
			  -  AVENGER v0.80  - 
			       SHAREWARE      
			     Made in Finland  
		    Copyright(C) 1996, Deadline/Rooster

 1:SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
 2:ABOUT THE GAME
 3:HOW TO ORDER THE REGISTERED VERSION OF AVENGER
 4:COMING UP / WHAT WILL BE IN REGISTERED VERSION <-- CHECK OUT!!!
 5:ABOUT DEADLINE
 6:DISTRIBUTING (ESPECIALLY FOR SYSOP'S)
 7:SPECIAL THANKS
 8:HISTORY
 9:FILES


    1:SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    The game should work on 386(not tested) and about 500k base memory. 
    I recommend 486(dx), which I(Rooster) have myself.Game runs quite
    OK with it.With sounds, game requires about 250k extended memory.
    Sorry about the speed, but isn't this the Pentium generation? (Not 
    from my side yet).If the game is much too slow, disable sounds from
    setup.
    Sounds don't work on some SB16 cards and i don't know why, but here is
    some advices:
	  -disable EMM386 from your config.sys
	  -set highdma from (Avengers)soundsetup to zero
	  -set low dma to zero and high dma to your setting(5 usually)   
	  
    2:ABOUT THE GAME

    You must run setup.exe before you can play Avenger.
    Your mission is to destroy everything that moves(YES!).
    Keys are very simple: arrows(left and right)move ship left and right.
    Right alt(Alt Gr?) fires and right ctrl fires 2nd weapon.
    Pgdn and Pgup adjusts the game speed (this is only required 
    on faster machines).Esc returns to main menu and
    works as pause at the sametime.
      Sometimes you'll get shield upgrades, and weapon speed upper.
    Those are in S item, which comes from exploding enemy.
    You can get a double gun from big enemy and after you have got that,
    you will get speed upper from the same.
    G item gives you the secondary weapon.

    3:HOW TO ORDER THE REGISTERED VERSION OF AVENGER        

    So, you have maybe liked this game, and you wish to register it.
    So how do you register it? Simple, fill in the order form
    and then print it out.The order form is in 'order.frm' file.
    To print it out type at the dos prompt:COPY ORDER.FRM PRN(enter).
    Registeration costs 20FIM(Suomen Markkaa) from Finland only.And from
    any else country 10$(US Dollars) which will cover all postage costs.
    If you live in Finland, there is also finnish version of order
    form, which is ORDER.FIN.If you don't own a printer, you can also
    write the needed information(check order form) to paper,
    but write them CLEARLY.
       Send the registeration form and money(no coins if possible)
    to following address:

		Deadline
		Poste restante
		04440 Jrvenp
		Suomi / Finland

    All contributions are accepted with pleasure.

    The newest version will arrive to you as quickly as i can
    send it to you.Delivery may take some time depending on if
    the latest version ready or not.
    GAME WILL BE DELIVERED IN 1.44 FORMAT ONLY.

    4:COMING UP / WHAT WILL BE IN REGISTERED VERSION              

    By registering you will get the latest version of the game
    and the second episode with new levels and graphix.
    Avenger is not even near at its finish, so the next versions
    will be much better and have much more features than this, and 
    when you register, the game might be even at version 1.0.
    You will also have all the cheat codes when you register.

    Coming to next version:
       -more enemys
       -more levels
       -one new weapon
       -two kinds of explosion
       -more graphics and sounds
       -more "little" animations
       -plus many unlisted features (this means there WILL be much
       new features, not just a one bug fix)

    Coming in future:
       -story line(animations!!!)
       -much more levels and enemys
       -more guns(bombs etc.)
       -music(maybe, not sure about this)

    5:ABOUT DEADLINE

    Deadline is: Rooster         coding, design, sounds
		 Mustang         graphics
		 Junkhead        game testing, some ideas

    This was our first game and we hope you have liked it.
    Our real names are not published because of personal reasons(fame?).

    WE DON'T COVER ANY DAMAGE WHAT THIS GAME MIGHT CAUSE TO YOUR COMPUTER
    OR TO SOMEONE.(ex. computer blows up, eh)

    6:DISTRIBUTING 
    
    As you may already know, this game is shareware and you can
    freely distribute it(and please do it!).
    
    FOR COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTERS:

    If you wish to include this game to a cd-rom collection or something else
    you can do it freely, but we would recommend that you send us a letter
    and tell where you putted it.
    (the address is in chapter 3)

    7:SPECIAL THANKS

    This game uses SMIX (C real mode) by Ethan Brodsky.
    Thank him of the sounds, not us.Without Ethan's SMIX, this game
    would not have sounds at all(maybe).It's a really good sound
    engine.

    Also thanks to everybody in Triplex and MBnet, you helped me(Rooster)
    a lot in making this game run little bit faster.

    8:HISTORY

    Version 0.55: First released version

    Version 0.55a: Same as above, but some more info included.

    Version 0.6:
    -one enemy more
    -weapon/shield upgrades
    -enemys don't come anymore at the sametime
    -better explosions
    -sounds in whole game(only registered version)
    -sound setup

    Version 0.7
    -little animations
    -more sounds
    -better and longer levels
    -enemy flashes when hit
    -two enemys more and big bastard in the end
    -game is faster
    -plus some more changes
    -works with lower base memory(below 500k)

    Version 0.8
    -second backround
    -new menu system
    -own ship rotates
    -extra weapon
    -two new levels and one new enemy
    -much new graphics 
    -plus much more unlisted changes

    9:FILES

    Avenger contains these files, do not delete any of these:

    avenger.exe  main program
    setup.exe    soundsetup
    file_id.diz  description of zip
    av.cfg       configuration file(setup creates this)
    *.pcx        pictures
    *.raw        sounds(22khz)
    readme.txt   this file
    order.frm order.fin  order forms
    readme.bat   quick way to read this
    levels.dat   level data 

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