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; Title    : Space Invader - The Mars Attack                            ;
; Date     : 28 February 1998                                           ;
; Author   : Ang Chin Keong, 16+ years old student, from Malaysia.      ;
; E-mail   : chinkeog@tm.net.my                                         ;
; Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/1234/         ;
; Purpose  : Written for The 256 bytes Space Invaders Competition       ;
;            http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~u972780/                          ;
; Compile  : Type "TASM MARS" and "TLINK /t MARS"                       ;
; Note     : This is my first game written in Assembly Language.        ;
;          : I wrote it on my 486DX2-66 using TASM 2.0 + TLINK 3.0      ;
;            It is the hardest program i ever write in ASM language     ;
;            and i learned a lot while writing this game.               ;
; Special thanks to Kaare Fiedler Christiansen                          ;
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Requirements
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A human but not alien :)
IBM or 100% Compatible PC with
* 386+ Processor
* Colour monitor
* RAM <= 1K free space
* 1 cluster free disk space.
* Keyboard with cursor keys and right shift key.
* MS-DOS or compatible operating system.

Recommended
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Play it under DOS full screen.

Story
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   There are some aliens living on Mars and nobody ever discover them.
They looked like crabs and they walk like crabs too ( horizontal ).
   One day they decided to invade earth, because all earth's citizen had
goto vacation on moon and other planets except you. You are alone on
earth now, playing computer game call Space Invader VIII. Then suddenly
you saw a lot of aliens on the sky flying horizontally surrounding earth
while trying to land on earth. Fortunately they forgot to bring weapons
because of their stupid commander thought that there is nobody on earth.
So you quickly jump into your jet and ......

How to Play
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The enemies is moving from west to east (left to right) sorrounding the earth
when they reappear on west (left) they are 500km (1 line) nearer. You will
have to kill them all before they kill you, although they don't have weapons
they still can kill you by knocking you down when they get near you. They
will get more angry each time you kill their friends so they will move faster
and faster. You can only move like them,if want to move nearer to the enemies
then you move left or you want to get away then move right. You will crush
on earth if you keep on moving to the right, because your jet cann't fly
under ground. Some stronger enemies have more than one hitspoint, so you
have to shoot them a few times. When you are chasing by the enemies and
if you think you have courage then move toward them and if you are lucky
enough you may survive.

Summary:

Kill them before they kill you.
You win if all enemies die and you loose if you disappear from the screen.

Keys:

Press ESC to quit game.
Press RIGHT SHIFT to fire.
Press LELT ARROW KEY or RIGHT ARROW KEY to move.
Press PAUSE to pause and any other key to continue.

That's all folks!
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By Ang Chin Keong