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Zoids

Martech/January 1986

Full price gameArcade adventure gameHack
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A remarkable, but weird game based on the plastic moving dinosaur toys.

Here's a nifty little program for Martech's Zoids. Type it in, Run it, and, if you don't get a checksum error message, play your Zoids tape from the beginning. Lines 150-180 are each for different Pokes - you can delete the lines containing Pokes you don't want, but steer clear of the End Marker!

Yet another hack Your Sinclair never printed a correction for! This hack I have tested, and found three things wrong with it: Firstly, they missed a comma in line 100, because the number 9874 will cause an 'Integer Out of Range error'. Despite seperating 9874 with a comma in various places and temporarily removing the checksum routine and fixing the USR statement in line 60, the hack still failed to work.

10 CLEAR 65535
20 LET T=0
30 FOR N=23307 TO 23430 : READ A : LET T=T+A :
POKE N,A : NEXT N
40 IF T<>14208 THEN PRINT "CHECKSUM ERROR -
RECHECK DATA LINES" : STOP
50 FOR N=N TO 1e9 : READ A : IF A<256 THEN
POKE N,A : NEXT N
60 BORDER 0 : INK 0 : PAPER 0 : CLS :
RANDOMIZE USR 1267 + USR 23296
70 DATA 118,205,162,45,127,90,90,75,72,
59,59,225,17,47,91
80 DATA 6,88,26,203,65,40,3,134,23,1,174,
18,19,16,243,35
90 DATA 13,242,24,91,124,152,95,111,178,
127,248,52,143,111,244,26
100 DATA 211,228,98,234,244,98,246,244,98,
78,244,9874,244,102,119
110 DATA 130,102,178,98,54,178,115,111,244,
95,1,61,146,68,0,117
120 DATA 123,0,195,95,109,72,143,122,126,
102,169,113,115,78,123,100
130 DATA 175,102,210,98,44,73,111,166,169,
54,36,95,70,31,155,95
140 DATA 168,70,143,164,82,199,127,212,
220,199,46,119
150 DATA 175,50,109,209 : REM NO ZOIDAR
POWER LOSS
160 DATA 62,191,50,229,217 : REM INFINITE
MISSILES
170 DATA 175,50,125,213 : REM INFINITE
BULLETS
180 DATA 62,24,50,229,214 : REM TAKE
INFINITE DAMAGE
190 DATA 195,1,137,999 : REM END MARKER -
DO NOT DELETE!

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