Bloodfest V22 (29.10.1995)
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General info & history
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Bloodfest V19 was Mellow Chips' contribution to the Amiga Format AMOS
programming competition. It was made during the spring -95 under
high pressure. Written using AMOS Professional and compiled
using Amos Pro Compiler.

Version V20 was a later update.
The main differences between versions V19 and V20 were:
 * only 3 disks instead of 4 because of the new packing routines
 * faster loading speed
 * some spelling mistakes fixed in the game and in this readme file

Version V22 (this one) has even better compression routines
than the V20 and therefore the game has only 2 disks. The compression
was achieved using Turbo Imploder routines by P.Struijk & A.Brouver.
Some minor bugs were also splatted.

***

   This version may be copied but no money may be charged!
   PD firms should contact us if they want to include this game
   in their libraries! Address later... 

   Aminet has rights to release this game on Aminet CD.

***   


System requirements
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This game needs lots of chip ram because of the heavy load of graphics and
sound effects. It has been tested on A1200 (2 megs of chip ram) and
it works fine. It may work on B2000 and other models with 1 megabyte of
chip ram and with some fast ram, but due to the limited time we haven't
tested it throughly. Worth trying though!

Harddisc is not neccessarily neeeded but very recommended.


Installation
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Unpack the lha files on two disks. Bloodfest1.lha should be
extracted to a disk labeled Bloodfest1 and Bloodfest2.lha
on Bloodfest2.

If you're going to play this game on floppies, you should also
format a disk and label it 'BloodfestSave'. When you decide
to save your game click on the disk icon in the game panel
and follow the instructions on the screen.


Harddisk installation
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This is very easy. Just copy all the files from the disks to 
any directory in your hd. No assigns are needed. Click on the
icon to start the game.


Copyright & distribution
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This game is *NOT* PD, Freeware or such.

Bloodfest code           (C) 1995 Petri Hkkinen
Bloodfest graphics       (C) 1995 Tomas Bjrnfot, Jari Jokivuori
Bloodfest title music    (C) 1995 Mikko Kallinen
AMOS Professional,       (C) Europress Software Ltd.
AMOS Pro Compiler

Turbo Imploder by P.Struijk & A.Brouver.

This production may not be sold, reproduced or changed in any way
without a written permission from Mellow Chips. So, you can copy it to
your friend or upload it into a BBS but remember: do *not* charge
any money out of it! Aminet has rights to release this game on
their Aminet CD.

Offers from software houses, magazines and PD libraries 
are very welcome to the following address:

Petri Hkkinen
Roantie 17
95410 Kiviranta
Finland

Or E-mail to: mystic@tlti.tokem.fi (not checked in the summertime!)

If you think this game is good and want to encourage us or speed up
our work, we would appreciate if you could send us any amount of money
with your comments. 
Please send your bug reports, criticism etc. to the same address too.
 

Controls
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Mouse controls are self-evident, so only keyboard controls are
explained here briefly...

RETURN - FIRE/USE/STAB depending on your current item
SPACE  - OPEN DOOR
ESC    - QUIT

                                            NUMERIC KEYBOARD


                                                 forward                    
        ______ ______                  turn _  _____|_____  _ turn
 turn- |Del   |Help  |-turn            left  \|   |   |   |/  right
 left  |______|______| right                  | 7 | 8 | 9 |
                                              |___|___|___|
            ____                     move     |   |   |   | move
           | /\ |-forward            lateraly-| 4 | 5 | 6 |-lateraly
           |    |                    left     |___|___|___| right
  move  ---|----|---  move                    |     |     |
  lat.-|   |    |   |-lat.                      backwards 
  left |_<_|_\/_|_>_| right
             |
         backwards




Other products from Mellow Chips
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* Pucman Worlds  (aminet/game/misc)
* MachoKillers   (aminet/game/shoot)
* ZhandulinHelmi (aminet/game/role) 


Coming (soon?)
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* Helmen Valtakunta (=Zhandulin Helmi II)
* Pucman the Sequel
* Endless Adventure RPG


Hellos & Thanks
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Greetings to: 
* Embassy & Artificial People & Cirion

Thanks to:    
* Martin "MagicWB" Huttenloher for the font
* Mikko Kallinen for the music
* Chris Hodges for the best AMOS extension ever, AMCAF!              
* Persons on the amoslist who commented on my previous games

