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1. the senator gasps And what about that trick with the ice cubes Crystal adds Marlow pauses to adjust the gold cuff links that peek out from under the midnight black of his tuxedo Professional secrets he de murs Yes well that was quite effective Scarf assures him There can t be any doubt that you re Marlow the Magnificent Yes and you must be the rest of the ACT team As he shakes hands with each of you he returns Scarf s ascot the key to the sena torial washroom Crystal s lipstick and your pocket computer Scarf gives Marlow a sharp look That was quite impressive but we don t have time for tricks I think we d better get down to business On the contrary that was business Marlow replies Your lives may depend on my sleight of hand In a tight spot you may have to follow my directions exactly I had to con vince you that I know what I m doing Well I m convinced you pipe up stuffing your computer back in your pocket Let me tell you what I found this morning Quickly you fill them in on the diabolical game arcade Marlow nods Actually it makes sense They d have to have some way to know if the puppets they re producing are 100 proof or not 32 If that arcade is the testing room they ve got to have a cover for it Did you discover any thing else there Orion Just two other small things of interes
2. Now run the program to try and find the entrance to the lab The program works like a game Every time you move on the grid the computer will tell you if the mass is getting more dense or less dense The entrance is where the mass is the least dense PROGRAM 4 10 RANDOMIZE 20 DIM G 5 5 30 X INT RND 5 1 40 Y INT RND 5 1 50 IF X 3 Y 3 THEN 30 60 G X Y 1 70 A 3 80 B 3 37 90 PRINT YOU START IN THE MIDDLE 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 38 AT 3 3 H ABS X A ABS Y B Z INT RND 1 10 1 IF Z lt 1 THEN 280 PRINT ENTER MOVE PRINT 1 FOR UP PRINT 2 FOR DOWN PRINT 3 FOR RIGHT PRINT 4 FOR LEFT INPUT D IF D lt 1 OR D gt 4 THEN 130 ON D GOSUB 350 400 450 500 IF G A B THEN 310 Hl ABS X A ABS Y B IF H gt Hl THEN PRINT MASS IS LESS DENSE IF H lt Hl THEN PRINT MASS IS DENSER GOTO 110 PRINT DETECTOR HAS RUN OUT OF POWER PRINT TOO BAD FOR ACT END PRINT YOU VE FOUND THE ENTRANCE PRINT SCORE ONE FOR ACT PRINT ENTRANCE AT READING A 7B END IF A lt 1 THEN 380 A A 1 370 RETURN 380 PRINT CAN T GO UP YOU RE ABOVE THE ROCK TRY AGAIN 390 RETURN 400 IF A gt 5 THEN 430 410 A A 1 420 RETURN 430 PRINT YOU VE HIT THE BOTTOM TRY AGAIN 440 RETURN 450 IF B lt 1 THEN 480 460
3. 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 84 LOCATE BY BX PRINT B FOR I 1 TO 5 LOCATE SY I SX I PRINT S NEXT I MIS M M INKEYS CO C0 1 IF CO gt 5 THEN CO 1 IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN 450 X1 BX Y1 BY IF M A THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 320 IF MS Z THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 320 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 320 IF M THEN BX BX 1l GOTO 320 IF FI l THEN GOTO 320 IF M E THEN MO 1 GOTO 310 IF M X THEN MO 2 GOTO 310 IF MS S THEN MO 3 GOTO 310 IF M D THEN MO 4 GOTO 310 GOTO 320 FI 1 FX BX FY BY IF BX gt UL THEN BX UL IF BX lt 1 THEN BX 1 IF BY gt 23 THEN BY 23 IF BYS 1 THEN BY 1 LOCATE Y1 X1 PRINT LOCATE BY BX PRINT BS IF SX CO 999 THEN 560 X2 CO SX CO Y2 CO SyY CO 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN GOTO 450 IF BX gt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 450 IF BX lt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 450 IF BY gt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 GOTO 450 IF BY lt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 FOR I 1 TO 5 IF SX I FX AND SY I FY THEN 780 IF SX I BX AND SY I BY THEN 680 NEXT I IF SX CO 999 THEN 560 IF SX CO gt UL THEN SX CO UL IF SX CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 IF SY CO gt 23 THEN SY CO 23 IF SY CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 LOCATE Y2 CO X2 CO PRINT LOCATE SY CO SX CO PRINT S IF FI lt gt 1 THEN 160 X3 FX Y3 FY ON MO GOTO 590 6
4. BS IF SX CO 999 THEN 550 X2 CO SX CO Y 2 CO SY CO IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN GOTO 440 IF BX gt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 440 IF BX lt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 440 IF BY gt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 GOTO 440 IF BY lt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 FOR I 1 TO 5 IF SX I FX AND SY I FY THEN 700 IF SX I BX AND SY I BY THEN 670 NEXT I IF SX CO 999 AND THEN 550 IF SX CO gt UL THEN SX CO UL IF SX CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 IF SY CO gt LL THEN SY CO LL IF SY CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 PRINT LEFT Z Y2 CO TAB X2 CO PRINT LEFT Z SY CO TAB SX CO S IF FI lt gt l THEN 160 X3 FX Y3 FY 115 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 650 660 670 680 690 700 710 720 730 740 750 760 770 ON MO GOTO 580 590 600 610 FY FY 1 GOTO 620 FY FY 1 GOTO 620 FX FX 1 GOTO 620 FX FX 1 IF FY gt LL OR FY lt 1 OR FX gt UL OR FX lt 1 THEN 660 PRINT LEFTS Z Y3 TAB X3 PRINT LEFTS Z FY TAB FX GOTO 160 FI 0 PRINT LEFT Z Y3 TAB X3 GOTO 160 PRINT CHR 19 YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK END PRINT WOW YOU DID IT YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS END SX I 999 SY I 999 POKE 54296 15 POKE 54277 90 POKE 54278 200 POKE 54273 34 POKE 54272 75 POKE 54276 33 FOR Z2Z 1 TO 200 NEXT ZZ POKE 54296 0 N N 1 IF N 0 THEN 680 GOTO 460 Vic 20 The program is the same as Com modore 64 except for the foll
5. RND 1 1 66 120 PRINT GOOD BYE ACT 130 END 140 PRINT SO FAR SO GOOD CHRS 7 150 NEXT I 160 PRINT LOCK IS OPEN 170 PRINT WELCOME TO HALE S UNDERWATER HAVEN 180 em Apple Radio Shack Shack Commodore commodore mi Arr PCjr This program will run as is on the IBM PC and PCjr and TI 99 4A See the Reference Manual page 106 for changes for all other computers If you weren t immersed in a tank of cold water you d be sweating as you finally press those buttons But to your relief the water be gins to drain from the entrance tank When it s all gone the door slides silently open Now that we re here you say let s finish our business and get out quick Stepping through the inner door you find yourself in a hall that reminds you of a hos pital corridor 67 What luck Everybody must still be asleep Crystal whispers Maybe we can even get out of here before they wake up Don t count on it a voice in back of you growls You whirl to find yourself facing a wel coming committee of Big Al and his friend Burt And to make things official their guns are drawn and aimed right at your heart CHAPTER 13 Congratulations you re the first ACT agents to make it this far Burt snickers Too bad the award will be posthumous Hands over your heads Now The two of you are marched down the deathly quiet corridor If only y
6. he observes I hope it s too early for the sharks too you say nervously as you suit up for the dive Just before you dive Scarf hands you a fancy three color ballpoint pen Is this in case I want to write in red blue or purple underwater you quip No it s a distress beacon If you get in trouble press the purple button Thanks you reply as Scarf helps you over the side I hope we won t need it Using the homing device that Crystal planted you locate the entrance to the lab al most at once You examine the door and grin BRUTE must be so sure of their cover that they 64 put only a simple computer lock on the door With your portable unit you open it in no time flat Quickly you swim into the lab s entry chamber a huge water tank The outer door whooshes closed and suddenly you feel like a lobster in a trap Nervously you wait for the water to drain so the inner door will open But nothing happens You put your gill up to Crystal s ear How do we get out of here you ask How about those three buttons on the wall she suggests pointing toward a row of buttons that has just started to glow iridescent green beside the inner door Each one has a symbol in the center Swimming over you have a look For entry press today s two symbol code a small plastic sign advises At the bottom in even smaller letters it says We will not be r
7. luck is not with the senator or with you You both draw the short sticks Twenty minutes later you and he are wearing fluffy white terrycloth togas and inspecting the reception desk s list of spa offerings As the senator rambles on about hot tubs and herbal massage you realize that you haven t eaten since breakfast You know you can t put off searching the spa until after dinner but you re starving Sitting right on the reception desk is a basket of complimentary candy bars Maybe one will tide you over You tear off the wrapper and grin as you read WUNGO the candy of Corona You take a bite and gag This candy tastes like presweetened sawdust What s it supposed to 46 be a health bar or something But before you can warn Macklin he takes a bite too Tf this is candy I m a termite he sputters Dropping your Wungo bar into the trash you head for the water fountain The senator always conscious of his public image dis creetly slips his into the pocket of his toga But before you can think any more about it a red headed attendant approaches Dressed in a gold leotard tights and matching leg warmers she looks like an Olympic gymnast We re running a special on shampoos and hair styling today she says I m sure you and your friend will love it Senator Macklin No thanks he declines graciously We d just like to look around a little bit Oh
8. make sense of the scene when the guard you ve 16 identified as Big Al points his gun at a player across the room That one s flunked the test he growls Put him over with the rejects Immediately two bruisers yank the player away from his machine and march him over to the side of the room where three women are already standing The man doesn t try to struggle or even argue Even more bizarre ex cept for the guards everyone in the arcade is silent You ve got to find out what s going on And since you re not six feet tall and dressed in khaki the only way to do it is pretend you re one of the players You ve just stepped from behind the cur tain when one of the guards notices you Hey what s this one doing over here Do you think there s a problem with the control mecha nism he questions Only one way to find out Big Al says Grabbing your shoulder he shoves you into one of the lines Remember he warns if they can t get the answers right the treatment didn t take Yeah His buddy chuckles wickedly And then they re no good for anything ex cept shark food Control mechanism Shark food you think trying not to tremble You still don t understand what s going on here All you know 17 is that in the last minute and a half you ve moved one person closer to the front of the line And the game they re playing doesn t resemble
9. s only one thing needed to make this mission complete He quirks an eyebrow What s that Breakfast It s been a long night and Hale didn t feed us down there Marlow pulls a Wungo bar out of his pocket Before you can say yuck he waves his cape in front of it And when he pulls the black cloth away you re staring at a white linen covered table set for four with everything from griddle cakes to blueberry muffins Breakfast for a crack ACT team is served he announces with a flourish 89 REFERENCE MANUAL Note to user The programming activities in this book have been designed for use with the BASIC programming language on the IBM PC and PCjr Apple II Plus or Apple Ile with Applesoft BASIC Commodore 64 VIC 20 TI 99 4A Atari 400 800 Radio Shack TRS 80 Level 2 or greater and the Radio Shack Color Computer Each machine has its own operating procedures for starting up BASIC and editing programs So make sure you re in BASIC be fore running any of these programs and check your user manual for instructions on how to edit lines Also make sure you type NEW before entering each program to clear out any left overs from previous activities 90 The version of the program included in the text will generally run on most of the com puters listed above However a few of the commands used are not available on some home systems If the program as given does not run on one of the
10. s words make you feel as if you ve had the breath knocked out of you And you know more bad news is coming when Hale asks Are you working with other ACT agents and if so who are they Macklin immediately begins to rattle off the code names and physical descriptions of everyone listening at the other end of the mi crophone I left them all in Orion s room he adds helpfully Terrific He s blown our cover Scarf says Stating the obvious That means we ve got to get out of here now Crystal says Instantly you re sprinting across the room We ve got to open the door before you shout 60 But already it s too late All eyes turn to ward the lock which has slammed home with an ominous click Computer controlled just like every thing else around here you sigh They ve got us You turn hopefully to Marlow Un less you can pull that disappearing act you used to get me out of the spa we re trapped Marlow shakes his head sadly I hate to give away a professional secret but that trick works only if there s a laundry chute nearby The conversation is cut off abruptly by the sound of heavy footsteps in the hall outside You hear the lock click again Listen Marlow hisses I may have one ace up my sleeve But you all have to stand absolutely still Don t move a muscle You hold your breath as the door flies open and Big A
11. we ve come this far and now we re just going to get captured again And then you hear a steely voice only inches from your ear Good work You can turn off the alarm now the Chameleon growls Your head snaps around to see him aim ing the needle gun at you and Crystal You know it s empty but the guards fall for his bluff They think he s one of them 78 re you sure you can handle these two by yourself one of them asks Certainly the Chameleon snaps I ve been ordered to bring them to the hotel com plex for interrogation However this is my first shift down here Can you tell me the fastest way back to the mainland The spokesman scratches his chin The subs are fast but the bubbles are faster The launch room is at the end of the corridor Thanks buddy I owe you one the Chameleon says pushing you down the hall Less than a minute later you re in the bubble room which looks a lot like a subway platform But the pit where you d expect to see tracks is full of water Floating in the water are several transparent plastic globes each about the size of a helicopter cockpit They re all tethered to the platform by nylon cord Look they must launch from over there Crystal points toward a set of partially submerged metal doors on the other side of the water trough The spheres look about as substantial as soap bubbles Are these things really s
