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r596 r621 1 Abuse -SDL 0.7.1README2 ---------------- ------1 Abuse 0.8 README 2 ---------------- 3 3 4 4 ---- … … 7 7 2. Additional Features 8 8 3. Requirements 9 4. Running Abuse -SDL9 4. Running Abuse 10 10 5. Configuration 11 6. Installing the datafiles .11 6. Installing the datafiles 12 12 7. Notes 13 13 8. Special Thanks … … 19 19 1. INTRODUCTION 20 20 21 Welcome to Abuse -SDL, the port of the classic game Abuse to the22 Simple DirectMedia Layer. Abuse was originally developed by 23 Crack dot Com and released in 1995 for MS-DOS. A Linux version was 24 a lso made available at a later date. It had a few limitations25 th e most restrictive of which was that it only ran on an 8-bit26 display, and only in a window. 27 Abuse -SDL will run at any colour depth and supports fullscreen28 mode, as well as many other new features. It should also be more 29 portable and hopefully run on a variety of *nix variants, and possibly 30 other systemssupported by the SDL library.21 Welcome to Abuse, the port of the classic game Abuse to the Simple 22 DirectMedia Layer. Abuse was originally developed by Crack dot Com and 23 released in 1995 for MS-DOS. A Linux version was also made available at 24 a later date. It had a few limitations the most restrictive of which was 25 that it only ran on an 8-bit display, and only in a window. 26 27 Abuse will run at any colour depth and supports fullscreen mode, as 28 well as many other new features. It should also be more portable and 29 hopefully run on a variety of *nix variants, and possibly other systems 30 supported by the SDL library. 31 31 32 32 33 33 2. ADDITIONAL FEATURES 34 34 35 Abuse-SDL has the following extra features over the original 36 Abuse: 35 Abuse has the following extra features over the original: 37 36 38 37 Runs at a screen bit depth of 8, 16, 24 or 32. … … 47 46 3. REQUIREMENTS 48 47 49 Abuse -SDLhas the following requirements:48 Abuse has the following requirements: 50 49 51 50 SDL 1.1.6 or above. … … 58 57 59 58 60 4. RUNNING ABUSE -SDL59 4. RUNNING ABUSE 61 60 62 If Abuse -SDLhas been installed properly, the command:61 If Abuse has been installed properly, the command: 63 62 64 63 abuse … … 84 83 5. CONFIGURATION 85 84 86 Abuse-SDL also has a configuration file where these options can be set 87 instead of using the command line. The file "abuserc" will be created in 88 your ~/.abuse directory the first time Abuse-SDL is run. 85 Abuse also has a configuration file where these options can be set 86 instead of using the command line. The file "abuserc" will be created in 87 your ~/.abuse directory the first time Abuse is run. 88 89 89 Lines starting with a ';' are comments. 90 90 Setting an option to '1' turns it on, and '0' turns it off. … … 119 119 6. INSTALLING THE DATAFILES 120 120 121 Abuse -SDL requires a set of datafiles(graphics, sounds, maps and so on) to be122 installed before it will run. They are available as a separate package from 123 the Abuse-SDLwebsite.121 Abuse requires a set of datafiles (graphics, sounds, maps and so on) 122 to be installed before it will run. They are available as a separate 123 package from the Abuse website. 124 124 125 By default, Abuse -SDLexpects the datafiles to be installed in the following125 By default, Abuse expects the datafiles to be installed in the following 126 126 location: 127 127 128 128 /usr/local/share/games/abuse 129 129 130 However it is possible to change this and tell Abuse -SDLwhere to find the130 However it is possible to change this and tell Abuse where to find the 131 131 files if they are in another location. 132 The location can be set when Abuse-SDL is compiled. See the INSTALL file for 132 133 The location can be set when Abuse is compiled. See the INSTALL file for 133 134 instructions on how to do this. 134 You can also specify the location with the -datadir argument when Abuse-SDL is 135 run. See section 4 above. 136 Finally, the location can be set in the configuration file. See section 5 above. 135 136 You can also specify the location with the -datadir argument when 137 Abuse is run. See section 4 above. 138 139 Finally, the location can be set in the configuration file. See section 140 5 above. 137 141 138 142 To install the datafiles, simply unpack the archive into a location of your … … 160 164 8. SPECIAL THANKS 161 165 162 Go to Jonathan Clark, Dave Taylor and the rest of the Crack Dot Com team for163 making the best 2D platform shooter ever, and then releasing the code that 164 makes Abuse-SDLpossible.166 Go to Jonathan Clark, Dave Taylor and the rest of the Crack Dot Com team 167 for making the best 2D platform shooter ever, and then releasing the 168 code that makes Abuse possible. 165 169 166 170 Also, thanks go to Jonathan Clark for allowing Anthony to distribute the 167 original datafiles with Abuse -SDL.171 original datafiles with Abuse. 168 172 169 173 Thanks also to everyone who has contributed ideas, bug reports and patches. … … 177 181 sam@hocevar.net 178 182 179 The Abuse -SDLwebpage can be found at:183 The Abuse webpage can be found at: 180 184 181 185 http://abuse.zoy.org/
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