*** MetaTRON V1.1 by Kai Londenberg ****

MetaTRON is Freeware. All Rights reserved.
Hannover, Germany - 17th Januar 1999.

Requires:
Pentium CPU
Windows 95 or 98
DirectX V6 (possibly V5 or V4 suffices. I haven`t tried.)

Don't yell at me if you don't have this !
I programmed this for fun, and to get into DirectX. Sure it can be done for DOS
and Linux as well, much easier possibly.

for questions, suggestions, bug reports and so on, mail me at

Kai.Londenberg@stud.uni-hannover.de
Homepage: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~klon/

So, you guess this is just another Tron clone, don't you ?
there are a few things special about this one. I tried my best
to imitate, and where possible, improve the best Tron Game I've known
so far: Ultimate Tron II (C64), which allowed up to 8 Players at once, all
Keyboard driven.

Ultimate Tron II was worth endless hours of gaming. Or rather partying, with
a lot of friends. So I had to come up with something for the PC.

FEATURES:

- MetaTRON V1 supports up to 10 Players simultaneously !!

- It is possible to play Tournaments, with players coming and going as they like.

- It has a PAUSE Key (which Ultimate Tron II did not have)

- It has nifty explosions, and the possibility for the Players to escape the Maze. (try it!)

- runs in 800*600 pixels, 256 colors (2 of them used :))

- It is completely Keyboard driven, with configurable game keys.

- Option to Save up to 9 Games, complete with configuration.

- KI Players (in the Setup, you can Toggle INACTIVE/ACTIVE/KI
  (that is, these Players will be driven by the Computer. You can still assign them keys
  and try to drive them as well, but that wouldn't be so very sensible.)

- A Nice Title-Intro with a beautiful water effect ...

ToDo:

Well, points 1 & 2 have been done within a week. The intro and KI players
have been implemented. The KI could be more intelligent, though.

3.) Add an Arcade Mode with Levels and Labyrinths and so on ..
4.) Add the option to plug in your own KI programs to compete against.
    (Like CoreWars, but more fun)
5.) Oh, yes .. and add the option for the players to form teams ..
    (against the KI for example).
6.) Provide a multimedia version which takes away a lot of HD Space but is more
    beautiful.
7.) Maybe a LAN Version for up to 90 Players at once :)
8.) And in a few years, maybe some intelligent, in fact living Programs to compete
    against :) (Now I'm dreaming... but maybe. Neural Networks are promising)

But all of these will take a while. I have to learn for some tests ..

Note:
This is the first release, and it runs fine on my computer,
if it doesn't on yours, tell me.
But before that, look at the Requirements this game has.

If it's too fast, Correct the speed. Speed 3 is perfect on my Laptop,
but maybe too fast on a 100 Hz Monitor.

You can put a Soundtrack.wav into the same dir, and it will be played at startup.

Tip: There is a way to generate mp3 compressed WAVs .. try it.

The Pause Key will toggle Pause On/Off
ESC will always take you out if you want to do something else.



		That's it. Have a lot of fun !