12. 1 32 gt keK gt 100 SOUND 89 5 SOUND 78 5 180 PRINT I 32 t ttttt Ft 200 PRINT I K 32 ttEE REMOVE LINE 220 230 PRINT 5 YOU VE MADE IT TO SAFETY Radio Shack TRS 80 Same as Color Com puter but also remove line 100 40 PRINT EE EF REMOVE LINE 70 90 PRINT I 1 64 kkykkkkn REMOVE LINE 100 180 PRINT I1 64 ttttittttt 200 PRINT I K 64 ttttt REMOVE LINE 220 230 PRINT 5 YOU VE MADE IT TO SAFETY 100 Atari Make these changes 20 GRAPHICS 0 100 SOUND 0 121 10 4 SOUND 0 128 10 4 105 SOUND 0 0 0 0 180 POSITION 1 I PRINT FSFERFEFTESEEF 200 POSITION 1 I K PRINT FHFFFFEFFIEEE FF 220 POSITION 25 1 What the Program Does This program controls the mechanism that rolls back the arcade floor You must stop the floor before you drop into the shark tank How the Program Works Lines 80 through 130 are a loop that opens the floor In the program line 80 tells the floor how far to open To stop it you must change the limit to a lower number To stop the floor at the very last minute line 80 must read 80 FOR I 1 TO 8 Actually 8 can be any number greater than 1 and less than 11 Different numbers will stop the floor at different lines on the screen Later your task is to close the floor and unlock the exit so that you can escape You use the same program Lines 190 through 210 are used to ac complish this To close the floor an
13. 1 IF CO gt 5 THEN CO 1 IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN 430 X1 BX Y1 BY IF M A THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 300 IF M Z THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 300 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 300 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 300 IF FI 1 THEN GOTO 300 IF M E THEN MO 1 GOTO 290 IF M X THEN MO 2 GOTO 290 IF M 5 THEN MO 3 GOTO 290 IF M D THEN MO 4 GOTO 290 GOTO 300 FI 1 PX BX FY BY IF BX gt UL THEN BX UL IF BX lt 0 THEN BX 0 320 IF BY gt LL THEN BY LL 330 IF BY lt 0 THEN BY 0 340 PRINT 64 Y1 x1 350 PRINT 64 BY BX BS 360 IF SX CO 999 AND THEN 540 370 X2 CO SX CO Y2 CO SY CO 380 IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN GOTO 430 390 IF BX gt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 430 400 IF BX lt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 430 410 IF BY gt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 GOTO 430 420 IF BY lt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 430 FOR I 1 TO 5 440 IF SX I FX AND SY I FY THEN 760 450 IF SX I BX AND SY I BY THEN 660 460 NEXT I 470 IF SX CO 999 THEN 540 480 IF SX CO gt UL THEN SX CO UL 490 IF SX CO lt 0 THEN SY CO 0 500 IF SY CO gt LL THEN SY CO LL 510 IF SY CO lt 0 THEN SY CO 0 520 PRINT 64 Y2 CO X2 CO 530 PRINT 64 SY CO SX CO S 540 IF FI lt gt 1 THEN 140 550 X3 FX Y3 FY 560 ON MO GOTO 570 580 590 600 570 FY FY 1 GOTO 610 580 FY FY 1 GOTO 610 121 590 FX FX 1 GOTO 610 600 FX FX 1 610 IF FY gt LL OR FY lt 1 OR FX gt UL OR FX lt 1 THEN 650
14. 260 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 260 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 260 IF FI THEN GOTO 260 IF M E THEN MO 1 GOTO 250 IF M X THEN MO 2 GOTO 250 IF M S THEN MO 3 GOTO 250 IF M D THEN MO 4 GOTO 250 GOTO 260 FI 1 FX BX FY BY IF BX gt 39 THEN BX 39 IF BX lt 1 THEN BX 1 IF BY gt 23 THEN BY 23 IF BYS 1 THEN BY 1 HTAB Xl VTAB Yl PRINT HTAB BX VTAB BY PRINT B IF SX CO 999 THEN 490 X2 CO SX CO 2 CO SY CO IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN 380 IF BX gt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 380 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 515 520 530 540 550 555 560 570 580 IF BX lt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 380 IF BY gt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 GOTO 380 IF BY lt SY CO TREN SY CO SY CO 1 FOR I 1 TO 5 IF SX I FX AND SY I FY THEN 630 IF SX I BX AND SY I BY THEN 600 NEXT I IF SX CO 999 THEN 490 IF SX CO gt 39 THEN SX CO 39 IF SX CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 IF SY CO gt 23 THEN SY CO 23 IF SY CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 HTAB X2 CO VTAB Y2 CO PRINT HTAB SX CO VTAB SY CO PRINT S IF FI lt gt 1 THEN 120 X3 FX Y3 FY ON MO GOTO 515 520 530 540 FY FY 1 GOTO 550 FY FY 1 GOTO 550 FX FX 1 GOTO 550 FX FX 1 IF FY gt 23 OR FY lt 1 THEN 590 IF FX gt 39 OR FX lt 1 THEN 590 HTAB X3 VTAB Y3 PRINT HTAB FX VTAB FY PRINT GOTO 120 109 590 595 600 610 612 614
15. anything you ve ever seen at a video arcade Cautiously you lean forward to get a bet ter look at the action It s obviously a word game of some kind where the player has to make quick responses in order to score points When the word good flashes across the screen the guy in front of you responds with evil That answer gets him one point You watch as he types in other words always antonyms for the ones on the screen But the responses aren t always the first thing you d think of The next pair really throws you for a loop Heaven the display flashes That s easy you think But when the player scores points with Hale you start to panic Are they giving it to him even if he can t spell Or is that a trick question only players under the control mechanism can answer Suddenly a guard yanks him away from the screen and pushes you forward Have fun he sneers You wait tensely for the first word to flash on the screen But before it does someone shouts from across the room Hey Burt come on over here We re having trouble opening the shark tank Luckily Burt is the guard who was standing over your machine Maybe just maybe 18 you have a chance to win at this game if you can sneak a look at the program that s con trolling it And with the keyboard right here in front of you you should be able to do it Stealthily you break from game mode and enter BASIC With a few keystrokes y
16. be business not pleasure Something about a high level en 2 ergy conference he s setting up with some oil sheiks you remember You re deciding between the duck under glass and the beef Wellington when two tough look ing men burst out of the front of the cabin One is holding a wicked looking machine gun the other a grenade Somehow you know they didn t order their equipment from the Astro Toy Catalog Were taking over this plane the taller one growls pulling the pin on the grenade and pressing his thumb over the firing mechanism If I let up on this thing it s curtains for everybody The other gestures toward the flight at tendant Tell the captain we want to land in Grand Paloma Just your luck A hijacking The hair on the back of your neck rises as you watch the grenade s firing mechanism twitch In less than five minutes the hijackers have the whole plane secured You may be the only one on board who s capable of doing something After all you re a member of ACT an organization that handles crises on a daily basis Taking a deep breath you try to calm the pounding of your heart so you can hear your self think There must be some plan you can put into action But what You come up with a dozen scenarios and reject them all Suddenly a low beep and a flashing light catch your attention They re coming from the 3 ACT computer you stowed in the seat pouch in front of you St
17. micros listed above modifica tion instructions will be included in this Ref erence Manual TI 99 4A users please note The Texas Instruments version of regular BASIC doesn t allow multiple statements on a line or the word GOTO following a THEN Multiple statements on the same line should be entered as one statement per line number and any THEN GOTO line number should be entered as just THEN line number Even if you re using a computer other than the ones mentioned the program may still work since it s always written in the most general ized BASIC If you need help with one of the com puter activities in the Micro Adventure or want to understand how a program works you ll find what you need in this manual Naturally programs must be typed into your computer exactly as given If the pro gram should run on your computer but you re having problems do a list on the program and check your typing before you try anything else Even a misplaced comma or parenthesis might cause a syntax error that will prevent the whole program from working 91 TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW Computer experts have a special lan guage they use when talking about pro grams Here are some common terms that will help you understand the explanations in this manual l Arrays are groups of two or more logically related data elements in a program that have the same name However so that the individ ual elements in the array can be us
18. put on a show for those lamebrain Corona tourists down here he explains So there s no need for cosmetics But you look so old Crystal can t help saying Would you say that if you knew that I m 150 years old Hale asks But that s impossible Crystal insists 70 On the contrary I m the oldest living member of BRUTE In the early nineteenth century they put me on longevity research and over the years it s paid off But enough talk of past triumphs I m sure you re far more inter ested in my present project mind control using biological chips Only someone as long lived as I could have devoted the time neces sary to perfect the procedures Hale speaks with a flourish as though he expects to take you by surprise We ve already figured out how you re doing it you inform him And we know about the Wungo bars Crystal adds Oh you think you re so smart do you Hale cackles But you haven t experienced the thrill of being under BRUTE control If only you could activate that distress signal Scarf gave you Your hands are inching toward the pen in your belt when Hale cuts off your only avenue of escape Search them Remove any personal items and ACT equipment he orders Roughly Big Al and Burt comply re moving everything from your portable com puter to your waterproof watch and that all important pen They dump everything on Hale
19. soon And with that they re both gone You two have to be leaving also Clawson says We want you to gather as much information as possible before Scarf and Crys tal arrive Your rendezvous point will be at the guests social hour tomorrow afternoon Just a second you say How will we make contact with the other agent Oh he ll be in touch Clawson as sures you But be on the lookout for a guy in evening clothes and a black cape I didn t realize Dracula had joined ACT you quip Oh he s better than Dracula Clawson promises He s Marlow the Magnificent and he s headlining the show at the resort s Copa Room Lucky for us he s a magician and a PhD psychologist A magician you think What will ACT come up with next But from what you ve heard about this mission you may need a little magic to unravel the mystery of what s going on in Corona and live to tell about it 13 CHAPTER J Too bad you re at the Corona International Re sort on assignment and not for a vacation you lament the next morning You re enjoying your third trip to the breakfast buffet fresh pine apple strawberry waffles la mode and chocolate chip muffins At the end of the feast instead of paying with money you simply insert a guest credit card in one of the computers at the door It displays not only the charge for your meal but also t
20. swollen up like a raisin in a glass of water What s happening you gasp Crystal rushes to focus on the slide again I can t believe it she exclaims The thing s quadrupled its body size And it s gobbling up those crumbs like a vacuum cleaner on high speed That was brilliant of you to drop that stuff in there she tells the doctor What made you do it It was all those people eating Wungo bars I deduced there had to be a reason and maybe it was somehow tied to that shampoo So now we know that something in the shampoo is alive and thrives on Wungo bars But how does it chip away at people s minds Marlow wonders aloud 56 His words give you the answer Did you say chip away at people s minds He nods Well according to what I ve been read ing in the professional journals the next step in computer technology is biological chips little organisms that would function as com puter memory circuits And BRUTE s latest diabolical scheme involves implanting those chips in people s heads to control their behavior Marlow fin ishes the thought But I thought production models were years in the future Crystal says So did I you agree But I d be will ing to bet that BRUTE has thrown all its re sources into speeding up the process That s got to be it the Chameleon agrees You notice that wh
21. though you can t breathe And then you hear a crackle of thunder With a sick sensation in the pit of your stomach you feel yourself falling falling falling fall ing The next thing you know you and Mar low are standing in the hotel laundry room surrounded by carts of dirty linen How did you manage that you ask still dazed Sorry another professional secret As Marlow speaks he slaps a bottle of shampoo into your hand Quick tell me what they ve done with the senator I ve got to go back for him They took him to the VIP room Before you even finish Marlow has dis appeared in a puff of blue smoke But his voice echoes back from thin air meet back in your room By the time you find your way from the sub basement up to the guest wing of the ho tel everyone except Marlow is waiting anx iously in your room When you see Senator Macklin you breathe a sigh of relief Did Marlow get you out you ask The senator shakes his head No I slipped away in the confusion Just then the door flies open and the ma gician rushes in I can t find the senator 51 Then his eyes fix on Macklin Are you all right he asks Certainly the senator snaps Why shouldn t I be No reason Marlow says We were just concerned about your safety He turns to you Orion give Crystal that bottle of shampoo so s
22. to pull this crazy hijacking stunt Macklin asks Why couldn t you come to my office Believe me we tried But your secre tary just got back from a preconference trip to Corona Need I say more The senator looked sick before but now he looks as if he could use intensive care Thanks for giving it to me straight he mumbles At least I know the worst of it Unfortunately that s not all Clawson contradicts dimming the lights and bringing up an aerial reconnaissance slide on a projec tor See this dark area in the water right off Corona s coast We think it s an underwater laboratory It could be producing anything from weapons to drugs How come you don t know for sure the senator questions Because every special agent sent down there to investigate it has mysteriously disap peared Clawson runs through some more slides but you re not watching anymore There s a tight feeling in your chest as you think about all those ACT agents who vanished This is too important to give up on Clawson is saying We ve just sent down an 11 other covert operative and we re going to back him up with a crack team We want you to join them Now let me get this straight the sen ator begins You hijacked me on the way to Corona in order to give me the chance to go down there with an ACT team and risk my life I must be crazy but I m going
