Lunar Lander (Touchdown) - Mike Richardson - (ZX Computing-Jun/Jul 84-Page 42)



A LANDER GAME THAT WILL IMPROVE YOUR PROGRAMMING FROM MIKE RICHARDSON.



When I talked with Durell Software recently, Robert White explained that their

first release, Lunar Lander for the Oric, was written in BASIC with the inten-

tion that purchasers should break inti it. It was also REMmed to the hilt to

enable the user to understand how the game was constructed.

  It didn't take a lot of persuasion to get the other leading light and main

Spectrum programmer of Durell, Mike Richardson, to provide us with a Spectrum

version. Mike wrote the Spectrum version of Durell's best seller, Harrier At-

tack, created Jungle Trouble and produced their new winner, Scuba Dive.

  So here we are privileged to present a program which demonstrates how the

professionals would go about writing a BASIC program. Of course, the software

Durell market is all in machine code, but mike says that he enjoyed the exer-

cise of writing in BASIC again. About half the program is REMs, you can leave 

these out if you wish and still have a great game to play, but the main inten-

tion is for beginners to learn by example.



0-9     Adjust rocket thrust

Q       Thrust left

P       Thrust right





This info file was typed by Michael Bruhn 7/6-1998