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- LUNAR LANDER
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- Written by: Jaim Andrew Bailey
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- Real-time Lunar Lander for the C-64
- PowerPlay Magazine, May 1985
- Page 103
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- Now, we've all seen the lunar lander
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- programs which give you all of the
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- time you need to make your decisions.
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- If you wanted, you could go to your
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- trusty physics book and figure out the
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- exact answers. This program is a
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- bit different.
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- Instead of allowing you all the time
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- in the world to make your decisions,
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- this program operates in real time.
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- What this means is this: if you don't
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- give your ship any thrust, you will
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- drift down (and crash) on the surface
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- of the planet.
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- An actual spaceship needs constant
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- attention and manipulation to land
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- correctly. So does this spacecraft!
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- If you're a good enough pilot and can
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- react quickly enough, you may be able
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- to guide your ship to a safe landing.
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- If you apply too much thrust, you
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- could escape from the moon's weak
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- gravitational field. In this case,
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- you would be doomed to drift endlessly
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- in space (not a very comforting idea).
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- RUNning the program is very simple.
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- Plug your joystick into Port #2.
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- After a few seconds, you will have
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- control of your ship. The arrow to
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- the left of the screen is your ship's
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- altitude above the surface. The arrow
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- on the right is the amount of thrust
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- you are applying. To move it up,
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- simply press the joystick forward (or
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- up as some people would say). To
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- decrease your thrust, pull the
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- joystick back (or down). If you find
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- that you have applied way too much
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- thrust, you can press the fire button
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- and this will turn your engines off
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- completely. Also be careful to watch
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- the amount of fuel you have left (top
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- right of the screen). If your fuel
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- goes to zero, you will begin to drift
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- down to the surface where you will
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- probably crash!
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- Have fun and happy landing!!
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- This program is copyrighted by
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- PowerPlay magazine. All rights to it
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- are reserved. LOADSTAR has relieved
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- you from the burden of keying in this
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- program. For more complete
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- information about this program, refer
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- to the May 1985 issue of PowerPlay
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- Magazine.
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- >Files used: LUNAR LANDER
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