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Xenonsoft, South London, England is very pleased to announce the
availability of:
Humanoid, version 0.3.0
`Humanoid' is an arcade video game, written entirely in Java. Software
is a
clone of the Williams game "Defender". The software is open source and
is
distributed "as free software.". Please read the LICENSE*.
The `Humanoid' software can be obtain from the FTP server:
`ftp://ftp.demon.net/pub/java'
or as a last resort
`http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/humanoid/humanoid.html'.
The software requires the Java Development Kit minimum version 1.1.4.
For installation instructions read the `INSTALL' file.
It may also be worth reading the `PROBLEMS' file if you have trouble.
The `Humanoid' is available as free software under the license
agreement ("the XPeL") that is compatible with the open source model.
This
means that the software will remain free forever more.
FEATURES
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o Pure Java
o All the classic enemies there `Landers', `Mutants', `Baiters',
`Bombers', `Pods', and those dreadful `Swarmers'.
o Humans restored every 5th wave.
o Planetoid explosion
o Smart Bomb
o Hyperspace jump
o bonus starship and smartbomb every 10,000 points
o Ability to run as a application or an applet.
o Implementation of the finer points of the game are based on
"The Winners' Book of Winner Kubey" written by Craig Kubey
published by Star ca 1982
o Features the `gamekit' video game engine.
o Features the `soundkit' sound rendering engine.
o An easy to use audio rendering engine based on the BASIC
command that were implemented on BBC Microcomputer.
`SOUND' and `ENVELOPE' statements in Java.
RUNNING
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To run the application on UNIX simple type
% Humanoid
Window NT users can double-click on the `Humanoid.bat' batch file to
start
the FreeInstaller. You may have to edit the `Humanoid.bat' with notepad
or winpad to fix the location of the `humanoid.jar'
To run the game as an applet simply copy the HTML file `humanoid.html'
and
`humanoid.jar' to the webserver root directory or a local file store.
BONUS
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Try out the BBC like sound rendering engine. On UNIX type the command:
% GuiTestSound
BUGETTES
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On rare occasions the infamous `ScreenUpdater' bug rears its ugly head.
In
the JDK 1.1 the AWT key event handling is broken sometimes. You can
press
the shift [THRUST] and `A' [UP]a nd `Z' [DOWN] at the sametime. However
under Window NT/JDK 1.2.1 the problems seems to have been fixed.
Enjoy baby bop.
Peter A. Pilgrim
Member of the Association of C/C++ User group UK. <http://www.accu.org/>
Mon Jun 28 00:25:59 BST 1999
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