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space invaders. the best ms-dos clone of taito's classic & original space invaders game for the pc/version 02 courtesy of james eibisch/http://netadelica.com. (zipfile/49kb)

Here's the author (james eibisch) in his own words: "Having tried a number of Space Invader 'clones' for the PC I decided to write one that was more like the original— most of the clones are rather different. My interest in the game is just nostalgia— playing Taito's Space Invaders around 1979, aged 11, was my introduction to computers. It seemed magical to me, and I was fascinated from that point on in working out how an inanimate object comprising a bunch of electronics, some memory, a VDU, and some input controls could offer such unlimited possibilities. So, 17 years after first grappling with a computer game, here's my little tribute to it and to the company who made it. Version 1.0 was mailware— I asked people to mail me if they got the game. Around 10,000 emails later, I'm genuinely delighted at the response, but it's more than I can cope with now, so there's no email address anymore. Some of the emails were amazing— the game was used for things I never dreamt of. I thought it would just be a few people playing it on their PCs, but it was used as a demo for a a PC emulator, Nintendo Mexico bundled it on a range of home PCs, some schoolchildren projected it onto their classroom wall, one person created a 3D version, a music/multimedia group in San Francisco used the sound effects in a project, it was on the CD in the IDG book 'Windows Game Programming for Dummies', and it ended up on lots of magazine cover disks around the world. Not bad for such a cruddy little program."