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Keyboard commands

• Cursor keys to move anything that is YOU.
• "Z" to undo a move
• "R" to reset the level
• "N" to skip to next level
• "E" to open editor.
• "D" to write the current level's layout to the screen in the form of a DATA statement, and end the program.

Editor instructions

The editor allows you to edit many tiles graphically. The cursor will appear as a green tile with two letters in the center. The letter on the left is the background tile, and the letter on the right is the foreground tile.

• Cursor keys: move the cursor.
• A through G: place an object
• I through Z, [, £, ], ↑, ←: place text
• Shift-A through Shift-G: place a background object
• SPACE: remove both foreground and background object
• DEL: remove foreground object and move background to foreground
• F1: display a legend of possible tiles
• F3: load the layout from the cache
• F5: save the current layout to the cache
• F7: return to game

The undo stack will be cleared every time you access the editor.

Program documentation

• How level data is compressed to fit in a DATA statement
• How level data is stored internally
• The game's main loop