Hyperium readMe.html
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Document overview:




Game Description:

Hyperium is a remake of the classic Asteroids concept, but with modern Direct3D graphics and a few extras thrown in for good measure.

Features:
  • 8 Asteroid Types, including "magnetic" asteroids
  • 4 Different Weapons, each with three different powerlevels (Laser, Flame, Spread and Bomb)
  • 8 Different Powerups (extra ammo for three of the four weapons, powerup for all four of them, and extra life)
  • 25 Levels
  • Afterburners
  • "Timewarp"
  • Shield



Screenshots:



Controls:
    Left- Rotate Left
    Right- Rotate Right

    Up- Apply forward thrust
    Down- Engage shield

    T- Engage timewarp

    1- Select Lasers
    2- Select Flamethrower
    3- Select Spread
    4- Select Bomb

    Space- Fire Selected Weapon
    Tab- Afterburner

    I- Show fps
    P- Pause

    Esc- Exits



Requirements:

Hardware:
  • Pentium II or equiv. CPU (Celeron, Duron, Athlon, P3, P4 etc)
  • 64Mb of RAM
  • 16Mb 3D Card *
Software:
  • Microsoft Windows 9x, ME, 2000
  • Direct X 8


Compability Information:

The game has been tested on the following:

OS's:
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 (development platform)
  • Microsoft Windows ME
  • Microsoft Windows 98
Graphics cards:
  • nVidia GeForce SDR 32Mb
  • nVidia GeForce DDR 32Mb
  • nVidia GeForce 2 MX 32Mb
  • nVidia TNT 2 32Mb
  • nVidia TNT 16Mb


Known Bugs:

  • The game hangs if the window looses focus (so don't alt-tab etc).