## Description
_Spacola_ is a 2D space shooter. Like in Asteroids, the player’s ship is
pinned at the center of the screen, adding thrust scrolls the screen in one
direction, and stopping must be done with thrust in the opposite direction.
You can find some weapon upgrades like a twin shoot, you can shoot asteroids,
and after destroying pirate vessels their pilots are crying for help and can
be collected for points (the police is paying for them). The galaxy consists
of 64 sectors and the beginning sector is always a different one.
Your job as pilot of a space craft is to deliver different goods to a space
station. But there are some problems: a lot of pirates are hanging around in
the sectors, looking to steal the goods. And even worse: you do not know
exactly which space station you are looking for and most of the stations are
property of the pirates as well. As with the bad situation, from the outside
these pirate owned stations are looking exactly the same as the civil
stations. What sounds like a design flaw was part of the monetization of the
game: the disk with the game was not only without copy protection, but it was
allowed to copy it freely and therefore the possibility to spread it through
Public Domain libraries. The star map, which lists the coordinates of the
space stations to deliver the goods, was a book with 176 pages, and this book
could be bought from Dongleware.
Spacola