-----------Star Ship Command-----version 1.03---------- Programming in TI-BASIC by Yuzhou Jiang, Graphics by Yuzhou Jiang For the TI-83 Plus This update: November 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEHOLD, the stunning new Star Ship Command game that brings gaming in BASIC language to the next level! Thats right, this game utilizes some of the most advanced forms of basic programming and is truly a work of art! The graphics are great, the game play is interesting and the complicity and attention to detail is astounding. The game contains fully graphical battle modes, detailed upgrades, link capabitlity for 2 players, save capabilities and much much more! Anyone who knows anything about startrek will definitely recognise some of the conecpts in this game. Otherwise, this game will truly ease away those boring hours for anyone. ***PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME - ITS QUITE COMPLEX*** Intro: You are a bright new captain and your job is to defend the Earth. To do this, you will need to buy a star ship, upgrad it whenever you can and fight enemy ships to get more money! Your ship needs to be fully equipped and crewed in order to fight well, learn the concepts below or you'll find your self scattered into the vacuum of space! You start with 250G, enough to buy a scout ship and hire 3 crew. Enjoy your adventure as you sail into space and do battle with the enemy! INFINITY AND BEYOND !!! FILES: --------------- In order to play this game you need the following 3 files: STARSHIP.8xp - Main game file - run the game through this from PRGM ZBAT.8xp - Subroutine used during battle ZSHIP.8xp - Subrouting to draw the ship sprites Also, the following lists will be generated so make sure you don't have anything important in them before hand: LSHPS - Your save file L1 -} L2 -} L3 -} -> These are used during the game and are usually deleted after you quit the game L4 -} L5 -} L6 -} ***You need at least 1300 RAM to play this game, try to leave at least 2000 RAM just to be safe! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTROLS: -------------------------------- All menu controls are displayed in the game Press [ENTER] when ever the game pauses after displaying something BATTLE CONTROLS are: Arrows to move ship [2nd] for phaser [ALPHA] for photon torpedoes [APPS] for quantum torpedoes [MODE] to activate cloak __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Game Menus: -------------------- Shipyard: Buy new ships here controls: [up]/[down] for next/previous ship, [left]/[right] to rotate ships picture, [ENTER] to buy ship, [CLEAR] to go back Equip Weapons: Visit here to buy uprages to your weapons and for torpedoes Equip Armour: Visit here to buy updragdes to your armour Hire Crew: Visit the academy to hire crew. Hiring crew cost 50G, training crew cost 100G for each exp point. Fly Out - Play Mission: Play the mission! There are 15 of them. Your goal is to complete all of them! Fight Random: Use this to fight a random ship when you need to more money so you can beat the mission. You can choose to fight one to four random ships Fight Custom: Use this to fight a custom ship with stats you choose. You DONT get MONEY for winning though. Fight on Link: Fight your friend's ship through a link cable! Back to Base: Goes back Status: Check this out regularly as it contains all the information about your ship - absolutely EVERYTHING! Menu - New Game - Creates a new game Load Game - Loads your last saved game Save Game - Saves your game - do this before you quit! Reset Game - Resets your whole game - warning - be very careful not tho hit this by accident! Credits - thats me Yuzhou Jiang!!! Quit Game - quits your game - no surprise The Ships ______________ There are four ships, each ship has its unique picture in battle and uniqe stats! Scout Ship - Speed: 8 Hull: 10 Shield: 50 Phaser: 8 Torpedo Tubes: 1 Crew: 3 Cargo: 10 Cost: 100G Attack Ship - Speed: 7 Hull: 30 Shield: 150 Phaser: 14 Torpedo Tubes: 2 Crew: 12 Cargo: 30 Cost: 300G Battle Ship - Speed: 6 Hull: 60 Shield: 300 Phaser: 24 Torpedo Tubes: 3 Crew: 27 Cargo: 60 Cost: 600G Battle Cruiser - Speed: 5 Hull: 100 Shield: 500 Phaser: 38 Torpedo Tubes: 4 Crew:48 Cargo: 100 Cost: 1000G Weapon Upgrades ___________________ 1. Photon Torpedoes - Cargo:1, Cash:10G Press [1] to buy a torpedoe, you can buy multiple times, if you run out of money or cargo, pressing [1] will sell all of them Press [ALPHA] to fire in battle - damage 20 2. Range Plus - Cargo:5, Cash 100G Press [2] to buy upgrade, buy once, press [2] again to sell Increases your phaser range 3. Quantum Torpedoes - Cargo: 1, Cash: 40G Press [3] to buy a torpedoe, you can buy multiple times, if you run out of money or cargo, pressing [1] will sell all of them Press [APPS] to fire in battle - damage 50 + 5 to hull 4. Phase Mod - Cargo: 10, Cash: 500G Press [4] to buy upgrade, buy once, press [4] again to sell Allows damage of enemy hull even when they have shield. Damage to hull depends on your ship - Scout = 2, Attack = 4, Battle = 6, Cruiser = 8 Armour Upgrades __________________ 1. Heavy Shield - Cargo:10, Cash:100G Press [1] to buy upgrade, buy once, press [1] again to sell Provides additional shields Amount depends on your ship - Scout = 40, Attack = 100, Battle = 200, Cruiser = 340 2. Recharger - Cargo:10, Cash 200G Press [2] to buy upgrade, buy once, press [2] again to sell Recharges your shield during battle Amount per turn depends on your ship - Scout = 1, Attack = 2, Battle = 