Beach Attack

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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