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@NODE MAIN "Barravento.guide                                ©1997 Mauro Lourenco"


                             @{b}    BARRAVENTO@{ub}

                           @{fg shine} O Mestre da Capoeira@{fg text}

                           ©1993 @{i}Hitek Softworks@{ui}



        @{"Fast words" LINK Fast}        About the game release.
        @{"About the fight" LINK fight}   What fight style is it?
	@{"Install" LINK Install}           For HD users...
	@{"About the speed" LINK speed}   For A1200 users...
	@{"Blows" LINK Blows}             Learn to fight!
        @{"Authors" LINK Authors}           Who are?



                 ©1997 Freeware released by @{i}Mauro Lourenço@{ui}
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@NODE Fast "Fast words"

This game was made to be a part of the A600 pack software released by PCI,
a Brazilian enterprise licenced by ex-Commodore-Amiga in '93. It was a
commercial product but now its authors give me permission to release it as
a freeware game.
The first codes was made in C and later in Amos. The screen mode is NTSC
LowRes with 32 colors but it runs on Pal too.
The English language wasn't included. Choosing the USA/British or
Brazil/Portugal flags the language will be always Portuguese. The final
version was planned to be released in English/Portuguese with all the
Capoeira blows, 30 fight stages and 5 different bonus stages!

                         @{u} Barravento messages:@{uu}

                        @{i} Portuguese  -  English@{ui}

        "Por favor digite seu nome"  -  Please, write your name
                          "Aguarde"  -  Wait
                     "Voce perdeu!"  -  You loose!
                        "Parabéns!"  -  Congratulations!
                    "Voce é o novo"  -  You are the new
               "Mestre da Capoeira"  -  Capoeira Master

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@NODE Fight "Fight"

                        About Capoeira & Barravento


Capoeira is a dance-fight sport style from Brazil. A musical instrument
called Berimbau is played during the fight and Barravento is the name of
the fastest Berimbau rhythm at final fight.
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@NODE Install "Install"

                          Installing on Hard Disk:

Just click on Barravento disk icon and drag it to any dir or make a drawer
called Barravento and copy to it the following:

files: Barravento (with its icon)
       INTRO
 dirs: fonts
       data

If you want, this guide and Blows.iff file may be copied too.
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@NODE speed "About the speed"

                       Note about the speed on A1200:

This game was written to run on A600 1M machine so the speed increases
on A1200. If you wish to decrease it do this:

1) Disable CPU caches & original chip ON
2) Get degrader 1.3 program (on Aminet util/misc  Degrader.lha 17k),
   install it on C: dir and add to barravento script file:

       degrader timewaste 180
       Assign BARRAVENTO: ""
       INTRO                           

If you have an expanded A1200 change the first line to:

A1200 + FASTRAM:
degrader nofastmem timewaste 180

A1200 030/33:
degrader nofastmem nocache timewaste 150

A1200 040/060:
the same as 030 but with timewaste <130 (try some values around it)
Note: This program WASN'T TESTED on these accelerator boards!

If you don't have any HD (I don't believe?!) run degrader first, enable
these options, click on "SurviveResets" and boot this game.

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@NODE Blows "Blows"

                            The Barravento Blows

Each blow is composite of 6 frames. These frames were digitalized images
from a camera and the animation was made by rotoscope. 
You can see the @{" blows here " system "run >NIL: multiview Blows.iff"} and its joystick commands.

Notes:

- The head is the best local to blow.
- There isn't energy waste on human-computer fights during the trip.
- Arrows and Space keys can be used to select on the options screens.

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@NODE Authors "Authors"


                @{b}@{fg fill} HITEK Computação Sistemas e Editora Ltda.@{ub}@{fg text}


@{i}@{fg shine}Luiz Fernandes de Moraes@{fg text}@{ui} - Creation, graphics and additional music.

@{i}@{fg shine}Marcelo Nunes@{fg text}@{ui} - Programming.

@{i}@{fg shine}Juler Oliveira@{fg text}@{ui} - Original musics.

@{i}@{fg shine}Alberto C. Meyer Filho@{fg text}@{ui} - Original Portuguese manual.

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E-mails, questions, ideas and others to:

@{i}Mauro Lourenço@{ui}

lourenco@urbi.com.br
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