Salvo

This is the game of Battleship, where you try to sink your opponent's ships before he sinks yours.

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Salvo v1.3

January 27, 1998

Gary Lorensen

[email protected]

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This is the game of Battleship, where you try to sink your

opponent's ships before he sinks yours.

Game setup & play are pretty straightforward -- tap on the

ship you want to place and then draw on the lower grid where

you want it to go. To make shots, simply tap on a square in

the upper grid. If undo is enabled, tap the ? again to undo

the shot. Meanwhile, your opponent is shooting at your ships

in the other grid.

The game runs on both PalmPilot Personal & Professional

(PalmOS v2.x) as well as the original Pilot 1000 & 5000

(PalmOS v1.x).

If you are running on a PalmPilot (PalmOS v2.x), you can

also disable game sounds through Preferences.

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New in Salvo v1.3:

- Renamed from "Battleship" to avoid confusion with Hans Graf's version.

- Optional undo feature! {Tap on the ? to undo}

- Complete control over sound settings, using the Setup option!

- Game variations:

- If you get a hit, you take another turn!

- Salvo mode: You get as many shots as you have ships!

- Advanced Salvo mode: Same as above, but you don't

know which shots are hits until after you've placed

all the shots!

- Player #1 or player #2 can go first!

- Two player mode on one Pilot/PalmPilot

- Visual status of how many ships sunk/left!

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Salvo v1.3 was developed using GCC v0.5.0 under Windows 95.

Extensive testing was done using my own PalmPilot Pro and

CoPilot running PalmOS v1.0. This is my second PalmPilot app.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or criticisms,

mail me at [email protected]. This program is also available at

http://members.aol.com/GLorensen

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This game is provided as-is, with no warranty given or implied.

The author is not responsible for loss of data caused by using

this application.

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Known bugs:

- The ship bitmaps flash briefly on the screen at startup.

For some reason, I can't hide them until after I've

already shown them. This might be a PalmOS bug.

Possible future enhancements:

- Two player gaming on two Pilots via a null modem cable.

- Online help

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