Santa's Grotty -------------- Author : Aramello Chapman Publisher : Computing With The Amstrad * No.12 December 1985 -------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SENSATIONAL SEARCH FOR SANTA'S STAR HELP HAGGY THROUGH SANTA'S GROTTY IT'S Christmas Eve, and Santa's out on the town doing what Santa's best at during the festive season. He's also delivering presents to the kiddies. He left home just as it went dark, but in his rush to get the job started left quite a few Christmas stars lying around the piece. That's not unusual, but the trouble is that the monsters from the infamous Grotty, that incredible lonely dark, dank land of the unbeliever, have gone out on the prowl, broken into his house and stolen the stars to sell on the "white" market. You play the part of Haggy, Santa’s right hand witch and part-time guardian of the Grotty. Your job is to get the stars back before anybody finds out they're missing. To retrieve the stars you must enter the Grotty in your jet-pack powered suit, avoiding all the Meanies. You have to collect them all before the mists of darkness descend, as all caverns entered thereafter will be pitch black, and you won't be able to see your hand in front of your ugly face. Good luck Haggy, you‘re going to need it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- VARIABLES --------- x,y -------- Haggy's coordintes. x1,y1 -- x2,y2 ------ Monsters' Coordinates. x3,y3 -- gra1 - gra2 ------- Monsters' shape number. gra3 - ll1,hl1 -- ll2,hl2 ---- High and low limit of monsters‘ Movement. ll3,hl3 -- dir1,dir2 -- Monsters' direction: 1 = increase x,2 = dir3,dir4 -- decrease x,3=inicrease y,4=decrease y. star ------- Number of stars collected. score ------ End score based on time and number of stars. hs --------- High scores. na$ -------- High score names. screen ----- Current screen number. ti --------- Time leftbefore darkness descends. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Keys -------- Z ----- Left X ----- right Space - Thrust ----------------------------------------------------------- SUBROUTINES ----------- 70 --- Main loop. 230 -- Moves Haggy. 700 -- Moves hazards. 990 -- Congratulations. 1040 - End of game. 1180 - Sets up screen. 1420 - Initialises variables. 1480 - Sets up screen border 1650 - Instructions. 1790 - Sets up UDGs. 2050 - Initial set up. 2870 - High Score. -----------------------------------------------------------