                               Alien Attack Help
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Controls:

         Arrow keys.  Up accelerates, down brakes, left turns
         counterclockwise, and right turns clockwise.
         Control shoots, and ALT launches special weapons.
         Left and Right shift keys toggle between types of special
         weapons.
         Tab pauses, with a second Tab press to resume.
         Escape quits back to the main menu.  You are NOT prompted to save.


Dashboard:

          At top of screen.  Upper left bar is shield level, and upper right
          bar is power level (generators).  Score is indicated, and the cash
          is shown by the green circle X a number.  Number of special
          weapons is also indicated.  Lives are indicated by an icon
          similar to your ship.

Upgrades:
         Guns: Your main weapons.
         Thrusters: Acceleration and deceleration speeds.  Also increases
                    max. velocity.
         Generators: Size of power bar.
         Shields: Size of shield bar.
         Specials: Anti-alien mines, Invulnerability, Mega-missiles.

Bank:
     Change cash for points.  2000 points awards a new life.

Cheating:
         type:
              ALIATT +CHEAT

         to go into cheating/debugging mode.  You will start with 10 secs.
         of invulnerability and will never use up aa-mines (You must still
         buy one to use them though)

Sound:
      type
          ALIATT -S

      to turn off the sounds.  To play without sounds and with cheating,
      type
          ALIATT -S +CHEAT.

Other:
      Green spheres are good.  They are cash.
      Blue spheres are shield packets.
      Both of the above will disappear after 30 secs. if not picked up.
      Gray spheres are asteroids.
      Light cyan spheres are alien gunships.  They shoot cannons at you.
      Light red spheres with yellow rims are shield suckers.  They reduce
      your shield level slowly.



Have fun!