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StarInfo/Somerville/!Reaction/!Help
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| Filename: | StarInfo/Somerville/!Reaction/!Help |
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| File size: | 061C bytes |
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File contents
Reaction by Phil Norman
Converted to work on pre-RISC PC machines by Matthew Somerville (age 15)
(25/1/96)
Computer mode added by Matthew Somerville (28/1/96)
When you quit the game, it says read the !Help �le, but there wasn�t
one when I got it, so I have written this one!
Just run the program, move the mouse around, and the help text will tell you
what each button does.
All I had to do to get it to work on my A5000, was change the mode from 32
to 28, shrink all the graphics to two-thirds of their original size (using
!ChangeFSI) and rearrange all the icons on the screen so that I could see
them all. It took me just a couple of hours, but you do need a multi-sync
monitor.
I also added my name to the title page (with an extra help message
attached),and tidied up the way the program quit (It had the END in a
procedure!)
The next day, I read in the magazine that you wanted a computer mode as well.So I set to work, added more options to the title page, and at 9:55pm I got the computer version running, playing a four-player game against itself! (Admittedly, the procedure to pick where the computer placed its counters was to just pick a square that it could place a counter on�)
By 17:00 on the Sunday 28th January �96 I had written a proper computer
version, which planned its move, and played a very good game!
I hope this improves on an already very good game!
If you wish to contact me, my address is :
8 St. Austell Road
Whalley Range
Manchester
M16 8WQ
ENGLAND
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