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SEAWOLF
(c)1982 Bally-Midway, published by Commodore Business Machines
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This cartridge game was well-known in the arcades of late 1970s 
early 1980s. The controls on the arcade machines were via 
"paddles", control knobs called as such because of their use 
first as paddle controls in the "Pong" game. The translation of 
the game on the C64 was accurate by using such "paddles", i. e. 
control knobs. Each joystick port could receive on a C64 a set 
of two paddle knobs for a total of four on one machine. 

Further, in order to have a meaningful game it is critical for 
two players to play together (there is no one-player mode), and 
separate controls for the two players must be available.

To realize the above setting, and when using this program on an 
emulator (CCS64 for example) the emulator can be set as follows:

Control Port 1:  Paddles
                 PC Gameport 1 + PC Mouse

Control Port 2:  Joystick
                 PC Gameport 1

The PC mouse then can be used by Player 2 while the PC joystick 
is available for Player 1, providing a reasonable substitute for 
the original paddles.

On the game screen Player 1 (Joystick) controls the yellow 
(upper) submarine while Player 2 (Mouse) controls the brown 
(lower) sub.

The game is started from the initial screen by pressing F1.


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