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                     StarMines -- version 1.1

                 Copyright (C) Jari Karjala 1991

The Starmines is a FreeWare game for PCompatibles. This program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

You may re-distribute the complete and unmodified copies of StarMines
provided that there is no charge for copying.

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StarMines version 1.1, Feb 25, 1991 


Intro
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StarMines is a simple shoot-em-up game without any need for thinking.
Just go ahead and annihilate those nasty StarMines before they do it
to you. Man the battlestations, several mine fields ahead!


Controls
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You control your ship by using the following keys:

z or arrow left         rotate anticlockwise
x or arrow right        rotate clockwise
m or arrow up           thrush
space or , or .         shoot

You can quit the game any time by pressing Esc and you get back to
DOS when you press Esc in the high score display.


Challenge for game crackers: StarMines includes a CHEAT feature.


Hardware requirements
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Hercules, EGA or VGA graphics adapter and about 250 kbytes of free
memory. If you have a slow machine set your graphics card into
Hercules mode if possible, it is much faster.



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This program started as a demonstration program for my Sprite Toolkit
(STK), but I expanded it so much that I think it deserves to be
distributed as a stand alone program as well. The source code for
this game are included in the STK version 1.1.

If you have any comments, suggestions or bug reports, please let me know. 


Jari Karjala
Veropellontie 11
00780 Helsinki
Finland

INTERNET: jka@niksula.hut.fi