High Carats
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zimond.joffeman.com
zimond@web.de

This is a DirectX based Remake of the classic game Boulderdash.

First something for the legal stuff. Boulderdash is still under copyright by Firststarsoftware
(www.boulder-dash.com) And Firststar still exists and is in buisness.

To First Star : 
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I know your politics about remakes. I know you are developing (or have developed)
the official Boulderdash Sequal (which looks quite nice and i would advice everyone to get it).
High Carats is a 100% Fun Project and a result of almost 10 months of work on graphics, music 
and programming. I would like you to stand away from any action of telling me i am not allowed to put
my game online anymore. 
A remake will NEVER harm the original!! You cannot lose a single dollar because there are remakes of your game on the net (this thought is just stupid and not realistic)  , and i think that YOU don't really believe that, too.
This game is MY game... i did the graphics, the music, the game..  just the tiny idea of collecting diamonds on a 2D screen goes to Peter Liepa....  so : BE FAIR!!
Remember where YOU came from... a bunch of hobby game developer in the 80's who set a foot into a totaly new market. And thats exactly what Remake Coders are : A bunch of hobby game artists who don't want to see a cent for their work... just a few people telling how they like the game is satisfaction enough.
So please let me and other coders do their hobbies.

And BTW : If you read this, the game is online and its to late...


The Game :
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- High Carats contains 10 worlds with each 20 caves. Every world has its own enemies and items... so you might have to test some things
out to know how you can solve a cave. 
Every cave you play is automaticly unlocked.. so if your game is over.. who cares.. start again ;)
There are many extras to discover.. play play play !
-The game runs on 800x600 with 16Bit and requires at least DirectX 7
- I recommend at least a 400Mhz CPU to play.. the game uses the UnDelphiX Units from turbo.gamedev.com. These Units are very good for game developement beginners but they are not as fast as more complex components are.
- Sound is provided by BASS (www.un4seen.com)
- Oh Yes : Of course i am NOT responsesable for any damage done to your computer!!

Controls :
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- Arrowkeys and Space or Joypad with Button1... thats it.
- Alt-Enter to switch between Windowed and Fullscreen.

- "S" moves you back to the title screen... without any prompt!!!



For you Lamers out there :
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If a cave annoys you so much that you make the fun-destroying choice to cheat here is how you do it :

- Go to he DATA Directory and edit the save files... just replace "0" 's with "1" 's and the caves are unlocked.

- In the game press P to pause the game and enter the following codes :
  - "BAAANG" -> Spaws explosions around the character.
  - "TICTAC" -> 999 Time.
  - "GLITZER" -> 999 Diamonds.
  - "ILLBEBACK" ->> After death.. spawns the player to the center of the screen.

- Its even possible just to edit the caves with the Leveleditor, but if you do so YOU ARE NOT WORTH playing a brilliant game like this, Scum! ;-)


A YO!!!!