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                            M E C H A   E I G H T

                         A game for Memotech MTX-512
                   (c) Copyright 2012-2019 Oscar Toledo G.
                             All rights reserved.

                          http://www.nanochess.org/

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  >> 1 <<  LICENSE
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  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
  warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages
  or loss arising from the use of this software.

  It is prohibited to modify, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer
  this software.

  All trademarks are property of their respective owners.

  The following text applies to Pletter-0.5c decompressor:
  
    Pletter v0.5c - XL2S Entertainment 2008
    Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Team Bomba

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
    copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
    distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
    permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
    the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
    in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
    OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
    MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
    IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
    CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
    TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
    SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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  >> 2 <<  REQUIREMENTS
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  Hardware:

  o A Memotech MTX-512 or RS-128 computer.
  o 64K of base RAM
  o 16K of VRAM

  Also can be used with an emulator:

  o MEMU or MAME/MESS

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  >> 3 <<  THE GAME
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  Merciless aliens are overrunning a small planet, they took by surprise to
  all the army. Now the last remaining defense is the Mecha Research's Lab
  and its unique two mechas, but them are the most powerful!

  Go ahead and guide Tricia Thunder on board Mecha-8 to gain again the
  freedom!.

  Use cursor keys and HOME to shoot. (Or Joystick Port "R")

  Launch your devastation attack using Space key.
  You'll need to fill gauge for this weapon.

  Collect capsules containing energy, power-ups and extra speed.

  Keys while game runs:
    F1 - Pause, press again to get out from pause
    F2 - Toggle sound/music.
	F3 - Continue (when Game Over)
	F5 - Toggle Rapid/Autofire.

  Keys while story appears:
    Fire - Accelerates text speed.

  Wait in title screen to see background game information.

  On booting the game, keep pressed F1 for NTSC mode, by default the game
  starts in PAL mode.

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  This version of MECHA EIGHT was tested by Claus Baekkel on real hardware,
  and can be freely distributed.

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  >> 5 <<  CREDITS
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  MECHA EIGHT

  GAME CONCEPT:
  STORY AND CHARACTERS:
  ANIMATION:
  PROGRAMMING:
  GRAPHICS AND LEVEL DESIGN:
  SOUND AND MUSIC:
  COVER DESIGN:
  MANUAL DESIGN:
    Oscar Toledo G.

  SPECIAL ADVISOR
  AND LEVELS MUSIC:
    Adan Toledo G.

  PROOFREADING:
    Luc Miron

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Last updated: Sep/30/2019
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