Tapeworm - Michael Van Smoorenburg (Your Computer-February 86-Page 58)

PUT A TAPEWORM IN YOUR TANK. MICHAEL VAN SMOORENBURG TOPS UP YOUR SPECTRUM.

Tapeworm is a game for the 48K Spectrum, featuring colour and lots of sound.
You are a hungry snake on the search for food, but only the red fruit is 
edible - the green mushrooms are poisonous!
 Furthermore you also have to avoid bumping into the wall or into the dreadful
spider that roams around the screen. Once your worm gets moving you can't stop
it. The more you eat, the more difficult the game becomes, because your lenght
increases.
 When you're down to the last five pieces of fruit you'll see a door open at
the top of the screen. Once you've chomped through the first screen you can
move on to the second where there is even more to eat but also even more to
avoid bumping into. The game can be controlled through the keyboard or with a
Kempston joystick. There are three keys which perform a special function du-
ring the game:
 * Caps shift - pauses the game.
 * Symbol shift - turns the background noise on/off.
 * Space - aborts the game.
 Entering the game is not very difficult, but it a lot of work and one single
error could crash the computer. First, you have to enter listing 1. This is
the machine code in hex data statements. Although every line is checksummed
for security a checksum is not fool-proof so type with care.
 When you have entered the whole listing you can run it. If you haven't made
any errors, the program will just stop. Otherwise it will indicate at which
line the error occured so you can correct your mistake and try again.
 If everything is correct, save the hexcodes for security and then type New.
Now enter listing 2.
 This is the complete Basic loader for the program. Goto 100 will save the 
completed program, then you have to rewind the tape because the program wants
to Verify. Now for the moment of truth...Type Run 50. The program will start,
give you a menu and play a nice tune. You can now play it if you wish.
 As usual with long programs, there is a cassette tape available for those who
don't want to spend their evenings typing in hex. Send 3 to M.van Smoorenburg,
Baljuwstraat 20, 2461 sl Langeraar, the Netherlands. Within a week or two 
you'll receive your copy of Tapeworm.

TYPE: Arcade (Slippery Sid/Bozy Boa)

COMMENT: I also have a version of this game called Wriggler from Pirate Com-
puting. So this game might have been released aswell.


This info file was typed by Michael Bruhn
E-Mail: frankie@image.dk
