Working title : "Abuse" When : August 31, 1995! Art : Doung Dai Nguyen (ddn@crack.com) Murray McMillan (mur@crack.com) Progin : Jonathan Clark (jc@crack.com) Money : Dave Taylor (ddt@idsoftware.com) Sound & Music : Bobby Prince (price@packet.net) This is THE game to see. - Beautiful shaped, point-source lighting - Engine has built-in Lisp Interpreter. You can add code into the game, or create a whole new game which is instantly ported to many platforms, has lighting, sound, mouse/joystick, network, hi-rez and window support. You will be able to licence copies of the engine to sell as your own. * - Multi-player. IPX and TCPIP * - Server/client. Start your game as a server and people can join in/leave later, automatically downloading the current level and state of game. * - Built in Network File System abilities. When you start up net games, just connect to the server and access files like they were on your computer. Connect to a "pacman" server and automatically download art, sfx, and lisp code. Game compiles and starts running. - Color matching system ensures you will see perfect graphics even if your moniter is miscalibrated. - Animation rendered with in-house vector animation CAD (VCAD). - Explosions and special effects rendered with in-house PART (particle animation rendering tool). - Artwork is editable by users with Satan Paint (free with CDROM version). (beta available now at npc.ece.utexas.edu:/pub/satan_paint) - Weapons, weapons, weapons. - Hi-rez support with VESA drivers - Ports for DOS, Linux Console, Linux X11; *(348,486,Pentium Linux) SGI has graciously given us a Indgo II to port abuse other ports to be announced. System requirements (PCs) : 386/33 VL Recommended : 486/33 VL, with sound card. Sound cards in the works : Sound Blaster, Thunderboard, Pro Audio 16, Adlib Gold 1000/2000, Microsoft sound system, Sound Blaster ASP/16, Ensoniq Soundscape, PC speaker, ESS 488/688 Chipset, Gravis Ultrasound Max, Tempo PCMCIA, Sound Blaster Pro, Pro Audio Spectrum Plus, Sound Master II, Cardinal Sound Studio, Sound Blaster AWE32, Roland RAP-10, Adlib Digitized, Gravis Ultrsound. * Not in initial release (we didn't have time to finish & test it as well, as it should be). Look for a patch shortly after release. plot : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ants were fearless, efficient killers. The Unified Underground's only opening was that the Ant defense systems were designed by engineers too arrogant to consider the threat of an individual. It was enough to justify the covert Abuse Missions. On August 31, 2021, eight bytes were zeroed in a computer, and Nick Vrenna's identity was erased. A suit of armor cradling a smoking auto rifle stood in shadows appreciating the stench coming from the first retired Ant of the day. The armored soul feared the effort would end up as pathetic as the Terran Surrender Terms, but humanity had nothing else. **Screen shots now available** ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/games/incoming/abusepc2.zip **Try our brand new web site : http://www.crack.com linux beta : diane.island.net:/pub/Linux/games sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Incoming ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/games/unix Latest version ---------> 0.32 <--------------- sgi beta : ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/games/unix Latest version ---------> 0.32 <--------------- dos beta : (after august 31st) ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/games/incoming Latest version ---------> 0.33 <--------------- a few simple games that come with the engine : deluxe pong (1 player/arkiniod) chess (2 player/network) checkers (2 player/network) connect-4 (2 player/network) othello (2 player/network) Pre-orders are being tken right now! The price will be 44.95 + $4 S/H. We designed a T-shirt and movie poster which will be given away with each order while supplies last. If you have a well-done game in the works and you are looking for someone to distribute and market it, contact Dave Taylor at ddt@idsoftware.com. If you are interested in ordering abuse for resale, please contact ddt@crack.com for quantity discounts. We are currently planing on translating Abuse into English, German, French, and Spanish. finger abuse@crack.com for info on e-mail orders & to get our pgp key