Short: MegaBall v2.1. New boards! Bug fixes! Version: 2.1 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Version 2.1 note: 9/20/92 This is the first version of MegaBall to be released since I got my new Amiga 3000. I have to thank a few hundred registered users of previous versions of MegaBall for helping me afford this new hardware. I have improved some parts of the MegaBall game to work better on the 3000, without losing 1.3 compatability. Here they are: * Invisible ball finally fixed. * Music code modified -- should not skip notes on fast machines now. * Paddle crashing through wall bug during overscan fixed. However, there is also a "bug" where on systems that used to have the paddle-thru-wall bug, clicking the left mouse button too far to the right would pause the game. This is because intuition is letting you click outside the screen -- MegaBall gets a message that the user has started using some other program, so it pauses. This is likely to happen if you have an overscanned WB 1.3 screen, or if your overscanned WB 2.x screen is visible somewhere. It is just the way the OS works. If it happens to you, then don't use the left mouse button! The right mouse button and the left mouse button have precicely the same functions in MegaBall. So if the left is causing the game to pause at unwanted moments, use the right! * A certain form of cheating (without using the cheat keys) has been brought to my attention. Some people would pause the game as the ball was coming down, think about where it was going to land, position the mouse pointer over that spot, and continue the game. These people are in for a suprise. * The paddle is a bit more responsive this version. I tried to accellerate it just a bit, without losing that MegaBall "feel." * The default board set has changed. There are 50 new boards! * Quicksand has changed. Muhahahha. * Because of the above two changes, the name of the high score file has changed from MegaBall.scores to MegaBall2.scores. This will have the effect of reseting most people's high score list for the default board set. The original boards can be found in a file in the Boards subdir called "TheOriginal.BDS". If you want to put your old high score list on this file, you should open a CLI, and type something like the following: cd dh0:games/megaball ;or wherever you have MegaBall installed copy MegaBall.scores Boards/TheOriginal.BDS.scr A lot of people asked me how to reset a high score list. All you have to do is delete or rename whatever file contains the scores. All MegaBall score files are compatible; the format has not changed. * Funny colors in top-left corner fixed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------