BEACH ATTACK

by Mark Jacobs

from ZX Computing Feb/Mar.1985



Mark Jacobs places the country's coastal defences 

in your hands while he retires to Kent.





Wave after wave of enemy ships pour troops onto the beach.

Captain Editor is ready, "We surrender" he cries. Luckily

Sergeant Reader is at hand and takes command of defences

(the Captain has degate [sic]), and, pausing only to type in

this program and cover the Captain's yellow streak to

prevent the enemy from spotting our position, he orders the

first retaliation.



Instructions were dispatched in the program, but here is a

terse message containing further details from HQ. Good luck

Sergeant, and why is that man in the Captain's uniform

waving a white flag?





Guidelines



First type in lines 7000 to 7250 and run it to ensure the

user graphics have loaded correctly, and then type in the

rest of the program (when doing the cliffs, print a square -

"8" in graphics mode - and then the corresponding letter).



When playing the game you can exchange points for ammunition

by pressing "5" (your score must be greater than 500 for

which you get 20 units of ammunition, and if your score is

greater than 1000 you get 30 units, but in exchange for more

points).



To make the game harder, when you reach wave 3 your gun will

not fire when "8" is pressed, and similarly when wave 5 is

reached "9" will not fire the gun. Hence if you miss any

ship it will enable two more men to climb up the cliff,

unless of course you decide to blow up the beach or to drop

a grenade down the cliff.



Whenever "3" is pressed, three mines will be laid on the

beach which can only blow up men as they jump out of the

boat onto the beach. There is approximately a 40% chance of

any man getting blown up as he crosses a mine. At any time

there can only be a maximum of 3 mines on the beach, and it

is a waste of ammunition by continually pressing "3" since

this only achieves a change in the positions of the mines.





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Another Fine Product transcribed by:

Jim Grimwood (jimg@globalnet.co.uk), Weardale, England

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