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                          THANCHIKI version 1.0

                      All rights on game belong
                     Osipov Evgeniy Anatolyevich

                         Russian Federation
                           Orenburg state
                            Buzuluk city

                                 2002

                Home page: http://www.buzuluk.ru/~cyborg
                        E-Mail: cyborg@hotbox.ru

                            Musical support
                  Arvydas Jacevicius (Visaginas Lietuva!)
                          http://aras25.dkd.lt
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http://www.cyborghome.ru/
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Remake of the game "Battle City" from Nintendo (Known as Dendy).

The purpose of game to destroy all tanks of the opponent,
protecting the staff, in the given game staff is meant
as a warehouse of an ammunition.

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THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
CPU Pentium 166 Mhz
RAM 32+ MB
HDD 10 MB
VideoRAM 1MB(16 bit) 2MB(32 bit)
DirectX 6+

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THE LICENSE AGREEMENT
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The given game "THANCHIKI" is free-of-charge (freeware).
This implies, that the author does not bear(carry) the responsibility
for what or possible(probable) caused harm by the program the given
game you use at own risk!!!

At mass distribution of game on what or carriers of the information,
or in the Internet, the sanction of the author of game to such
distribution is necessary, it is enough send the letter (E-Mail of
the address you can to find on a home page of the author
http://www.buzuluk.ru/~cyborg) author with the indication
of a place (for example site) and kind (CD, Internet etc.)
distribution and to wait for the sanction or failure.
At distribution it is necessary to specify coordinates of
the author of game.

You undertake to not use the given game in commercial objectives,
or to receive what or financial benefit from game.

The trace, decompiling, breaking and other changes of files of game,
except for files *.ini is forbidden

If you disagree with the given agreement, immediately destroy
the copy of game.

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MUSIC SUPPORT
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The author of music underneath Arvydas Jacevicius (Visaginas Lietuva!).
All rights belong to the author. Use of files in other applications
without the sanction of the author is forbidden!

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FUNCTION KEYS
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The editor of maps:

1 : Drawing of ground
2 : Drawing of water
3 : Drawing of walls
4 : Drawing of steel

F1 : To clear a map
F2 : To save a map
F3 : To load a map
F4 : To play (do not forget before it save a map!)

The left button of the mouse : To draw by the chosen type(1,2,3,4).

Management of the tank:

Up : Movement upwards (first player)
Down : Movement downwards (first player)
Left : Movement to the left (first player)
Right : Movement to the right (first player)
Space : To shoot (first player)

R : Movement upwards (second player)
F : Movement downwards (second player)
D : Movement to the left (second player)
G : Movement to the right (second player)
~ : To shoot (second player)

Pause : Pause :o)

Esc : Exit in the initial menu of game

At a set of lines in adjustments of game at a spelling of names
of the players and in the editor of maps use alphanumeric keys,
and as keys:

Delete : To clear a line
[<-] Backspace : To remove last symbol

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IMPORTANT!
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At creation of a map of a level, before the beginning of game do not
forget to save it on a disk, differently it will be lost!!!

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BONUS
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Heart - Increases amount of life
Bomb - Destruction of all tanks of the opponent
The ship - Passage on water
Tape of shells - Reduction time of shooting (3 levels)
Летящий a shell - Increase of speed of a shell on 1/3
Shell - Increase power of a shell, бронебойность (3 levels)
Board - Increase armor (3 levels)
Lightning - Increase of speed of the tank in 2 times.

The tanks of the opponent as take prizes!

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ADJUSTMENT of GAME
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File of adjustments : Tanks.ini

Section [HARDWARE]

BitPerPixel(15_16_24_32)
Word length of colour of a point, by default 16.
For optimum speed it is recommended to put values 16 or 32
(32 at videomemory 2 and more than mbyte).
At values 15 and 24 games work more slowly.

SoundFrequencyHz(11025_22050_44100)
Frequency of a sound, by default 44100.
It is recommended 44100, if the machine weak, is recommended 22050.

SoundChannel(1-Mono_2-Stereo)
Mono or stereo sounding, by default 2 (stereo).
To increase speed as it is possible having put value 1 (Mono).

SoundBufferSize
The size of the buffer for a sound mixer, by default 2048.
Is selected depending on quality выбраного of a sound and quantity
of channels. At frequency 44100 in stereo mode, the value 2048 will
be optimum, but you can experiment in the party of reduction, thus it
will be required less memory.
If at reduction the sound is audible deformed, add the size up to
that value, while the sound is not becomes normal to sound.
At the too large value there is a strong delay of a sound, and to
play begins not conveniently!

Section [LANGUAGE]
Here you can translate game to other languages, or simply write
the names of items.

It is possible to create copies of a file Tanks.ini, for example
files Tanks(english).ini and Tanks(russian).ini enter into game,
then in dependence with what language to you is necessary,
replace by them a file Tanks.ini.
What will restore default values стерите a file Tanks.ini thus game
in Russian and after an exit from game anew will be created Tanks.ini
with adjustments by default.

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ANOTHER
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The game uses library Jedi-SDL.

The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platfrom library
designed to make it easy to write multi-media software,
such as games and emulators.

The Simple DirectMedia Layer library source code is available from:
http://www.libsdl.org/

This library is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL license:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

The source is available from the libraries page at the SDL website:
http://www.libsdl.org/
