Ok...  You are no longer without a weapon, and the boss is no longer indestructible...
I cannot upload a screenie or the code yet, I am at school.
You're weapon is a laser beam that is drawn before the bullets are drawn(is behind the bullets) but after the boss is drawn(in front of boss) and it is drawn as RectI(A+1,0,2,B).  I is now the 'greyscale' variable(I refuse to use the back buffer)  every frame I do this   :not(I)->I:  and the laser is drawn as a 'greyscale inverted rectangle' .  There is a downside to shooting your laser beam...  while you shoot the laser you'r energy bar(hp bar) does not regenerate.
and if I want something drawn as 'gray'  I do if I:draw...  :end
however, I am not sure how to draw the boss health bar if different bosses have max hp...
What are you thinking about this new update?  Likes?  Dislikes? Post below  :'(

The problem I see with this is they could/probably will overlap each other..

That is exactly why the second part must be in a second for( loop, and also why something like masked sprites will not achive this effect in one for loop

and anyways, I THINK four pxl-on('s are faster than one pt-on(



*Edit*
I have made up my mind.
I will keep the graphical effect, and until someone tells me a faster way, I will use four pxl-on commands.

DJ_O, when I first mentioned this project to you, you sounded really excited...  and you just now posted here...  You must have a lot of topics to keep updated on all the time .
And when multiple bosses are done I will try to make a nice difficulty curve.

Well to speed up each bullet you could use two rectangles to draw the back part of the bullet and one rectangle for the overlay.

Well, the bullet outline is not a square... it is meant to be a circle.
If you look closeley at it...
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And I was thinking about using four pxl-on( commands...  Anybody know the fastest way to fill a two by two square?


*EDIT*
   Page#2!!!

I am still here!   Do not worry.
I was having a terrible time squashing a bug that would crash it on the first frame...  I have since worked that out, but I was forced to look deep into my code again... and optimizations happened .
I think I know a way to add some level of skill to the game without taxing the hardware very much... Energy.
The health bar at the bottom is now Energy.  You lose Energy when you 1:Get hit by a bullet.  2:Shoot(not implemented yet).  3:Use time slow(shown in screenshots when screen inverts).
What do you think of this?
The speed significantly increased, and I decided to throw that away for a fantastical graphical effect I stumbled on!
Why do I say "throw that away"?  The effect is impossible without drawing two sprites for every bullet. 
I was also working on the 'Boss API' (a different subroutine for every boss, executed once per frame(if you wanted too you could make a boss routine that isn't a boss at all... it could handle multiple enemies instead  )) and the boss you see in the screenie is an example boss I am not done coding yet(it only lacks health/ healthBar).
Here is screenie of before the fantastical graphical effect:


And here is a screenie of after the fantastical graphical effect:



What do you think?  Is it worth the speed decrease?

Ok.  That is all I have.  Here is the source code download(Fantastical graphical effect included, comment it out if u want, it IS labeled by a comment.)http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ou3aar8po27ayrn

MS-Paint does not support transparency.

So odd.
I guess it changed from Texas Instruments as a place to nothing more than a name.