SHIPS.MAC - A SEA WAR GAME FOR THE TELERAY-12 TERMINAL

	This program, unfinished though it is, may be of use to those
interested in seeing some "action" on their normally "dull" Teleray-12
CRT's. The game consists of a user-controlled ship moving about near the
top of the terminal screen attempting to miss missiles fired from hostile
computer-controlled submarines patrolling the depths of the lower portions
of the screen. The user may fire depth charges at the roving subs, thereby
adding to his/her score if a sub is hit. A time limit is imposed on the
player and the program ends after 2 minutes.

Now for the disclaimers: Being an unfinished program, several items mentioned
above either do not work or have not been implemented (SORRY!!)! These items
include 1) the subs don't fire missiles,
	2) the depth charges may not always destroy a sub if it hits them,
	3) the program terminates with a nasty error message when time is up,
	4) the score overwrites the "SCORE:" title at the top of the screen,
	5) for debugging purposes the random number routine always returns
	   the same value; therefore whenever a sub can appear, it does,
	6) this program is not recommended to be run at speeds less than 9600
	   baud; it runs quite nicely at 19.2KB on our DZ-11's.
	7) This program must be run non-checkpointable for the asynchronous
	   I/O to work (semi-undocumented "feature" of RSX).

The reason this program was submitted was not so much for its game value (at
least in its present form) as for its capability in demonstrating some of the
possibilities of double-buffering terminal I/O as well as QIO's w/o waitfor.
If you manage to complete this program (I never said that I had a lot of extra
time on my hands!) or make modifications, I would be interested in hearing
from you.

		Michael D. Lampi
		Douglas Aircraft Company
                Mail Loc. 35-44
                3855 Lakewood Blvd.
                Long Beach, CA. 90846
                (213) 593-2242