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ROCKS!

Rocks! in floating mode. Ship being chased by pulser and time detonated mine, released by green alien	Rocks! in falling mode. Berzerker has just pulverized a large meteor. Ship recently destroyed the green alien.

DESCRIPTION

During Christmas vacation of 1999, I wrote a game which was inspired by Astrosmash! for the Mattel Intellivision, itself inspired by the classic Atari game "Asteroids". Rocks! has 6 progressively more difficult stages, 4 unique enemies, and two different modes of game play: "floating" in which your ship can move freely about and enemies come from all sides, and "falling" in which you are confined to left-right movement on the ground and enemies come from the top of the screen. This is a good example of my OOP graphics library I had developed in the early 90s, my recently acquired understanding of trigonometry and physics, my high-speed bitmap scaling and rotation routines, and a simple sound effects engine which works on three different sound cards (Adlib, SoundBlaster, and the Gravis Ultrasound).

EXAMINE YOUR CONTROLS

Here are the keys used to control your ship, change the volume, and pause or exit the game:

KEYPAD +	Increase volume	KEYPAD -	Decrease volume
ENTER	Pause game	A	Toggle Auto-fire On/Off
SPACEBAR	Fire	CTRL	Hyperspace!
RIGHT ARROW	Rotate ship clockwise	LEFT ARROW	Rotate ship counter-clockwise
UP ARROW	Thrust	DOWN ARROW	Counter-thrust
ESC	Quit game

DOWNLOAD AGREEMENT

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Download ROCKS! for MS-DOS (DOSBox included)