Program:    Chicken Shoot
Author:	    Harper Maddox
email:	    gte172i@prism.gatech.edu
Version:    1.1
System:     TI-83/83+ ION
Released:   2-15-00

I. Description/Objective: 

  As the name of the game implies, the most literal objective of the game is to shoot the chickens.  But let me assure you, this game is much much more complex than it seems.  You, a farmer(and quite an unlikely hero I might add) are sent "on a mission from God" to rid the earth of chickens.  It appears that the "man upstairs" is quite distressed with hamburgers, so he needs some old fashioned Fried chicken.  Thus, you heed his word, and proceed to eradicate the chickens from the neighboring pasture(you wouldnt wont to waste any of yours, now would you :).  After you set foot in the pasture you hear a nother voice uttering, "If the chickens arent here in 30 seconds, then your dead!"  So, fearing for your life you hunt the chicken hysterically.  But wait, you do get a handy chicken radar to estimate the location of the chicken.  This japanese piece of crap only shows where the chicken starts though, it cant relate the position of the chicken in perspective to you.  So, without further ado, you "kill kill kill" those chickens.  You are reminded when you smite the chicken as God sends a great lightening bolt down to "fry" the chickens.  But sometimes a kill under 30 secs just isnt good enough; God figures that he can get even more fried chicken if he pits rival groups of farmers against each other.  So now, you the mighty farmer, armed with some defunct technology, set out to rid the earth of chickens(but not yours) and send them to a better place where God, can finally get some good food.  Break a Leg  :P


II. INSTALLATION (easy as 1,2,3)

1) Make sure you have ION 83/83+ installed on your calculator
2) Send CHSHOOT.83P to your Ti-83
3) Run ION, then select "CHSHOOT" and hit F1

III. CONTROLS:

Directional Pad - move  ;I'd suggest standing 2 or 3 spaces from the birds
[2nd] - Fire Gun.  	;this helps you kill stuff
[Mode] - quit		; gee didn't expect that one ;]

IV.TIPS:

shoot in the opposite direction of the chicken

		-pfhahaha did you actually fall for that one :)

Actually the only tip i can give is to try to shoot through the fences.
Also fire alot of shots; there is unlimited ammo.

V. VERSION HISTORY

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 1.0  - 12-20-97
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 1.1  - 2-15-00
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	- major optimizations.  Im a *little* better at this than i was 2 years ago.
	- fixed bugs.  *shouldnt* have random crashes
	- did away with alot of dumb things (clock counting up, useless data structures, call _getkey)

VI. ETC

 enjoy the game
 if you find bugs send me an email and tell me exactly how it happened.  It does no good to send me an email that says, "Your program sucks. It crashed on ION 83+ and i lost my chemistry notes that i was going to use tp cheat on a test"