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³     Copyrights     ³
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Copyrights 1997-2001 by Jussi Aittoniemi. 



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³      The game      ³
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Miniwar requires at least an 386 processor with math coprocessor and about
460 kb of conventional memory.
A pentium processor is strongly recommended.
To enjoy the sounds and musics you need in addition a Sound Blaster and about
2Mb of free XMS.

For more information about the musics see the chapter about sound and music.

The installation is simple. Just unzip the zip file, that you with the -d
switch. It will create a subdirectory called LEVELS. It contains the .PCX
level files. For more information on levels see the chapter about levels.
After extracting just execute MINIWAR.EXE and you are in the game. The menu
couldn't be simpler to use: Select an option by pressing enter while it is
highlighted by the blinking cursor. There are six different options
available:

PLAY:    Start the game with the current settings
PLAYERS: Select the number of players by pressing a key beteween 2 and 4 and
         change the key configurations by pressing alt+1-5
WEAPON:  An overview of the different weapons and their icons
LEVELS:  Select a number of random levels by pressing a key beteween 0 and 9
         or by pressing ALT and a key beteween 0 and 9 
INFO:    Some Information about the program.
EXIT:    Exits to operating system



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³       Sounds       ³
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Miniwar supports, at least now, only the Sound Blaster standard. You need to
have an original Creative Labs Sound Blaster or a 100% compatible sound card
and 2 Mb of free XMS memory to enjoy the sounds and musics of Miniwar.

IMPORTANT:
Miniwar v1.26 supports adding new music files. New musics can be downloaded
from the Miniwar homepage (address see below).
If you don't hear in game music but you hear sounds, then you have
downloaded a non-music version of miniwar. That means the ZIP file didn't
include music (and was faster to download). If you want some cool music you
can download it from the homepage.

To install an additional music just do the following:
-unzip the zipped file
-copy the bgXXX.raw file to the \DATA subdirectory of miniwar
-delete the zip file if you want to



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³    Command Line    ³
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Miniwar supports some command line options. They are:
  -?     Help overview
  -dx    Add a delay. Use this if the game runs too fast. A greater delay
         means a slower game speed
  -s     Play the game without sounds (use this if you don't have a sound
         card, or if it doesn't work)
  -m     Play the game without background musics (useful if you want to play
         CDs in background)



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³ Key configurations ³
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You can change the key configurations in the players menu by pressing
alt+1-5. Note that player 2 has got two different controls. The first one is
used in two player games and the other one is used in three or four player
games. This allows you to use more keyboard space with less players, so that
your fingers don't fall off that soon. Of course these two controls can
consist of the same configuration.

Some buttons are named "SC-XX", where XX is the buttons keyboard scancode.
These buttons work as well as the others, so don't be confused.

If you want to reset the controls to default, you just have to overwrite the
KEYS.CFG file with the KEYS.DEF file. These defaults are listed here too:

PLAYER 1:
Left:                   left arrow
Right:                  right arrow
Jump:                   up arrow
Shoot:                  right shift
Change extraweapon:     down arrow
Activate extraweapon:   right control

PLAYER 2a:
Left:                   A
Right:                  D
Jump:                   W
Shoot:                  tabulator
Change extraweapon:     S
Activate extraweapon:   left control

PLAYER 2b:
Left:                   A
Right:                  X
Jump:                   S
Shoot:                  1
Change extraweapon:     Z/Y
Activate extraweapon:   tabulator

PLAYER 3:
Left:                   J
Right:                  L
Jump:                   I
Shoot:                  H
Change extraweapon:     K
Activate extraweapon:   N

PLAYER 4:
Left:                   keypad 3
Right:                  keypad 9
Jump:                   keypad 5
Shoot:                  keypad 0
Change extraweapon:     keypad 6
Activate extraweapon:   keypad DEL



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³   Making levels    ³
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!! NOTE:
!! Miniwar v1.25 and 1.26 use a different palette than version 1.20 so
!! levels made for Miniwar 1.20 don't work correctly anymore.

All levels of Miniwar have to be in the LEVELS subdirectory. They have to be
in the 320x200x256 PCX format. Special palette indexes:
0:       The background color.
8:       Pixels in this color are undestroyable. There is a nine pixel wide
         border in this color around every level.
224:     This color marks platforms.
230:     This color index is black, but troopers can't jump through it. Use
         this color to make spaces, where you can't climb inside.


More on platforms:
If you want to include a platform that moves up and down do the following:
Put one pixel of the color 224 there, where you want the platform to have its
highest point. The platform will automatically find its lowest point.
NOTE: There can be only up to 10 platforms in one level. More platforms
      won't work.

If you want to make your own levels I would recommend to load BLANK.PCX a
graphic editor. After making a level save it with another name into the
LEVELS subdirectory. Note that there will be drawn a nine pixel wide
undestroyable (color 8) border around your level when its used in the game.
BLANK.PCX already contains this border. For more levels see the Miniwar
homepage.



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³     The weapons    ³
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Miniwar supports 22 weapons and out-of-box effects. The registered version
adds 14 totally new and different ones to the arsenal. For information on
how to register see the chapter about registration.

