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# Targets Five

TARGETS FIVE is a program that will require a RAM Pack on your TS-1000. It is a slow-acting routine of an arcade type of game, but you can have a lot of fun with it. You get four shots to shoot down five targets. It can be done.

Nested loops such as 510-580 are time consuming. But the action can be speeded up by adding a line like:

```
515 IF CODE A$(L)= 0 THEN NEXT L
```

This will eliminate unnecessary scanning. Otherwise, it is a “bare bones” routine that you may embellish yourself.

There will be a TS-2068 version in an up-coming issue of QuarTerS Magazine in my “Basic Tutor” column.