Gunboat (Piranha/Alternative): reformatted for readability - original spread over multiple panes of inlay Scanned by juice@2008 #### Page 1-3: English instructions ############################################ GUNBOAT A thrill packed test of nerves and reactions on the bucking decks of your own warship in an arcade game so realistic you can almost hear the roar of shellfire and smell the cordite and engine oil. GUNBOAT A game by Five Ways Software. LOADING INSTRUCTIONS Type LOAD " " then press ENTER Key. GAMEPLAY Your mission is to penetrate the complex network of inland waterways held by the enemy. Cause as much devastation as you can by attacking their warships, helicopter gunships, shore installations and anything else that comes your way. Your main aim is to search out and destroy four major naval bases. If you can do this you'll cripple the enemy's war effort and bring the desperate conflict to an end. You'll find it hard to survive but try to make it back to open sea and safety if you can. You'll meet heavy resistance all the way. Watch your ship's servicability as well as its fuel and ammo status. You'll spot enemy shore depots. Some will be only lightly defended. If they are, you can try docking and seeing whether you can top up your fuel and ammo and even get some repairs made to your battered vessel. Watch out for the heavily defended ones! If you manage to locate the naval bases, your missiles are the best and quickest means of taking them out. So save some missiles for the really important strikes. PLAYING THE GAME Once loaded, the game is menu driven. The game is joystick compatible. If you want to use the keyboard, select the redefine option to see the key controls and either use those already set or redefine your own keys. There is a key selected to fire each of your four weapon systems. You can also fire your deck cannon with the fire button of the joystick. If you are using a joystick, push it forward to open the throttle and pull back to cut it. If you keep pulling back the ship will slow to a stop and then go into reverse. Left and right movements of the joystick will steer the ship left and right. If you move the joystick with the fire button depressed you can control the elevation and direction of your deck cannon. WEAPON SYSTEMS Your gunboat is equipped with four weapons systems. Tactical Missiles These are intelligent missiles which will lock onto the nearest and best target. They are certain killers but you have a limited supply so use sparingly. Torpedoes These are fired from silos in the bows of the ship. You aim them by pointing the ship itself at your target before firing. Shells Your deck cannon fires a high speed stream of explosive shells. With this weapon system engaged, you can direct your fire by keeping the fire button depressed and either moving your joystick or using the direction and throttle keys on the keyboard. Depth Charges These are fired from the stern and are your only defence against submerged subs. Also useful when pursued by enemy gunboats. CONTROL PANEL At the bottom of the screen are your gunboat controls monitors. From the left you have a digital compass, a damage report giving the percentage servicability of your vessel, fuel status and engine temperature, rev counter, mission score and weapon systems indicator. The weapon systems indicator tells you which weapons are currently armed and how much ammo you have left. Torpedoes, missiles and depth charges take time to reload. Your deck cannon is always ready to fire. Protek, Sinclair and Kempston joystick compatible. © Alternative Software Limited 1989 PROGRAMMERS - If you have written a good programme for ANY home computer, send it to us now for evaluation. We pay EXCELLENT royalties!! Your programme could be in the shops within 3 weeks!! SEND TO: ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE Units 3-6 Baileygate Industrial Estate, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. We will acknowledge receipt of your programme same day. #### Page 4-5: Spanish instructions (unproofed!) ############################### INSTRUCCIONES DECARGA Escribe LOAD" " y pulsa ENTER. GUNBOAT Un juego de Five Ways Software. Una prueba emocionante para los nervios y reflejos en las corcoveantes cubiertas de tu propio canonero, en un jeugo tan realista que casi puedes oir el fragor del canoneo y oler la cordiata y el aceite de los motores. EL JUEGO Tu mision es infiltrarte en la compleja red de canales en poder del enemigo. Causa la mayor destruccion posible,ataca sus barcos, helkbpteros, instalaciones costeras y cuanto encuentres a tu paso. Tu objetivo principal es encontrary destruir cuatro bases navales importantes. De conseguirlo paralizariis los preparativos militaresdel enemigo y pondras terminoal desesperado conflicto. Te resultara dificil sobrevivir pero trata de conseguir salir al mar abierto y salvarte, si puedes. Te encontraras con enconada resistancia por todas partes. Vigila el estado de tu nave asicomo el del combustible y de la municion. Veras depositos del enemigo en la costa. Algunos contaran con defensas debiles. En ese caso puedes intentar el atraqueo incluso hacer algunas reparaciones a tu maltrecha nave. !Cuidado con los que esten bien defendidos! Si consigues localizar las bases navales lo meior es usar misiles para destruirlas. Reserva, pues, algunos para los ataques verdaderamente importantes. COMO JUGAR El juego es compatible con joystick Sinclair, Protek y Kemptonl. Si quieres usar el teclado usa REDIFINE para ver los mandos clave y bien usa los ya dispuestos o vuelve a definirtus propias teclas. Hay una tecla seleccionada para disparar cada uno de tus cuatro sistemas de armamento. Tambien puedes disparar tu cannon de cubierta mediante el boton de 'fuego' en el joystick. Si usas el joystick echalo hacia delante para acelerar, y viceversa. Si lo retienes hacia atris el barco se detiene y echa marcha atraY El barco va hacia la derecha o la izquierda por el movimiento correspondiente del joystick. Con este, teniendo pulsadoel boton de 'fuego', controlas la elevacion detu canon de cubierta. ARMAMENTO Tu canonero lleva cuatro sistemas de armamento: Misiles Son certeros pero cuentas con pocos de ellos. No los derroches. tacticos Torpedos Se lanzan desde silos en la proa del barco, tras enfilar el barco al objetivo. Granadas Tu canon de cubierta dispara un torrente de granadas a alta velocidad. Con este arma puedes dirigir el fuego manteniendo pulsado el boton de 'fuego' y bien sea moviendo el joystick o usando las teclas de direccion y acelaracion del teclado. Cargasde Se lanzan por la popa y son tu unica defensa contra submarinos profundidad sumergidos. Son tambien utiles cuando te ves perseguido por canoneros enemigos. PANEL DEM ANDO Al pie de la pantalla se encuentran tus monitores de los mandos del canonero. De izquierda a derecha, un indicador digital, informe del dano indicando el porcentaje de disponibilidad de tu barco, estado del combustible y temperatura del motor, cuentarevoluciones, puntuacion de la mision e indicador de los sistemas de armamento que te indican que armasse encuentran listas ahora y cuanta munition te queda. El recargar torpedos,misiles y cargas de profundidad Ileva su tiempo. El canon de cubierta esta siempre listo para disparar.