23. to those who ve failed the test All right move the puppets out of here Big Al orders and program the automatic feeder The guards have left your group unat tended for a minute Every cell in your body is urging you to follow the winners and escape while you can but what about those other people How can you leave them to the sharks You can t Wondering if you ll live to regret your valor you worm your way into the center of the loser s group Big Al says march a guard tells the winners Instantly they snap to attention and begin to stomp out of the arcade A few moments later you and the rejects are left alone standing at the side of the shark tank in the floor Except for a few twitches here and there these people are pretty passive too But if their control mechanisms don t work 23 what s going to make them jump into that shark tank Before you can figure out how to get everyone out of here the lock on the door snaps closed Then to your astonishment the game machines around the room fold up and retract as if they were those crazy pull down beds The walls are now smooth as glass There s something very ominous about the automatic redecorating The spooky feeling grows stronger when you hear the grinding noise again and the floor beneath you begins to vibrate Suddenly you realize that the shark tank is getting bigger Or maybe it s the floor that s getting smaller E
24. turn these poor turkeys over to somebody else l A half hour later you re relaxing at the guest social hour beside the pool You d be a lot more relaxed if Big Al weren t the lead drummer in the steel band Suddenly you re wondering if every smiling entertainer waiter and busboy at this fun resort works for BRUTE Trying to look as if you re in the swing of things you grab a glass of papaya juice and start to mingle On the other side of the pool you spot Senator Macklin who twitches one side of his face meaningfully in response Some agent he makes you think ambling toward his umbrella table By the time you reach him Scarf and Crystal have already pulled up chairs You re bursting to tell everyone about the video arcade when a hand clamps down on your shoulder Turning you find yourself staring at a man whose beaming smile reminds you of a TV game show host But there s something reptilian about him maybe it s his eyes that spooks you And when you look at him more closely you see that though his face seems like a 30 year old s his hands are liver spotted They re the hands of an old man I hope you re enjoying your stay he says grasping your palm I m your social director Damian Hale It takes a moment for the syllables to reg 29 ister as a name Damian Hale Weren t those two words in the game association list Your whole body is screaming fo
25. 00 610 620 FY FY 1 GOTO 630 FY FY 1 GOTO 630 FX FX 1 GOTO 630 PX FX 1 IF FY gt 23 OR FY lt 1 OR FX gt UL OR FX lt 1 THEN 670 85 640 LOCATE Y3 X3 PRINT 650 LOCATE FY FX PRINT CHRS 249 660 GOTO 160 670 FI 0 LOCATE Y3 X3 PRINT GOTO 160 680 FOR I 3000 TO 100 STEP 10 690 SOUND 1 5 000001E 03 NEXT I 700 SOUND 32767 999 710 CLS LOCATE 12 28 720 PRINT YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK END 730 CLS LOCATE 10 35 740 PRINT WOW YOU DID IT YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS 750 FOR I 1 TO 15 760 SOUND RND 1000 130 5 770 NEXT I END 780 SOUND 1000 1 SX I 999 SY I 999 790 N N 1 IF N 0 THEN 730 800 GOTO 470 ram appie Radio Radio Shack commodore mi This program will run as is on the IBM PC and PCjr See the Reference Manual page 107 for separate listings for all other com puters 86 From the way the Chameleon is gripping your shoulder you know you re not the only one who s tense But finally you activate the spear gun and hit all five sharks A few mo ments later you breathe a sigh of relief as the bubble surfaces Not far away you can see the Chame leon s boat Marlow is at the helm heading toward you And lucky thing because all that firing used up most of the bubble s power Marlow s about 100 yards away when suddenly another bubble pops to the surface blocking your way At the controls is the man you d hoped never to see again Damian Hale And as you watch in horror he s
26. 5 ao IN lt xXS lt CANDOVOS a lt gt A B Cc D E 88 F G H l J K L M N 97 122 126 255 126 lower case letters alternate character set on some computers these codes are used to represent graphic symbols Check the ASCII chart in the back of your computer s user guide for what these codes mean on your system PERIL LEVEL EXTREME Your name is Orion and you ve just uncovered a vicious mind control plot that could cause World War Ill The world s leaders are being turned into mindless slaves As the computer whiz of ACT the Adventure Connection Team only YOU can save them You must use your micro to e identify the next mind control victims master a life or death video game steer a mini sub past hungry sharks Mindbenders is more than a great adventure story It s danger action suspense plus computer programs for you to run The programs will run in BASIC on the IBM PC PCjr APPLE Il lle COMMODORE 64 VIC 20 TI 99 4A ATARI 400 800 RADIO SHACK TRS 80 Level 2 or greater fe tii 7 and RADIO SHACK COLOR COMPUTER 0 Includes a reference manual with user tips 78073 00195 and explanations of the programs ISBN 0 590 33169 4
27. 620 622 624 626 627 630 632 634 640 650 FI 0 HTAB X3 VTAB Y3 PRINT GOTO 120 FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT CHR 7 NEXT I HOME HTAB 9 VTAB 12 FLASH PRINT YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK NORMAL FOR I 1 TO 500 NEXT I END HOME FLASH SPEED 1 HTAB 15 VTAB 10 PRINT WOW YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS NORMAL SPEED 255 FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT CHRS 7 NEXT I END PRINT CHRS 7 HTAB SX I VTAB SY I PRINT SX I 999 SY I 999 N N 1 IF N 0 THEN 620 GOTO 400 Atari Version 50 10 20 30 40 50 60 110 PEN 1 4 0 K GRAPHICS 0 POKE 752 1 SETCOLOR 2 0 0 SETCOLOR 4 0 0 DIM 5X 5 SY 5 X2 5 Y2 5 B 1 S 1 M 1 MIS 1 B 0 UL 39 LL 21 S CHRS 62 CO 0 BX 20 BY 12 N 5 FOR I 1 TO 5 70 SX I INT UL RND 1 1 80 SY I INT LL RND 1 1 90 NEXT I 100 POSITION BX BY PRINT BS 110 FOR I 1 TO 5 120 POSITION BX BY 130 PRINT S 140 NEXT I 150 IF PEEK 764 lt gt 255 THEN 160 155 MIS M 157 GET 1 M MS CHRS M 160 IF FI THEN POKE 764 255 170 CO C0 1 180 IF CO gt 5 THEN CO 1 190 X1 BX Y1 BY 200 IF M A THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 310 210 IF M 7 THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 310 220 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 310 230 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 310 240 IF FI 1 THEN GOTO 310 250 IF M E THEN MO 1 GOTO 300 260 IF M X THEN MO 2 GOTO 300 270 IF M 5 THEN MO 3 GOTO 300 280 IF M D THEN MO 4 GOTO 300 290 GOTO 310 300 FI 1 FX BX FY BY 310 IF BX gt UL THEN BX UL 320 I
28. 620 PRINT 64 Y3 X3 630 PRINT 64 FY FX 640 GOTO 140 650 FI 0 PRINT 064 Y3 X3 GOTO 140 690 CLS 700 PRINT 74 YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK END 710 CLS 720 PRINT WOW YOU DID IT YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS 750 END 760 SX I 999 SY I 999 770 N N l IF N 0 THEN 710 780 GOTO 450 TI 99 4A Version 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 122 P 10 A INT RND 4 1 CALL CLEAR ON A GOSUB 180 210 240 290 PRINT COMMAND INPUT C IF A lt gt C THEN GOTO 160 ON C GOSUB 210 180 290 240 PRINT YOU KILLED A SHARK FOR I 1 TO 300 NEXT I P P 1 IF P gt 0 THEN GOTO 20 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 PRINT WOW YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS END PRINT OH NO YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK END FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT NEXT I PRINT XkkeeKKEKEDN RETURN FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT NEXT I PRINT TAB 10 lt eeeeRRAEE RETURN FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT TAB 10 NEXT I PRINT TAB 9 270 PRINT TAB 10 280 RETURN 290 FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT NEXT I 300 PRINT TAB 10 310 PRINT TAB 9 320 FOR I 1 TO 10 PRINT TAB 10 330 NEXT I 340 RETURN Note For IBM PCjr with 40 column screen set UL 38 in line 30 of IBM version What the Program Does live Using this program you get to play a real arcade type game There are five sharks coming at you from all directions If they burst 123 your bubb
29. B B 1 470 RETURN 480 PRINT NO MORE ROCK TO THE RIGHT TRY AGAIN 490 RETURN 500 IF B gt 5 THEN 530 510 B B 1 520 RETURN 530 PRINT NO MORE ROCK TO THE LEFT TRY AGAIN 540 RETURN ram appie Radio Radio Shack Commodore m PC amp i4 TRS 80 Color 99 4A 400 800 PCjr This program will run on the IBM PC and PCjr See the Reference Manual page 102 for changes for all other computers 39 Crystal gives you a thumbs up sign Your computer has found the entrance to the lab But just as you re about to explore it you see a shadow gliding through the water Quickly Crystal grabs your arm and pulls you behind a clump of algae covered rocks From your hiding place the two of you watch as a small submarine settles near the en trance Are they searching for you Crystal seems to have the same thing on her mind This looks like just a routine sup ply haul she says You watch as several divers emerge and disappear through the secret entrance In a few moments they reappear carrying large water proof cargo crates You almost swallow your mechanical gill when you see the resort s logo on the boxes That proves the connection you think as the submarine glides off toward shore Whatever they re making down here is ending up at the resort And you re willing to bet your microcomputer that it has something to do with the guests BRUTE is turning into puppets Instinctively you glance at your c
30. F BX lt 1 THEN BX 1 330 IF BY gt LL THEN BY LL 111 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 IF BYS 1 THEN BY 1 POSITION X1 Y1 PRINT POSITION BX BY PRINT BS IF SX CO 999 THEN 550 X2 CO SX CO Y2 CO SY CO IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN GOTO 440 IF BX gt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 440 IF BX lt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 440 IF BY gt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 GOTO 440 IF BY lt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO FOR I 1 TO 5 IF SX I FX AND SY I FY THEN 77 IF SX I BX AND SY I BY THEN 67 NEXT I IF SX CO 999 THEN 550 IF SX CO gt UL THEN SX CO UL IF SX CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 IF SY CO gt LL THEN SY CO LL IF SY CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 POSITION X2 CO Y2 CO PRINT POSITION SX CO SY CO PRINT SS IF FI lt gt 1 THEN 150 X3 FX Y3 FY ON MO GOTO 580 590 600 610 FY FY 1 GOTO 620 FY FY 1 GOTO 620 FX FX 1l GOTO 620 FX FX 1 112 620 630 640 650 660 670 680 690 700 710 720 730 740 750 760 770 780 790 800 810 IF FY gt LL OR FY lt 1 OR FX gt UL OR FX lt 1 THEN 660 POSITION X3 Y3 PRINT POSITION FX FY PRINT GOTO 150 FI 0 POSITION X3 Y3 PRINT GOTO 150 SOUND 0 121 10 4 SOUND 0 128 10 4 SOUND 0 0 0 0 GRAPHICS 0 POSITION 7 12 PRINT YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK 3 END GRAPHICS 0 POSITION 4 12
31. I FY THEN 760 450 IF SX I BX AND SY I BY THEN 660 460 NEXT I 470 IF SX CO 999 THEN 540 480 IF SX CO gt UL THEN SX CO UL 490 IF SX CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 500 IF SY CO gt LL THEN SY CO LL 510 IF SY CO lt 1 THEN SY CO 1 520 PRINT 32 Y2 CO X2 CO 118 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 650 660 670 680 690 700 710 720 730 740 750 760 770 780 PRINT 32 SY CO SX CO S IF FI lt gt 1 THEN 140 X3 FX Y3 FY ON MO GOTO 570 580 590 600 FY FY 1 GOTO 610 FY FY 1 GOTO 610 FX FX 1 GOTO 610 FX FX 1 IF FY gt LL OR FY lt 1 OR FX gt UL OR FX lt 1 THEN 650 PRINT 32 Y3 X3 PRINT 32 FY FX GOTO 140 FI 0 PRINT 032 Y3 X3 GOTO 140 FOR I 244 TO 125 STEP 5 SOUND I 1 NEXT I SOUND 32767 999 CLS 0 PRINT 74 YOU WERE EATEN BY A SHARK END CLS PRINT WOW YOU DID IT YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS FOR I 1 TO 15 SOUND RND 155 75 5 NEXT I END SOUND 32 1 SX I 999 N N 1 IF N 0 THEN 710 GOTO 450 Radio Shack TRS 80 Version 10 DIM SX 5 SY 5 X2 5 Y2 5 20 B S 0 UL 63 LL 15 119 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 120 S CHRS 129 CO 0 CLS BX 40 BY 12 N 5 FOR I 1 TO 5 SX I RND UL SY I RND LL NEXT I PRINT BY 64 BX B FOR I 1 TO 5 PRINT SY I 64 SX I S NEXT I MIS MS MS INKEYS CO C0
32. I can t take no for an answer the woman continues From her high pressure sales pitch you guess that either she s working on commission or there s something funny about the shampoo here In fact maybe it soaks right through your hair to your brain No thanks you demur for the fifth time But we would like to buy a bottle of shampoo to analyze you add silently Suddenly Miss Golden Girl s expression hardens I m afraid I couldn t allow you to take a bottle out of here It s a special formula the resort doesn t wish revealed You grab the senator s arm Oh that s 47 okay I think we ll just go have supper and come back later But I really can t allow you to do that either the attendant purrs As you start to back out the door she rings a buzzer Suddenly you see a meaty hand grasp the senator s other arm and feel an iron grip on yours as well 48 CHAPTER 9 Nobody else in the spa even glances up as two burly women march you and Macklin toward the styling area Helga give the senator the VIP treat ment in one of the private rooms the atten dant orders And Olga you give the runt the 9 95 special Oh no you think the two of you are going to be separated Before you can protest Olga pushes you into one of those tilt back chairs But this one s got some special equipment Olga presses a hidden button and within seconds metal cuff
33. More Than An Action Packed Novell Includes 7 Exciting Programs For Your Computer Pan Schoiasiic 0 590 33169 8 SEIS Sef i Vin oe a 5 WU 2a j KF 1MICRO ADVENTURE 3 9 MIND BENDERS by Ruth Glick and Eileen Buckholtz A Parachute Press Book SCHOLASTIC INC New York Toronto London Auckland Sydney Tokyo Book was designed by Gene Siegel Program 7 was designed by David Baggett No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying re cording or otherwise without written permission of the pub lisher For information regarding permission write to Scholastic Inc 730 Broadway New York NY 10003 ISBN 0 590 33169 8 Copyright O 1984 by Parachute Press Inc Eileen Buckholtz and Ruth Glick All rights reserved Published by Scholastic Inc MICRO ADVENTURE is a trademark of Parachute Press Inc Eileen Buckholtz and Ruth Glick ATARI is areg istered trademark of ATARI Inc TI 99 4A is a trademark of Texas Instruments Inc TRS 80 is a registered trademark of Radio Shack a Tandy Corporation VIC 20 is a trademark of Commodore Computer 12 11 10987654321 10 4567 8 98 Printed in the U S A 01 Warning The following information is cru cial to the success of your mission Read it carefully It may save your life As a certified member of ACT the Ad v
