PalmPulus v2.0
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  Version 2.0 - October 28, 2003

  Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Laurent Duveau
      Web Site = http://www.aldweb.com
      e-Mail   = info@aldweb.com

  PalmPulus is a shareware program with a very reasonable price of $15.



Overview
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PalmPulus is a REAL TIME strategy game in which you fight against up to two computer players for control of a land.
You must guide your people against the people of the computer players.

Your first task in PalmPulus is to provide your people with free land. 
Then, order them to settle and they start to build new houses. 
As your population increases, you will have to ask your people to conquer new territories and strenghen their positions.
Finally, unless you suffer from severe defeats, you can lead your people against the other people, wipe them out and win the mission...

All actions in PalmPulus need 'mana'. Your mana will slowly grow all the time.
The more and stronger people you have, the more mana you will gain. 
When you have enough mana you can disturb the doings of the other players with spells like destroying the nourishing grass, planting palm trees, placing stones or raising mountains.

You might recognize in PalmPulus some similarities with the well-known Populous Game which was a very original game when it was released in the early 1990's. 
The name of PalmPulus itself is a wink to Populous. PalmPulus is not a clone of Populous but it was for sure a good source of inspiration since I had so much fun to play with Populous when I was a teenager.

PalmPulus works on black & white, grayscaled and color enabled devices.



Help Files
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PalmPulus comes with 3 help files:
- this one (PalmPulus.txt)
- a full help file in PDF format (PalmPulus.PDF). 
- a step by step tutorial (Tutorial.PDF) to help first time
  users to get started with the game.

NOTICE:
  You will need the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these
  PDF files. You can download it here: http://www.adobe.com



How to install PalmPulus?
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Minimum Palm OS requirement is version 2.0

PalmPulus is Palm OS v5 compliant

Both black & white (for black & white and grayscaled devices) and color versions of PalmPulus are available.
Whether your device is color enabled or not, PalmPulus will automatically detect it and adapt to display all items in black & white or in color.

If you have the trial version of PalmPulus then you will install these files:
  PalmPulus_trial.PRC
  PalmPulusHelp.PRC

If you have bought the full version of PalmPulus then you should install these files:
  PalmPulus_full.PRC
  PalmPulusHelp.PRC

PalmPulus is a PRC file that is installed like any other Palm file using HotSync.
So, extract the adequate PalmPulus_[ext].PRC from the ZIP archive file.
Double-click on it and the Palm install tool will popup.
PalmPulus_[ext].PRC will be transferred to your Palm device next time you synchronize your Palm with your PC using HotSync.

PalmPulus comes with an on board help file (PalmPulusHelp.PRC) that you can install the same way you installed PalmPulus.
I included this on board help so that you can refer to it whenever you are away with your Palm device.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
  Uninstall any previous version of PalmPulus before installing this one on your device.



Limitations of the unregistered version of PalmPulus
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The limitations of the trial version of PalmPulus are :
- No more than 10 minutes of game play
- You always start with a new game when launching PalmPulus (you do not recover the previous game status)
- Load and Save Game are disabled

All other functionalities are the same ones as in the full version.



How to buy PalmPulus?
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To get a full version of PalmPulus, please buy it on one of these three online stores, according to where you downloaded the trial version:
  PALMGEAR 
    http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&prodID=42748
  HANDANGO
    http://www.handango.com/AdminProductDetailView.jsp?productId=34449
  PDASSI
    http://www.pdassi.com/product.php?prod_id=4637

The cost of PalmPulus is just as little as $15.

When you register, you receive a full version of PalmPulus that you just need to install on top of the trial version.

Thanks for purchasing PalmPulus.



Updates Description
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  2.0 (10/28/03)
    - people (that is peasants, soldiers and knights) are now 
      animated, you know which direction they are  going to
    - more realistic move switch of people: for example a peasant 
      initially moving East will not switch directly to West, he will
      first move North or South, unless he was told to do so for a 
      specific action like move to flag or attack. This avoids people
      from moving back and forth in a small area!
    - new zoom map layout, allowing to see 16 x 10 cells in addition
      to the standard 8 x 5 cells layout and the full zoomed map
    - PalmPulus can now launch directly the PalmPulus on board Help
      program and, vice versa, you can directly go back in your 
      PalmPulus game from the PalmPulus on board Help and launch 
      PalmPulus from the on board help
    - merged  the black & white and color versions for easier install
      on any device
  1.2 (10/14/02)
    - changed all picture tiles in the color version for a much
      nicer and more friendly game board
    - updated and enriched the help and tutorial files
  1.1 (09/18/02)
    - split the PalmPulus.PRC and PalmPulusHelp.PRC files into 
      one for black & white devices and one for color devices for 
      smaller RAM occupation
    - code optimization in the global map view so that screen
      is displayed much faster now
    - code optimization in the end of game statistics so that
      statistics are displayed much faster now
    - added an option for casting a spell in the current
      detailed map and not only around flag's position
    - added option to start game with more than one peasant
    - added start game option to show or hide undiscovered land 
    - added in the download package a step by step tutorial (PDF
      file) to help first time users to get started with PalmPulus
    - reduced size of PDF help file (from 152 KB to 128 KB)
    - reduced size of PDF tutorial file (from 698 KB to 130 KB !)
  1.0 (06/30/02)
    - initial release



Legal Information
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This software is Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Laurent Duveau.
All rights reserved.



Trademarks
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Palm OS is Copyright (C) Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries.
