THE ALIENS ARE COMING ===================== This is a space invaders type game. There are nine levels of increasing difficulty: each level contains more aliens and bombs, weaker shields and more frequent bonus ships. There are eight different aliens, each with eight frames of animation and displayed in full colour. Some of the aliens vary their widths to make themselves harder targets. The bonus ships present a special danger - they have varied effects on the control of your ship and the speed of the aliens and their bombs. The most deadly is probably the bonus ship which reverses the joystick control directions. Note that the first bonus ship has no effect. High points are awarded for the destruction of these ships. The shields will withstand a fixed number of hits, either from alien bombs or your own laser fire. As more hits are sustained the shields start to glow until they are bright red, at which point they fail completely. You start the game with four lives. Two extra ives can be awarded - one for reaching 5000 points and one for reaching 50000 points. The game finishes when either all your lives are lost or the aliens land at the bottom of the screen. Points are scored by hitting aliens and bonus ships. The values of the higher rows of aliens are progressively greater. All rows have a greater value in higher levels. CONTROLS Joystick in port 2: Left, Right & Fire. LOADING Either double click on the GAME icon or from the CLI type RUN TAAC:GAME The Aliens Are Coming: Weather Mine Software, Copyright 1992 Matthew C Waters. Any correspondence should be addressed as follows: M C Waters 328 Kingston Rd Leatherhead Surrey KT22 7QE All comments etc. welcomed. ***********************END**********************************