Title:

Karate Joe is an Excellent-Fast-Arcade-Action Game for Windows.

Mission:

You are Karate Joe and you must save the world from itself.

Development History:

I love to program and I love animation.  Many moons ago I did
program nice games and what-nots for DOS but there was such a 
flood of games and what-nots for DOS that me work went unnoticed.
The most I could hope for was to end up share-ware at Lucky Larry's
Computer Shop at the bottom of the pile - just under all the dBase 4's 
and Corel Draw! 4's (what is it with version 4's anyway?).

That was yesteryear.  Now  Microsoft has taken over the 
world and everything has moved to Windows.  Everything -- except for 
games that are worth unzipping.  

I have noticed that there are no good games for Windows.  
Sure there are plenty of card games.  But frankly,
I'm sick of playing solitar and tic-tac-toe so I invented Karate Joe.
Something fast with good animation and sound without bouncing out to
DOS.  (By the way, I've looked at all the other Windows games that 
are available.  I've either bought it or down-loaded it.  From what 
I've seen, Three-Finger Charlie can count the number of games that 
are worth a rip on one hand.)

I hope you enjoy the demo.  There are 16 different levels in the 
"for sale" version of Karate Joe.  This demo lets you play 2 of them.

Please, Please, Please let me know what you think of Karate Joe.
I need to know if I'm on the right track and if this is kind of software
is worth the trouble of advertising and marketing.  I'd like to what you
think of Karate Joe.

Have a great day! (really)

Steve Sivulka

  WinGames 

  (619) 431-7714

  CompuServe: 72102,3015

  6539 Paseo Frontera, E
  La Costa, CA 92009

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Below are the files (excluding this readme) and their proper sizes, etc.

LOGOS    DDC    568822 
HERO3    DDC    169882 
EARTH    DDC    396358 
WALL     DDC    107206 
EN1      DDC    169882 
STONE    DDC    107206 
EN2      DDC    261470 
BLANK    WAV      1148 
HIT      WAV      1596 
INTRO    WAV     50940 
HUH      WAV      3096 
FIRE     WAV      7136 
SAMPLE   MID      6994 
SETUPKIT DLL      7008 
MSGHOOK  VBX      7648 
THREED   VBX     64544 
KJOE     HLP     30972 
KJOE     EXE    362260 
KJ       DDC     33846 


After you unarc, run from Windows Program Manager "Run" option from the
"File" menu and browse for "KJOE.EXE" or double click on this file from
within Mr. File Manager.

This program requires VBRUN300.DLL.  You should have this file already
in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirctory.  If you don't, you can find a copy
on almost every BBS.

This game should run on any Windows 3.1 system with mouse.

This game will run better on a fast machine with lots-o-RAM and a
nice sound card.