          Bananoid - Operation needs 1) a mouse & drivers installed
                                     2) a VGA card with 256K
                                     3) suggested 10mHz+ 80286 machine


          Bananoid is a breakout-style game with high (360 x 240) resolution
     MCGA graphics, an oversized (544 x 240) play field and mouse-only
     control using page-flipping for the screen control.  The falling blocks
     result in differing paddle effects, mostly good - one bad.  I know
     we're all a little tired of wall-block-paddle-pill games, but the idea
     was simple -- the graphics drivers were what interested me.  The speed
     is controlled by vertical retracing, so on a machine slower than a 12MHz
     286 the game may appear sluggish. O well...  But on a faster machine, the 
     game operates at approximately 60 frames per second.  There is only data
     for seven levels.  That's enough to demonstrate MCGA as a viable game 
     mode on VGA cards.


          The right mouse button advances you a level (if you happen
     to be bored with the one you're on), and the left button is used
     for all ball-release and missles-fires.

     Falling Block color    effect
            Grey          - little paddle
            Red           - lasers
            Green         - "sticky" paddle
            Light Blue    - slow game
            Yellow        - free life
            Blue          - double paddle
            Purple        - next level

          Please understand, this was only a few day project, so there
     are more than a few "1.00" type bugs.  

                                                             - Bill



   For those of you with a Paradise VGA card (not the Pro, but the normal
one) and a Multi-Synch Monitor, try the fulls.exe.  This uses the 33mHz (?)
dot clock and reaches a resolution of approx. 600 * 480 with 256 colors.
This uses almost all 256K on the card to display one screens worth of 
information.  You may have to switch the overscan to pack it all on to
the screen at once.