Our holiday season special is a new and even better CPC BASIC adventure from Barrie Eaton. It's so big it's in three parts, so here's part one... You have landed on a remote flatlet in some unexplored part of the universe. Whilst you were orbiting the planet a tiny meteorite punctured your fuel tanks causing you to lose fuel and hence make an emergency landing. Your computer has no data on the planet but your instruments tell you it has a breathable atmosphere. Although your food situation is stable your water supply is very low. You check the fuel tanks and find « hole the size of a small fist in the main tank and a fracture in the secondary tank. You are unable to repair the damage as you don't have the right equipment and very few tools and your fuel supply is almost gone.
You are, therefore, left with the obvious choice. You must explore outside your spaceship or eventually die. You might die anyway but you have to take that chance and try to locate some fuel, water and something with which to repair the fuel tanks. So after picking up your laser gun you leave your ship and look around outside. It is a bleak looking place. Some commands are as follows: - I Will list what one is carrying.
- EXAM Will allow one to examine any object in the game.
- SAVE Will save the game at any position.
- LOAD Will restore a saved game when restarted.
- GET or TAKE Will allow one to pick up an object.
- QUIT Will give one the option to save a game before quitting.
- SCORE Will give one their score at any point in the game.
- N,S,E,W Will allow one to move North, South, East and West.
Plus a host of other commands.As an aside, once an object has been taken or dropped, any further action concerning that object may be called up referring to that object as 'IT' e.g. 'GET THE PICK' 'EXAMINE IT etc. This adventure takes 34K and has all the features of Fantastic Adventure plus many more!  
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