Smuggers ======== Version 2.00 for Nokia 9xxx Communicator - 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 ------------ Before installing Smuggers, the Nokia 9xxx Communicator OPL runtime has to be installed on your Symbian Series 80 device. Smuggers needs at least the OPL runtime version 1.56 found in : "9200-OPL-Public-2006-06-17.zip" (for Nokia 9210/9210i/9290) "9500-OPL-Public-2006-10-02.zip" (for Nokia 9500/9300/9300i) Those files are available from the SourceForget.net Symbian OS OPL site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/opl-dev/ or the OPL-Dev project site at http://opl-dev.sourceforge.net/opl9500.html (for Nokia 9500/9300/9300i) http://opl-dev.sourceforge.net/opl9200.html (for Nokia 9210/9210i/9290) On Nokia 9210/9210i/9290, install "OPL.sis". On Nokia 9500/9300(i), install "OPL_S80.sis" and do not forget to install "OPX_S80.sis". Then choose one of the Smuggers installation files SmuggersN9200.sis (for Nokia 9210/9210i/9290) SmuggersN9500.sis (for Nokia 9500/9300/9300i) As Smuggers is not registered with Symbian as a certified software, you will be warned that "supplier cannot be guaranteed" or "installation file cannot be verified". Just ignore this warning and continue installing. The "SmuggersN9200.SIS" will install Smuggers and also install the "DateOPX.SIS" and "MediaServerOPX.SIS" 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. Running Smuggers ---------------- On Nokia 92xx Communicator, start the program by selecting the 'Extras' application group and then 'Smuggers'. On Nokia 9500/9300(i), start the program by selecting the 'Smuggers' icon where it was placed during the installation. A complete on-line help is provided and can be accessed pressing the help key. Enjoy playing Smuggers! Memory usage ------------ After the installation of Smuggers, the files in the directory "..\System\Apps\Smuggers" and "..\System\Help\Smuggers.hlp" take 436 KB. The "Art" directory has the optional files "Splash.mbm", "PIQlogo.mbm" and "HiScores.mbm", with artistic drawings. If deleted, the splash screen will not be displayed, and no graphics will be shown with the high scores. Without them, you can save 168 KB. The "Sounds" directory has five optional sound effects files. If deleted, the sound will be disabled during the game. You can save 126 KB. With all the optional files installed, Smuggers uses 1.3/1.7 MB of RAM when running one player/two players game (after compressing heaps) and excluding help browser access. 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. 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. 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.