Smuggers ======== Version 2.00 for EPOC - October 2006 Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Roberto Colistete Jr. & Pocket IQ Introduction ------------ Smuggers is a full-featured freeware arcade game for Symbian OS v3-7 (Epoc Release 3 and 5, Symbian OS 6 and 7). Try to escape from the Smuggers elephant monsters walking and jumping in many different mazes. You can lose jumps while touching the Spider, but after eating almost all of the points of the maze, the Spider will start blinking. Then you will have 10 seconds to catch the Spider and pass to another level and maze. Are you skilful enough ? Features of Smuggers: - sized to fit the screen of each different machine type, using graylevels or colours; - 6 game difficulty levels, with or without increasing speed; - 50 mazes, in sequence or random order; - 1 or 2 players mode; - user defined keys, even after starting the game; - intelligent reading of the keys; - high scores table for each difficulty level; - function to send the high scores file by email (only on Nokia 9xxx Series Communicator); - sound (except on Osaris); - two options of animation quality (except on Nokia 9xxx Series Communicator, because it is not needed due to the good screen quality); - the best high scores of the users are shown in the Smuggers site. Freeware version 2.00 for EPOC OS : Psion Series 5, GeoFox One, Oregon Osaris, Psion Series 5mx, Ericsson MC218, Psion Revo/Revo+, Diamond Mako, Psion Series 7 and netBook. For Symbian OS : Nokia Communicator 9210, 9210i, 9290, 9500, 9300 and 9300i. Release History --------------- Version 2.00 (10/2006) : - Smuggers becomes freeware for all machine types ! - Smuggers is now fully compatible with Nokia 9500/9300(i), using 64K colours, the scroll keys, etc; - the email and www site information were updated because the PocketIQ is down; - on Nokia Communicators, the menu items "Tools/Log" and "Tools/ Receive via infrared" were removed because they can give a wrong idea that Smuggers has a log and can receive game information via infrared; - the maze 7 and 47 were exchanged, I simply do not have success with this previous maze 7 when playing the hard game difficulty :-). Version 1.35 exclusive to Nokia 9200 Series Communicator (07/2003): - five of the nine original sound effects are now available, just when there is no mouvement during the game. The other four sound effects can not be played due to a limitation of the current OPL version for Symbian OS v6; - "File / Email high scores" is now available to registered users, so the email application will be opened with the "Smuggers.ini" file attached to be sent to PocketIQ, where the best high scores are displayed and updated once a month; - RAM memory is optimized, using 0.7/0.3 MB less than v1.30 for one/two players game, in exchange of minor delays when displaying the high scores and starting the game; - the game plays 13% faster than v1.30, this fine-tuning renders the speed on Nokia Communicator approximately the same on Psion machines; - minor improvement of the elephant chase speed, so the game speed is more constant independtly of the number of elephants near you; - the random unwanted pause after switching applications or calling the help and returning to Smuggers is now fixed; - a warning message is displayed when the unregistered user begins the last free level. Version 1.30 for Nokia 9200 Series Communicator (10/2002): - first public version; - the sound effects are not available, due to some limitations of the current OPL version for Symbian OS v6; - help is available via the help viewer, with context sensitive help. Version 1.30 (09/2002): - 50 mazes, with 10 new mazes; - reduced registration cost from £10 to £5; - the "Esc" key speeds the bonus counting after catching or losing the Spider; - a very rare bug corrected on Series 7/netBook machines, related to playing sounds at the same time generating a fatal error; - the Series 7/netBook machines now have the splash and high score screens with some coloured texts; - the SIS file now includes the latest version of "SysRam1.SIS" OPX file, v1.20, instead of v1.01, but without any consequences on Smuggers. Version 1.20 (03/2002): - 3 new difficulty levels, "Always Easy", "Always Medium" and "Always Hard", without increasing difficulty, i.e., the speed of the elephants and spider do not increase; - added artistic drawings on Series 5/5mx family, Revo family, GeoFox One and Osaris machines; - some improvements to the "Change keys...", "Show keys..." and "Use default keys..." dialogs; - the limitations for unregistered users were changed : 3 free levels for "Always Easy"/"Easy", 2 for "Always Medium"/"Medium", 1 for "Always Hard"/"Hard". Version 1.10 (02/2002): - added compatibility to Series 7/netBook using full screen graphics, colours and artistic drawings; - 6 maze block types using graylevels, or 10 maze block types using colours; - improved graphics for the Revo, Series 5, GeoFox and Osaris families; - the Pocket IQ site will monthly display the best scores of registered users. The user must play at least the version 1.10, and send the "C:\System\Apps\Smuggers\Smuggers.ini" file to the author of Smuggers; - the