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First playable version is online on www.tower-of-babel.info (10MB RAR-file)

Download: www.latzig.net/_tob/download/Tob20041107.rar

Today i uploaded first playable version of my Remake ToB. It's not finished yet, but this version contains some towers of the first tower group of the original ToB. Now there're some notes:

- No Sound included!
- You must have installed DirectX9.0b or DirectX9.0c
- You need at least 32MB 3D hardware accelrator graphic card (better with Pixelshader support)
- Shadow rendering is pre-defined, but it uses much perfomance (see tob.ini-setting)
- Using default resolution 1024 x 768 with default refresh rates (see tob.ini-settings change resolution mode)

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Keyboard settings:

ESC: Exit game
TAB: Toggle between original panel view or ego-shooter-like-mode (with mouse look and fullscreen)
Up/Down: Go Forward/Backward / Lift Up or Down
Left/Right: Turn Left or Right
SPACE: FIRE
F1: ZAPPER
F2: PUSHER
F3: GRABBER
F4: NORTH
F5: EAST
F6: SOUTH
F7: WEST
PAGE UP/DOWN: Zoom external cam
C: Clear program
STRG + CURSOR: Write move command to program
STRG + FIRE: Write FIRE command to program
DEL: Remove last command from program
R: Run programm of current spider
STRG + Run all programms
S: Stop program
P: Pause

ONLY IN DEVELOPMENT VERSION:
1: Select previous tower
2: Select next tower

DON'T LOST FOCUS (maybe by pressing ALT + TAB) WHILE YOU ARE RUNNING THIS GAME

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The settings are defined in file "tob.ini". Later in the final version all options will be changeable in game options menu.

Important settings:

Adapter=-1: If you have installed only one graphics adapter, you can leave this setting to -1 (automatic), otherwise using value 0 for first adapter, 1 for second adapter and so on.
Mode=-1: All resolution modes you can set here, are listed in the log "log.txt". Value -1 means automatic mode (using default resolution 1024 x 768 if possible).
NoVSync=0: If this setting is set to 1, no vsync used for flipping between to frames.
EnableShadows=1: If this setting is set to 0, no shadows will be shown in game (this speed up rendering)
UseShader=1: If This setting is set to 0, no shaders (pixel- and vertexshader) are used for effects like bump- and specularmapping or multitexturing.
TexFilter=0: Texture filtering, valid values are: 0=automatic, 1=bilinear, 2=trilinear, 3=anisotropic (with quality level from setting "TexMaxAnisotropic")
TexDetail=1: Set to 0 reduces texture quality and memory usages for all textures
...

If you have "old" graphics adapters use settings like:

Adapter=-1
Mode=0
NoVSync=0
EnableShadows=0
UseShader=0
TexFilter=2
TexDetail=0
...

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Important! This version has pre-alpha status. If you find some bugs, post them here!

ToB Remake - http://www.tower-of-babel.info