NanoWars 8k (Master System) - licence ================================================================ NanoWars 8k is a homebrew game for the Sega Master System by Haroldo O. Pinheiro (haroldoop / haroldo-ok). Licence: the Unlicense (public domain dedication, any use including commercial). The licence is declared in the "Software licence" field of the game's page on SMS Power! (https://www.smspower.org/Homebrew/NanoWars8k-SMS), where the author published the game; the package itself carries no licence file. The text of that page, as read on 2026-11-11, is reproduced below, followed by the standard text of the Unlicense. What this site serves: nanowars8k.sms from NanoWars8k-SMS-0.7.zip, published by the author on SMS Power!, running in the Gearsystem emulator. The game was an entry in the SMS Power! Minigame Compo 2006, and its readme says it was inspired by an old Apple II game called "Short Circuit" (only the idea; the graphics and code are the author's). The package includes the author's source code (src.zip, C for the z88dk compiler, with the graphics data); the game has no music. The original package is hosted next to the ROM and linked from the game page. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Game page on SMS Power! (text, 2026-11-11) ---------------------------------------------------------------- NanoWars 8k Game for Master System Software licence: Unlicense Version Date By Download 0.7 5 Aug 2006 haroldoop NanoWars8k-SMS-0.7.zip (39KB) (includes source) Competition Entry This was a competition entry in Minigame Compo 2006 Version 0.7 Platform SMS Type Game Released 20060805 By haroldoop Screenshots 1 Source included ShowOldVersions false ForumTopic Licence Unlicense ---------------------------------------------------------------- Readme of the package (nanowars8k.txt) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ _______ __ __ \ \ _____ ____ ____ / \ / \_____ _______ ______ / | \ \__ \ / \ / _ \ \ \/\/ /\__ \ \_ __ \ / ___/ / | \ / __ \_| | \( <_> ) \ / / __ \_ | | \/ \___ \ \____|__ /(____ /|___| / \____/ \__/\ / (____ / |__| /____ > \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ ______ ____ __. / __ \ | |/ _| > < | < / -- \| | \ \______ /|____|__ \ \/ \/ ================================================================================ NanoWars 8k v0.7 by Haroldo O. Pinheiro ================================================================================ 1. The story The year is 2079. The alien invaders have surrounded the Earth with their powerful quark cannons, ready to reduce our planet to space dust. The only way to destroy those weapons is from inside. For that intent, Earth scientists captured one of the aliens' repair nanobots and reprogrammed it to overload the cannons' targetting computers. 2. The gameplay You start the game inside the circuits of one of the aliens' doomsday devices. Each of these circuits has three batteries. Each time you touch one of those, their energy is transferred to the other two. Your objective is to transfer electric charges from one battery to another, until at least two of them overload. Unfortunately, there are repair nanotechs moving around the circuits and, should you touch any of those, you would have to destroy them in order to avoid detection. As a side effect, each destroyed nanobot reduces the charge on one of the batteries. Should all the batteries get zeroed out, the cannons' security systems will make it fire against Earth before total shutdown. 3. About the game This game was heavily inspired by an old Apple II game called "Short Circuit". Unfortunately I must say that, due to size constraints, I couldn't implement everything I planned. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the game. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Unlicense ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means. 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