Shooting Star - Readme
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Story:
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 The Red-Shirted-Guy served happily in the police forces for many years, 
 until he got kicked out because he used too much violence. He started drinking.
 After couple months his twin brother, the Gree-Shirted-Guy, thought that Red's 
 life wasn't very glamourous, so Green asked Red if he wanted to collaborate and 
 start killing bad guys. They both thought it was a good idea and so they 
 started their agency, The Shooting Stars. 
 It was finally the time to take law to their own hands.


Contact information:
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 Offical Shooting Star web pages can be found at www.2ndpoint.fi
 Send comments, questions, patches etc. to ss@2ndpoint.fi 
 <See AUTHORS>
 

Keys:
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 Escape........Quit, return to menu
 Page Up.......Music volume up
 Page Down.....Music volume down
 Home..........Sound volume up
 End...........Sound volume down


Requirements:
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 OpenGL version 1.2 or higher
 Video mode: 640x480 or 800x600
 Controls: Keyboard
 

Requirements (linux):
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 SDL version 1.2.0 or higher 
   <www.libsdl.org>
 SDL_mixer 
   <www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer>
 SDL_image 
   <www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image>


Tested on:
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 AMD K6-2 300MHz, Voodoo3 3000 & NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR, 
 128MB RAM, RedHat 9.0 & Windows 98

 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1733MHz), GeForce 4 TI, 512MB RAM, Debian Sarge
 
 AMD Athlon XP 2000+, GeForce FX 5200, 256MB RAM, Gentoo


Command line options:
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 --800x600
  Start the game in 800x600 video mode
 --640x480
  Start the game in 640x480 video mode
 --fullscreen
  Start the game in fullscreen mode


Game options
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 "Fullscreen" 
   Start the game in fullscreen mode (needs save&restart)
   Default: enabled
 "640x480 video mode"
   Star the game in 640x480 video mode (needs save&restart)
   Default: enabled
 "Sound" 
   Toggle sounds on/off
   Default: enabled
 "Music" 
   Toggle music on/off
   Default: enabled
 "Frame skipping" 
   If fps drops under 33 the game will start skipping frames.
   Default: enabled
 "Frame delay" 
   Adds a tiny delay to each frame. Enable if you have problems with sounds, 
   disable if the game runs slowly.
   Default: enabled 
   
   Options are saved to ~/.shootingstar.cfg or (ifdef NO_HOME_CONFIG) to 
   shootingstar.cfg in the current working directory.

Map editor:
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 Map editor called ssEditor is available at www.2ndpoint.fi/ss