34. PRINT WOW YOU DID IT YOU DEFEATED THE SHARKS FOR N 255 TO 20 STEP 5 FOR V 8 TO 0 STEP 3 SOUND 0 N 1 10 V SOUND 1 N 10 V SOUND 2 N 1 10 V NEXT V NEXT N FOR J 1 TO 255 STEP 50 SOUND 0 J 10 10 NEXT J SOUND 0 0 0 0 SX I 999 N N 1 IF N 0 THEN 710 GOTO 460 Commodore 64 Version 10 DIM SX 5 SY 5 X2 5 7 2 5 20 Z CLR HOME 22 CURSOR DOWN ARROWS 30 B 0 UL 37 LL 22 40 S CHRS 127 CO 0 113 50 PRINT CHR 147 60 BX 20 BY 12 N 5 70 FOR I 1 TO 5 80 SX I INT UL RND 1 90 SY I INT LL RND 1 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 114 NEXT I PRINT LEFT Z BY TAB BX BS FOR I 1 TO 5 PRINT LEFTS Z SY I TAB SX I PRINT S NEXT I MIS M GET M CO C0 1 IF CO gt 5 THEN CO 1 X1 BX Y1 BY IF M A THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 310 IF M Z THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 310 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 310 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 310 IF FI 1 THEN GOTO 310 IF M E THEN MO 1 GOTO 300 IF M X THEN MO 2 GOTO 300 IF M 5 THEN MO 3 GOTO 300 IF M D THEN MO 4 GOTO 300 GOTO 310 FI 1 FX BX FY BY IF BX gt UL THEN BX UL IF BX lt 1 THEN BX 1 IF BY gt LL THEN BY LL 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 IF BY lt 1 THEN BY 1 PRINT LEFTS Z Y1 TAB X1 PRINT LEFTS Z BY TAB BX
35. a Pll help you find the computer room the Chameleon offers Where would Hale hide his computer room you wonder stepping into the corridor But in fact he didn t hide it He must have been so proud of his configuration that he put it on display like Christmas decorations in a store window Through a glass wall you can see an operator sitting at the main console Got another one of those tranquilizer darts you ask the Chameleon Just one But that s all I need Open ing the door he slithers into the room As you watch the operator joins the rest of the staff in a well earned siesta Okay do your stuff Orion your teammate urges You nod and slip into the operator s seat Luckily for you ACT just gave a training ses sion on this new supercomputer You know ex actly how to get into the superuser mode And with a few quick commands you ve called up Hale s data and sent it to the big bit bucket in the sky Just to make sure you call for a file allocation check Fourteen billion bytes free storage the status line reports The Chameleon s eyes widen Did that status line say fourteen billion bytes How could 76 it erase so much memory so fast It may have taken years to input all that data but as anyone who s worked with com puters knows it takes only a few simple state ments to erase it all Good work Orion But now we d better get Crysta
36. afe you ask poking one The surface of the bub ble gives slightly but feels sturdier than you expected Do we really have a choice Crystal asks You know exactly what she means At any minute Al and Burt are going to wake up And when they do every guard in the place will 79 know that the Chameleon is an imposter Be sides Crystal adds ACT was testing some thing like this when I took my deep sea diving refresher course They let me take the controls a few times The only trouble is that there s usually an operator to work the door mecha nism 1 just have to set a delay and then hop inside with you The Chameleon pulls one of the bubbles up against the platform and opens its door After hesitating for a moment he steps inside Taking a deep breath you follow him in side It s a spooky feeling because there doesn t appear to be anything between you and the water Crystal punches in an automatic sequence and then dashes across the launch room You wonder why she s in such a hurry until you see a transparent wall begin to rise at the edge of the dock She barely has time to untie the bub ble and scramble across the rapidly closing barrier before the room is sealed off and the water level begins to rise As Crystal sits down you pull the door shut The water slowly rises around you If the doors at the end of the room don t open soon your little bubble is going to pop against the ce
37. afraid they got to him after all Marlow answers And if they have he s as dangerous to us as any BRUTE agent here 53 CHAPTER I was afraid this mission was going too smoothly Scarf groans Smoothly you say I ve almost been eaten by sharks twice and brainwashed once Maybe we can turn this to our advan tage Marlow says soothingly I planted a bug on the senator If someone from BRUTE approaches him we ll hear their plans What I want to know about is those Wungo bars you say They really do taste awful you know Scarf s brow wrinkles But I ve seen a lot of people around here munching them What do you think it means I don t know But let s take a different approach Crystal suggests looking in your direction Since you risked your scalp to get 54 us a sample of the shampoo why don t we find out what s in it As Crystal speaks she opens up a large suitcase Folded inside is a minilab that would make your chemistry teacher green with envy It s got everything from a microscope to a miniature centrifuge Crystal starts with a very basic opera tion Deftly she begins to prepare a slide us ing a drop of the shampoo liquid Apparently the fancy chemistry setup im presses the Chameleon too You look up ex pecting to see Scarf Windhammer and encounter instead Dr Von Lauer he supplies p
38. aisle and yanks you out of your seat No more tricks kid he growls You re coming with us Then his eyes fall on Senator Macklin And you too buddy We need another insurance policy The hijacker s grimy fingernails are dig ging painfully into your shoulder As he leans down to leer at you you draw back His fierce expression accented by a two day growth of beard gives you the creeps But there s some thing about his eyes that looks familiar Could he possibly be a BRUTE agent you ve encoun tered on one of your missions You re still trying to figure it out as the plane makes an abrupt landing at the Grand Paloma airport Holding you and Senator Macklin as shields the hijackers start across the runway Suddenly a loudspeaker booms Hostages run for your lives We ve got them covered CHAPTER 2 Your captors seem momentarily dazed by this hitch in their plans While they go for their guns you and Senator Macklin wrench away Luckily the hijackers start shooting at the troops who have surrounded them and not at you Sprinting for cover you hear the fire of machine guns From the safety of an airplane hangar you turn to see the two hijackers lying lifeless on the ground Gently a government official leads you away You ve barely had time to catch your breath when a dapper little man in a white suit and a Panama hat bustles into the lounge where you and Senator Ma
39. cklin are recovering from your ordeal Following directly on his heels is one of 7 the hijackers you just saw looking rather dead on the runway Well done Orion the official says using your ACT code name He puts his hand on the hijacker s shoulder and continues I m sure you remember the Chameleon You shake your head with a smile Re membering him isn t the problem Recogniz ing him is The last time you worked with the Cha meleon he helped you free a computer buddy of yours from BRUTE s clutches Even though the two of you worked closely it s impossible to identify him now The Chameleon s own personality is as bland as cottage cheese but when he takes on a role he literally becomes the character he s playing His own mother would have sworn that the guy with the grimy clothes and the machine gun was a hijacker and certainly not her son The senator s angry voice interrupts your thoughts What s going on here A little ruse to save your life Senator the man in the white suit replies Let me introduce myself I m Conrad Clawson the Caribbean ACT coordinator I don t know why ACT would be inter fering in my business Macklin shoots back but if you re really part of that organization let s see some proof The senator may need proof but you don t You ve been involved in so many weird 8 assignments since you joined the Ad
40. d unlock the 101 door you must modify line 190 by setting the limit of the loop to the same number that you used in line 80 In our example it s 8 PROGRAM 4 SONAR Modifications for Other Micros Apple Make these changes 10 REM 30 X INT RND 1 5 1 40 Y INT RND 1 5 1 Atari Make these changes 10 REM 30 X INT RND 0 5 1 40 Y INT RND 0 5 1 Commodore 64 and VIC 20 Make these changes 10 REM 30 X INT RND 1 5 1 40 Y INT RND 1 5 1 Radio Shack Make these changes 10 REM 30 X RND 5 40 Y RND 5 TI 99 4A Make these changes 230 IF H lt Hl THEN 240 232 PRINT MASS IS LESS DENSE 234 GOTO 250 240 PRINT MASS IS DENSER 102 What the Program Does To the naked eye you appear to be fac ing an underwater cliff of solid rock You know the entrance to the lab is hidden somewhere in that cliff But there s no way to tell where This program plays a game in which you can lo cate the entrance by taking sonar readings and using that information to determine your next move on a five by five grid that repre sents the cliff The entrance is located in the least dense section of the rock Reading of mass is less dense means you re getting closer How the Program Works The program uses a random number gen erator to select a square on the grid where the entrance is located Also a random number between 1 and 10 determines how many guesses you get You Sta
41. don t have time to worry about the gill Five minutes later you realize you re breathing just like one of the fish If this weren t a critical mission you d stop to enjoy it The water is incredibly warm clear and blue The fish look as if they swam out of a rainbow And the gently swaying plants beckon you to explore this wonderland But Crystal tugs on your elbow and points toward an underwater rock formation You know from the briefing that the lab is somewhere nearby and that pile of boulders looks like a good prospect Swimming over the two of you begin searching for an entrance Twenty minutes later you re still searching Glancing at your diver s watch you realize you re running out of time Crystal sways toward you and presses her gill against your ear I think we re going to have to use the portable sonar unit You nod marveling at how clearly you can hear her 36 I really hate to do it she adds be cause BRUTE might pick it up on their scan ners But there doesn t seem to be any other way This sounding device is only short range so we re going to have to evaluate each read ing and then move to a new position and try again until we find the opening or BRUTE arrives Trying to look as calm as she does you nod and begin to fiddle with the dials Type in the following program Lines 90 230 240 280 310 330 380 430 480 and 530 should each be typed as one line
42. e So when do we leave you ask trying to sound enthusiastic No time like the present she chirps 34 CHAPTER We ve got only a few hours before sun down Crystal notes as she helps you into your diving gear and gives you the three minute course on underwater reconnaisance You re about to ask where the oxygen tanks are when Scarf hands you what looks like a three inch plastic cylinder with a tea strainer at one end This is a new experimental breathing device ACT has just developed he explains It works exactly like a fish s gill I hope You mean this thing s never been tested you ask Just by Labrador retrievers in our sim ulation tanks But ACT thought it would be perfect for this mission It s easier to use than conventional gear And if you make direct ear contact you can talk underwater But what if it doesn t work you per sist It s not the talking underwater you re 35 worried about It s the breathing underwater You ought to know if it s filtering oxy gen out of the water within the first 10 sec onds Scarf sounds reassuring but maybe that s because he gets to stay in the boat You d like to continue the discussion but Crystal puts a hand on your shoulder Our sonar is picking up a BRUTE patrol headed in this direction We ve got to be underwater be fore they arrive Things happen so fast you
43. e game back on the screen You ll have to play it cor rectly to prove to Burt and the other guards that you re under control Type your answers in all capital letters weal CHAPTER 4 Luckily for your immediate life expectancy you got 10 out of 10 Quickly you re led away to stand with the others who ve passed Big Al says don t move a muscle the guard hisses at you You don t even nod You just play statue like everybody else Being sandwiched in among all these mannequins is eerie They re so quiet that if they weren t breathing you wouldn t know they were alive What s going to happen to the ones who failed you wonder The guards must have been joking They wouldn t really feed people to sharks would they The question is answered almost imme diately when a grinding noise draws your at tention to a section of floor in the middle of the room Slowly it slides open to reveal a huge aquarium As you watch a shark fin breaks the surface and then another and another By the 22 way they re congregating near the edge of the floor you get the idea the sharks know it s feeding time Prime them with an appetizer Burt one of the guards calls out Grinning Burt tosses what looks like a hindquarter of beef into the tank You ve never seen fish move so fast In a second the meat is reduced to a bloody stain in the water and you have an excellent but sick idea of what s going to happen
44. ealthily you turn off the alarm slide the unit onto your lap and take a peek at the display hoping that the guy with the gre nade doesn t glance your way TPDBKR LPFLK AL KLREFKD RL QRLM REFQ EFGSNHFKD With fingers stiff from fear you key in a program that will decode the garbled message you ve just received Type the following program into your computer and run it Lines 10 20 90 and 140 Should each be typed as one line Now enter the secret message one line at a time PROGRAM 1 10 BS ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV WXYZ 20 A SUNABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRT VWXYZ 30 N 40 PRINT ENTER LINE OF MESSAGE 50 INPUT M 60 L LEN MS 70 FOR I 1 TO L 80 FOR K 1 TO 28 90 IF MID MS I 1 se AS K 1 THEN 110 100 NEXT K 110 N N MIDS B K 1 120 NEXT I 130 PRINT N 140 PRINT MORE MESSAGES TO DECODE Y OR N 150 INPUT R 160 IF R Y THEN 30 170 END ram appie Radio Radio Shack commodore 7i This program will run on all the personal computers checked in the chart above See the Reference Manual page 96 for changes for TI and Atari Did you do it right you wonder Or is this some kind of BRUTE trick You can t imagine why ACT would instruct you not to interfere with this hijacking How could they even know about it But before you can figure that one out the guy with the machine gun sees you trying 5 to slip the computer back into the pouch He marches down the
