Maniac Munchers - Michael Parrish (ZX Computing-Apr/May 84)





A fruit munching menace from Suffolk programmer, M Parrish.



OK pardners, down here in Suffolk we have a problem

with a weird little rat-like beastie who eats our fruit and

is pretty fatal to touch. Our solution is simple, shoot the

varmints! But, could you live here?

	Well there's only one way to find out, type in this

program and try for yourself. We give you four lives to start and

you will lose one if you collide with a muncher or if a muncher

scores 1000. You score 10 points for each muncher you

destroy and 10 points for each fruit you shoot. On clearing a

complete stage you are awarded a bonus of 60 points.

	The muncher's task is much more difficult, at least in

the early stages, so he gets 50 points for each fruit eaten, 50

points for getting past you and 100 points if he touches you.

	Can you survive all four stages? Each is more difficult

than the last and every 1000 you score will restart the sequence.

To move your man use keys 6 and 7 for down and up and 0 to fire.



Program construction



Here follows a guide to the construction of Maniac Munchers.



4-48            GO SUB for graphics / GO TO intro and initialise variables.

49-881          Main loop.

882-900         Bitten! Lose a life, check for end of game.

901-915         Muncher gets past man.

969-1200        Graphics DATA.

1292-1294       Turns CAPS SHIFT on.

1290-1450       Intro, set variables and screen.

1499-1535       Resets variables and stage after scoring 1000.

1980-2114       Sets up four random fruits and updates screen.

2499-3600       Increase difficulty by reducing time to aim gun.

4199-4240       End game routine.

4885-5010       Shoot muncher routine.

8888-9030       Check for hit on fruit or muncher.



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TYPE: Arcade 



Comment:



This info file was typed by Jim Grimwood



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