3, Cruiser = 4 3. Abalative Armoure - Cargo: 10, Cash: 200G Press [3] to buy upgrade, buy once, pres [3] again to sell Provides additional strength to your hull Amount Depends on your ship - Scout = 10, Attack = 25, Battle = 50, Cruiser = 85 4. Cloak - Cargo: 20, Cash: 500G Press [4] to buy upgrade, buy once, press [4] again to sell Allows your ship to go under cloak so enemy can't see and attack you, but if you attack under cloak, you'll come out of cloack Hint* Use with the recarger to let your shields recharge up to full! Press [MODE] in battle to activate Game Concepts: ----------------------- Your Ship: There are four ships you can buy, the first ship is the weakest and the cheapest, with each ship after that getting better. Money: Get this buy winning battles and use it to buy better ships, buy upgrades, buy torpedoes and to hire and train your crew Cargo: The amount of cargo space your ship can hold. Bigger ships have more space so they can fit more upgrades and hold more torpedoes! Thats why big ships are neccessary if you want all the upgrades! Shield: Your ships first line of defence! You start each battle with full amount of shield. This amount will depend on which ship you have and whether or not you have upgraded to Heavy Shield. When enemy attacks you, your shield will get reduced, when it gets to 0, then your ship's hull will get damaged. Needless to say, that's NOT good! Hull: The metal shell of your ship that protects you and your crew. This is very fragile compared to your shields. If this gets to zero, then say good bye coz you'll ships gonna blow apart and you'll die - end of game. Speed: How fast your ship can move during battle - not really useful, don't worry about this as strong ships don't need to move much. Phaser: Your basic weapon, a powerful blast of raw energy (like a massive laser beam). The damage it deals depends on your ship. Big ships do more damage. There is however a range limit. Press [2nd] to use this weapon. Torpedo Tubes: These tubes fire torpedoes, the more of these you have, the more torpedoes you can fire at once. Big ships have more of these. In this game, your phasers fire automatically after torpedoes, so you kind of get to attack with two weapons in one turn. Photon Torpedoes: Ah yes, you Startrek fans will know what this bugger can do! A torpedo of photon energy that does great damage! In this game, photon torpedoes cost 10G each and use up one cargo space, plus they do 20 damage each!. After you fire these, you'll need to stock up later. So unlike the phaser fires, these get used up. Press [ALPHA] to launch these, they have no range limit and plus, your ship will also try to fire phasers if its within range - so double attack, YAY! *So if you have four torpedoe tubes and your in phaser range, when you attack you deal: 4 x 20 + phaser damage Quantum Torpedoes: Oh mama, this is the ultimate weapon - in this game at least. A quantum torpedoe is a powerful weapon that attemts to pierce enemy shields and rip up their entire ships!!! In this game, photon torpedoes cost 40G each and use up one cargo space, plus they do 50 damage each and 5 damage to hull - regardless of whether or not enemy still have shields! This means you can destroy a ship while it still has some shield left! Like photon torpedoes, these have no range limit and plus your ship attempts to fire phasers straight after so you can attack twice in one turn! *So if you have four torpedoe tubes and your in phaser range, when you attack you deal 4 x 50 + phaser damage + 4 x 5 hull damage Crew: To make this game more complex, each ship has a required crew amount. Big ships needs more crew. If you don't get enough crew, your ships efficiency rate drops. Lets just say you want your ship at 100% efficiency - or more! Hire crew from the academy for 50G per person. Make sure you have enough cash to hire the required amount of crew before buy a new ship and using up all your cash. A good ship with only 10 % of crew will only be able to attack 1 out of 10 turns, so get the crew!!! Training: Train your crew up so that they are more experienced! This means that for each exp your ship has, this is added on to your efficiency rate. So if you have 3/3 crew (for the scout ship) and 10 exp points, then your efficiency rate will be 100% + 10 % = 110%. Efficiency Rate: 100% = 1 attack per enemy attack - always at least have this 50% = 1 attack per 2 enemy attacks - avoid this rate at all costs! 200% = 2 attacks per enemy attack - this is really good! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ History: Version 1.03 completed in Novermber 2004 Version 1.02 completed in March 2004 Version 1.00 completed in March 2004 Credits: Fully programmed by Yuzhou Jiang in TI - BASIC Pictures by Yuzhou Jiang also. *********AT NO RATE SHALL THIS GAME BE DISTRIBUTED ON COMPUTERS WITHOUT THIS README FILE *********ANY MODIFICATIONS OF THE GAME MUST INCLUDE MY CREDITS Disclaimer: THIS GAME IS FREEWARE SO I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR CALCULATOR. WHILE I HAVE CHECKED THIS PROGRAM TO BE FREE OF BUGS, ERRORS MAY STILL OCCUR. THIS GAME SHOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING HARMFUL TO YOUR CALCULATOR AS IT IS PROGRAMMED ONLY IN TI-BASIC. IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM, THEY SHOULD BE EASILY FIXABLE. Contact: If you ever want to contact me about anything or report a bug, you can e-mail me at headless_maniac@hotmail.com Hope you enjoy the game because I sure did making it !!!