45. ed each is also identified by its own address called an index by programmers You can think of an array as an apartment building One hundred people might live at the Northwest Apart ments or 100 pieces of information might be stored in the NW array But each unit within the building has a number like Apt 14 so that it can be located and receive mail In the NW Array 14 could be the index to find a partic ular piece of information and would be writ ten NW 14 If you put the 26 letters of the alphabet into an array called Alpha then Al pha 2 would equal B because B is the second letter of the alphabet ASCII pronounced asskee is the standard code used by most microcomputers to repre sent characters such as letters numbers and punctuation A chart of the ASCII codes ap pears in the appendix to this manual 92 ASC is a function in BASIC that will supply a character s ASCII code For example ASC A will give you the number 65 Bugs are errors or mistakes in a program that keep it from doing what it s supposed to do Some of the programming activities in this book will ask you to find and fix a bug in the program so that it will work correctly Functions are ready made routines that per form standard calculations in a program It s sort of like having a key on a calculator that computes a square root or percentage of a number The programming language BASIC comes with a number of sta
46. een I and 10 of the resort service you want to audit Try to find the service all four suspects have used PROGRAM 5 10 DATA ROOM SERVICE MOVIE GOLF BAR SPA 20 DATA RESTUARANT KENNEL LAUN DRY GIFT SHOP PARA SAILING 30 DATA MARTIN 0 9 1 6 2 4 3 1 5 3 l 8 2 50 DATA WHITE 5 5 4 2 44 60 DATA DEVERIN 6 3 1 2 5 4 70 DATA EOF 80 PRINT ENTER SERVICE CODE 1 10 FOR AUDIT 90 INPUT N1 100 FOR I 1 TO N 110 READ C 120 NEXT I 130 RESTORE 30 140 PRINT NOW CHECKING CS 150 X 0 160 READ N 170 IF N EOFr THEN 240 180 READ R 190 IF R THEN 220 200 IF CHRS Nl 48 LEFTS R 1 THEN X 1 210 GOTO 180 220 IF X 1 THEN PRINT N 230 GOTO 150 240 PRINT TYPE Y FOR ANOTHER AUDIT 250 INPUT AS 260 IF A lt gt Y THEN END 270 RESTORE 10 280 GOTO 80 eee eel 45 This program will run on the IBM PC and PCjr See the Reference Manual page 104 for changes for all other computers Look at that Scarf marvels I thought Marlow was the magician but your computer deserves equal billing Every one of these people has been to the health spa Crystal says with a shudder I was going to take a sauna there this eve ning Guess Il cancel my plans Marlow s voice is unusually quiet Un fortunately someone s got to check it out Let s draw straws the senator sug gests That way we ve all got an equal chance to luck out However
47. eference Manual page 101 You ve never been so glad to get out of a game arcade But what are you going to do with 27 the people you ve rescued If you take them back to the hotel they ll get rounded up again And they re in no shape to be left on their own It takes a while but you maneuver the group to a mango grove on the very edge of the resort grounds Big Al says don t move you order and give Clawson a quick call on the emergency channel Listen this is a BRUTE operation you explain and then go on to outline your problem Maybe if we get their brains unscram bled we can find out what BRUTE is up to Clawson tells you We ll pick them up in a high speed trawler Have them on the beach waiting for us Right you agree wondering how you re going to hide 10 semi zombies out there on the sand You re trying to come up with a cover when you spot a volleyball That s it They can be playing volleyball if they re under enough control for you to organize a game Quickly you line up five on each side of the net Big Al says play volleyball you order tossing the ball into the right hand court To your relief everybody goes into action more or less Clawson s trawler seems to take forever and you re afraid you re going to miss that rendezvous with the rest of the ACT team But finally you spot the boat nosing in toward the 28 beach At last you can
48. en Hale has signed off All you can hear is the shallow breathing of the other passengers It seems as though you may have escaped Hale after all until you see five dark shapes jetting through the water Uh oh you think Sharks And they re probably not here for a water ballet Is there any defense system on this bub ble Chameleon asks 82 Yes there s a spear gun Crystal an swers But I don t know how to activate it It s computer controlled You take a deep breath and try to stay cool Let me at it you say You and Crystal change places and the bubble tilts wildly Quickly you inspect the controls Thank goodness they ve installed a standard keyboard you think Type in the following program which con trols the spear gun Type each entry as one line on your computer The program plays a game in which sharks come at you from any direction You have to figure out how to move your bubble and fire back in the right direction to hit them And you must destroy all five sharks before they get you Good luck For some hints see the Reference Manual page 123 PROGRAM 7 10 RANDOMIZE 20 DIM SX 5 SY 5 X2 5 Y2 5 30 B 0 UL 78 40 SS CHRS 127 CO 0 50 CLS 60 BX 40 BY 12 N 5 70 FOR I 1 TO 5 80 SX I INT UL RND 1 1 90 SY I INT 22 RND 1 1 100 NEXT I 83 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300
49. enture Connection Team your job as always is to defend the cause of good against evil It won t be easy because BRUTE the Bureau of Random Unlawful Terror and Evil an inter national organization bent on wreaking havoc throughout the world will be fighting you every step of the way Your computer expertise will be vital to this mission So turn on your home system Throughout this adventure you ll be called upon to program it to get the ACT team out of some really tough spots Look for the chart next to the program instructions It will tell you which micros will run each program If the program won t run as is on your computer consult the Reference Manual in the back of the book fast Good luck This message will be erased from mem ory in 30 seconds CHAPTER 1 ACT is really a top notch organization you think settling back in your luxuriously padded seat Not only do they send you on incredible adventures but if you come back alive they really show their appreciation So here you are in the first class cabin of a 747 heading for a week of fun in the sun After your narrow escape on that last time travel mission when you didn t know whether you d be stuck back in the Revolutionary War or blown to smithereens by BRUTE s atomic bomb ACT figures they owe their computer expert a little R and R Looking around you notice you re in good company Just across the aisle is Senator Macklin For him this trip must
50. ere are times when I wish the ACT code didn t forbid unnecessary violence Sometimes it puts us at a disadvantage But think about how much better you sleep at night the Chameleon teases as he sets to work on her straps You rub your wrists as your rescuer looks around the lab Quite a setup he muses His features have already molded themselves firmly back into those of Scarf Windhammer How did you ever get in here Crystal asks Even with his computer expertise Ori on had a tough time breaking the door code Scarf grins I hitched a ride with a minisub and came in with a crew of divers But in case you re worried they re all in dream land too Quickly he glances at his watch But we have only 30 minutes before those sleeping uglies wake up Crystal is already off the table I can destroy the current supply of chips she of fers But more important than that we need to wipe out their records so Hale can t dupli cate his research As she speaks she s al ready striding across the room toward the shelves of re agent bottles on the wall How convenient she says Hale s got enough chemicals here to poison everyone at the resort They should do the trick on those microscopic chips as well After all they are organic 75 T think I d better find Hale s main con sole you say Otherwise I won t have time to wipe out all his dat
51. ervices to see who has used them Marlow has supplied the names of four guests he is sure are under control You can use this program to find out which single ser vice all of them have used How the Program Works The services you will be examining are listed in lines 20 and 30 Each service is rep resented by a specific number code in lines 90 through 110 Room service is represented by 1 The movie is represented by 2 etc When you run the program you select services to audit one at a time The program sorts through the charge slips for the guests in question which are represented in lines 40 through 70 It then prints out the names of the guests who have used that service You can audit the ser vices in any order until you find the one that all four of these guests have used That s the best place to start looking for the mind con trol activity 105 PROGRAM 6 LAB DOOR SECURITY Modifications for Other Micros Atari Atari BASIC does not allow string arrays so you ll need to treat the four devils from the sea as one big string 10 REM 20 DIM K 2 D 50 Remove line 30 60 D OCTOPUS PIRANHA k BARRACUDA ELECTRIC EEL 110 N INT RND 1 4 112 N N 12 1 114 PRINT RELEASE D N 12 140 PRINT SO FAR SO GOOD Apple Make this change REMOVE 10 Radio Shack TRS 80 and Color Computer Make these changes 10 REM 110 PRINT RELEASE D RND 4 Commodore 64 and VIC 20 Make th
52. esponsible for fatalities resulting from failure to enter correct code Crystal who has also read the message swims back to the door through which you en tered But there are no handles or knobs The only way out of here is through the door with the buttons We could guess which ones to press she suggests uncertainly You suspect that might be equivalent to stepping in front of a firing squad You ve seen systems like this before You ve got to guess 65 the right symbols and press them in the right order Carefully you inspect the wall beside the door and discover a small opening covered by a plastic bubble This looks like a serial port you ob serve If I can tap into the microprocessor that controls this door we have a chance Quickly you do just that Type in the following program and study it to discover what sequence the computer is looking for Lines 60 110 140 and 170 should each be typed as one line Hint You may have to look for ASCII values There s a chart of them on page 125 You can also run a simulation program to find out what will happen if you press the buttons in the wrong order PROGRAM 6 10 RANDOMIZE 20 DIM K 2 D 4 30 READ D 1 D 2 D 3 D 4 40 K 1 36 50 K 2 35 60 DATA OCTOPUS ELECTRIC EEL PIRANHA BARRACUDA 70 FOR I 1 TO 2 80 PRINT PRESS OR BUTTON 90 INPUT B 100 IF B CHR K I THEN 140 110 PRINT RELEASE D INT
53. go tree rubbing the cramp in your side Now we ve got to destroy the supply of mindbender chips in that lab Crystal says You ll never find it at night Marlow tells her I m afraid it s going to have to wait till tomorrow He turns to Scarf Smart thinking to moor the boat in that hidden cove As soon as dawn breaks you take Orion and 62 Crystal back out to the lab entrance I m going back for the senator now But you said that hypnotic suggestion was going to wear off soon you remind him Those goons will nab you as soon as you set foot in the hotel Marlow grins Making myself invisible is a lot easier than trying to make a whole room full of people disappear You blink Marlow seems to have disap peared in midsentence But you hear his voice coming from the other side of the mango grove If Pm not on the beach by nine A M leave without me We can t do that Crystal objects You ll have to This mission is more important than my life or even the sena tor s You d like to argue but there s no one to argue with Marlow has vanished like a ghost in the darkness 63 CHAPTER 2 Just before sunrise you follow Scarf and Crystal to the cove where the schooner is waiting In no time at all you ve set sail and Scarf has brought you back to yesterday s diving site Well at least it s too early for the BRUTE patrol
54. he can analyze it How do you know it s the shampoo Scarf asks I was nosing around in the spa s back room and found those crates you described being loaded into the submarine They were filled with the stuff That s when I hightailed it out front to rescue Orion and the senator You give him a crooked grin And are we glad you did Turning to Macklin you see he s busy munching on a Wungo bar i Hey I thought you said those tasted like sawdust Did I I think you may have taken that statement out of context the senator replies in his best press conference voice Actually they re quite good Marlow gives you a worried look then turns to Macklin and starts to talk in a very persuasive voice Senator I know you must be sleepy after this ordeal very sleepy Very sleepy the senator repeats with a huge yawn 52 So it might be a good idea if you went back to your room for a rest The senator nods docilely and drops his Wungo bar on the table Go back and lie down on your bed Marlow adds putting his arm around the sen ator As soon as your head hits the pillow your eyes will close and you ll go to sleep I will go to sleep Macklin says as Marlow shoos him out the door What was all that about Scarf de mands A layman might not pick up the symp toms but Macklin s behaving like a classic brainwashing case I m
55. he status of your account You ve never been in such an automated hotel Last night you registered by logging in on a terminal It pro vided the card that opens your room door and gives you access to activities and services all over the resort complex everything from four 14 huge swimming pools and parasailing to speedboats and miniature golf But duty calls You re supposed to be checking this place out you remind yourself After slipping into shorts and a shirt that says I Love Corona you wander around trying to look as carefree as everybody else The hotel s grounds are incredible As you stroll down a shady path past banana and coconut trees you can smell the salt breeze blowing in from the ocean If this isn t para dise you don t know what is No wonder it s one of the most exclusive vacation spots in the world And then you remember what Clawson told you about the scores of VIPs who ve come back from this place somehow changed The thought gives you the creeps Corona is beautiful all right but it s a deadly beauty Casually you continue to explore not knowing exactly what you re looking for Then off in a far corner of the wide lawn you spot a pavilion shaped like a pagoda Its walls are paneled in red and gold lacquer and a dragon shaped banner flies from its roof It reminds you of an elaborate Chinese tea house Curi ous you walk up to it The sign on the door SayS VIDEO GAME ARCADE B
