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Galactic 68K - 1.7
By bfr
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1. Installation

Download all of the files from the proper folder to your calculator, and then run galactic().  It can run when archived, but both of the files are required.  Make sure that you have four good batteries while the game is running, or else there is a slight possiblility that your calculator will freeze and/or crash.  

2. Game Play

You are the ship on the bottom.  Simply try to shoot the enemy ship on the top while avoiding getting shot yourself.  You typically have two or three lives, and so does the enemy, depending on the level.  There is also a shop, which appears every once in a while between lives, that allows you to purchase more lives, a new ship, a new laser, and more.  There are a total of eleven levels - twelve regular levels and then a final boss.    

Also, although I highly doubt this, but there is a slight change that the program simply doesn't run.  This may be because you didn't download both of the required files, grayscale failed to be activated, or the initialization of hidden buffers failed - probably due to a lack of enough RAM.  So, make sure that you have a fair amount of RAM to run this program and that you downloaded all of the needed files (in the proper folder, meaning the TI-89 folder if you have a TI-89 or TI-89 Titanium, etc.). 

3. Controls

2ND - Shoot
DIAMOND - Pause
Arrow Keys - Move

4. History

1.0 - Initial release; ten normal levels, and an eleventh level with a boss

1.1 - Fixed bug with memory allocation, optimized to use les memory

1.2 - I made a few levels harder and slightly improved the boss's artificial intelligence

1.3 - Switched from using ngetchx() to wait for keys to using _keytest

1.4 - Slightly adjusted a level and the wait() function, fixed a bug when pausing the game when facing the boss

1.5 - Added a a few levels, added scrolling backgrounds to a few more levels, made the game slightly more difficult

1.6 - Fixed a slight bug that occured when the player's bullet's speed was 3 (occured when purchasing an Uber Laser each time the shop appeared), changed which ship the player gets to use on level 10

1.7 - Fixed a dumb mistake I made while debugging, which starts the user at level 11

5. Extras

Email: bfrsoccer@yahoo.com
Website: http://bfr.tifreakware.net

Also, be sure to check out Halifax's Galactic for the TI-83+/TI-84+ series (if you have a TI-83+/TI-84+ series calculator, of course).  