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- LANDER is a game which simulates landing a ship on a planet. The
- ship's fuel, speed, and height, as well as the gravity and the maximum
- successful landing speed on the planet, are randomly determined at the
- start of each game, though they are weighted according to the skill
- level chosen. In order of increasing difficulty the choices are:
-
- B Beginner
- E Expert
- N Navigator
- A Astronaut
-
- In addition to the usual dangers of running out of fuel and
- landing too quickly (also known as crashing), a swarm of meteors will
- occasionally get on a collision course with you. If you do not change
- your course enough by burning a sufficient amount of fuel, each has a
- 20 % chance of hitting you. Even if you do so, 10 % of the time one
- of the rocks will stray and still hit you.
-
- This program uses its own integer conversion routines, and so
- will not 'bomb' if the amount of fuel is mistyped. A simple <carriage
- return> when the fuel is asked for is equivalent to '0'.
-