Pocket IQ site will regularly hosts competitions of high scores with Smuggers T-shirts as prizes; - high score info is shown during a one-player game; - the default minimum high score is set to 5000 points; - Osaris SIS file does not include sound files anymore; - faster saving of the "Smuggers.ini" in the directory "C:\System\Apps\Smuggers\"; - a confirmation dialog is shown for any "Abort game" or "Close" during the game; - one bug correction, with "Lose life" during maze initialization. Version 1.00 (01/2002): - first public release. Download Zip File Details ------------------------- Choose the Smuggers zipped SIS file for your machine, see the Smuggers Internet site, www.RobertoColistete.net/Smuggers. The zip file should contain the following files: ReadMe.txt (this file) Smuggers$Machine$.SIS (instalation file for Smuggers) Where $Machine$ can be S5, GeoFox, Osaris, Revo, S7, N9200 and N9500. There are different installation files because Smuggers is optimized for speed performance and the sizes of the graphics are specific to each screen size. Installation ------------ To install Smuggers simply double-click the SIS file to install all the required files. Or use the "Install New Program" option in PSIWIN (EPOC Install). If you have the latest PSIWIN or EPOC Install then everything will happen automatically. If you don't have these then you need to get the installation file SETUP.EXE, which can be downloaded from "www.psion.com/downloads". You can also copy the Smuggers SIS file directly to your Symbian machine and double select it to launch the install program. This will install Smuggers and also install the PIQinfo.SIS file for the essential Pocket IQ common files and the SYSRAM1.SIS file to install the essential system files. To install a new version of Smuggers, do not uninstall the previous one ! If you uninstall it, the registration, high scores and preferences will be lost. But you may want to delete the "\System\Apps\Smuggers\Smuggers.ini" of the Smuggers version 1.00 to use the easier default high scores of the next versions of Smuggers. Using the EPOC Emulator for Windows : install the Smuggers SIS file, but do not accept the installation of SYSRAM1.SIS. The SYSRAM1W.SIS file (compatible with the EPOC emulador for Windows) must be installed. Running Smuggers ---------------- Start the program by selecting the 'Extras' from the Application bar and then 'Smuggers'. A complete on-line help is provided and can be accessed from the menu. Enjoy playing Smuggers! Memory usage ------------ After the installation of Smuggers, the files in the directory "..\System\Apps\Smuggers" take approx. 300 KB (on Series 7/ netBook: 430 KB). But the optional "Sounds" directory has 154 KB (it is not present on the Osaris version), and it can be removed if for you the memory constraint is more important than the sound effects. On Series 7/netBook : the "Art" directory has the optional files "Splash.mbm", "HiScores.mbm" and "AllDown.mbm", with artistic drawings. If deleted, a simplified splash screen will be used, no graphics will be shown with the high scores, and the bottom drawing in the game screen will not be displayed. Without them, you can save 150 KB, and more than 300 KB of running memory. Other machines : the "Art" directory has the optional files "Splash.mbm" and "HiScores.mbm", with artistic drawings. If deleted, a simplified splash screen will be used, and no graphics will be shown with the high scores. Without them, you can save 22 to 54 KB, and about 50 KB of running memory. Maze details ------------ Smuggers v2.00 has 50 mazes, placed in the directory "..\System\Apps\Smuggers\Mazes\". The file format is the MBM (EPOC Picture) format, using 37 rows and 21 lines with 4 gray levels mode. So, the "Sketch" application can import these files by using the menu "Files/More/Merge in..." and choosing "EPOC Picture" as file type. The "Sketch" can also export to the MBM format, see the menu "Files/More/Export...". It is possible to add new mazes, and Smuggers will read the number of MBM files in this directory as the number of mazes. The format of the filename is "MazeN.mbm" (N=1...9), or "MazeNN.mbm" (N=10...99), or even "MazeNNN.mbm" (N=100...999). Yes, Smuggers supports a maximum of 999 mazes ! The maze files must be in sequence order, i.e., if there are 50 mazes then the filenames begin with "Maze1.mbm" and end with "Maze50.mbm". Then you are free to create new mazes, modify them, etc, using for example the "Sketch" application. A forthcoming version of Smuggers may have a maze manager to : reorder mazes, delete, insert, etc. Contacting the author --------------------- You can send comments, questions and bug reports to the author, Roberto Colistete Jr., by Email : Roberto.Symbian arroba terra.com.br (replace the " arroba " by "@") URL : www.RobertoColistete.net/Smuggers About Smuggers --------------- Smuggers version 2.00 for EPOC/Symbian OS v3-7. Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Roberto Colistete Jr. and Pocket IQ. Smuggers is a freeware software. It is supplied as is and comes with no warranty. The author accept no liability for any data that may be lost using this program.