SAS Weapons(player)

SAS Weapons(enemy)

Super Alien Strike (or SAS for short) is a fast paced side-scrolling shoot 'em up for TI-89. You will take command of a futuristic ship which is designed to kick the nasty alien butt. Only you have the skill to pilot that ship and repell the aliens from our home planet of Earth. The game has multiple weapons which are (will) be upgraded via collecting power-ups from destroyed enemy ships, and lots of different enemy ships. All graphics was drawn by hand and just for your (and our :)) enjoyment!

It is year 3041; Earth's resources have long since depleted and a cloud of chaos has fallen upon the planet... but Earth hasn't died yet! A transgallactic alien carrier ship has dispensed countless drones to terminate all remaining life on the dying planet and establish a nuclear waste plant. You are the only one who has the will to fight the alien force in hope to save what's left of our homeworld... ~SAS

System Requirments:
~20 kb of free RAM to run the game (this might increase as we add more features to SAS )
HW2 TI-89 with with AMS 2.x (theoretically, it should run on HW1 89's too, but it hasn't been tested on any since none of us own one)
So far, the game does not work properly on 92's and key binds aren't set up for 92's either. However, after the game is pretty much complete, there will be a 92 port (actually a menu setting that let's you choose your calculator model).

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Installation:
1. unpack the SAS.89z and SAS.89y files into a folder on your computer
2. use any linking software to send these files to your calculator
3. archive the files to save space and prevent data loss from unpredictable crashes (yep, crashes happen and it don't have to be caused by SAS)
4. go to the VAR-LINK and select SAS (with ASM as a file type)
5. run the program

/ -- Move Ship Vertically
/ -- Move Ship Horizontally
-- Fire Light Weapon
-- Fire Heavy Weapon
-- Toggle Status Bar
-- Increase Contrast
-- Decrease Contrast

-- Exit Game

Welcome to SAS commander!
This section will quickly show you around the SAS menu and some game basics.

Here are some quick notes covering the layout of the status bar:

This is a status bar, your only friend in SAS. It will show all info about your current status in the game.
The most left bar represents weapon power (one you're currently using). For some weapons it will act as a heat level, but for others as a blast energy. The middle bar is your energy, when it reaches the bottom, you're dead. The right bar is a weapon bar, the left section shows ammo of the the current weapon (secondary) and the right section shows the currently selected weapon. The selected weapon will appear inverted. The weapon selection will come in the next release! The base of the status bar shows your current score.

SAS score is computed from several factors: your HP, enemy HP and your accuracy. The table in the SAS enemies section shows maximum points possible for each enemy.

Good Luck Commander!

Machine Gun

1

Overheats

Missile

5

Slow Firing Rate

Blaster

1

Slow Firing Rate

Drone

5

Missile

1

1000

Drone

10

Missile

1

2000

Fighter

10

Missile

1

2000

Fighter

10

Missile

1

2000

Fighter

10

Missile

1

2000

Enforcer

10

Missile

1

2000

Bee

25

Missile

1

3000

Q: Why is SAS going @ like 4 FPS on my calculator?
A: SAS uses a lot of processor time and requires a lot of power, hence you can't play it with old batteries. Please consider changing them.

Q: I'm running SAS on VTI, but why is it too light?
A: That's because SAS changes contrast for the fade effect and VTI doen't handle it correctly. Play it on a real calc instead. If you still want to play it on VTI, you'll need to turn the contrast up a bit.

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If you have questions that are not answered in this section, please post them in our site's forum and we'll be glad to answer them.

• Main menu changed
  
• New cool fade effect added
• 4 new enemies added
• New background made (no level selection yet, still in a testing stage)
• Weapon graphics changed
• First drone changed, old one was too small and hard to see
• Some bugs fixed
  

• Main menu added
  
• Scoring added
  
  
  SAS Demo 1 - Dec. 1, 2001 (update - Dec. 11, 2001)
  

New Background

Two kinds of enemies

New status bar with toggle button

Enemies have different hitpoints

Two weapons

Ability to crash into enemies

Enemies explode when destroyed (new)

Everything explodes when you die :) (new)

Life bar is now working (new)

Weapon energy bar is now working; machine gun now overheats and rate of fire decreases, the energy bar indicates the current heat level(new)

New enemy added, the Bee-boss seen on Zkostik's website. It's just a regular enemy for now though (new)

Enemies are positioned in Easy-Hard order (new)

Next --> SAS BETA will have the following additions:

• Finished main menu, with working options menu and a completed story screen (maybe a quick help screen added as well)
  
• 2 or 3 full levels
• Finished weapon system (and maybe a finished SAS store)
• Powerups
• Enemies having different weapons

Barrett Anderson : SAS programming, ideas

Hanze "yoshi" Studenbach : SAS graphics, enemy ideas

Konstantin "Zkostik" Beliakov : SAS graphics, main game idea

Spiral : SAS background #3, weapon graphics

Be sure to visit our web site for more games and updates:

http://www.calcgames.org

Please, don't forget to post your comments in our forum , this will let us make SAS even better! Thanks.

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