Spectral Panic - Tat Tang (ZX Computing-Jun/Jul 84) Can you escape from the nasties chasing you? Tat Tang has sent us this superb game. Based on a well-known arcade game, this program has your little character running along several layers of walls, climbing ladders and generally being chased silly by vicious green meanies. In order to survive you will have to destroy all the aliens by digging pits and luring the unsuspecting nasties into them. Once the alien is in the pit, you must beat him about the head until he dies. WHAT A GAS Unfortunately, things are not all in your favour - you only have a limited amount of oxygen, so that excessive movement or taking too long will lead to your demise. Needless to say, if you are captured you will lose a life. Superb graphics, colour and sound all combine to make this an exciting game - it will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, but keep calm and don't panic! PROGRAM DETAILS Type in program 1 to set up the UDGs and RUN it. Now type in the rest of the program and save it by GO TO 9999. The program saves in two sections, one after the other, so don't forget to press a key after the first section has saved. VERIFY both sections by VERIFY "": VERIFY "" CODE and press newline. An interesting method of keeping the high scores is used; the program POKEs them into the UDG area so that if the program is re-run the high score is kept. CONTROLS: 5 moves left 6 moves down 7 moves up 8 moves right 9 dig left 0 dig right Make sure that the following lines are entered in graphics mode: 50,60,100,150,160,170,180,200,213,300,310,380,400,405,410,470,610, 620,640,720,740,780,790,800,820. [NOTES: ] [The UDG listing printed in the mag has a chunk missing off the end. ] [It was supposed to poke the whole UDG set, but as the program only ] [uses up to "O" the missing bit doesn't matter. ] [The program uses IN for scanning the keyboard, and expects Issue 2 ] [values, so won't work with Issue 3 Spectrums. ] [The program occasionally crashes with "3 Subscript wrong" or ] ["B Integer out of range". I've checked the LET and IF commands and ] [there are no typing errors so I presume that the error was in the ] [original listing. JimG ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TYPE: Arcade (Panic) Comment: This info file was typed by Jim Grimwood Downloaded from: Desert Island Disks -- http://www.image.dk/~frankie/ Maintained by: Michael Bruhn -- frankie@image.dk