K240 CU Amiga coverdisk K240 demo

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CU Amiga Magazine March 94 presented Coverdisk #77, a demo of Gremlin Games' upcoming asteroid colonization game, K240. The demo has a few differences with the game's final release.

• Play begins mid-game. You have over three million credits, a large asteroid, many buildings, several ships, and the blueprints to Missile Guidance System. Your opponent is always the KLL-KP-QUA.
• You can see alien colonies without a spy satellite.
• Several features are disabled. You can't build missiles, ships, spy satellites, or an Orbital Space Dock. You can't start a new colony, order blueprints, destroy buildings, load ore on your transporter, or sell ore to the Imperial Transporter. Fleets can't intercept other fleets.
• The sprites for the Construction Yard, Environment Control, and Protected Environment Control are different to the final version.
• You don't receive a cash bonus for discovering an asteroid, discovering an alien asteroid, or wiping out an alien colony. You don't receive income based on your population or number of colonies.
• Due to a bug, you can fire the enemy's missiles at himself. Another bug let you fire more missiles than the number at the asteroid by changing the number while missiles are firing. You can see Thiima52's Youtube video of these bugs in action.
• Speech is disabled.
• A few minor text changes. Power Amplifier was called Power Doubler. A hit from a Mega missile gave the message "A COLONY ASTEROID HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY A DEEP SPACE MISSILE", rather than "A COLONY ASTEROID HAS BEEN DESTROYED, BLOWN TO PIECES!"
• Pressing 'V' doesn't reveal the game's version number.
• Cheats are not enabled in this version. The game executable contains the cheat-related strings "ENTER HELP CODE:", "ENTER SHIP 1-7:", and "ENTER SFX A-Z:", but disassembly suggests the help codes themselves were removed from the demo.

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