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# The Battle for the Solar System : The Pandoran War
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This is the port of the "The Battle for the Solar System : The Pandoran War"
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v1.50.1 for the AmigaOS 4.
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The Pandoran War is a 2D mission-based space shooter based on the BATTLE FOR
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM space opera and set between books two and three: THE THIRD
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SIDE and THE ATTTRIBUTE OF THE STRONG. The game features many missions,
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with many different objectives and craft.
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It requires a fast system to play the game as fast as possible, and a
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graphics card that supports either opengl/opengles2 with SDL2.
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It is tested and runs well on X5000/40 with a RadeonRX 550.
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This archive does not contain any data files. In order to play the game, you
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need to download the data separately. From the following website download
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the "tbftss-1.5.1.linux-x86_64.tar.gz" file.
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https://www.battleforthesolarsystem.com/games/pw/#downloads
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To install it, extract the data file anywhere at you hard disk
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and copy over all the files from this archive. A requester will show up
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to replace some files, which you need to confirm for all of them.
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If you like the game and would like to support its developer, you can go and
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buy it at:
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https://parallelrealities.itch.io/tbftss-the-pandoran-war
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### How to make it faster
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The game should run in 60fps but on my test system I get around 30fps with all
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the effects enabled. That's why I introduced an option at the Options screen,
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named "Effects Reduction" with values from 0 to 3. With 0 you have full effects
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everywhere, and with 3 you have less effects shown. That increases a lot the
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speed, but you might still see slowdowns in situations where there is a lot of
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action on the screen.
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It is recommended to open the SDL2 prefs and set the Driver to opengl/opengl2
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depending your gfx card and the drivers you have installed.
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On my system "Batching Mode: enabled" leads to some crashes. I recommend you
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to set this to default. But feel free to experiment with it, in case it
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works better for you.
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I'd love to hear how it works on your system.
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### Changelog
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1.50.1r1 (2022-08-22)
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* First release
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