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Tronish 1.3.3 is a wonderfully crafted game of skill, tension, and nervous
breakdowns. It involves the same kind of concepts as all tron games, with
the exception that it has bloobly backgrounds and far too many options.

You guide your little coloured line around the screen (in strieght lines)
and try not to crash into other things. The game can be played with either
one or two players and works on anything with an 68020 or better processor
(as far as I know).

More wonder enhancements in the pipeline!

                              FISHIE SOFTWARE
                                    and
                             Sam Easterby-Smith

T  R  O  N  I  S  H 

V e r s i o n   1 . 3 . 3 

-- Contents --

-About Tronish 1.3.3
-Changes from version 1.3.2
-Previous (badly documented) changes
-Compatability notes
-Thanks
-Feedback


-- TRONISH 1.3.3 --

Please refer to the online help for information about playing the game.

Tronish was written by and is copyright © Sam Easterby-Smith 1995

It was written as an alternative to revising for GCSE Latin, but I
didn't do too badly in the end (I got a grade B)

You may keep it, distribute it, mutilate it with ResEdit and so on, as
long as when you distribute it, the code is the same as when you
received it. There are TEXT resources in the various files to tell you
what you can do by way of mutilation. You must also include this readme
file when distributing it.

If you want to put it on a commercially available freeware collection
you should write to me or email me at the address below, telling me how
much you intend to charge for the CD-ROM or disk. It will definitely be
all right with me, but I would like to know about it so that I can tell
my friends. You should also send me a copy of the CD-ROM or disk which
you are distributing it on.

There is no charge for this software, but if you really like it you
could always send me some money (I will either buy myself a decent
compiler with it or donate it to the Standing Conference for Young
Peoples Theatre). If you want me to send you the latest version please
send £1 (Europe) or £2 (other places) and your address. Alternatively
you can send me an SAE enclosing a disk.

The images used came from either my own drawing and photography, the
Bloms Bulbs autumn '95 catalogue or from one of the Star Trek web pages.
The blue-eyed thing is Mr H. Castle courtesey of N. Hobbs. If you feel
that my choice of pictures is in any way infringing your
rights/liberty/entitlements/etc please let me know as soon as possible
and I will ammend all known archive copies of Tronish if your claims are
not too far fetched...

-- TRONISH 1.3.3 -- CHANGES FROM 1.3.2 --

This is a minor update to sort out one or two niggles which people have
had with 1.3.2 The starting blobs at the begining of each round now stay
the same colours so that you know which player is which in 2 player
games. There is an option to turn off the more annoying types of enemies
(invincible ones and duplicates of yourself) Regenerating the prefs file
doesn't wipe your scores. One or two irrelevant things have changed
(which should help to sort out some prefs file trouble-but may not)

-- Previous (badly documented) changes --

Big changes:

Tronish can now limit the speed of the line based on the Macintosh tick
count - i.e. it will go at the right speed on any Mac no matter how fast
it is. You can alter the speed limits for each of the three preset
speeds (fast, medium and slow) from the "More Options" menu in pixels
per second. If it is too slow on your Mac you can set one of the presets
to "Flat out" and it will run at the same speed that it used to.

There is now a comparatively normal high score table, which functions in
the same way as nearly every other high score table you've ever seen.

Tronish now works on 5200s, 630s and 500s as well as anything faster
than an old mac II.

Small fixes:

The prefs icon no longer gets lost occasionally The funky blobs try
their best not to overlay each other. It is no longer possible to get a
high score by pausing the game. The backgrounds and images files have
been generally re-organised (backwards compatibility is not assured...)
You can regenerate the prefs file from within Tronish, reverting
everything to the defaults.



-- COMPATIBILITY NOTES --

Tronish requires a Mac with a 68020 or better processor.

Ideally you should have the truetype version of Avant Garde installed in
your fonts folder (or system file). If you havenÕt, Tronish will use
Chicago, which doesnÕt look as nice. If you have bitmap versions of
Avant garde in addition to the truetype one, you should remove them as
they will make tronish look weirder than usual.

Ideally the Mac should have 256 colours - larger numbers of colours may
mess up the collision detection, and smaller numbers just look crappy
but work fine...

It adjusts to any size of monitor, but it may not behave on screens
smaller than 640 by 400.

It definitely works on the following types of Macs: PB160, Performa 475,
Performa 5200, LCII, IIx, IIsi, II, PowerMac 7100/80


-- THANKS TO --

Alan  for telling me it was a real game, organising trips to London and
being incredibly wonderful. Gail for trying to have it emailed to her
and being wonderful too. Heff for bits of beta testing. Allan, Paolo G.
Cordone, Isaac Finnegan, Andrew Cooksey, Robert Barfoot (AKA Chris),
Clint Hann, Paul Mulvaney, Gilles Bergeron and Eric Allen Schmenk for
feedback and bug reports. Rod and Ewok for services beyond
comprehension. Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Lancaster University
for putting up with me. The Lancaster branch of Dixons for being really
nice and then really bitchy about me using their 5200. Elli, Sue, Ian,
Danni, Hanni, Simon, Helen, Michaela, Lee, Angela, Eammon, Stuart,
Rowan, Jane, Jane, Jamie, Irina, Mr H, James, Gareth, Nicola, Pob, Des,
Justin, Jack, Rik, Chris, Tommy, Jonnie, Jools, James, Tom, Tom, Gummy
Bear and all the rest of them.

-- FEEDBACK --

If you have any problems which you think I should know about or if you
want to distribute tronish, I can be contacted by mailing:

Sam Easterby-Smith [OLD ADDRESSES REMOVED]

Also (especially if I can't fix the problem) you should send some hate
mail to a certain multibillionaire from Seattle...

That's about it. Thankyou for reading me!