First Start

Some people react on flashing lights in a very unpleasant manner: they experience epileptic seizures. Even if you did never have such a seizure, you may still be affected by those induced seizures. Since Armagetron contains rhythmic flashing lights (the grid you race over...), there is a higher risk of induced seizures than in normal computer games. FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, do NOT play Armagetron on a wide TV screen or in a dark room and always keep a good eye distance to your monitor. WE DO NOT FEEL RESPONSIBLE for anything that might happen to you while playing Armagetron, even if you do respect these advises (See legal stuff below).

The rules are simple: you ride a lightcycle, a kind of motorbike that can only turn 90 degrees at a time, leaves a wall behind and cannot be stopped. Avoid running into a wall while trying to make your opponent run into a wall. Just in case you do not know: this idea is stolen from the Disney movie "Tron" from 1982. The earliest known game of that type was SNAFU from 1981.

Acceleration is possible by driving close to player walls, be it your own wall or the wall of your enemy. Every time you make a turn, you lose a little bit of your speed, so don't be too nervous; speed is your only resource against other players!

First, you'll be confronted with the selection of your favourite language. Use CURSOR LEFT/RIGHT to select, then CURSOR_DOWN to move to the "Accept" menu item. Then, press ENTER/RETURN three times. You'll immediately be set to fight against one weak AI opponent.

turn left	: y,z,w
turn right	: x
brake	: v
switch camera	: c
glance	: cursor left/right/down
show scores	: TAB
scroll message console	: page up/down
toggle fullscreen	: f
pauses/unpauses the game	: p
quit to the game menu	: q/ESC

SHIFT-ESC is the "boss key" and quits Armagetron as fast as possible.

Move up one item	cursor up
Move down one item	cursor down
Change item	cursor left/right
Enter Submenu/Activate item	return/enter/space
Leave Menu	ESC

Press enter or space on the control you wish to change, then press the key/mousebutton you want to assign to that control. Moving the mouse also works.
Press delete or backspace to reset the control binds for the selected functions.

After your first matches, you should go into the "Player Menu", set your name, your keyboard and mouse configuration. Then, get some friends together and try the multiplayer modes!

Please see the contact page for details.

• Fabrice Holbé ( ) for the font and most importantly: the GREAT MOVIEPACK! Yes!
• Chaz Guarino ( ) for extracting the sounds from the movie in high quality.
(Both the moviepack and the movie sounds are available for download separately on the Addons page because of their size and copyright issues)
• Ben Hines ( ) for the Mac OS X port
• Max Rudberg( ) for the Mac icon
• My brother Benjamin and my girlfriend Sibila Madzalik de Morais for extensive testing
• All the other fans that sent their suggestions and comments, especially eRVee and Andrew Macks!

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

This document was created by Manuel Moos

Last modification: Tue Oct 14 09:46:42 CEST 2003