Showdown



Paul Williams,

Yarnton,

Oxford.



This program for two players was written on a 48K Spectrum

but will run on the 16K model as well. The idea of the game

is to kill the other player in a good old-fashioned Western

gunfight. The players are at either side of the screen and

move smoothly up and down using these keys:

    Left player

  Q - Up

  A - Down

  Z - Fire

    Right player

  P - Up

  L - Down

  Symbol Shift - Fire

[In fact, any key on those half-rows will work; the left

player can move up using any key from Q to T, and so on.]

  Each player has five lives and unlimited bullets and you

may fire and move at the same time, but you can only have

one bullet on screen at a time.

  To speed the game up, use POKE 31364,n where n is the

required speed - 1 is lightning and the higher the number

the slower the game.