56. ile you ve been talking he s changed back into Scarf And the chips are obviously nourished by some thing in those Wungo bars he adds straight ening his ascot It s probably a protein Crystal muses But I ll have to do an analysis to be sure However before she can even start everyone is startled by a loud burst of static What is that you whisper Oddly enough the sound seems to be coming from the red carnation in Marlow s lapel It s a transmission from the bug I planted on the senator he informs you twisting sev 57 eral petals Here let me tune it in I m glad you re feeling better you hear someone tell the senator That sounds like Damian Hale Crys tal says Right you confirm But then we knew he was in the middle of this Quiet Scarf snaps We ve got to hear what they re saying Senator Macklin I ve come to discuss the entertainment for the conference tomor row you hear Hale murmur in a friendly voice I have a great idea for a floor show Let s feed you to a tank of hungry sharks Oh that sounds nice Macklin agrees enthusiastically A diabolical laugh booms from the speaker And when Hale addresses Macklin this time there s a completely different note in his voice Well Senator he rasps there s no need to put you through the arcade test It s clear yo
57. iling and the three of you will drown Suddenly you see a look of complete horror on Crystal s face What now A leak in the bubble A hitch in the automatic launch system Or something worse 80 Turning to follow the direction of Crys tal s gaze you see that unfortunately it s cat egory three Up on the platform is a crazed Damian Hale What have you done to my life s work his voice booms into the capsule You realize he must be talking into a hidden microphone that s relayed directly above your head You ll die for destroying my files Don t worry Crystal says he can t get to us That automatic sequence is locked in As if to confirm her words the doors on the other side of the room finally swing open and your bubble whooshes free of the lab and out into the open sea The menacing figure of Damian Hale dis appears as the doors slide closed but his voice is still loud and clear above your head You ll never get away from me Hale vows Your end is just minutes away 81 CHAPTER 15 Do you think Hale s bluffing Crystal asks The Chameleon shrugs I certainly hope so You hold your breath as the bubble slowly slowly starts to rise Far above you can see sunlight Can t you speed this thing up you ask Crystal No We ve got to let ourselves adjust to the pressure change The sea world around you is quiet Ev
58. is change 10 REM What the Program Does This program protects the entrance to Hale s underwater laboratory with a two sym bol key lock The penalty for not knowing the right code is death by a variety of ghastly alternatives 106 How the Program Works The program asks you to press two of three symbols Q or You must also get them in the correct order From lines 40 50 and 100 you can tell that it s looking for the characters whose ASCII values are 36 and 35 Check the ASCII chart on page 125 to see which symbols these represent Or since you re able to list the program you can change lines 40 and 50 to look for any symbols you wish Either way you avoid Hale s death trap PROGRAM 7 SHARK ATTACK Complete Listings for All Other Micros Apple Version 10 DIM SX 5 SY 5 X2 5 Y2 5 20 BS 0 UL 39 LL 23 40 SS CHR 62 CO 0 50 HOME 60 BX 40 BY 12 N 5 70 FOR I 1 TO 5 80 SX I INT 38 RND 1 1 82 SY I INT 22 RND 1 1 90 NEXT I 100 HTAB BX VTAB BY PRINT B 110 FOR I 1 TO 5 112 HTAB SX I VTAB SY I 114 PRINT S 116 NEXT I 120 MI M M PEEK 16384 107 122 125 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 245 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 335 340 108 IF M gt 128 THEN POKE 16368 0 M CHRS M 128 GOTO 130 MS n CO C0 1 IF CO gt 5 THEN CO 1 X1 BX Y1 BY IF M A THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 260 IF MS Z THEN BY BY 1 GOTO
59. ither way in less than five minutes there won t be anywhere to stand except underwater This is it You re dead You re trying to say your prayers when Big Al s parting orders pop into your head He said to program the au tomatic feeder Well now you know what the automatic feeder is And if somebody pro grammed it from in here you ought to be able to unprogram it if you can find the control panel You risk a quick look at the shark tank It s now almost as big as an Olympic size swimming pool And some of the players who failed the test look as if they re about to take a dip Get back you shout frantically But they just sort of shuffle their feet Oh great 24 you think And then you get an idea Big Al says move back you try This gets a slightly better response at least they re not teetering on the edge anymore It s hard to balance on the vibrating floor but you ve got no choice Resolutely you be gin to feel along the smooth plastic wall The shark tank has doubled in size when your fingers detect a tiny horizontal groove You press against it and a keyboard and screen pop up Luckily the control program is still on the screen Time is running out Can you do it Type in the program below and modify it to stop the receding floor before it serves you and the losers to the sharks Lines 180 200 and 230 should be typed as one line Hint Figure out which part of the program c
60. l and five guards charge into the room You d love to run and hide but Marlow s last words somehow keep your feet in place Look this way gentlemen Marlow commands clapping his hands to get their attention Gotya Big Al growls reaching for the magician But before his hands can close on Marlow s shoulders he stops in midgrasp and looks back at his men Hey that s funny he says I thought that gang of ACT agents was supposed to be here But I don t see anybody 61 Your eyes widen You and the rest of the team are standing five feet in front of him In that same commanding voice Marlow adds There is nothing I repeat nothing in this room except tables and chairs Hey what s all this furniture doing up in a guest room one of the guards asks Big Al I dunno He shrugs Turn your faces to the wall and count slowly to 2 000 Marlow instructs Obediently Big Al and his cohorts turn around and start counting in unison 1 2 nore ea Quick Marlow whispers let s get out of here My hypnotic suggestions will last only a few minutes But they know who we are Crystal says as the four of you rush down the fire stairs There s no place in this complex that s safe Let s try for the mango grove you suggest It s on the edge of the island In a few minutes you re leaning against a man
61. l and split Back in the lab the chemist proudly shows you that the vat of bright orange solution has turned a muddy green The odor coming from the container reminds you of a rotting swamp T take it those chips are dead you gag holding your nose and backing out the door Decomposing she confirms with a grin But let s get out of here The smell is getting to me too And I sure don t want to be around when our friends here wake up You nod You can t wait to get out of this creepy lab and back into the sunlight But when you step out into the hall you stop rigid with fear Where Hale was lying unconscious just a few minutes ago there s only clean white floor tile Where d he go Crystal whispers The Chameleon shakes his head That stuff is guaranteed for at least a half hour I don t understand how he could be up Before you can speculate a loud bell be gins to sound and then another and another Oh no you cry He must have set off the alarm We ve got to get out of here be fore it s too late if it isn t already 77 CHAPTER 14 All your instincts tell you to run But you don t know which way to go Without those gills you can t leave the lab the way you came in What do we do now you ask the Chameleon Before he can answer a khaki clad guard rounds the corner followed by another and then another Great you think
62. le it s curtains for you and the rest of the ACT team You can steer your bubble up down right and left if you can figure out which input keys the program is looking for But to get out alive you also have to find out how to use the spear gun to wipe out those killer sharks The spear gun can fire in all four directions if you press the right keys TI 99 4A version works differently Ten sharks come at you from any direction and you must fire back and kill them to survive How the Program Works Your bubble is represented as an O on the screen and its location is controlled by the values of the variables BX that give the col umn and BY that give the row The locations of the five sharks are contained in the arrays SX and SY M is the key you press to make the bubble move or fire a shot from your spear gun To find out what keys move the bubble look at lines 210 240 An A will move the bubble up one row Z will move it down one row a will move it over one to the left and a will move it over one to the right The firing controls defined in lines 260 290 are E shoot up X shoot down S shoot left and D shoot right TI 99 4A Version Use these firing commands 1 fire left 2 fire right 3 fire up 4 fire down 124 APPENDIX Character Special system control characters Space will look blank a RLAR DNDNARSGN O 12
63. mbers like 1 2 3 500 Variables with a pound sign or no special character at the end hold numbers that may contain fractions The number of characters allowed in a variable name varies from com puter to computer 95 PROGRAM 1 DECODE MESSAGE Modifications for Other Micros Atari Make these changes 5 DIM B 30 A 30 M 30 N 30 R 1 90 IF M I I1 1 A K K 1 THEN 110 110 NS LEN N 1 B K K 1 TI 99 4A Make these changes 90 IF SEGS M I 1 SEGS AS K 1 THEN 110 110 N NS amp SEGS BS K 1 What the Program Does In order to receive your mission instruc tions from ACT you must decode their scrambled message When you run the pro gram and type in the garbled message using all capital letters the program will automati cally decode it How the Program Works The message is scrambled because a key substitution code has been used Here s how it works Notice that the letters of the alpha bet appear in order in line 10 of the program In line 20 there is a key word in this case SUN followed by the remaining letters of the alphabet in order omitting the letters S U and N To decode the message by hand you would 96 write out the two alphabets in the same way Looking at the two lines you can see that the code letter for A is S The code letter for B is U The code letter for C is N And the code letter for D is A The rest of the alphabet fol lows omitting the letters in
64. n the National Football League tried to get Yogi Berra for his first round draft choice Your eyes widen All of those people visited Corona in the past few weeks Affirmative And now Macklin s run ning an energy conference there with a guest list that includes representatives from every major oil source in the world Texas oil bar ons the Russians whoever s drilling in the North Sea and all of the Arab oil sheiks Even Nissil El Blat s coming and he hasn t left his palace in 15 years If this group returns mak ing strange decisions we could be in for World War III You re about to ask a question when the discussion on the other side of the room becomes so loud that you can t ignore it any more You watch as Clawson pulls out an ACT briefing folder and shoves it in Macklin s face As the senator reads he shuts up for the first time in 15 minutes When he looks up you notice that his skin has turned a peculiar shade of green You mean I might have come back from Corona advocating the sale of Alaska to the Communist bloc And El Blat what crazy things might he have tried Clawson shrugs Who knows But I m glad you finally understand the danger We think 10 that every VIP leaving Corona is under some sort of mental control It s as if they ve been brainwashed But brainwashing takes a long time This seems to happen overnight But why did you have
65. na Where s the senator Crystal asks looking around the deck Unfortunately I had to tie him and stow him down below Marlow answers I ve kept him off Wungo bars since yesterday and he s suffering withdrawal symptoms Last night he was willing to trade the whole state of Arizona for one bite of a Wungo That sounds pretty bad Crystal says Yeah But this morning he seems to be coming around Now he s willing to trade Ar izona only if the Armed Services Committee will put a new air force base in his home state Crystal nods You re right That sounds more like the senator And you ll be glad to 88 know that when I was in Hale s lab I figured out the connection between the bars and the chips According to Hale s notes the chips die if they don t receive the proper nourishment every eight hours So the senator ought to be back to nor mal soon you say What about the conference the Cha meleon asks Marlow grins Funny thing The com puter that runs the whole complex wasn t feel ing too well this morning and decided not to report for duty Nothing is working around that place So of course they had to move the conference to a neighboring island That means we really did it you crow Yeah the Chameleon agrees pound ing you on the back Score another one for ACT po You turn to Marlow There
66. nce If BRUTE gets control of those guys the whole world could be at their mercy What we need he continues is a sample of whatever it is so that we can analyze it But with those sharks patrolling the lab entrance we don t have a chance They re so efficient they might as well be computer controlled Computer controlled Hey that could be it you say What do you have in mind Orion Scarf asks Well I was just thinking this whole re sort is computer controlled You know every time you have a meal or watch a movie or rent a motorscooter you pay with your resort credit card That means there s an audit trail of each guest s activities You turn to Marlow Tf you 43 and Senator Macklin can supply the names of the guests you think are affected we can see what they ve got in common Crystal s blue eyes light up That may tell us where the treatments take place Marlow and the senator soon hand you a list of prime candidates There s George Martin the congressman Solverly White the Chairman of the Board of Consolidated Motors Barbara Jones the TV anchorwoman and Lute Deverin the financier If you can find out where these people have been maybe you can figure out where the mind control is going on Input the following program Lines 10 20 30 40 80 200 and 240 should each be typed as one line Run the program and enter each service code a number betw
67. ndard functions to perform certain tasks For example the func tion SQR x will find the square root of any number when x is replaced by that number You might want to check the BASIC manual that came with your computer to see which functions are available on your system INT is a function that changes any number that you supply into a whole number or integer For example INT 4 5 will return the value 4 For numbers greater than 0 INT just throws away any fractions and supplies you with the whole number LEN is a function that tells you the number of characters in a string of letters numbers or other symbols For example if a variable string 93 called A contained STOP then LEN A 4 Loops are sections of programs that may be performed a specified number of times or un til certain conditions are met For example if you wanted to write a program that would count from 1 to 100 a loop could be used to keep adding 1 to a counter variable until the number 100 was reached Loops are most commonly formed with FOR NEXT state ments or GOTO commands You ll find many examples of these in the programs in this book Random Number Generator This function which is called RND in BASIC lets you gen erate numbers at random just as though you were throwing a set of dice and didn t know which number was going to come up next In most home computers the RND function re turns a fraction between 0 and 1 T
