A few small steps forward in the life of spinvaders:

• Monsters killed with the “super gun” now fall burning from the sky! Prepare to be terrified.


• New sound effects, in stereo! Crank it up!


• Changed player death behavior: If monsters reach bottom, restart level. If player is hit by a bullet, just lose a life and continue the level in progress.


• Gameplay and speeds tweaked to maximize your Fahrvergnügen.


• While the game is paused or switching screen modes, audio output is paused.


• Mac version now has a reasonable (but somewhat incomplete) menu thanks to PyObjC and a proper nib file.


• Windows version now has an icon.


• Internal code reorganisation to make my life easier.


• Added CHANGES.txt and README.txt to distribution.

And here’s where to get it:

• spinvaders for Macintosh (OS X 10.3 or later)


• spinvaders for Windows (95/98/ME/W2K/XP)

Installation is the same as before: The Mac version is in a disk image; you can copy the enclosed application and run it from wherever you like. The Windows version is a zip file containing a directory; unpack the directory wherever you like, and run it by starting “spinvaders.exe” from within the directory.

Go nuts.