AERIAL COMBAT ST
1994 Croft Soft Software
Hello, and welcome.
Aerial combat ST is a two player
game, and requires both a
joystick (plugged into port 1) and
a mouse (plugged into port 0).
Player 1 uses the joystick, and
player two uses the mouse.
Controls:
Action Joystick Mouse
Climb Left Right button
Dive Right Left Button
Fire Up Both Buttons
Press on the keyboard to
pause the game, and any other
key to restart it.
Due to unconcievable madness on the
part of Mandarin, I wasn't able to
read a joystick which is plugged
into the mouse port in STOS, so
this wierd control system has to be
used instead!.
Player one is the plane on the
left, and player two is the
plane on the right. The aim of the
game is to kill your opponent.
This can be done in various ways:-
Shooting them!
Forcing them to crash into the
ground or building
Being completely mad and flying
your plane into them!
Each player has five lives.
Scoring:-
Shooting down - 150 points
Forcing to crash - 100 points
Kamikaze - 10 points
Shooting or colliding with
Bird/Comet/Container - 50 points
Shooting or colliding with
Balloon/Helicopter/UFO - Extra Life
The winner also recieves 100 points
for each life remaining
If you are the winner, chances are
you will have a hiscore. This will
be recorded in your ST's memory.
You are also allowed to include a
message along with your name.
If a plane goes off the side of
the screen, it will reappear on
the opposite side, after being
moved down 5 pixels.
Bugs:
I have wiped out as many bugs as
I can see, and understand, although
there are a few I aim to sort out
soon:
Substituting the mouse for a second
joystick Improving the collision
detection Allowing more than one
bullet from each plane on the
screen at once
Croft Soft Software:
Croft Soft has been established
for around 4 years, and we have
released numerous games into the PD
market. This is our first game
to be produced from within STOS.
We previously programmed on the
ZX Spectrum, although none of
our games were released.