68. o get num bers in a larger range the program must multiply the fraction by a larger number For example RND 10 will produce numbers between 0 and 10 REM This command is used to tell the com puter that whatever is on a particular line is just a comment and should not be executed An example might look like this 10 REM THIS PROGRAM COUNTS DOWN 94 Strings are groups of one or more letters numbers or other symbols that are treated as a unit In the English language a collection of letters that make up a word can be thought of as a string In a program the information in a string is often enclosed in quotation marks to let the computer know that the symbols are to be treated as characters In the string 123 the program is dealing with the characters 1 2 and 3 not the larger number 123 The computer is storing these as the ASCII values for 1 2 and 3 which are 49 50 and 51 A string that is empty and has no characters in it is called a null string and is represented as Variables are names used to represent values that will change during the course of a pro gram For example a variable named D might represent any day of the week It may help you to think of a variable as a storage box wait ing to receive whatever information you want to put in Variables that deal with strings of symbols are always followed by a dollar sign Variables that end in a percent sign always hold integers the whole nu
69. om puter screen Lucky you looked It s flashing an urgent message from Scarf You ve been so busy watching the BRUTE underwater show you don t even know how long he s been trying to contact you Your heart starts to pound as you read the message BRUTE IS BACK WITH A FLEET OF SHARKS SHARK BEHAVIOR ODD THEY RE NOT FEEDING MAY BE 40 UNDER CONTROL LIKE THE HUMAN PUPPETS YOU SAW So that s how BRUTE eliminated the other ACT agents But there s no time to appreciate the insight You and Crystal have to get back to the boat and fast You ve already started for the surface when you look down and realize Crystal isn t with you What s she waiting for you wonder And then you see she s leaving a tiny ultrahigh frequency transmitter by the lab entrance so that you can find it again quickly next time if there is a next time In a moment Crystal is heading toward you And directly behind her is a sleek silver body with a hammerhead Three more sharks follow it You and Crystal are as good as dead now just like all those other agents And then you get an idea The sharks seem to be pro grammed to ignore fish and go after people In fact you re willing to bet they re programmed for specific people That means they may be attracted to special equipment and not just bodies If you turn on the sonar unit and deep six it maybe the sharks will go after that in stead of you and Crystal With
70. ontrols how wide the opening in the floor will be If you need help check the Reference Manual on page 99 Save the program if you can You re going to need it again PROGRAM 3 10 REM SHARK TANK CONTROLLER 20 CLS 30 FOR I 1 TO 10 40 PRINT FEEFFRETT EEE ES 50 NEXT I 60 PRINT YOU ARE HERE XX 70 PRINT CHR 11 25 80 FOR I 1 TO 11 90 PRINT ryrmnnme ye Ji 100 PLAY o2colb 110 FOR J 1 TO 500 120 NEXT J 130 NEXT I 140 IF I gt 11 THEN 160 150 GOTO 180 160 PRINT YOU WERE DELICIOUS 170 END 180 PRINT CHRS 30 SEEEEFEESEEL ESSE 190 FOR K 1 TO 11 200 PRINT CHRS 30 CHRS 30 WETTRE TET 210 NEXT K 220 LOCATE 1 25 230 PRINT YOU VE MADE IT TO SAFETY 240 PRINT THE DOOR IS UNLOCKED 250 END DE Apple Radio Shack commodore 7i This program will run on the IBM PC and PCjr See the Reference Manual page 99 for changes for all other computers 26 CHAPTER 5 One of the losers is teetering on the edge of the tank when the floor finally shudders to a halt Quickly you pull him back So far so good But now what The exit is still a dangerous swim away And how long can 11 people bal ance along 18 inches of floor You ve got to reset this program to close the tank before somebody falls in Turning back to the screen you look at the program again Change the program so it will close the floor and automatically unlock the exit If you need help see the R
71. ou ve got a listing of the program Type in the program below and note which antonyms it s looking for Lines 30 40 100 250 270 and 290 should each be typed as one line PROGRAM 2 10 R 0 20 M 0 30 DATA GOOD EVIL LIFE DEATH ANGEL DAMIAN 40 DATA SOFT HARD ACT BRUTE POLICEMAN CRIMINAL 50 DATA PASS FLUNK HEAVEN HALE 60 DATA ORDER CHAOS TRUTH LIES 70 FOR K 1 TO 10 80 READ OQ A 90 CLS 100 PRINT WHAT DOES Q MAKE YOU THINK OF 110 INPUT W 120 IF W A THEN 180 130 PRINT WRONG 140 FOR L 1 TO 500 150 PRINT CHR 6 19 160 NEXT L 170 GOTO 230 180 PRINT VERY GOOD 190 FOR L 1 TO 500 200 PRINT CHRS 3 210 NEXT L 220 R R 1 230 NEXT K 240 CLS 250 PRINT YOUR SCORE IS R OUT OF 10 260 IF R lt K THEN 290 270 PRINT THIS ONE IS UNDER CONTROL 280 END 290 PRINT ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST 300 END a oe re a Pi ia a a a This program will run as is on the IBM See the Reference Manual page 97 for changes for all other computers The list gives you a familiar chill So BRUTE is behind all this And if you re going 20 to get out of here alive you ve got to play their game and win Just then you see Burt ambling back across the room scratching his ear with the barrel of his gun If he catches you with the wrong display on the screen you might end up looking down the wrong end of that barrel Run the BASIC program to get th
72. ou could acti vate that distress call pen you tucked in your belt But there s no chance of reaching it now Clever of you to get through the se cured entry Big Al says prodding you with his gun But of course the whole system is locked so no one can enter before seven A M When you pushed the correct sequence you set off the silent alarm Oh great you think So much for being a computer whiz Where are you taking us Crystal asks 69 To the director He d like to greet you personally As Al speaks he pushes you through a set of double doors You find yourself facing a wall of floor to ceiling windows that open on a spectacular seascape complete with coral reefs waving sea plants and those rainbow fish You suspect you haven t been brought here to admire the view A flutter of movement draws your atten tion to a desk and high backed chair facing away from you Ah Orion and Crystal a hard voice says We ve been expecting you The plush leather chair swivels around and you find yourself facing a glowering Damian Hale Crystal gasps And you know why Be fore Hale s face was young only his hands seemed ancient Now his face is a mass of wrinkles and his hair has thinned to a few steel gray strands It looks as if he s aged 40 years since you last saw him Hale s crooked smile makes his face look like a piece of cracked rawhide I don t have to
73. owing changes 15 POKE 36878 15 30 B 0 UL 21 LL 22 710 116 POKE 36874 195 715 FOR LZ 1 TO 50 NEXT LZ 718 POKE 36874 0 Radio Shack Color Computer Version 10 DIM SX 5 5Y 5 X2 5 Y2 5 20 B 0 UL 31 LL 15 30 S CHR 129 CO 0 40 CLS 50 BX 20 BY 12 N 5 60 FOR I 1 TO 5 70 SX I RND UL 80 SY I RND LL 90 NEXT I 100 PRINT BY 32 BX B 110 FOR I 1 TO 5 120 PRINT SY I 32 SX I S 130 NEXT I 140 MI M M INKEYS 150 CO CO 1 160 IF CO gt 5 THEN CO 1 170 IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN 430 180 X1 BX Y1 BY 190 IF M A THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 300 200 IF M Z THEN BY BY 1 GOTO 300 210 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 300 220 IF M THEN BX BX 1 GOTO 300 230 IF FI 1 THEN GOTO 300 240 IF M E THEN MO 1 GOTO 290 117 250 IF M X THEN MO 2 GOTO 290 260 IF M 5 THEN MO 3 GOTO 290 270 IF M D THEN MO 4 GOTO 290 280 GOTO 300 290 FI 1 FX BX FY BY 300 IF BX gt UL THEN BX UL 310 IF BX lt 0 THEN BX 0 320 IF BY gt LL THEN BY LL 330 IF BYS 0 THEN BY 0 340 PRINT 32 Yl X1 350 PRINT 32 BY BX BS 360 IF SX CO 999 THEN 540 370 X2 CO SX CO Y2 CO SY CO 380 IF SX CO FX AND SY CO FY THEN GOTO 430 390 IF BX gt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 430 400 IF BX lt SX CO THEN SX CO SX CO 1 GOTO 430 410 IF BY gt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 GOTO 430 420 IF BY lt SY CO THEN SY CO SY CO 1 430 FOR I 1 TO 5 440 IF SX I FX AND SY
74. r you to snatch your hand away But instead you force yourself to smile and mumble something polite about the resort Finally Hale leaves your table What was that all about Scarf asks You glance meaningfully over at Big Al who has left the band platform to emcee the limbo contest Later you whisper At that moment a waiter comes by with complimentary fruit juice for your table Cau tiously you sniff the stuff It smells like pine apple but who knows what might be in it As if to prove your point an ice cube floats to the surface of the liquid You watch as it flips over to reveal a message etched in green letters Nightclub backstage PDQ 30 CHAPTER When you look up everyone else at the table is staring into his or her drink Tt must be from Marlow He wants us to meet him backstage at the nightclub right away Crystal whispers We d better take separate routes In a louder voice she excuses herself to go to her room One by one you leave the table to reas semble just inside the nightclub s stage door Well we re here but where s Mar low Scarf asks He s answered by a clap of thunder and a flash of blinding multicolored light Before you have time to blink a tall figure dressed in eve ning clothes appears Sorry I m late Marlow apologizes as though he s just made a normal everyday en trance 31 How d you do that
75. rs But that spoils the fun You don t know how much enjoyment I get out of the moment when the patient s eyes cloud 72 You bite your lip determined not to crack But it s all you can do to keep from screaming as the two guards push you and Crystal onto the tables and secure the straps TIl just get two chips from the nutrient solution Hale says turning to the tank in the corner Hale is having the time of his life He s relating every minor detail of the procedure In the next five minutes you learn that BRUTE has installed the world s first underwater su percomputer to support Hale s lab and that he has 14 billion bytes of on line storage to hold his notes That s more than the Social Secu rity Administration and the IRS combined Hale is inspecting a chip under the mi croscope when the door opens and another guard enters With a three inch scar down the side of his face he looks even crueler than the others you ve come up against Scarface strides into the room and hands Hale a message You see his eyes flash Trouble above he questions What kind of trouble The new guard flicks you a look as though he doesn t want to say anything in front of two ACT agents even if they re strapped down on operating tables I d prefer to discuss this in the hall sir he says Hale scowls All right But this better be important A reprieve you think Bu
76. rt in the center of the cliff at location 3 3 on the grid To move up you press the number 1 on the keyboard To move down you press 2 To move right you press 3 And to move left you press 4 Using the absolute value function ABS the pro gram calculates whether you are closer to the entrance than you were at your last position If you re closer it will print mass is less dense If you re farther away it will print mass is denser 103 PROGRAM 5 GUEST RECORDS Modifications for Other Micros Atari Make this change 5 DIM C 15 R 3 N 15 TI 99 4A Make these changes 130 132 134 136 200 205 210 220 225 260 290 RESTORE FOR J 1 TO 10 READ T NEXT J IF CHRS N1 48 lt gt SEGS RS 1 1 THEN 180 X 1 GOTO 180 IF X lt gt 1 THEN 150 PRINT NS IF AS lt gt Y THEN 290 END Apple Commodore 64 and VIC 20 Radio Shack TRS 80 and Color Computer Since the Apple Commodore and Radio Shack computers do not have the selective restore option it is necessary to read past the first 10 data items when processing additional re quests Lines 130 136 below should be added to the program for these computers 130 RESTORE 132 FOR J 1 TO 10 134 READ T 136 NEXT J 104 What the Program Does Because guests pay for everything at the Corona resort by computer it s easy to find out exactly which services they ve used This program does an audit of 10 different s
77. s snap out encircling your wrists and ankles Before anyone has a chance to notice the cuffs Olga whips out a sheet and drapes it over your body 49 You re about to scream when Olga lifts the sheet Pointing to the straight razor hang ing from her belt she hisses One peep out of you and I cut You sit very quietly Don t worry you ll feel more coopera tive in a few minutes honey Olga assures you as she uncorks a bottle of shampoo You re trying to decide which is a saner risk the razor or the shampoo when out of the corner of your eye you see a figure in black enter the spa It s Marlow dressed in full performance regalia As you watch he pulls a dove out of his sleeve The bird flies across the room and music fills the air Everybody in the salon including Olga is transfixed as Marlow turns a bottle of sham poo into a bouquet of orchids And now for my grand finale he an nounces with a flourish I ll need a volunteer from the audience Ignoring the others in the salon Marlow strides in your direction You ll do nicely he proclaims Like magic the manacles holding your arms and legs snap open Shakily you stand up Watch closely Marlow tells the audi ence Stand right where I place you Don t move an inch he hisses in your ear As he mouths a bit of mumbo jumbo he waves his cape over you For an agonizing 50 moment you feel as
78. s desk Very interesting gt he murmurs giving your computer a thorough inspection And what s this he asks picking up the pen Is this so you can write your memoirs in tripli cate He chuckles idly clicking the buttons You ignore his gibe as he pushes the red and the blue and finally the purple Some how you expected lights to flash and sirens to sound But nothing seems to have happened Maybe the thing is waterlogged after all But then what s it going to matter Scarf is no computer expert He d never get through that water lock anyway Take them to the lab Hale commands They ll have a better appreciation of BRUTE s ingenuity if they can see our fabulous opera tion Now be good he instructs you and Crystal And as a reward we may let you pick out the chips that will control your minds This time you re really terrified The worst thing you can imagine is being BRUTE s pup pet but you re not going to let Hale know it So you will your feet to follow as Burt and Al escort you down the hall The lab is sterile and white but it s far from empty In one corner is a vat of orange solution lining the walls are rows of bottles and in the center of the tile floor are two ta bles that look as if they came from a doctor s examining room except that they have straps Hale sees you eyeing them We could put you to sleep before the procedure he murmu
