Pycadia README
==============
The Pycadia project is a collection of vector arcade games written in python using
the excellent pygame libraries.  Current games are:    
    * SpaceWarpy is a conversion of the original classic game "SpaceWar".
    * Vektoroids is loosely based on the arcade classic "Asteroids".


Default Controls
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                Player 1       |      Player 2
             Key   Joystick 1  |   Key     Joystick 2
-----------------------------------------------------
Left       |  A    X-axis      |   LEFT    X-axis
Right      |  S    X-axis      |   RIGHT   X-axis
Fire       |  R    button 0    |   R-CTRL  button 0
Thrust     |  E    button 1    |   UP      button 1
HyperSpace |  D    button 2    |   DOWN    button 2
    


Supported OS
============
Pycadia / SpaceWarpy / Vektoroids have been tested on:
* Gentoo GNU/Linux 1.4
* Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3)


Installing
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See the INSTALL file for more info.


Notes
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* Use the Pycadia GUI to change the default options or edit the pycadia.conf file 
  (like player keys, screen resolution, sun gravity, etc).


Credits
=======
Thanks to:
* Buks for Vektoroids, bug fixes, sound creation & tweaking, suggestions and play testing.
* Peter Hirschberg for original SpaceWar C code @ http://www.digisys.net/users/cogs/spacewar.htm
* The MIT hackers who created the original SpaceWar (see http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/).
* David Clark (http://sourceforge.net/users/dclark/) for the saucer aiming code in Vektoroids.
  Taken from the game "Twitch" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/twitch/)


Comments
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Any problems, suggestions, features, patches or comments please contact me: 
    andy.balcombe@anti-particle.com

Pycadia is Copyright 2002-2003 Andy Balcombe and is released under the GNU GPL license.
SpaceWarpy is Copyright 2002-2003 Andy Balcombe and is released under the GNU GPL license.
Vektoroids is Copyright 2002-2003 Paul Buckle and Andy Balcombe and is released under the GNU GPL license.
  See the COPYING file for more information.

