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[SRC]	Mercury 0.93
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Description rapide :	Un autre shoot-em up de PaD
Auteur de l'archive :	PatrickD
Calculatrices concernées :	TI-89 TI-89Ti
Hardware concernés :	HW1 HW2 HW3
ROMs (AMS) supportés :	AMS1.00~1.05 AMS2.01~2.05 AMS2.07~2.09 AMS3.00~3.10
Langage de programmation utilisé :	ASM
Description Complète :	________________________________________________________________________ Mercury - The ultimate (?) grayscale shoot-em-up for the TI-89! Version 0.93 - Released September 6, 2004 This program is in the public domain. There is no warranty. pad@calc.org http://pad.calc.org/ ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction ..................................................... 26 2. System requirements .............................................. 48 3. Legal stuff ...................................................... 80 4. Instructions .................................................... 103 5. Bonus Items ..................................................... 119 6. Skill Levels .................................................... 140 7. Contacting the Programmer ....................................... 162 8. Acknowledgements ................................................ 193 9. Version History ................................................. 238 10. The Future ..................................................... 300 _____________________________________ INTRODUCTION Mercury is a free/open source shoot-em-up style game for the TI-89, TI-89 Titanium Edition, TI-92 Plus, and Voyage 200 calculators. This game was written completely in 68000 assembly language to fully take advantage of the calculator's capabilities. If you want to obtain other calculator programs or learn more about TI calculators, I would suggest visiting the web sites listed below. They all have large archives as we ll as help sections. If you don't know how to transfer programs to your calculator, or how to run them once you've transferred them, you should read the help sections on these sites, or the FAQ on my web page. http://www.ticalc.org/ http://www.calc.org/ http://www.tigen.org/ http://www.calcgames.org/ Modification of this program is encouraged. To facilitate this, I have placed the program in public domain. _____________________________________ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SYSTEMS SUPPORTED: There is a TI-89 version which supports the TI-89 and TI-89 Titanium, and a TI-92 Plus version which supports the TI-92 Plus and Voyage 200. Users are exepected to know which calculators they have and choose appropriately. No patches are needed for any of these calculators. HARDWARE VERSIONS SUPPORTED: This game will work on hardware versions 1, 2, and 3 (all of the versions currently known). It is not necessary to install HW2Patch or HW3Patch for this game. SOFTWARE VERSIONS SUPPORTED: This game should work on all AMS versions up to version 3.00, and will probably work on newer versions as well unless they contain new features intended to prevent such programs from working. There are, however, two exceptions to this. If you have the very old AMS version 1.00 on a TI-92 Plus, this game (as well as many other programs) will not work. In this case you will need to upgrade to AMS 1.01 or above. Also, the uncompressed version will not run under AMS 2.03 due to that version's size limit for programs, unless you have disabled the size limit. You can get the newest version of the AMS from TI's web site. MEMORY REQUIREMENTS: The game file itself must, of course, fit into memory in order to install it on the calculator. If stored in archive memory, it must be temporarily copied to RAM in order to run. Additionally, you will need about 15K of free memory for temporary storage if you have hardware version 1, and 19K of free memory for 2 and 3. Approximately 2K of memory is needed to store the game. SHELLS/KERNELS REQUIRED: No shell or kernel is required to run this game. Unless there are problems in the shell or kernel used, the game should run with a kernel installed and should be startable from a shell. _____________________________________ LEGAL STUFF Since you did not pay me anything for the right to use this software, there is no warranty of any kind. This software has been tested, and at the time of release the author was not aware of any problems with it. However, there is still a possibility of unforeseen problems. If you do encounter any problems with this program, please inform me as soon as possible (of course, I cannot guarantee that I will fix such problems. All parts of this software written by me are in the public domain, which means that they are not copyrighted at all. Thus you may use, copy, or modify it any way you want. The few things not written by me are from the TI-GCC library, so they can be freely copied. However, I would appreciate if you at least do the following if you are making a modified version: - Don't restrict distribution of it - Supply source code - Give me a reasonable amount of credit - Make your version also public domain, or copyrighted under a license that still allows users to modify it _____________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS To install the game on your calculator, you only need to send the program file. For the TI-89 and TI-89 Titanium Edition, this file should be called 'mercury.89z' on the computer; for the TI-92 Plus and Voyage 200 it is 'mercury.9xz'. Once it is installed, type mercury() on the home screen to run the program. Additionally, the game creates a variable called 'mercsave' when you exit which stores saved games, high scores, and options. You can safely delete 'mercsave' but then its data may be lost. All of the files can be archived, but 'mercsave' will be saved into RAM on exit (even if it was archived before). The in-game controls are explained by the in-game instructions. _____________________________________ BONUS ITEMS The