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* Bugs : a bit-mapped arcade game for the AT&T UNIX PC.    *
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* Release 2       Jan. 31, 1990                            *
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* By : Hans Jespersen                                      *
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  'Bugs' is a Space Invaders type game. I tried to preserve
as many of the elements of the original game as possible. Any
differences will be immediately obvious. 

  This is the second release of 'bugs'. All changes are 
documented in the file NOTES.

The controls for the game are as follows :

	Keyboard                             Mouse

	'a'	- shoot       -              Middle Button       
	'j'	- move left   -              Left Button
	'k'	- stop moving -              (release)
	'l'	- move right  -              Right Button 
	'b'	- toggle beeping
	's' 	- blow away shelters
	'q'	- quit

  Anyone wishing to change these controls should look at bugs.h
Make sure you at least define SCORE_FILE (for highscores ) 
in bugs.h.

  Many other game aspects are modifiable by changing constants
that are defined in bugs.h. I am quite satisfied with the pace
of the game, but if you wish to speed things up (at the expense
of smoothness in most cases) try bumping up the increament 
constants BUGINC, BASEINC, SHOTINC, etc. (these represent the
number of pixels to move each iteration). 

  At each successive level you will notice that the bugs start 
at a lower position. There are 6 levels. The 7th level starts
back where the first level did, however the number of shots
increases making play harder still. The same happens again after
the 12th level. In all there are 18 levels. My hat's off to 
anyone who makes it through all 18 (I haven't). After the 18th
play continues forever at the highest difficulty.

  I may add some new features in the future some of which are 
listed in the file "NOTES". If you have any additional ideas
please let me know. I can be reached at the email address 
below, which is forwarded to Waterloo when I am at school,
which thank god is not very much longer!!

Enjoy.

-hans           

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Hans Jespersen		  hjespers\@attcan.UUCP (uunet!attcan!hjespers)