Macaroid - Stuart Jamieson (Your Spectrum-No.19-Page 55)



WHO'S THAT KNOCKING ON THE DOOR? IT'S STUART JAMIESON WITH AN AMAZING VERSION

OF THE ARCADE FAVE, ASTEROIDS. PREPARE FOR PILES OF FUN...



You remember Stuart Jamieson? He of Mac Man fame in YS issue 12? Well, now

he's done the seemingly impossible - a version of Asteroids that fits into 

just under 5K - and it still includes features that you'd only expect to find

in programs ten times the size.

 The theme of Macaroid can be summed up in one word - survival. You're stran-

ded at the centre of the solar system and only your ship's armaments stand

between you and a stupendous asteroid field. Can you face the final frontier?

 Huh, so you had the arcade game sussed ages ago, eh? You're thinking there's

no challenge here? Well, Think again - Macaroid is tougher than any arcade

Asteroids. So far the YS crew has yet to make it to the second sheet. (Ahem,

my hand slipped! Ed)

 Use the main menu options to define the keys that'll let you take control of

your ship. And that's all that stands between you and hours and hours of alien

annihilation.



DON'T READ THIS...



...until you're tearing your hair out in total desperation!

 If you've been defeated by the sheer impossibility of completing the first

screen of Macaroid, let alone the whole game, here are a couple of POKEs,

courtesy of Stuart, that'll give you a helping hand:



POKE 40383,0 for infinite lives.

POKE 43210,0: POKE 43211,0 if you want total immunity from everything.





This info file was typed by Michael Bruhn