
 Flak Version 1.0
 By Tariq H. Walji

 
 Story...
 ~~~~~~~~~

 The earth was devistated by a massive meteor. Within the vast
 polluted cities, a man survived the armageddon. There was
 no hope, nor was there any sign of life. As a soldier, he was
 designed to deal with such problems, but this time there was
 no solution.

 Upon exploration, a small community of people had gathered around
 fire lit up by tones of books taken from a near by library. The
 soldier joined the group, but soon the group recognised him as
 a soldier and blamed him for the devistation, for the government
 has the technology to destroy the meteor, but it was too late.
 The soldier was pushed away by the group with stones and bits
 of glass.

 The soldier's face was cut, bones broken and huge scars left 
 from the group's violence. Soon, a vessle was discovered, crashed
 on the ground. The soldier inspected the vessle, of which he
 realised that there was non that existed as such in this world. 
 He boarded the ship. The ship smelled of dead bodies, but what
 shocked the soldier the most was the realisation that the world
 was destroyed because of some creature's mistake. A first
 encounter with a new species was a failure. The soldier cleaned
 up the mess. Later on a few people found the ship, and boarded
 it, joining the soldier. They found the soldier cleaning up and
 agreed to help, for it was their only hope. The soldier told
 them what might have happened, and how the ship was responsible.
 Many more gathered into the massive ship, before the ship was
 to take off.

 Previous pilots volunteered to fly the craft while the soldier
 sat in a small chamber with controls. It looked more like a 
 firing control room. The ship's take-off was successfull. The
 pilots reported to the soldier that a coordinate had been locked
 onto a certain target, the ship was going somewhere no-one
 knew. 

 Back at home, a secret experiment had been in progress. Alien
 space craft were duplicated and cloned. Message was received
 to the head of the facility that there was a far more superior
 space craft boarded by civilians in an attempt to escape earth
 and go to a better place. The commander was furious, and set
 everything he got onto the ship. It meant that there was a leak,
 and someone was soon going to realise what was really happening.

 As the ship the civilians boarded moved towards its destination,
 an alarm sounded automatically. The soldier quickly rushed to 
 the cockpit of the space craft, and found hundreds of space craft
 heading towards the ship. He quickly set off to the targeting 
 control room. It was war between the two sides; the military
 and the people. The space craft couldn't be moved in anyway.
 The soldier was the people's only hope.

 At first, rapid-firing devices were used against the ship. The
 ship's massive force field kept the bullets from hitting the
 ship. Soon, while the soldier got used to the controls, the
 commander sent mini-nukes. The nukes were to touch down into
 the ship's artificial environment and be destroyed. However,
 it wasn't possible to destroy a ship of its size without at
 least 10 mini-nukes. 

 The soldier cannot destroy the crates, not can he destroy the
 other ships. If the crates were to be destroyed, the ship would
 be hit by the massive explosion. If the planes were to blow up,
 the artificial environment would be polluted and be unbreathable.

 Let the games start...


 Introduction
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The soldier is you! And you've got to shoot all the bad guys
 before they destroy the ship. The fate of billions is in 
 your hand, hehe... sorry. 

 Ok. You might have noticed that I'm ripping off a few bits and
 pieces. Firstly, this is meant to be a clone of one of my 
 favorite old-time games; Paratroopers. However, I really tried
 to keep away from the original idea by replacing the soldiers
 with crates of mini-nukes, the scene with stars and the aircraft
 with spacecrafts. 

 The graphics were created in 3D Studio MAX. Its a really expensive
 application, but I had to use it sometime otherwise all that
 money is wasted (grrr!). Its not a really great app, but I'm
 way back at 3D Studio MAX 1.2, so there must be additional 
 features in the latest. I hear 3D Studio MAX 4.0 is out, wow!

 The sourcecode IS available. To get it you must pay for it. Its
 4.99, which is a special offer instead of 9.99. Only cash is
 excepted! Just kidding, the sourcecode is already available to
 you, when you unzipped this package. It has a PRG extention, that
 you must load up with DIV Games Studio. There's TONES(!!) of 
 comments for the beginner, so that you can learn. Its also my
 first game, any help from you guys will be appreciated. 


 Controls
 ~~~~~~~~~

	 Left/Right keys - Turn turret left/right
         Space bar       - fire.
   
         Esc             - Exit


 Contact
 ~~~~~~~~
  Feel free to contact me, although I would only except material
  that is appropriate. No swearing, no rudeness, just help, 
  comments on the game, asking for help, etc, something that will
  advantage one of us.    

		    E-MAIL: tariqwalji@yahoo.co.uk
		    ICQ:    97589581 
  
  Have a nice day.

  Tariq Walji
  Commander of the kogroth vessle,
  7th April, 2001.