Thanks very much for your help (and apolgies for the lateness of this 
reply!)  BBCExplorer has proved invaluable.  Thanks to your help, I recently 
had the joy of finally completing a game I first played over 11 years ago!

Just thought you might like some info on Alternative Software's releases, as 
I used to have an Electron (still have, but my tapes no longer work through 
old age!) with a lot of their games.

CAVERN CAPERS was a colourful sideways scroller in which you endlessly fly a 
spacecraft, shooting baddies and shoot fuel tanks to keep you going.  You 
died if you touched the jagged 'cavern walls' at the top and bottom of the 
screen, which became closer together as you went on.  It seemed fairly 
pointless, but it was entertaining for a while.

ROCKFALL; Unfortunately, I have this game, but have lost the cover.  All I 
remember is having to dodge falling rocks, as you might have guessed!  It 
was also on one of the Triple Deckers, along with Money Maze and Bunny 
Blitz.

ROUND ONES: A superb 'Breakout' clone with a funny inlay card, which demands 
you call the game Spheroids!  The story goes that you control a Block 
Assault Transport (BAT!) which hits a Block Assault Laser Launch (BALL!!)  
On some levels, there are lasers shooting at you, but you have a sheild 
which can be used once per life.  There are several colour-coded types of 
block; Normal, Tough (have to be hit 2-3 times), Speed (Speed you up) and 
Mystery which, when hit, release a 'driblet.'  This is a bonus which can be 
good or bad; sometimes giving you a laser, or (more usually) lengthening or 
shortening your BAT.  The game is quite long, so it loads levels in sets of 
8, but it has colourful, well-executed graphics.  Things do get a bit 
flickery once the screen gets crowded, though.

STAR FIGHT was a rather dull cockpit-view shoot 'em up with reasonable - if 
boring - graphics.  The story on the inlay is that bandits have been raiding 
your planet and you must shoot them before your ship runs out of energy.   
The further away they are, the more points you get.

TRIPLE DECKER 5 featured STAR FIGHT, SKRAMBLE and KARATE WARRIOR.  It was 
released in'87.
SKRAMBLE, which I beleive you need info for, as it is from another software 
house, is a development of the Space Invaders idea.  Your ship is on the 
side of the screen, and ships come at you, not in waves, but randomly.  You 
mmust try and shoot them all.  Graphics are simple, but I remember this game 
being extremely fustrating and quite boring.
KARATE WARRIOR has nice, japanesey-type graphics.  It is a two-player only, 
and you have 4 moves; flying kick, floor sweep, backwards leap and high 
kick.It's quite annoying not to be able to move or block, though!

TRIPLE DECKER 6 featured CAVERN CAPERS, SNAP DRAGON and CASTLE OF SAND.  It 
was released in'87.
SNAP DRAGON was so simple I remember even my mum could play it!  It was the 
card game Snap but with a story.  Apparently, King Fred The Thick (it sez 
ere) decrees that Kinghts must settle diputes by playing 'Snap.'  Whenever 
one knight wins, his dragon's door opens a little, and eventually comes out 
and roasts the opponent's dragon.
CASTLE OF SAND was a game in which you simply had to move sand from the 
beach to your castle, before the sea sweeps away all the sand.  It had 
rather plain, blocky graphics.

  Hope this is useful,


    Johnny Moran