                               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 anti-alien mines (purchaseable).


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 Anti alien
          mines (AA-MINES) is also indicated.  Lives are indicated by an icon
          similar to your ship.

Levels:
       There are 10 levels.  (Level 10 is hard).  There is an ALIATT.INI file.
       To add new levels, do this.

       ALIATT.INI:

       10
       LEV1.DAT
       LEV2.DAT
       LEV3.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV5.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEVT.DAT
       0

       The first line indicates the number of levels.  On each line after
       that, there is the name of a level file.  After the level file names,
       there is another number.  This indicates the number of save games.  It
       may be a number other than zero.  To modify the levels, change the
       number at the top to the number of levels you want.  Then, add or
       remove a line in the sequence of level file names.  Level 1 is first,
       Level 2 is second, and so on.  You can call your level file anything
       you want.  Structure of level file:

       LEVX.DAT:

       8
       3
       1

       The first line represents the number of asteroids.
       The second line represents the approximate time between appearences of
       alien ships.
       The third line should always be 1.

       So, to add a new level to our example ALIATT.INI, do this:

       new ALIATT.INI:

       11
       LEV1.DAT
       LEV2.DAT
       LEV3.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV5.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEV4.DAT
       LEVT.DAT
       NEWLEVEL.DAT
       0

       new file NEWLEVEL.DAT:

       10
       1
       1

       Description:
                   the new level will be level #11.  It will start with 10
                   large asteroids.  The aliens will come at one per second.

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.

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

Cheating:
         type:
              ALIATT01 +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)

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 bad guys.

Have fun!