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PowerWorm

• Introduction
• Specifications
• Manual
• Downloads
• Themes

Introduction

Welcome to PowerWorm, the game with a worm!
PowerWorm is a nibbles-clone, an old arcade-classic. I saw an ad on Neozones, a challenge to make the best wormgame. So I started this thing. But due to technical difficulties the game wasn't released in time (my harddisk broke down, and I couldn't do anything for a month!) A beta was luckily already released to my friends to test, so as soon as my PC was restored, I could continue, restart from the beta. But by then the contest was already finshed. I don't know who won. So I released it like any other game, and here it is, for you to play. ;)

Specifications

Requirements:

• An IBM compatible PC
• 386 or higher Processor
• 2 MB EMS
• An Extended Memory Manager (eg: EMM386)
• MSDOS 3.0 or higher
• A 256 color VGA compatible card and monitor

• Also Supported:
• Soundblaster or 100% compatible SFX Card
• Soundblaster or 100% compatible MIDI music card
• Joystick/Gamepad

Manual

A manual is available here

Downloads

• Executable : This is the Executable version of PowerWorm, it the easiest one to use. If you're not a programmer, or not a QuickBasic Programmer, you should download this one. After downloading, unzip all the files,(with the right directory strcture!), into a directory. Then, go to that directory in a dos prompt, run SBMIDI, and run PWORM. Read readme.txt/Readme.doc first.
• Bas File : This is the Bas file version of Powerworm, and a lot harder to use. When you download this, you'll miss a nice intro! This is meant for Basic Programmer (QB4.5) Unzip the files into a directory, (keep the directory structure!). Then load QB45 with the file MEDIA.QLB, it's a lib I made which holds the fuctions of blast, dmaplay, ... Warning: Do not compile this one to acquire the compiled version, there are differences! You need QB45 for this version. Read readme.txt/readme.doc first
• Both EXE and BAS : This is a package for both versions above. It's also the largest download!

Themes

Theoretically, PowerWorm supports themes. However, I never did release a theme editor, or a theme. There WAS a QB theme... but I lost that.

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