Grid, The - Conor O'Neill (Your Spectrum-No.21-Page 69)





It's 2010 and you're in the thick of it. Your only chance of survival

is to collect valuable pellets which are essential for the propagation

of the human race.



No it's not Blade Runner but The Grid - the fourth entry to YS fame

frame, Opportunity Knocks. Conor O'Neill from Kilkenny in the Republic

of Ireland has toiled for hours to perfect this program. It's easily

one of the finalists but whether or not it reaches the number one spot

is up to you ...



A combination of Basic and machine code provides the formula for this

compulsive action-packed game, based on a simple but ingenious idea.



You are thrown into the battlefield from the word go and don't you

know it! Reaping your harvest is easy - you'll only need to occupy the

same grid location as a pellet in order to collect it. But avoiding

the trackers isn't quote so easy - ah trackers, did we forget to

mention them?



Scanning the harvest area and shooting laser blasts at will (Who he?

Ed.) the trackers show no mercy where human scavengers are concerned.

If you don't fancy an early grave keep well out of their firing line.



Control is simple. Put your fingers on the Q, A, O and P keys and

prepare to face The Grid ...





DON'T READ THIS ...

... unless you want a hand in playing the game. POKE 48211,0 will give

you infinite lives, POKE 47961,x will let you view screen x, and

greater control over speed can be gained by POKEing 50097 with the

required value. Good Grid-dance!





[I've checked the POKEs and they work. The screen POKE must be entered]

[after the level 1 screen has been displayed, otherwise it gets reset ]

[to 1. The speed poke only allows speeding things up, as the lowest   ]

[speed setting of 8 puts FF in there, and lower values make it faster.]

[It's hard enough at the slowest setting!                        jimg ]



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TYPE: Arcade 



COMMENT: I guess the guy who programmed this game, had seen Transversion

from Ocean :-)





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