STOSSER Software April 1997
Billy Boy
Childrens Platform Game
http://www.airtime.co.uk/users/stosser
An STe Title, Will also work on an FM,It is Important that One
meg owners should run this game from an Auto Folder.
Please do not run on anything higher than a Mega Ste, This game
is not Falcon or TT Compatable.
This game is FREE and should cost you no more than any normal
Public Domain Disk.......
Program By..............Tony Greenwood
Artwork By..............Dean Chadwick
Level Designer..........Adrian Samm
Level/Game Tester.......Andrew Robertson
Machine/Tos Testing.....Tom Lamparty
This Game is Commentware, So please write to us,This is an STe
game that will aslo work on an FM but with no sampled sound,
A Minimum of One Meg to play, and of course a Joystick,
Billy boy is a nice and simple platform game,you find yourself in
various enchanted lands, You should simply find the guardian who
will let you out, unfortunatly that is out of one, and straight
back into another,
Along the way collecting yellow stars will enhance your score,
Pressing the appropriate buttons will eventualy reveal a pink Star
and it is advisable to collect this before completing each level,
The Charactors roaming each Land will reduce your energy if you
come into close contact with them, You can jump on most of them
sending them into the ground, but they will work there way back to
the surface,
Food can be found and collected to boost your energy levels,
B.O.N.U.S. Baloons holding the letters to make up the word BONUS
should be collected, if at the end of the level you have the Bonus
then you will start the next level with 100 health points, If not
then you have your health, but if less than 20 units then we will
increase it to give you at least a sporting chance, carefull!
baloons with no letters can seriously damage your health,
COMMENTWARE: The game needs to be FREEley registered so as to
enable the SAVE/LOAD options and the Save Highscore options, Your
name will then appear on the title screen of the game,
I will apologise in advance for this, but even after doing
everything bar begging, the feedback from previous titles has been
dissapointing, having the ability to track will let us know just
what people think of the software.......
To Register: Include your Name (Very Important) and Return
Address and a disk for the Key
Write to Dean Chadwick
138 Townfields Rd
Westhoughton
Bolton BLB 2NT
On reciept of the Key, simply place it in the root directory
that holds the game, (root directory is usualy the first thing you
see when opening a drive)
And finally, Please visit our web site for detalis on all our
releases and of future prjects all made for your ATARI ST,
Todays Date is April 13th 1997, The above Address and STOSSER
support for the ATARI range should last until April 2097 at least.
Remember, even if you don't like it, at least have the good
manners to comment.....it's FREE!
ADVERT : Wherever you got this game from, you should also be
able to get the latest Issue of ST+ Diskmagazine, the only monthly
ATARI Publication in the world, Kepp in touch with all things
ATARI and get ST+ Diskmagazine NOW!
SPECIAL NOTE To Falcon owners, at the outset of this game I
had certain visions and targets that simply had to be in the end
game, one of these was a background tune that could be heard, but
samples could be heard over the top of this,
Unfortunatly i have no idea how to alter the volume of chip
music, I don't think there is a way? and Tracker MODS take up too
much processor time, so to achieve the effect i had to use a
fairly unknown music player, this allowed me to alter the volume
and hence achieve the desired effect, I am afraid this will crash
some falcons, not damaging, just crash, other falcons reported
game working but deathly silence,
So better a good STe game than a terrible falcon one so your
machines are not supported in this title...Sorry,
H.E.R.O.2 is currently work in progress, the game has been
tested and now working succesfully on falcon tos 404 and tos 402,
sound has been configured for optimum playback on both STe and the
Falcon, new artwork and levels are being worked on, the game
engine is being tweaked, new animations are being added as well as
a massive sound enhancement
the finished H.E.R.O.2 Will require a minimum 4meg STe or
Falcon to run, and should be ready By Summer 97... so not long to
go, If you have internet access then you can check out the current
status of the game and read the H.E.R.O. Diary on the web page at
the top of this Document
I thank you in advance for your Support ....Cheers..!ynoT
Tony Greenwood.April 1997