Galaxe v2.1

Galaxe21 is an arcade game written in GW-BASIC.
The control is the joystick. The program reads the center position of the
joystick before level 1 starts, so let the handle rest in center position until
the first level is fully painted.

If the game runs to fast on your computer add this line to the program:

2625 FOR SLOWER=1 TO x:NEXT

where x is an appropriate number, (on modern machines somewhere between
10000 and 30000 or more).

After starting the game you choose between Standard Game (1 + <ENTER>)
or Special Version (2 + <ENTER>).

Standard Game has 14 different color combinations to choose from.

Special Version has 7 different difficulty settings to choose from.

You start with 5 lives and gain 1 extra after finishing every sixth level.

The screen displays what level you are on, e.g. BILDE:  2, and how many lives
you have got left at the start of the level, e.g. LIV:  4.

There is a total of 61 levels.



GALAXE.ZIP includes the following files:

GALAXE21.BAS (the game)
BILDER21.BAS (a screen tour)
GALAXE.ICO
BILDER.ICO
GALAXE.TXT (this file)

Galaxe21 and Bilder21 may only be run on machines that has GW-BASIC installed.

GWBASIC.EXE must be running in order to start GALAXE21.BAS or BILDER21.BAS.
After having started GW-BASIC, press F3, print the name of the program you want to run
and press <ENTER>. Then press F2.

GW-BASIC is an interpreter (not a compiler). Once a program is loaded into GW-BASIC it may
be edited, e.g. typing a sentence number and pressing <ENTER> will delete that sentence.
This is also the case after the started program has ended.

A program may be stopped by pressing CTRL+Break.

Loading a new program into GW-BASIC will remove the previous program.

To exit GW-BASIC type "system" and press <ENTER>.



Galaxe21 and Bilder21 may be started from within Windows (Windows 3.0+/Windows 95+).

Let's presume that you have GWBASIC.EXE, GALAXE21.BAS and BILDER21.BAS in this catalogue:
C:\DOS

To create a shortcut for starting the game Galaxe21 from within Windows use this command line:
C:\DOS\GWBASIC.EXE GALAXE21.BAS

Create a similar shortcut for the program Bilder21.


Typing "system" after ending the game will then take you back to Windows.



Paal Olstad.





