- Snipes
Infobox_Software
name = Snipes
caption = Snipes game screengrab
developer =Drew Major ,Dale Neibaur
latest_release_version = 1.0
latest_release_date = 1983
operating_system =DOS ,Novell NetWare
genre =Text based games
license =Abandonware
website = [http://www.novell.com]"Snipes" (diminutive for Snipers) is a text-mode
networked computer game that was created in 1983 bySuperSet software. Snipes is officially credited as being the original inspiration forNovell NetWare . [http://www.novell.com/collateral/4613315/4613315.pdf]Game play
The objective of the game is to control your creature by moving it around a maze to destroy snipes and their hives.
The player must first specify the number of snipes, hives and difficulty before they play. Each game is different because the computer generates a random new maze.
The creature is moved using the keyboard arrow keys and shoots in different directions with the A, S, D and W keys. By combining keys, diagonal movement and shooting can be achieved. Pressing the spacebar can provide extra velocity to run away from difficult situations from the snipes.
Several level options are available. First, a letter is chosen, which controls the environment settings. These include what bad guys are available, whether or not diagonal shots bounce off the walls, and whether running into a wall will simply block or kill you. The next choice is a number, which controls the maximum number of snipes that may exist and how many hives are initially created within the maze.
Technical details
A requirement to play the multiplayer version of Snipes is that all users share a common network drive. It suggests that the various clients communicate to each other via shared file. The exact implementation details of this is not known but experiments have shown that Snipes can be played between Windows workstations in a "DOS" window under Windows XP, provided that each user maps a drive to the executable location with read/write rights. This also implies that IPX is not directly used by Snipes to communicate between clients.
External links
* [http://www.novell.com/collateral/4613315/4613315.pdf Credit notice by Novell] [http://www.textmodegames.com/download/snipes.html The original for DOS] [http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~boultonj/snipes.html Linux port]
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