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* Tunnel Striker 1.5 - 3D-Shooter in QuickBasic 4.5
* by Ingmar Neuwirth (INT Software)
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* Description by Thomas Antoni:
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* 3D Space Shooter. Do it the Descent way and use the mouse to fly your
* Spaceship through a tunnel and shoot as much enemies as possible. Fantastic
* sound scenery and super trooper mouse-driven menue. But the game itself is
* quite simple. Runs under QuickBasic, not unter QBasic 1.1. BAS and EXE-Files
* are provided. The Program uses some homebrewn QB libraries, e.g. TS.LIB.
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* Description by Angelo Mottola - The Giant of QB Game Programming :
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*  Author: Ingmar Neuwirth
*  Game type: 3D Shoot 'em up
*  Graphics: VGA 320x200 256 colors
*  Sounds: digital sound effects and FM musics
*  Number of players: 1
*  Computer AI level: none
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*  Description
* 
*  The first time you'll load the game, probably you'll be very
*  surprised by the amazing menu system this guys has added to his
*  game. All the menu is animated with FLI-like sequences, and all is
*  very good to see; the options are a lot, and the musics are very
*  nice. But where's the problem? Well, once you start the game, you
*  see a scarce graphics, nothing compared to the menu. The
*  gameplay is boring, and you have no particular goals except to
*  avoid the red barriers and to hit the blue targets... Then you notice
*  that the nice background music is the same given as a demo with a
*  program named FM Tracker, a module-like music maker utility.
*  The author is mainly a tool programmer, and this is his first attempt
*  at making a decent game; continue with the good work, but the
*  next time try to make a funnier one...
* 
*  The code
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*  The program uses several libraries to accomplish different tasks,
*  from the menu system animations to other things; this means you'll
*  need QB 4.5 in order to run the game from the IDE, anyway given
*  within the packet there's also the executable version, so you'll be
*  able to run it without having QB. The code itself is a bit hard to
*  read; to play the sounds, the common DMAplay routine is used,
*  while to speed up the menu animations (full screen videos), modeX
*  is used with the help of a library. The game itself runs under screen
*  7, so only 16 colors are available, giving the 3D tunnel the scarce
*  graphics I said; a good thing is that it's all almost flicker-free. The
*  program also features mouse handling routines to navigate the
*  menu (you can also select the options with the keyboard). Nice
*  programming work, though the game itself is not the best ever
*  made.
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* Tunnel Striker 1.5 - 3D-Shooter in QuickBasic 4.5
* von Ingmar Neuwirth (INT Software)
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* 3D Weltraum-Ballerspiel hnlich Descent. Fliege Dein Raumschiff mit der Maus
* durch einen Tunnel und erledige mglichst viele Feinde. Mit Wahnsinns-Sound-
* Kulisse per Soundkarte. Das Mensystem ist das coolste, was ich jemals in
* einem QuickBasic-Programm gesehen habe - mit Mausbedienung und atemberaubenden
* Animationen.
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* Tunnel Striker 1.5 ist der stark verbesserte Nachfolger der Version 1.2.
*
* Das Spiel selbst ist relativ einfach gehalten, aber mit echten 3D-Vektor
* Grafiken (d.h. bestehend aus "Drahtgittern").
* Das Programm luft nur unter QuickBasic 4.5, nicht unter QBasic 1.1 und
* benutzt einige selbstgeschriebene Bibliotheken (u.a. TS.LIB). Mit BAS- und
* EXE-Dateien.
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