************************************************************************** ** HELLZONE © IS SHAREWARE AND WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE ** ** TO CONTINUE TO CREATE QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE FOR THE AMIGA. ** ** AS A SHAREWARE PRODUCT YOU ARE OBLIGED TO PAY THE FEE IF YOU USE ** ** THE SOFTWARE. ** ************************************************************************** BRIEF HELLZONE DOCS ------------------- Use your joystick & fire button to destroy the ravaging hordes of alien scum. P - Pauses (fire button restarts) Esc - Exits/Restarts When some aliens explode collect the tokens: P - extra plasma shot M - missile or extra missle (sought of) B - smart bomb Split - splits weaponry (and many undocumented power-ups) HELLZONE TRIVIA --------------- HELLZONE © is ultimately copyrighted by INTERSCAN but has been released shareware and may be freely distributed as long as all the files on this disk including this readme file are distributed as a whole intact and not altered. The 4 main distribution files:- Name Size(bytes) Size(Imploder V4 Compacted:range 8) ---- ---- ---- Intro 164208 125720 Level1 332964 150088 Level2 362224 178716 ReadMe 6221 N/A HELLZONE © is a demontration game that has been developed by four poor Australian university students in between their extremely boring studies (Computer Science is not what what it used to be - there are more babes in Humanties or Arts degrees). Anyway, this collective group of dudes decided to call themselves INTERSCAN. We would would very much like to continue our foray into the world of Amiga game programming with the development of future exciting titles. However there are obstacles that will hinder us from further development efforts, e.g. Pepsi (TM) & Coke (TM) costs, movie rental costs to supplement creativity and late night programming efforts, CD's for aural stimulation, equipment maintenance, software costs (e.g. Dpaint, Devpac upgrades), food (KFC) costs and other miscellaneous expenses all pertinent to Australian Game development. To make this possible, if you have enjoyed playing HELLZONE © PLEASE send a donation of say AU$12 or more :-) made payable to: Cullhane Gibbs, 1 Coronado Street, Browns Plains, Brisbane, QLD, 4118, Australia (Preferably as an International Money order or bank cheque payable to the above dude.) Letters discussing comments/anything (except bugs) are also welcome and appreciated. Since we are aspiring to develop commercial quality software we would like to hear from interested publishers and distributors. If you like a copy of the source code for HELLZONE in its current form (i.e. rough & easy), we WOULD be tempted by AUS$50 sent to the above address. *** NOTE TO ANY PD OR SHAREWARE DISK VENDORS THAT WISH TO INCLUDE THIS *** ON THEIR LIBRARY LIST, THIS IS POSSIBLE IF YOU EXPLICITLY EXPRESS *** TO US THAT IS YOUR WISH AND PAY THE DONATION FEE. HELLZONE TECHNICAL TRIVIA ------------------------- (1) HELLZONE may crash on exiting - Originally designed to run in a non-DOS system. It needs alot of chip memory! Because each level has been transfered into a single DOS file to run from CLI, the game will only load on 1 meg systems (unless you can release the system beforehand). (Try disconnecting your external drives!!!!!) (2) Written In: 100% 68000 assembler (3) Hints to budding games programmers: * Stick to assembler, but plan everything thoroughly !!!!! ( We wish we did! :-( ) (4) Definitely works with KickStart 2.04. (5) Files compacted with Imploder v4 (by Peter Struijk & Albert J. Brouwer) with range 8 to fit onto one disk. QUESTIONS YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED THE ANSWERS TO --------------------------------------------- 1. Who are the members of INTERSCAN? Ans: NAME EDUCATION STATUS JOB ---- --------- ------ --- Cully (BInf) Single coder Alex (BInf) Single coder Brad (BInf) Hmmmmm gfx 'MegaDrive' Thomas. (BSc) Single gfx 2. What inspires these men? Ans: Cindy Crawford Elle MacPherson ... and all other beautiful women Queen (R.I.P. The legendary musical legend that is Freddie Mercury) Pink Floyd Grateful Dead AC/DC Kiss Dave Sim Robert Anton Wilson Timothy Leary Ridley Scott Sam Raimi George Romero Dario Argento David Lynch George Lucas Ken Russell James Cameron Robocop / Judge Dredd / Sláine William Gibson Clive Barker Raymond E. Feist . . . 3. Is anyone still reading this doc file? Ans: ?? 4. Why isn't HELLZONE completed? Ans: As it was such a large undertaking to have commenced during University Study it's conception was fraught with poor design. The end result became slightly unwieldy & therefore released as was (kludged & not as great as it could have been). Not deterred though, we wish to continue building upon past experience with new, exciting game releases (Hopefully commercially, as none of us can stand the shear boredom and stifled creativity of business software). 5. Do INTERSCAN members like the new Pepsi logo? Ans: Cully: Very geometric, but yes. Brad: More Bladerunner-esque than the logo of old. Alex: Yeah, it's cool. Thomas: Hmmmmmmmmmm (does he really care?). 6. What are INTERSCAN's favourite movies? Ans: Evil Dead Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy, HellRaiser Trilogy, Dead Trilogy, Highlander 1 (only), Akira Plus many more Sci-fi/Horror/Animation genre items. 7. What or Who do INTERSCAN despise? Ans: IBM owners, 80x86 assembly, Overpriced hardware, Micheal Bolton, Highlander 2, Uni in general (glad that's over!), Late video rental fees, Stephen King, Soaps and associated musical (?????) stars. 8. What are INTERSCAN's favourite Tourist Destinations? Ans: Downtown Baghdad during Gulf War, South-East L.A. during riots, London Underground during IRA bombings, East Timor during recent protests 9. Is this the last question? Ans: YES! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSCAN thank friends & family (too numerous to mention & therefore type). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------