Sinclair Town #02 31 декабря 1994

Игры

Author! - The response of the log. The demo version of the game "TANK WARS".

           AUTHOR.



    Hi everyone, this is us: Alexei Sokolov and IronSoft or
Hackers United. More recently,
we met with the company's programmers Phantom Ltd and read the 
first issue of electronic Log Sinclair Town. Pleasant

impressions left the design and interface of publication (do 
not compare with DUNE), keep it up guys!

Particularly pleased that the next (hopefully not last)
e-zine for a little Speccy did not appear anywhere
in Moscow or St. Petersburg and
in our small town (stuffed hacker'ami and Delt'ami).
We wish the authors success, we hope that
Sinclair Town becomes even more interesting and attractive.



    The subject of our discussion
first article will be notorious in the circles of IBM software 
users Tank Wars (also has its counterpart - Scorch Earth,

I think more playable). I was developed
experimental version
Speccy (it can be found in
Appendix). Although this demo
version of the full game we have developed will not. Program
can serve as an idea to create
full-fledged game with a more convenient
interface is more colorful
design. Deal with the ideology of the program rather
simple. In the main menu options are selected the following 
items: 


WEATHER - You can select
limit the intensity of the wind
(Shells crabs first, whether he
there, but not very strongly) 0
100, if the limit is 0, then
there is no wind. The game has a direction and
intensity are indicated in the upper right corner.

LANDSCAPE - By Land, and Height change this factor
options, changing Landscapes, which occur combat
action. The whole is divided Landscapes
at frequent intervals, at which angle the earth's surface does 
not change. Land Factor responsible for long periods,

Height Factor - for the angle.

PLAYERS - Number of players
can vary from 2 to 5.

ROUNDS - The number of battles, which will be held for one
game. Varies from 5 to 40.



    After the start of the game will be
prompted to enter the names of the players.
The name can consist of no more than
6 characters. Next, it's simple.
After the placement of tanks, the battle begins. The player 
with the help of Sinclair joystick to select the angle

Tilt the gun and shot power and
after pressing Fire the projectile flies
in a given direction. During
the game works is another key
'W' - switching weapons tank.
entire program is implemented
two weapons: Nuke and Digger.
Displays the type of weapon on
panel in the lower right corner.

Nuke - The name, though formidable,
but only the name remains.
In contact projectile Nuke
with tvedymi bodies - explodes
destroying everything and everyone within a radius of
10 pixels.

Digger - Weapons of this kind is not
destroys the object known enemy, Digger
undermines the earth's surface.
The fact is that if the tank falls
through such undermining, the
loses energy and eventually
can completely flip-flops recline.


    After each battle
displays the table wins. Who
will gain maximum kolichesvto
victories, that being said, and
flag in his hands.


    Since the game is written in
legendary language BASIC, it is best to not press the button 
BREAK to avoid unintended consequences. In order to improve 
game performance, was used compiler TOBOS, so get into the 
program and see algorithm is problematic, but if

who can, we do not mind.


                Alexei Sokolov

             Hackers united 1995