                                 SPACESHIP!
                                     by
                                  Don Smith

  Well, this isn't really a fun game or anything, but is used to illustrate
how a scrolling starfield might be implemented in QBasic.  This code would
need to be optimized if you decided to use any of it in a game, but should 
give you the basic idea.  Basically, what I've done here is placed a ship
graphic (with 8 different ships) on the center of the screen, and scrolled
the background.  This code is not well commented, as I didn't really write
this to distribute.  I used Graphic Factory(Should be available on Simtel's 
site) to make the ship graphic.  Well, have fun with this, and hopefully 
you might get a few ideas from it.  If you do decide to use any of the code,
I don't really care if you put me in the credits or not, but please send me
a copy of any games you might make with it :-).  If you plan to distribute 
the original code, please distribute these files:
                
                Spacship.bas  ' Main program
                Ship.gf       ' Ship graphics
                Ship.pal      ' Ship palette
                Readme.txt    ' This file
                Readme.bat    ' Batch file to type this file out.

If you do use this, and make any major modifications, please send me a
copy (We all learn from each other).  Please send any comments you might
have as well...

                             Don Smith
                          S597@TRUMAN.EDU
                      
By the way, use the numeric keypad to turn, + and - keys slow down & speed up.
Esc exits.
