Try and survive as long as possible as you navigate your ship through the hazardous asteroid belt of Orion.
At the same time, you will come under attack from hostile forces, so you will need to keep all your wits about you.
Only those with nerves of steel will succeed!
AHow to play
Start a new game and choose a difficulty level. This sets the speed of the asteroids.
Shoot the asteroids and UFOs by using the rotate keys to aim and then fire.
Use thrust to avoid the asteroid and the UFO's bullets.
When you have cleared all the asteroids on a level, a new level begins, with an increasing number of asteroids. After the last wave, the first wave begins again but at an increasingly faster speed.
When your score reaches 5000 you will gain an extra life.
presents:
Asteroids v. 1.02
Asteroids is a version of the classic 1979 Atari arcade game.
It features fast, smooth, flicker-free vector graphics and a unique inverse video feature for playing in different lighting conditions.
We hope you enjoy playing Asteroids!
steroid and the UFO's bullets.
When you have cleared all the asteroids on a level, a new level begins, with an increasing number of asteroids. After the last wave, the first wave begins again but at an increasingly faster speed.
When your score reaches 5000 you will gain an extra life.
<DMenu options
File menu
New (Ctrl N). Abandon
game: the current game
and start a new game,
with a different skill
level if you wish.
Quit: (Ctrl E). Abandon the
current game and exit
to the System screen.
View menu
Inverse (Ctrl-Q). Switch
video: between white on
black or black on
white, for optimum
viewing in different
lighting conditions.
Pause Freeze the game for a
game/ breather and resume
Resume play when ready.
game:
Tools menu
Prefer- (Ctrl-K). Choose
ences difficulty level,
sound on/off and
volume level.
Vector (Ctrl-B). Select the
beam vector line
width: thickness in pixels.
Thicker lines are easier
to see in low light.
Configure (Ctrl-Y). Redefine the keys: keyboard controls.
CPU (Ctrl-U). Override the settings: automatic CPU
optimisations.
Choosing 'Fast CPU'
allows more asteroids
to be displayed.
Clear hi Reset the hi-score
score: table.
Help: (Shift-Ctrl H). View this
help file!
About: (Shift-Ctrl A). View
current version
number and contact
details.
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Controls
Note: these are the default keys. You can use your own settings by choosing Configure keys' from the Options menu
Rotate left: N
Rotate right: M
Thrust: Z
Fire: Space bar
Hyperspace: H
Pause (toggle): P
Keep moving. If you stay put in the centre of the screen you are likely to get quickly destroyed by the UFO
Keep the fire button pressed for rapid fire
Only use hyperspace in an emergency. You may end up materialising on an asteroid!
Performance issues
Asteroids is quite processor intensive. For best results (especially on a Series 5):
Exit other running applications
Use a thinner vector width
Disable sound (hey, there's no
sound in space anyway!)
Contact the author
Asteroids is freeware, and was written by Phil Gooch.
Comments and bug reports are welcome.
Email: phil@neuon.com
Web: http://www.neuon.com
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all the testers at Neuon, especially Adam Dawes, Alex Skilton, Alex Wilbur and Gary Belcher for many helpful suggestions. Special thanks to Dom Wright for graphics.
Troubleshooting
If you experience errors or problems, try deleting the Asteroids.ini file in the installation folder and restart the game.