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G/Litt1
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| Filename: | G/Litt1 |
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| File size: | 14F5 bytes |
| Load address: | 3A204556 |
| Exec address: | 2E472E31 |
File contents
Please write to:
Ross Little
The Old Police House
Main Road
Filby
Great Yarmouth
NR29 3HY
Game Show June 1995
~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~
I had intended to bring to you a version of that classic game, Breakout,
this month, but the computer didn't like the way I write BASIC, so I have
had to leave this for another time. I'll use machine code when I do get
back to it, and see if my Elk will obey me when I use that...
I have, however, managed to write two other games. The first has been
transported here from the very early eightees. It is a version of the
ZX81-era game, Zombies. Though I have left it in black and white, I have
fiddled around with some of it. I decided that since other variations of
the game have allowed our Captain to teleport, I would go one stage
further - he can still teleport, but so can the zombies! This, I think
makes it more challenging than most other versions, which can get rather
repetative. The second is another classic eightees game, Mastermind. It
is not the TV-quiz game, but rather a very intriguing mind puzzle, which
has been written on virtually every computer I have seen (even the
Archimedes clones), although I could not find a version for the Electron.
So I wrote one. The last thing I have to present is an update for last
issues' Alphabet Chaser. This update was suggested to me by 'Gus, and I
think it is an excellent idea, but more about that later.
ZOMBIES
~~~~~~~
In this game you play the part of Captain Xiran, a human who has been sent
to a humanly poulated planet to destroy the hideous zombie horde.
Unfortunately for the Captain, the zombies are incredibly strong ('one
zombie hug and you're zombie lunch'). They are, however, also incredibly
stupid (their tactic for killing is just to home in on their victim) and
short sighted, and these are your only lifelines. The playing field is
littered with holes, and if you can manage to lure them into the holes,
they will be destroyed, but watch out, you will also die if you fall down
one. As I have said, both you and the zombies, in this version, have got
teleport abilities. You can activate yours by pressing Return when you
are on the field. The zombies have only got the ability to teleport if
they were 'born' that way, and the percentage of zombies with this ability
goes up as the game goes on. A zombie can 'choose' to teleport if he is
more than ten characters away from the Captain, and if a 75% chance for a
teleport comes out as positive. When either you or a zombie transports, a
noise is made, and the screen flickers a few times. The length of time
during which the screen flickers (and nothing else happens) depends on
whether it is a zombie or the Captain who is teleporting. It lasts twice
as long if it is the Captain. You must get through nine levels, or
fields as I have called them, of this mayhem, before you have completed
your mission. Captain Xiran is then free to return home.
MASTERMIND
~~~~~~~~~~
This is a logical number-guessing game, which you have quite probably seen
before. The aim is to guess the number which the computer has chosen, by
the clues it gives to the number which you guess. It tells you for each
digit of the number, in order, whether that digit was in the number in
that position, or in another positon. The in-game instructions explain it
more fully.
ALPHABET CHASER UPDATE
~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
This update was suggested by 'Gus a short while ago, and is in the form of
an EXECutable file, which will ammend the original game. The change it
makes is to the gameplay itself, in that there are now two more options at
the start of the game. They allow the player to now 'chase' the alphabet
backwards, eg. starting with 'Z' and working back to 'A', instead of the
other way round. The difference between options 3 and 4 are the speeds,
which are equivalent to the original speeds 1 and 2 respectively. The way
to operate this file is pretty simple. Firstly you have to load in the
original game from EUG19. Then change to the directory where the file
'ammend' is, and type:
*ammend
It will then work fully automatically, and will enter in the new lines.
After the game has been updated, and control returns to the user, SAVE the
game to one of your disks. It will then be totally updated. The reason I
have used this type of file is that it is very short, and takes up far
less memory on the disk than the entire program would.
FUN WITH A TYPEWRITER
~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~
Totally coming off of the subject of games now, som of you might have seen
a program in dir 'p' of EUG19 called TYPEWRITER. This was a program I
produced whilst experimenting with vectors, in preperation for last
issues' SAFE utility. I made no mention of it in the magazine, but for
those of you who didn't find it, it's there, I can assure you! It's sole
purpose in life is to make as near to a typewriter sound as is possible
with an Elk whenever a key is pressed, or a character is printed out. It
also has the side effect of dramatically reducing the speed of the
computer. To see it in operation, just type:
*TYPEWRITER
and then CATalogue a disk or something. Quite a nice effect, I think.
Ross Little
May 1995
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