Normal Gun:
  -trooper standard equipment
  -fires small pellets
  -unlimited supply
  -no autofire
  -cause damage: A LITTLE

Bazooka:
  -a large clod of powder
  -fast
  -very strong kickback
  -cause damage: MUCH

Grenade:
  -a handy but devastating little thing
  -requires training
  -cause damage: MUCH

Machinegun:
  -fill the air with fast pellets
  -supports quick autofire
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Rear Turret:
  -fires in all directions
  -supports autofire
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Mine:
  -put down a mine
  -mines in your color don't explode on you
  -cause damage: MUCH

Infrared Pulse Gun:
  -fires a very fast and deadly infrared emission
  -flies through everything
  -cause damage: SOME

Laser:
  -kill your enemy with this red laser emission in light speed
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Fart:
  -does constantly damage your opponents around you for a while, so keep
   near them
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Boomerang:
  -throw this little toy and grab it soon or it'll be lost
  -cause damage: MEDIUM

Fake:
  -the different box
  -cause damage: MEDIUM

Shotgun:
  -pump and fire!
  -cause damage: MUCH

Cluster Bomb:
  -throws hell of a lot grenades after a short delay
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Freezer:
  -give your enemies a break
  -time limit: SHORT
  -NOTE: freezed troopers suffer only a fraction of the damage than a
   nonfreezed trooper does

HeAdsPiNneR:
  -fires a weird flying mental virus
  -causes mental dizzyness and slight control problems
  -time limit: MEDIUM

Mega Speed:
  -gives you a supadupa mega speed kick
  -time limit: SHORT

Teleport:
  -Scotty,...
 
Ghost:
  -walk through walls
  -time limit: ETERNAL

Health:
  -gain extra health straight out of the box
  -life gained: A LOT

Cloaker:
  -cloak or decloak yourself whenever you want
  -this toy has unlimited "ammo"
  -time limit: UNTIL (DE-)CLOAKED

Energy Bolt:
  -a slowmoving little bolt, that produces a very deadly explosion
  -you can't hit a player directly with this, you have to hit a wall near an
   opponent
  -cause damage: VERY MUCH

Plasma Wall:
  -a slowmoving wall, that grows from small to huge
  -goes through walls
  -players inside the wall take damage
  -cause damage: MUCH

Holotrooper:
  -create an exact copy of yourself and even control it a moment
  -holotrooper even produces blood when hit, but you take no damage
  -you can't get weapondrops with your holotrooper
  -you teleport when your holotrooper ends
  -time limit: SHORT
  
Steal:
  -steals your opponents current weapon and all his ammo
  -your friends will cry in many interesting ways, if you steal their pulse
   guns or sheeps

Megajump:
  -jump like you never have jumped before
  -time limit: MEDIUM

Spear:
  -spear up your enemies while they shout for help
  -cause damage: DEPENDS
  -time limit: MEDIUM

Boulder:
  -throw a huge rolling stone on your beatles
  -cause damage: VERY MUCH
  -time limit: MEDIUM

Ants:
  -little nasty ants that run for the nearest enemy
  -if they touch an enemy, he takes damage
  -ants die in explosions
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Sheep:
  -a crazy sheep that jumps around the screen
  -if it's near to an enemy it goes BOOM
  -cause damage: VERY MUCH

Missle Tower:
  -a sam site that fires deadful homing missles
  -to fire a missle activate the missle icon in your icon bar
  -can be destroyed by explosives
  -it gets darker if its armor becomes weaker
  -cause damage: SOME

Bridge:
  -produces a metal bridge to walk over
  -useful for bridges over mines and missle towers or to trap enemy sheeps
  -cause damage: NONE

Redgun:
  -shoots autoaiming red bullets
  -cause damage: MUCH

Spreadfire Gun:
  -fires deadful shots, that split themselves after some time, so they become
   more and more on long distances
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Minigun:
  -fire downwards, while you fly upwards
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Airstrike:
  -produce a bomb mat falling from above, covering the whole level
  -useful if your opponents are up and you are down
  -cause damage: DEPENDS

Voodoo:
  -while you perform this mystical ritual, you can't move, jump or shoot,
   which makes you very vulnerable
  -when it ends one of your enemies gets hurt a lot
  -the duration is randomed, so you really hope it to be short
  -cause damage: VERY MUCH



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³  Version History   ³
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earlier Never really released.

1.20    Improved some controls. Uploaded the homepage on the net. Improved
        balance and other things.

1.25    Blood! Better graphics and self-configurable controls. Some new
        levels and control improvements. Now 22 weapons in SW and 36 in
        registered. Customizable in game musics (see more in the chapter
        about sounds snd musics). Some other improvements.



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³    File Listing    ³
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These are the files you find in your miniwar directory:
MINIWAR.EXE  - Game executable
MINIWAR.DOC  - This documentation
REGISTER.FRM - Registration form
BLANK.PCX    - Includes palette, use this to make own levels
BLANK.BAK    - Backup copy of the above
KEYS.CFG     - Keyboard configuration file. Can be changed in the game
KEYS.DEF     - Default keys. Rename this to KEYS.CFG to return default
FILE_ID.DIZ  - Program information for BBS systems
MINIWAR.SW   - Game data
MENU.SW      - Game data
PLAYERS.SW   - Game data
FONTS.DAT    - Game data



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³      Credits       ³
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Programmed by                                   JUSSI AITTONIEMI

Sounds, graphics, ideas, level design by        JULIUS HASSEMER and
                                                JUSSI AITTONIEMI



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³     Contacting     ³
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You can contact the author per email at:   JussiA@***.de   
                                  

The official Miniwar homepage is located at:
http://www.miniwar.de
It contains the newest versions, new levels and other stuff.



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³       Thanks       ³
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The author wants to thank the following:

-Julius Hassemer (see Credits)
-Julian Holstein
-All my friend for their support
-All the makers of AUTS, it's really great
-Ethan Brodsky for his wonderful SMIX unit

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