BITE THE DUST

Groovy boulder-pushing, diamond-collecting fun from John Armstrong!



Diamonds are a girl's best friend, that's for sure. Diamonds are also a bloke's

wallet's worst enemy. They cost a bloomin' fortune! And one girl who wants more

diamonds than you could is DJ Nicko's 'female companion', Julie. 'Oh Nick, oh

dreamboat of my life,' she chirrups, 'go get us a few billion diamonds!' Now, our

Nicko isn't exactly made of money (seeing as how he has to spend so much on car

repairs) but he's discovered the location of a secret diamond mine (lucky

blighter!)...



In Bite The Dust you control the antics of DJ Nicko as he searches the diamond

mine for untold riches. The idea is to move around the screen collecting all the

diamonds and bags of money in each of the 20 levels. You can dig through some

squares in the mine - but be careful. Dislodge a boulder and it will crush DJ

Nicko into tiny bits (urgh!). Other things to look out for include...



OMELETTES Made by breaking eggs (of course). These chase you round but can be

killed by dropping a boulder on them.



SPIDERS Wander about by following the outline of the maze. Direct them into their

webs to create diamonds.



SAFES Turn into diamonds when you collect a key.



ALARM CLOCKS Give you extra time.



You have three lives to complete each level. When a level is completed you're

given a password which can be used to get you directly onto the last level you

were playing, rather than starting from the beginning. Once you've played through

all 20 levels you needn't chuck the game away, because it's got an editor program.

(Yipppeee!).



THE EDITOR

To use the editor select option two on the main menu. To stop people looking at

screens they haven't designed, each set of screens has an edit code. To alter

screens you have to know the edit code. After selecting CLEAR SCREENS, you're

asked to choose an edit code.



FIRST EDITOR MENU

EDIT Go to menu.

SAVE Save to tape all screens, from screen 00 to current one.

LOAD Loads a file in from tape.

NEW SCREEN Choose the screen to be edited.



SECOND EDITOR MENU

EDIT Use editor.

NEW PASSWORD Change the screen's password.

NEW TIME Enter time limit.



EDITOR CONTROLS

Q/up, A/down, O/left, P/right, 1/pull-down menu, V-SPACE/(fire) select position.

Once you've selected an icon from the pull-down menu move into the playing area

and hold down fire to position it.



GAME CONTROLS

On keys: Q/up, A/down, O/left, P/right, H/music on, G/music off, 0/suicide,

R/quit, S/score and time update. Alternatively, you can use a Sinclair joystick.



[Re-typed in April 2012 by Alessandro Grussu from a scan of Crash!, issue 87

April 1991, pages 4-5.]