79. t you say trying to match his casual tone BRUTE organized this circus and our genial host Damian Hale may well be the ring master There is an awful silence as each member of the team takes in your news Crystal speaks first I ve had my eye on Hale too You know when he hasn t been hyping the limbo contests he s been out deep sea fishing I ve been wondering if he hasn t really been visiting that underwater lab ACT discovered With the energy conference only two days away we ve got to find out what s going on in that lab Scarf interjects It s got to have something to do with the control mecha nism Yes and that means organizing a diving expedition Crystal concludes her eyes gleaming with anticipation And I ll need a volunteer to go with me Nobody including you wants to make eye contact with her Everyone is thinking about all the other ACT divers who vanished trying to get into that lab Crystal s next words make you wish you were back at the limbo contest Actually Orion is the logical choice Since everything at this place is computer controlled we ve got to 33 assume the setup down there is similar And since I don t know a byte from a bit Byte you think Just the sound of it re minds you of sharks And yet you know she s right When the future of the world is at stake you ve got to put your personal fears asid
80. t what good is it You re still strapped down 73 Moments later the new guard returns Hale wants to see you right away he tells Al and Burt What about the prisoners TIl take care of them he says Burt and Al turn toward the door Your eyes widen as the new guard pulls out a needle gun and silently shoots each man in the back of the neck They go down with a thud Gun raised the wild eyed guard turns and starts advancing on the two of you Has he gone berserk you wonder strain ing to break free But the straps hold you firmly in place The guard leans over so that the scar on his cheek is only inches from your nose And then to your disbelief he reaches up and peels the scar right off his skin At the same time his features undergo a startling transformation Right before your eyes all the hard lines seem to smooth out And suddenly you re staring into the familiar face of the Chameleon Got your distress call he says with a chuckle as he begins to release your straps Been waiting long Long enough Crystal answers An other three minutes and we would have been Hale s puppets She gulps Hey what did you do with him anyway Same thing I did with the guards the Chameleon replies Nailed him with my tranquilizer gun He s out there in the hall sleeping like a baby 74 Too bad it s as innocent as that Crys tal mumbles Th
81. tarts working furiously over his keyboard What s he up to Crystal whispers There s no need to answer as the hatch on your bubble begins to open Though the hatch is above the water line a wave hits its side and gallons of water pour in You know that a few more waves will sink the bubble Let s swim for it Crystal says But we don t know if he s brought along more sharks the Chameleon points out And he can pick us off with his spear gun Spear gun you say That s it I think I ve got one shot left And maybe we can use it to pop Hale s bubble first Carefully you take aim If you blow it now you might as well prepare to meet Davy Jones You push the fire button and a spear streaks 87 through the water toward Hale s bubble You hear a gigantic POP Then Hale s bubble ex plodes When the spray settles all you can see are jagged shards of plastic floating in the blue water What happened to Hale Crystal gasps We d better not stay around to find out the Chameleon answers with a grin When Big Al and Burt wake up they re going to be mad der than Hale As he speaks you see that Marlow is maneuvering the sloop next to the bubble Be fore you know it you re safely on board The Chameleon instantly takes over as Scarf Windhammer revealing a powerful mo tor on the sailboat Within moments you re speeding away from beautiful Coro
82. the key word Using these substitutions the program can decode the encoded message automatically The message must be stored by the pro gram so it can be decoded In this case it s being stored in a variable named M In order to get a readable message the program must look at each character in the message in turn and substitute the correspond ing decoded letter Can you tell which lines in the program do this It s lines 70 through 120 Decoded the message reads URGENT ORION DO NOTHING TO STOP THIS HIJACKING PROGRAM 2 WORD ASSOCIATION Modifications for Other Micros Atari Make these changes 5 DIM Q 15 A 15 W 15 150 PRINT CHR 123 200 PRINT CHRS 0 97 Commodore 64 and VIC 20 Make these changes 150 PRINT CHRS 97 200 PRINT CHR 115 TI 99 4A Radio Shack and Apple Make these changes 150 PRINT CHR 45 200 PRINT CHR 43 What the Program Does When the program is run 10 words are displayed one at a time on the screen To score 10 points and save your life you must supply the correct antonym for each Since BRUTE isn t always looking for the obvious antonym you probably won t get all of them right un less you look at the data statements in the program How the Program Works The program uses a variable called Q to hold the quiz words and another called A to hold the corresponding answers To figure out what correct answer goes with each quiz word you must
83. to accept Good man the Chameleon exclaims You look at him and gasp The two day stub ble and grubby clothes are gone Instead he s dressed in crisp white pants and a navy blazer with a silk ascot at the neck On his head is a jaunty naval officer s cap He s transformed himself into Scarf Windhammer he supplies America s Cup winner and yachtsman par excellence But if I m going to be sailing my 60 foot schooner into Corona harbor tomorrow afternoon I d better be leaving Bye Clawson grins Just a second Scarf Haven t you forgotten something The mariner looks up with the haughty expression he reserves only for landlubbers Yesss You hear the door behind you close and turn to see a young blonde woman who s either a model or a beauty contest winner Scarf darling how lovely of you to invite me along for a little sail she says Scarf doesn t even miss a beat My pleasure he drawls and then turns back to the 12 group I d like you all to meet Crystal a dis tinguished chemist and scuba diving instructor who is one of ACT s most valuable assets The senator looks as if he s ready to sign up for scuba diving lessons on the spot How ever Scarf has other plans Crystie he ex claims linking his arm with hers we re going to be late if we don t set sail with the tide He turns to you and the senator See you
84. trembling fingers you turn the thing on drop it and pray 41 CHAPTER 8 Like trained seals the sharks dive for the sonar unit And that buys you and Crystal the time you need to reach the surface Scarf quickly pulls you aboard and heads the yacht for Co rona Back at the hotel the ACT members ex change information There are a lot of guests around here who look as if they re listening to Walkmans only they re not wearing headsets or earplugs Marlow tells you Senator Macklin agrees Yeah If you weren t looking for something strange you d probably miss it But even I m starting to rec ognize the symptoms Crystal nods and then launches into a re port of what you ve just discovered So another shipment of BRUTE s In stant Brainwashing Elixir has just come over 42 here the senator muses I wonder what it is He turns to Marlow You re the psy chologist Do you think it s a food or a drug or something Hale slaps in your hand when he shakes That last guess sends a shiver up your spine and everybody else s you suspect Marlow shrugs I wish I knew how they were doing it It s as close to real magic as anything I ve ever seen We ve got to find out and soon Crystal insists Otherwise one of us could be next And that would compromise the whole mission Scarf groans And don t forget that confere
85. u re under absolute BRUTE control There s a sick feeling in your stomach And you have a suspicion that it s going to get worse Through the speaker you hear a knock at the door followed by the sound of heavy foot steps Boss is it time for the interrogation yet You d know that voice anywhere it s Big Al You can help with the debriefing Hale 58 assures him And then I want you to take the sub back to the lab This batch of chips is per fect and I ll need a supply for everyone who s arriving for tomorrow s conference Once we ve got the world oil supply under control every country on earth becomes BRUTE s hostage Oh no you shudder But that s not the worst of it Hale is asking Macklin a bunch of routine questions The last one is Are you affiliated with anyone else besides the U S Senate The senator begins to rattle off a list of everything from his hometown Rotary Club to the Audubon Society and Friends of the Smithsonian You cross your fingers and toes hoping against hope that he won t mention ACT But all you get for your trouble is a cramp Id never forgive myself if I didn t mention my newest association the senator chirps up proudly I ve been made a special agent with the Adventure Connection Team They sent me down here to try to find out what you had planned for the conference 59 CHAPTER 11 The senator
86. ulling a pair of wire rimmed spectacles from the pocket of his white lab coat As you stare in surprise he gives you a precise little smile Just so my young friend With my help we will find out what is going on no Crystal is apparently used to this kind of assistance from the Chameleon I certainly hope so she tells him as she begins to focus the microscope That s funny I don t see anything unusual This stuff looks like just a mild saline solution No wait a minute something s swimming in it This is weird Dr er uh Von Lauer come take a look The Chameleon strides purposefully over and replaces her at the microscope Verry verry interesting he murmurs Crystal shakes her head and then asks 55 eagerly What do you think it is Tt looks like an organic cell the good doctor replies But it s dormant Why don t I try putting it on an agar plate and see what happens Crystal sug gests She turns to a drawer in her portable lab But before she can find what she s looking for the doctor has started a little experiment of his own Picking up the senator s discarded Wungo bar he breaks off a few crumbs and sprinkles them on the slide Even without the magnification you can see that a reaction of some type is taking place The whole slide platform is bathed in an iri descent orange light And the organism in question has
87. understand how the data is read into the variables See line 80 Yes each quiz word in the data statement is followed by the an swer BRUTE is looking for When you play the game you get one point for each correct antonym and also some graphics feedback on the video game Answers must be typed in capital letters 98 PROGRAM 3 SHARK TANK CONTROL Modifications for Other Micros TI 99 4A Make these changes 20 CALL CLEAR 82 FOR N 1 TO 10 STEP 5 84 CALL HCHAR I N 126 4 86 CALL HCHAR I N 4 62 1 90 NEXT N 100 SOUND 500 131 10 123 10 110 FOR J 1 TO 100 180 CALL HCHAR I 1 35 10 Remove line 220 Apple Make these changes 20 HOME 100 PRINT CHRS 7 CHRS 7 180 VTAB I HTAB 1 PRINT HFHFHEFETESESE 200 VTAB I K HTAB 1 PRINT H FFHSFRT EE EE EEF 220 VTAB 1 HTAB 25 Commodore 64 Make these changes 10 POKE 54296 15 POKE 54277 90 POKE 54278 200 POKE 54276 17 20 PRINT CHRS 147 90 PRINT gt gt gt 100 POKE 54273 2 POKE 54272 37 105 POKE 54273 2 POKE 54272 6 135 POKE 54296 0 180 PRINT CHRS 145 FFFtF 200 PRINT CHR 145 Fd 32 REMOVE LINE 220 99 VIC 20 Same as Commodore 64 except re move line 100 and 105 or substitute VIC 20 sound addresses in poke commands 10 POKE 36878 15 100 POKE 36874 195 105 POKE 36874 191 135 POKE 36874 0 Radio Shack Color Computer Make these changes 40 PRINT ttt REMOVE LINE 70 90 PRINT I
88. ut there s a CLOSED FOR REPAIRS notice tacked up over that You re just about to turn away when you hear unmistakable electronic noises inside There must be a whole bunch of people in there 15 playing video games Maybe the place really is open and someone just forgot to remove the sign But when you try the door it s locked Suddenly that sixth sense you ve learned to trust starts to tingle Something strange is going on here and you re going to find out what it is Quickly you duck into the low hedge at the side of the pavilion and circle the building There are no other doors and no windows either You ve almost given up hope of getting in when you spot a seam in the wall that joins two gold panels At the edge of the seam is a tiny metal knob You pull and one of the panels swings open Inside you find yourself behind a black curtain What was that Big Al Did you see a light flash a gruff voice questions nearby It s just the games you dummy re plies someone who sounds even nastier Lifting the curtain you sneak a look At first all you can make out are flashing colors at the video display terminals However when your eyes become accustomed to the darkness you see the room is indeed full of players lined up in front of the terminals And they re not alone Standing between the machines are muscular guards dressed in khaki shorts and packing mean looking pistols You re trying to
89. venture Connection Team that nothing surprises you least of all the appearance of the Chameleon Now you look up to see him grinning It may take Clawson all morning to straighten out the senator Let me buy you a soda and Il give you the executive overview Seated at a table in the corner the Cha meleon begins Clawson didn t know you were on that plane until after he saw the passenger list You re such a good agent that we were afraid you were going to mess up our plans That s why we sent that message But having you on that plane was a lucky break for ACT We ll really need a computer expert on this mission Well so much for your vacation you think When duty calls you ve got to answer Besides you re a sucker for adventure T suppose you know about the energy conference the senator is coordinating on Co rona the Chameleon continues Well some scary things have been going on down there over the past few weeks A lot of VIPs have come back from vacations there acting pretty strange What do you mean you ask Across the room you can hear Clawson and Macklin having a heated discussion Every one of them has been making er ratic and uncharacteristic policy decisions The president of a hamburger chain gave away the 9 recipe for their secret sauce dyed in the wool environmentalist signed over the rights to strip mine half the Rocky Mountains And a coach i

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