A very FAST game available on unprotected disks!

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2 total messages Started by Allen Leigh DTN 237-3255 Mon, 01 Oct 1984 13:12

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Author: Allen Leigh DTN 237-3255
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1984 13:12

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I friend of mine has written a game called GAUNTLET and is making it
available as user supported software.  This means it isn't available
in stores.  You can get it from anyone who has it (no protection!), from
BBS, etc.

GAUNTLET is a 28K assembly language program that runs in a 32K Atari with
disk.  You are the pilot of a lone spacecraft trying to penetrate the
defenses of an enemy battlegroup dug in on a small moon.  There are 50
different screens, 17 different kinds of enemy ships, and 10 different
types of enemy weapons.  The enemy ships are intelligent and dodge your
shells and shoot your shells out of the sky.  There are camouflaged
gunbases that are almost invisible.  There are enemy ships that drop
robot ships that fight on their own.  Mines will chase you.  Enemy scouts
and hunters use the terrain to trap and kill you.  Most enemy ships fire
more than one type of weapon.

Your ship is equipped with rapid fire fusion bolts and a special weapon
that you choose from homing missiles that burn through rock and TRIDEX that
explode along a plane.

There are three skill levels and two modes.  The action is VERY fast
and will challenge your gaming skills.

I don't have a sector copier and thus can't share my copy, but if
you send a donation of at least $5.00 to the author, he will send it to
you (he provides the disk).  It is worth much more than $5.00, and I
recommend it!!

The author's address is Donald R. Lebeau, P.O. Box 376, Pepperell, MA 01463.

Re: A very FAST game available on unprotected disks!

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Author: rb
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1984 19:34

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Sounds like a chain letter to me!

If it's really that good, why not submit it to ANTIC or ANALOG, and
REALLY put it in the public domain, while at the same time getting PAID
for it?

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