Warblade the classic arcade shootem up game Home of Warblade Deluxe Galaga. Warblade v. 1. 3. A game by Edgar M. Vigdal Simon Quincey Manual. Simon Quincey Warblade is a PC and Mac game. Its a shootem up game with the focus on great gameplay, lots of action, bonuses, secrets and features. The demo version has only 2. The full version also has the profile system enabled, time trial mode, an extra subgame and lots of other additional features. Higher quality sounds and graphics are included and you get exclusive access to additional addons. Warblade is also a shareware game. This means that you can download the free demo, play and test the game, and if you like the game then you can order the full version online. Lets all say it together Ugh, Uber, ugh Were like five minutes into the companys 180 Days of Change apology tour and more awful Uber news is already. Flash Fire Arcade Joystick Drivers' title='Flash Fire Arcade Joystick Drivers' />If you have already bought this game then thankyou very much. To top Requirements for playing this game This game should run very easily on a wide range of systems. There are plenty of options in there to turn things down if your system is quite low spec. The minimum resolution supported is 8. This setting IS stored for your next game. HTB1pG.YSXXXXXaPapXXq6xXFXXXb/Mini-grab-Arcade-flight-yoke-stick-Joystick-8-way-joystick-with-two-trigger-and-top-fire.jpg' alt='Flash Fire Arcade Joystick Drivers' title='Flash Fire Arcade Joystick Drivers' />NB An 8. PC Minimum PII 3. MB RAM, 1. 6MB Video, 4. MB HD Space DX7 or newer. Medium PIII 8. 00, 1. MB RAM, 3. 2MB 3. D Video, 4. 0MB HD Space DX7 or newer. Best P4 2. 8. GHz, 5. MB RAM, 1. 28. MB 3. D Video, 4. 0MB HD Space DX7 or newer. Monitor capable of 1. The new Graphics Buffering option can use massive amounts of memory. Use with caution MAC The development Mac was a Mac Mini. GMA9. 50 gfx chip, 1. GB RAM and OSX 1. There is a universal Mac binary available that allows the game to run on newer Intel based Macs and now also the older PPC based Macs. LINUX The newest PTK based version of Warblade is now confirmed as working ok on Linux using Cedega. I know very little about Linux so i cannot confirm this but a user has stated its working. This could mean that some other variants of Linux will run it too. Can you let us know The game supports Windows 9. ME, 2. 00. 0, XP and Vista and now there is also the Mac version available. For the PC version you must have Direct. X version 7 or later installed This can be downloaded direct from Microsoft at this address http www. The game also supports windows installed joysticks andor joypads and mouse control. Unfortunately PTK does not support joystick control in the Mac version but maybe in the future this will be added. TIP For Mac user, you can try using the USB Overdrive utility to get joysticks and joypads working in Warblade http www. TIP Do not have too many programs running at the same timeThis can make the game run slow and jerky on lower spec machines. As with any game really. Force powered cardswww. ATI powered cards To top Installing the game PCAfter you have downloaded the game, locate the directory where you selected to store the download. You can use the windows explorer to do this. When the file warblade. When the install program starts just follow the onscreen instructions. If you keep clicking next through the whole install process, the game will be installed to the default location and a shortcut icon will be placed on the desktop. You can also select to add a quickstart icon. MACAfter downloading the warblade. Warblade pkg icon to start the installation of the game. The game will be installed to the application folder in a new folder called Warblade. You can then create an alias file for the game and copy that to the desktop. YOUR PROFILE IS IMPORTANT MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS AND ALWAYS KEEP A BACKUP FROM PREVIOUS GAME VERSIONS. PROFILES once updated to a new version ARE NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. THIS IS TO PREVENT PROFILE CORRUPTION FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF POSSIBLE BUGS. To top Starting the game After the game is successfully installed, a shortcut icon is added to the desktop named Warblade. You start the game by double clicking on this icon. If any errors are reported or the game does not start, please locate the file named warblade. My DocumentsWarblade folder PC or user folderwarblade Mac, and send this in an email to bugswarblade. Warblade has been in development for a long time and we hope that you will see easy installation and fluid gameplay. Many bugs have been fixed in the past but the game has been converted more recently to a new development library called PTK. This may mean some new bugs have been introduced and while we use every effort to find and fix all the bugs theres always 1 more to be found. NOTE Hopefully this section will never appear on your system, but if it does, heres what you need to know. Theres a 2nd line of error trapping that comes with the game PC version only. If the game randomly crashes to the desktop and its the games fault then an error report is created in Warblades dying breath. Also, Warblade will activate the Crash. Report. Sender. exe. This little tool will create an email to be sent to me Edgar M Vigdal. The created email will be sent when you click the send button and the sender program will tell you if it was successful. Itll also automatically close when you click ok on the success box. The information will tell me exactly where in the game the error occurred and a few pieces of info about your system. The crashreportsender uses an mxlookup technique to send the email directly to bugswarblade. Edgar can reply. This cannot always be found and so you should not always expect a reply. Additional comments about the crash In the crashreport tool You can add whatever you like to the additional comments box. Maybe you were about to warp after a boss Maybe you just cleared a particular level. You can of course choose to cancel this email, but please send these reports in if you get a random crash. Sending these mails will be very helpful to us and everyone else playing the game. If any problems arise using this tool, then you can still help by sending the warblade. Thankyou. SELFPLAY MODE V1. We would like everyone that can to allow this self playing version to run whenever possible. Overnight maybe, or while you are at work. Especially if you have seen the random crashes that seem new to v. Fixes for the random crashes have been made already but we dont know if they are a cure. Please allow the game to play itself and if it crashes send those reports in to us. The crash report sender has been fixed too, but just in case it fails please send an email to bugswarblade. You must do this before you start another game. Starting another game will overwrite the dbg file Also please take the time to send in crash reports from normal gameplay too, or report problems in the forum. The selfplay mode is started by pressing Left SHIFT, Left ALT and F1 together and it will randomly play time trial and normal games. Profiles will be automatically closed and scores gained by the computer will not be saved. Its not possible to save in selfplay mode either and the collision detection is almost completely turned off so its very difficult for the player ship to be killed. The player ship will go for almost all bonus drops and diamonds without choice but it does start with 1. Try it out anyway, its fun to watch the shop, memory stations and speedy gameplay. To top Your first choice The first question newly added in v. By default it used to be set to Direct. X mode, but recently some people have had the game fail in this mode and unless it works, Open. GL cannot be chosen.