Backwards - Only on Advanced Weapons <-- and --> Spin Left or Right Toggle WARP drive On or Off ^ and v Accelerate / Deaccelerate Other Keys [+][-] Set the music volume [F1] Change to the next song [F10] Clear stuck keys [ESC] Quit playing SPIN Items found in the SPIN universe can be collected by touching them with your ship. SCANNERS: Long Range Scanner: You are in the center (The purple crosshair). Objects appear as colored dots in the scanners. Pirates are RED and they blink! To fly towards an object point the nose of the ship in the general direction of the object from the crosshair. Use the arp drive to quickly move towards the object. When a freighter is being attacked by a pirate you will see a little blue crosshair at the location of the freighter. Short Range Scanner: Again you are in the center. Watch for the object you are closing on to appear in the short range scanner. Once it does press arp again to shut down the WARP drive. Steer the ship towards the item. Fly over the item to collect and/or activate it. BAR Indicators: Energy Indicator: Along the LEFT edge of the screen is the energy indicator. Your ship can initially store 2000 energy units, indicated by the WHITE bar. The colored bar on top of the WHITE bar indicates the energy remaining. When it turns ORANGE or RED your energy reserve is critical!!! By adding addition storage tanks you can increase you capacity to 6000 units. Look for objects in the SPIN universe that add storage capacity. There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your energy status. Speed Indicator: Next to the energy indicator is a speed indicator. It shows your speed from 0.0 to 9.90. It turns blue when you are in warp. There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your speed. Other Indicators: Weapon Indicator: You will see an alpha-numneric indicator of your current weapon type and the shots remaining on it. Shield Indicator: When you first start you have no shield, the indicator will show an OFF status. Collect shield objects to increase your shields effectiveness. Higher values are better here! Run-Time Options: SPIN will load up to 10 MOD music files for background music. These can be any MOD's you like. Copy your favorite MOD's to your SPIN directory. Remember that will change to the next song. STATIC: On some sound cards there is an annoying static with the music. Pressing should clear this static up! Several Options can be specified at run time. spin -s no sound at all spin -m no music but spill play sound effects spin -q for slow PC's, will make it run quicker. spin -? get quick help on these options Multiple options can be specified. IE: spin -m -q Now go at it!!! Type SPIN and enjoy our little demo!!!! -Neil ============================================================================== Why SPIN? SPIN was written to demonstrate the capabilities of VAT and GUG. The SPIN source code and graphics are available for $50.00 US. What is VAT? VAT is Varmint's Audio Tool's, a Sound Blaster library for playing music and sound effects in the background. VAT supports MOD, S3M, MID, and WAV files. Both 16-bit and 32-bit versions are available. For more info: smeagol@rt66.com http://www.rt66.com/smeagol/html/vat.html Registered version with source code: $50.00 US What is GUG? GUG is Ground Up Graphics. A library for mode 13x (320x200x256) graphics. It is designed for Watcom 10.x 32-bit. It supports compiled sprites, keyboard handling, joysticks and fixed point math. GUG has been tested against the CauseWay and DOS4GW extenders. For more info: nbreeden@groundup.com ftp.groundup.com /pub/groundup/ http://www.groundup.com/~nbreeden Registered Version with Source code: $50.00 US CauseWay DOS Extender SPIN uses the CauseWay DOS Extender from Devore Software & Consulting. Why CauseWay? CauseWay offers several advantages over the extender that ships with Watcom c++, a few advantages are: Robust Error Handling All hardware Int's supported Binds directly to your application - No extra files to ship EXE file compression For more information contact: Devore Software & Consulting PO Box 4283 Naperville, IL 60567-4283 1-708-717-6369 (Voice) 1-708-717-9679 (BBS) 71540.62@compuserve.com (EMail) ==============================================================================