following bonus items may appear: Heart - Regenerates your shields. Number 2 - Supplies an enhanced weapon for your ship. Number 3 - Supplies an enhanced weapon for your ship. Number 4 - Supplies an enhanced weapon for your ship. Plus Sign - Gives a bonus to your score. Letter E - Increases rate of energy generation. Your current energy level is shown by the bar marked Energy. Energy is generated at a limited rate, and is expended when you shoot. Higher level weapons require more energy per shot. Letter M - Supplies you with four missile (press diamond to launch). _____________________________________ SKILL LEVELS Starting with version 0.91, Mercury allows you to play at five different skill levels. Higher skill levels will be harder to play, but you will get higher scores. Each additional difficulty level gives you 10 extra points per enemy destroyed, and 20 extra points per score bonus collected. Here are the changes at different skill levels: 1 - Beginner - Damage done by enemies reduced. Initial energy generation increased. 2 - Intermediate - This is the same as the original difficulty of previous versions. 3 - Advanced - Many enemies increase firing rate (by 18.2% to 28.5%). 4 - Expert - As with advanced, but enemy bullets also travel at twice the normal speed. 5 - You asked for it - As with expert, but enemy bullets also do twice the normal amount of damage. _____________________________________ CONTACTING THE PROGRAMMER If you find any bugs in this game or have suggestions or comments about it, please tell me in E-Mail! If you are writing to report a bug, please be sure to tell me exactly what the problem is and describe exactly what you did before the problem occured. If you don't do so, it will be very hard for me to tell what is going wrong! You should also tell me which version of Monster you have and which calulator you use in any mail you send me. My main E-Mail address is: pad@calc.org I will usually answer my E-Mail within a week. If you don't get any answer in two weeks, you can try sending to the following backup addresses: pad@ocf.berkeley.edu pad@davnet.org pad@cs.wisc.edu padavidson@wisc.edu If your E-Mail is set up to block all messages except those from certain addresses, always be sure that you have un-blocked my address before sending anything to me (best to un-block all of them, since I might answer from a different one than you sent to). You can always get the latest version of this game, as well as other programs of mine, from my web page. The addresses are: http://pad.calc.org/ http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pad/ _____________________________________ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This game is my own work. However, there are a few others whose assistance was invaluable in producing this game, and there efforts will be acknowledged here, in no particular order: David Ellsworth Fargo II and the Fargo II development tools, also a small bit of FLIB code I used Olivier Lesteven TEOS and the TEOS development tools Brian Anderson and The A68K assembler, used to assemble almost all Charlie Gibbs calculator assembly programs Tleilax DB92, an amazing on-calculator debugger Rusty Wagner of ACZ The VTI calculator emulator, which provides the ultimate testing environment on a computer MarkuSoft They GrayImag image converter Corey Taylor of the ACZ the CalcGS map editing software Zeljko Juric The TI-GCC library, whose documentation helped to explain some ROM functions and also showed me how to do OS key-reading and HW detection, and from which grayscale and file routines are used Thomas Nussbaumer The ExePack utilities which compress the program quite a great deal Aaron Povolish The ever-important beta testers, who have made Adrian Posor sure that this program is bug-free Nathan Ogden Robert Chen The inspiration for this game comes primarily from these computer games: Battle Squadron (Amiga) - Innerprise, 1989 Deluxe Galaga (Amiga) - Edgar M. Vidgal, 1993-1994 Tyrian (PC) - Epic Megagames, 1995 Note that this does not in any way mean that Mercury is intended to be a "clone" of any of these games; it isn't. _____________________________________ VERSION HISTORY Sizes listed here are for the uncompressed TI-92 Plus version of the program. Version Date Bytes Lines Description 0.01b 20-Apr-02 11749 3545 first version 0.02b 21-Apr-02 13207 3912 added save game optimized some graphics routines added some additional enemies 0.03b 4-May-02 13207 3912 fixed a bug which crashed on startup 0.04b 8-May-02 15283 4216 improved enemy swinging patterns added new enemies added instructions to title screen 0.05b 17-May-02 15427 4290 bullets now go through explosions fixed 92+ title screen keys implemented player-to-background collision 0.06b 26-May-02 16261 4557 implemented bonuses implemented ship power level implemented scoring 0.07b 26-May-02 16831 4666 implemented third weapon implemented multiple levels 0.08b 6-Jun-02 16993 4738 implemented game over screen optimized various things 0.20b 30-Jul-02 19523 5097 slowed energy regeneration decreased bonus deployment added a cheat code lengthened second level added new enemy types 0.27b 16-Aug-02 20837 5237 added third level added fourth weapon 0.40 9-Sep-02 21399 5442 added scoring 0.75 10-Feb-04 23381 5745 no longer stops AMS 2.08 clock optimized various things extended third level added fourth level fixed moving explosion problem added missiles refined cheating system player bullets now go through explosions game now ends on completion of last level scoring improved 0.76 6-Apr-04 23381 5745 Now compatible with TI-89 Titanium Edition 0.93 6-Sep-04 22195 5915 Optimized various routines for size Implemented multiple difficulty levels Packed the level data Small changes to levels Cheat now gives 1500 missiles ______________________________________ THE FUTURE In the future I hope this game will be finished, a goal which rather amazingly seems to be rather close now.
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