Program name:  Quantoids of Nebulous IV
 
Author name:   Kludgeware
Address:       3145 Beary Blvd.
               Suite 610
               San Francisco, Ca., 94118
 
Telephone Number:  None given.
 
Suggested Donation:  $25, includes customized program version.
 
Program Description:
 
You are commander Kludge, on a spaceship in hot pursuit of the Quantoids.
The object of the game is to destroy enemy Quantoid ships before they
infect the universe with their unimaginative MBA quantitative methods.
Enemy Quantoid ships are filled with graduates of notorious business
schools, and you get points for destroying each ship. San Jose State is
worth 200 points while U.C. Berkeley is the highest, worth 50,000 points.
Each successive ship that is destroyed is worth more points. If you
disagree with the point system you can get a customized version of the
program by sending in the donation. The screen shows you looking out from
the cockpit of your spaceship, and you have various controls to maneuver,
change the ship's speed, and fire at enemy ships. There is an automatic
enemy detection mode which allows you to find enemy ships quickly and
attack them. When attacking enemy Quantoid ships, you must be careful for
they will approach your ship and return fire. You have a shield which can
take a certain amount of hits, after which one direct hit will destroy your
ship. This program requires a color graphics monitor, but it has been
tested on an EGA monitor and works just as well.
 
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Program name:        Space Rescue (v1)
 
Author name:         Monte Giles
Address:             NW 440 Elk Ridge
                     Hamilton, MT 59840
Telephone Number:    (406) 363-1089
 
Suggested Donation:   $12
 
Program Description:
 
Space Rescue is a variation on the "Lunar Lander" theme. You must launch
from earth, maneuver your ship to dock with a space station, transfer the
space station crew, and return and make a safe landing on earth. When you
dock with the space station or return to earth you must approach at a
reasonable angle or you will crash (there are a number of different
messages for both failures and successes). Your score (if you survive)
depends on how well you conserve time and fuel.
 
It has very few commands to learn (Launch, Rotate, Fire engine, draw shape
of Orbit, and change parameter Display). This makes Space Rescue very easy
to learn, but not necessarily easy to master. You can not simply tell your
ship to "Go that way" and expect it to comply. You must alternate firing
your engines while facing both forward and backwards in order to
successfully dock with the space station or to land. The author provides a
few useful hints, but leaves a lot for the user to find out himself.
 
Space Rescue has both an easy and a hard level, but I couldn't tell the
difference between the two (I actually had more success with the "hard"
level).
 
Space Rescue is designed for use on an IBM PC or compatible operating at
4.77 MHz. The pace of the game will speed up if computers with faster
clocks are used, and it is suggested that such computers be run at 4.77 MHz
if this option is available. Space Rescue also requires an IBM Color
Graphics Adapter and a color or monochrome monitor (it will run with a
monochrome monitor, but much of the information on the game screen will be
difficult to interpret).
 
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Program name:  LOTTERY FUN v1.003
 
Author name:  Karl W. Ehrlich
Address:      P.O. Box 722
              Dahlgren, VA  22448
Telephone:    none
 
Suggested donation: $5 - $10
 
Program description:
 
'Lottery Fun' is a program for maintaining a list (or multiple lists) of
'LOTTO 6/40' tickets. Tickets can be entered manually or the program will
generate them for you. You can run a simulation of 200 randomly drawn
tickets against a random 'Winning' ticket to get the idea of how the odds
work. The documentation contained on the disk gives some interesting odds
information about 'Lotto' type games.
 
Lottery Fun runs on any PC or compatible with a CGA (color graphics
adapter) card and one disk drive. The program was written in Turbo Pascal
and the source code is included for those who like to tinker.