SPACE RAID - DEMO
A Tequestafarian Games Production
(c) 2026 Tequestafarian Games

A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up for the Tandy Color Computer 3.  This
demo plays the first three stages, up to and including the first boss.


WHAT YOU NEED
- A Color Computer 3 with 512K of memory
- A floppy disk drive (two drives make loading the music easier)
- No CoCoSDC is needed for the demo


THE DISKS
SPACERAID-DEMO-v82.DSK          The game disk (needed)
SPACERAID-DEMO-MUSIC-v82.DSK    The music disk (for the soundtrack; optional)

Write each .DSK image to a 35-track single-sided floppy, or use the
images directly with a floppy emulator or a CoCo emulator.


LOADING
1. Put the game disk in drive 0 and type:  RUN "START"
2. A loading screen appears while the game loads.
3. When the game has loaded, the screen asks about the music:
     Music disk in drive 1:     press 1
     Only one drive:            swap the music disk into drive 0,
                                then press ENTER
     No music:                  press S
   The music takes about another minute to load.  You won't need the
   game disk again after this.
4. The game starts at the main menu.

If a disk can't be read, the CoCo goes back to BASIC and shows the error.
Check the disk and type RUN "START" again.


MAIN MENU
1 or 2      Start a 1 or 2 player game
H           How to play
R           Credits
M           Music on/off
C           RGB or composite monitor colours


CONTROLS
Player 1    Move: arrow keys or W A S D
            Fire: SPACE      Smart bomb: B or X
            or the right joystick and its buttons

Player 2    Move: I J K L
            Fire: U          Smart bomb: O
            or the left joystick and its buttons

BREAK quits a game.


PICK-UPS
P   Power                 S      Shields
B   Smart bomb            L      Laser beam
Arrow   Extra ship        Bomb cluster: 3 bombs

Bosses: hit the glowing core or eye.


ABOUT THE DEMO
The demo plays looped excerpts of the soundtrack from memory.  The full
game has more stages and bosses, and plays the complete metal soundtrack
from a CoCoSDC, with a choice of songs.


CREDITS
Created & Directed By ............... Vincent Tran
Game Design & Creative Direction .... Vincent Tran
AI Programming Assistant ............ Claude by Anthropic
Additional Creative Assistance ...... ChatGPT by OpenAI
Original Metal Soundtrack ........... AI-Assisted Music Production,
                                      Directed by Vincent Tran
Music Playback Technology ........... Ed Snider's CoCoSDC Media Player
Development & Hardware Testing ...... Vincent Tran
Special Thanks ...................... The Tandy Color Computer Community
