DinoSaw... A simple everyday story of a caveman and his chain saw!

History
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Version      Date               Info
1.0          28 August '93      The first released version. Bug free?
1.1?         September '94      The version this re-release is based around
1.2?         January '06        Re-released as freeware by Acorn Arcade      



Instructions....  (abridged version!)
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It's a prehistoric platformer... either jump over nasty things or hack 'em to death with yer chainsaw. You can tell when yer hurting something cos it bleeds! Nice huh?


Bonuses
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There are a few bonus objects to be found around the game.
Food - simply boosts your score.
Hearts - Give BOTH players an extra life. On two player mode when a player's game is over, and the other player collects a heart he is allowed to rejoin the game.


Levels
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There are fifteen levels to this version, you may progress to the next level by walking off the right hand side of the current level.


Compatibility
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This version of DinoSaw should work fine on everything from a 1 meg ARM 2 to a Kinetic RiscPC running RISC OS Select. It should also run on an Iyonix if you have Aemulor Pro (There have been some reports of crashing after the title screen, *audio off seems to fix this).

If anyone does try running it on a 1 meg machine, then in the words of Berty:

  For ***** sake get an upgrade! It's a real pain having to cater for people
  with less than 2 megs. However it will work OK (as far as I can work out
  anyway). The only problem is that you'll have to make sure there's as much
  free memory as possible, to do this you can either mess about with the task
  manager yourself or simply click on !MaxMem.


The default keys...
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From titlescreen...

Space                      - Start game
Escape                     - Quit program
Print                      - 1/2 Players

In game...

Player1       Player2
Z             kp 1         - Left          |
X             kp 2         - Right         |  May be altered with
C             kp 3         - Jump          |  !DinoKeys

Escape                     - Quit game


Thanks to...
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* Berty A.K.A Tom Cooper for writing the original game, and allowing us to rerelease it
* Andrew Hill for discovering this ultra-rare copy of the full game, and donating it to us
* Whoever performed the first RISC OS 4 compatibility work on the game
* The members of Acorn Arcade's Free Games section for putting this release together. Why not visit http://www.acornarcade.com/ and grab some other golden oldies?