Noiz2sa/MorphOS manual

How to play :

Select the stage using the keyboard or the joystick.
Press the fire key/button to start the game.

Movement Arrow keys Joystick

Fire [Z] JoyButton 1, JoyButton 4

Slowdown [X] JoyButton 2, JoyButton 3

Pause [P]

Control your ship and avoid the barrage:

Your ship is not destroyed when ot collides with some enemy.
Your ship is only destroyed when its core hits a bullet.
It's possible to slowdown the ship movement by pressing the corresponding key.

Points:

All green stars are bonus items. You should collect them.
The score is displayed in the top left corner and increases faster if you get continuous sequences of bonus items.

End:

When all ships are destroyed, the game is over.
You get a new ship after 200 000 points and then every 500 000 points.

Available command line arguments:

-nosound No ingame sound.

-window Start the game in a window, instead of full-screen.

-reverse Exchange the fire and the slowdown keys.

-brightness n Set the screen brightness (n is a number between 0 and 256).

-accframe Use the alternative framerate management algorithm. (If you have a problem with framerate, try this option.)

-nowait No added slowdown when there are many displayed bullets (so the game becomes harder).

Software requirements:

MorphOS 1.4.4 (not tested with older releases)
powersdl.library v11
powersdl_mixer.library v8
vorbisfile.library v2 (required by powersdl_mixer.library)

Credits:

The original game was created by Kenta Cho.
The MorphOS adaptation is by Nicolas Sallin.

Contact the authors:

If you want to do some comments or suggestions about the game itself, feel free to contact Noiz2sa author: Kenta.
If you encounter a problem with the MorphOS version, feel free to contact Nicolas.

MorphOS version history:

(2005 11 06) Added a simple "Starter" GUI.
(2005 06 01) Removed workaround for some powersdl bug. The v11 is required now.
(2005 05 16) Added joystick hat support.
(2005 04 14) Recompiled and relinked. The previous release could crash.

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Movement	Arrow keys	Joystick
Fire	[Z]	JoyButton 1, JoyButton 4
Slowdown	[X]	JoyButton 2, JoyButton 3
Pause	[P]

-nosound	No ingame sound.
-window	Start the game in a window, instead of full-screen.
-reverse	Exchange the fire and the slowdown keys.
-brightness n	Set the screen brightness (n is a number between 0 and 256).
-accframe	Use the alternative framerate management algorithm. (If you have a problem with framerate, try this option.)
-nowait	No added slowdown when there are many displayed bullets (so the game becomes harder).