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- ------ V I P E R ------
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- by Robert Kemmetmueller
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- Version 1 November,1986
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- VIPER is a one-player arcade game that uses 80x25 ASCII characters, and
- will work on a Monochrome or Color/Graphics adapter. The object is to
- shoot down as many Cylon Imperial Fighters as you can before all three
- Vipers in your squadron are destroyed. Your Viper can move across the
- bottom of the screen and a short distance up and down. The Cylons will
- hover above you and shoot at you. Sometimes they will dive down and
- attack, and in later levels they can swoop down and fire diagonally, or
- dive, fire, loop, and retreat. If your lasers only nick a Cylon's
- wings, it will be damaged but not destroyed. In later levels, it may
- take several hits to destroy a Cylon. Likewise, your ship is usually
- only damaged on the first hit, but with time, your ship will repair
- itself. Until it has, your ship's engines will smoke, depending on how
- bad the damage is. The controls are as follows: [8] and [2] move your
- Viper up and down one character. [4] and [6] start your Viper moving
- left and right. [5] stops it. [Spacebar] fires your lasers. [NumLock]
- is used to pause/restart the game, and [ScrollLock] will exit the game.