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- Game Speed:
- If you find that Dirt Bike is running too slowly on
- your computer, you can try the following:
- - Try selecting a smaller scale in the preferences.
- - Make sure no other applicatons are running.
- - Try setting your display to 16 bit color and
- then try it with 256 colors.
-
- Controlling the Bike:
-
- Shifting:
- Dirt Bike 4.0 defaults to Automatic Transmission.
- With Automatic Transmission, the computer does the
- shifting for you. If you turn off Automatic
- Transmission, use the following keys to shift:
-
- - upshift - Right Arrow
- - downshift - Left Arrow
-
- The current gear is displayed in the status window.
-
- Throttle:
- Throttle is controlled by the LOCATION of your
- mouse on the screen.
- - Many players become confused, thinking that it is
- the moving of the mouse which determines throttle.
- - If the cursor is at the top of the screen,
- throttle is on full.
- - If the cursor is at the bottom of the screen,
- brakes are on full.
-
- You can influence the rotation of the bike in the air
- with throttle.
- - tilt the bike forward by decreasing the throttle.
- - tilt the bike backward by increasing the throttle.
-
- NOTE: This effect is a gyration effect, by which
- changes in momentum of the rear wheel can be used to
- rotate the bike. Different bikes will have different
- levels of responsiveness to this effect.
-
- Opponnents:
-
- The blue wheeled bikes are the recorded races of the
- high score times, or the previous race, depending on
- the options you select in the menu. Each time a new
- high score is set, that race will be recorded so
- others can race against it.
-
- You can create and delete Opponents by choosing
- "Edit Players" under the "Edit" menu.
-
- Dirt Bike 4.0 now supports computer controlled bikes.
- You can add as many of these bikes as you want,
- provided you have enough memory in your computer.
- The computer controls these bikes exactly as you
- do...by controlling the throttle and shifting.
- You can slow down the computer bikes by editing the
- characteristics of the bike (lower the horsepower,
- for example).
-
- Head to Head Play:
-
- Up to three people can play at one time on one
- computer, or any number can play over a TCP network.
- Dirt Bike can be played over the internet, but slow
- internet response times limits reasonable speed play
- to local area networks.
-
- Selecting Tracks and Bikes:
-
- Two default tracks and two default bikes can be found
- under the "Game" menu. Once you have registered, you
- will be able to create your own tracks and bikes and
- store them on disk.
-