The Fish-adventures of Mr. Fish 1.0
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48K RAM minimum

The local ponds used to be such quiet
places, but just this mornin' all of
the little fish babies have been kid-
napped (or is that clam-napped).  Your
job (and 7 other fish as well) is to
rescue them from the clams.  Sounds
lame? Yep.  You should no better than
reading DOC files before playing.

All you need to do is swim across each
clam to open it up and release a baby.
Word has it, each successive pond has
more baby fish to save.  So just save
them, while avoiding the fish eating
crabs and piranhas.  Did I forget to
mention them.
   You can start at any pond you
like, but of course the ponds get
progressively harder.  There are
more babies to rescue, more piranha,
and faster piranha until you reach the
16th pond then the difficulty remains
constant.  By then, you will have a
hard time clearing a pond using only
one fish.  In fact, until you get used
to "Fish-Physics", you may have a hard
time on the first pond.  You move up
and down by simply moving the joystick
up or down.  You move left or right by
making sure your pointed in the proper
direction by moving the joystick left
or right.  You must pump the fire
button to move your tail to move.  The
faster you pump, the faster you go.
To stop, you need to turn around and
pump the button to slow down (fish
DON'T have brakes).  You will slowly
slow down even if you don't turn
around.  Even though that little fish
can really go fast, it is probably
not a good idea to do so -- unless
you like being dinner.  Almost forgot,
when you go right or left the screen
scrolls.  Some levels make you get
closer to the edge of the screen than
others.  Even though piranha, and fish
can exit and enter the pond edges, you
can't.
     You select levels with the select
key.  You start a game with the start
key (Really?).  At the top of screen
is the score (or last score if on
title screen), the current pond number
or the pond you will start on when
you start, the number of other fish
that will take you place if you should
become crab or piranha food.  "Clam"
is the number of clams you need to
(or will need to) swim by to rescue
the babies.  High score is the current
top score since the program was loaded.
     Scoring increases for each clam
on any one pond.  You also get a bonus
for each screen cleared.  This goes
up each screen you clear.  You can
view a simple cartoon every 2 screens.
There are currently four cartoons.
Bonus points and cartoons depend on
how many screens you clear and not
what pond your on.  You can't view
higher cartoons without clearing more
screens.  When you have lost all of
your fish, you are returned to the
title screen.  Pressing START there
will place you on the last level you
cleared.  Use SELECT to change the
level.

If you try the game send me some
feedback.  If you have some simple
fish related one voice music, send me
some.  Have any SIMPLE addition ideas
send me some.  I would like to have 
some music to at least start a level.

   Tech info (for those who care):
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Screen approx 22K. Scrolling antic 4
 (1024 character/line) Wide playfield.
(The score lines are, of course, not
scrolling and are standard width 
playfield)

PM Graphics slightly flicker because
they are alternated every 1/60th sec:

Your Fish: Players 0A,1A with double
 width player 2A behind
Crab: Players 0B,1B
Piranha: Players 2B,3B
Baby fish: Each 2 missiles wide use
 all 8 available missiles.  Set to
 color of 711 (red)
You swim behind plants, but in front
of coral formations (sort of since
you are semi transparent since you 
flicker)
Coral, clams, plants, waves, bubbles
are all character graphics, in some
cases redefined for animation. Of 
course there are a couple DLI routines
and a very extensive VBI routine that
handles PM graphics, some animation,
and sound.

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I didn't proofread this well so ignore
any typos -- Fish are poor typists.
 
This program may be freely distributed
but not sold.

Kenneth Siders
cp576@cleveland.freenet.edu

This was written March 1995



try also
PacMunch JR and Burger Boy (Games)

KASM, KLINK, KEDIT150 (ml assem with
regular and reloc mode, linker for
reloc files, and E: based text
editor with 40&80column handlers)
(assem reloc files are compatable
 with RA65)