Copyright & Disclaimer
 ======================

 This game is freeware. It may be freely copied if no modifications
 are made with the entire package! Any commercial distribution is strictly
 forbidden. There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this
 software for any purpose. It is provided solely "as is".


 Welcome to Poweroids!
 =====================


 Features:

   · Requires 1 MB chipmem and a 68020 CPU or better
   · Supports the four player joystick adapter for the parallel port!
   · Compatible with any screen that supports custom bitmaps!
   · Doesn't stop multitasking!

 The game is designed for PAL and 50Hz, so you should take this mode! All
 other display modes require more CPU power (the screen has to be updated
 more often). Use them only if you have a fast Amiga!


 Special Keys:

   · F1-F4: Selects 1-4 player game
   · F5:    Pause
   · F6-F8: Selects arcade mode, battle mode, hires battle mode
            (battle mode requires 2-4 players)
            (hires battle mode additionaly requires the AGA chipset)
   · F10:   (Re)Start game
   · Esc:   Quit game


  JOYSTICK CONTROL:                       MOUSE CONTROL:
 ===================                     ================

             thrust!                                 .---.
               .-.                                   | | |
             .-' `-.                                 |---|
   turn left |  O  | turn right          turn left <-|   |-> turn right
             `-. .-'                                 |   |
               `-'                                   `---'
           hyperspace!
                                        
 The joystick port, the mouse port       Push F10 and the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
 and the two ports on the four player    in the title page to start with mouse
 adapter for the parallel port are       control. Left button is fire, right
 supportet. Push F10 and fire on the     button is thrust, hyperspace is
 desired joystick to start!              impossible with mouse control!

  KEYBOARD CONTROL 1:                     KEYBOARD CONTROL 2:
 =====================                   =====================

   "Y": turn left                          cursor left:  turn left
   "X": turn right                         cursor right: turn right
   ".": thrust!                            cursor up:    thrust!
   " ": hyperspace!                        cursor down:  hyperspace!
   "-": fire!                              left alt key: fire! (right amiga)
                                                                             
 Press F10 and "-" at the title          Press F10 and left alt key at the
 to start with keyboard control.         title to start with keyboard control.

  
 Tool types:

   · MONITOR=<monitorName>/<width>/<height>
     (e.g. MONITOR=PAL/320/256)
     Selects the monitor and the screen resolution of the game display.
     This works only with Kickstart 2.0 (V37) or better. If no MONITOR tool
     type is specified, it uses the default monitor and 320/200.

   · INPUTDEVICE=OFF -> Disables mousepointer and input device to
     get full CPU speed. In pause mode, both are active again.

   · ADAPTER=OFF -> Disables access to the parallel port. Usefull
     if there is no four player joystick adapter. Data sent to another device
     at the parallel port will be scrambled otherwise in multiplayermode!


 Technical:

   · Poweroids uses direct blitter access, so GFX-card screenmodes will fail.
     If you are using CyberGraphX, you WILL have to DISABLE the PLANES2FAST
     option or the game will even fail on standard screen modes!

   · Requires mathtrans.library and icon.library from workbench disk!


 History:
 
 Do you think there's nothing special about a game where you have to destroy
 asteroids? Well, you are right. These were my thoughts back in 1995 and so
 Poweroids was born... Have fun!

 V1.3: (30.Nov.1995)
   · Can check special freeware version
   · Known feature: Titlemusic is only available with 2mb chipmem, sorry
  
 V1.2: (13.Oct.1995)
   · New Titlemusic
   · Less stars in title picture
   · Cruiser shot sample changed
   · Bug fixed: Saucer shot was harmless
   · Bug fixed: Incorrect checking of parallel port joystick adapter
   · Bug fixed: Sound dma failed sometimes
   · Bug fixed: Poweroids didn't work with Kickstart 2.0

 V1.1: (26.Aug.1995)
   · Flickerfree double buffering (only with Kickstart 3.0 or better)
   · Improved sound routines (music fades, sound priorities)
   · Improved Battlemode
   · Possibility to disable four player joystick adapter
   · Extra files are crunched
   · Bug fixed: Channels weren't allocateded
   · Bug fixed: Extra ships were not displayed correctly
   · Bug fixed: Gamespeed was too fast with more than 50hz

 V1.0: (05.Jul.1995)
   · First public release.
   

 Any comments, suggestions, bug-reports? Let me know...


 Matthias Bock, April 2002              |        _         `=oo='____
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 homepage: http://lazycow.de/poweroids  | Thank you, Amiga... jj   "jj *