
Blitter 2: 'The Swarm' v1.02
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Tron Software 2002
http://www.tronsoftware.co.uk


PLEASE READ FIRST

As of January 2004, this videogame is free to distrubute
as long as you charge no money for it. If you wish to profit
from this game, you must purchase a commercial license from 
me, Jonathan Baker. Please contact the e-mail address below 
if you wish to take advantage of this offer. 

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Intel Pentium II / AMD K6-2 400mhz IBM compatible PC.
Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/XP
32MB RAM
8MB Graphics Card
5MB HD space
DirectX 1.0 or greater

CONTROLS

<LEFT CURSOR KEY>   Move your ship left.
<RIGHT CURSOR KEY>  Move your ship right.
<SPACE BAR>         Fire your lasers.
<LEFT CONTROL>      Fire the Death Beam.


THE PLOT.....(such as it is)

Nasty, evil bug-eyed Aliens from Deepest Outer Space have been
keeping an eye on our small planet for many years. Only now have
our TV signals from the 1950's travelled through space and reached
their world. Seeing the B-movie science-fiction television pictures
of creepy alien scum devouring cattle and destroying cities, the 
nasty aliens figure that we know about them! So they gathered their
forces and travelled through the cosmos to invade our peaceful
world. Even now, the alien fleet draws closer, intent on stealing 
our cows and people for evil, alien purposes that probably involves
making some kind of meat paste to be sucked up in candy straws. 

YOU are Earths final hope. Equipped with the best space fighter 
current technology can provide, only YOU stand between the alien
forces and the extinction of the human race. Go forth and kick 
alien butt!!

(Told you the story wasn't up to much :))

Enjoy! Source code available upon an extremely pleading and polite 
request. If its sunny outside and I've had my Strawberry milk for the
day I might be inclined to mail it to you. :)

THIS PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN WITH:

My trusty Pentium 500
Blitz Basic v1.73
Paint Shop Pro 4.17 SE
Adobe Photoshop 5.0
Creative Wave Studio
32 bottles of 'Crazy' Strawberry Milk
6 packets of Marlboro Lights
Narco-Weed(tm)
The Force

Many thanks to Eugene Jarvis (Designer of Defender, Robotron: 2084 and 
Stargate) for inspiring me to write videogames in the first place, Jeff 
Minter for making games programming cool in the UK and all my happy 
buddies at www.blitzcoder.com for helping me out when I needed it and 
for being a great bunch of programmers. You guys rock. 

Later!

Jonathan Baker.

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http://www.tronsoftware.co.uk
Mail me:
webmaster@tronsoftware.co.uk