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- TIPS FOR PLAYING MACHINE NATION
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- ABOUT SPEED
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- The scrolling on this game should be quite fast, even on a 286. If however
- you are running this game on a fast 386 or a 486 it may be too fast to play!
- If you have a turbo button then use this to slow the computer down. However
- another option is to introduce a delay in the program by typing:
- machine s1
- (or run the batch file 'runslow.bat').
- This causes the game to run at a playable rate even on a very very fast
- PC.
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- TIPS
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- 1) Watch the demo a few times and take note of where the demo ship
- moves and what it picks up.
- 2) Become familiar with the landscape, ie where the pickups are and
- where the force fields are.
- 3) Try to keep away from the edges of the screen so that you have
- room to manoeuvre.
- 4) Keep looking ahead to see whats coming.
- 5) You may find it useful to pause the game and sketch down a
- diagram of the landscape. (W for pause).
- 6) Keep trying!
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- Remember! If you find this game too easy or too hard, registered users can
- design their own levels.
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- A joystick is recommended to play this game! However, should you not have
- one you can control the ship as follows:
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- You can use the arrow keys for directional movement, with either
- of the CTRL keys to fire.
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- Or, D for UP, C for DOWN, N for LEFT, M for RIGHT, Alt for FIRE
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- Or, alternatively, (and the way I prefer and find more natural),
- Q for UP, A for DOWN, O for LEFT, P for RIGHT, and SPACEBAR for FIRE.
- I use 2 fingers of my left hand for Q and A, and 2 fingers of my right
- hand for O and P, with the SPACEBAR being pressed by the thumb of the
- right hand.
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- Or, a combination of the above.
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- ** The Game **
-
- You control a fighter ship flying over a machine landscape. Your must
- get to your mother ship. Below the machine city is a barren planet, long
- since deserted by any humanoids.
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- Your ship can fly at two heights. To get underneath any bridges you will
- need to lose height by flying over the "lose height" pickups. Flying low
- uses more fuel, BUT THE ENEMY SHIPS CANNOT HURT YOU. Also you cannot fire
- weapons at this height.
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- There are various pickups that will give you fuel, bonus points, weapons,
- extra lives, stop the scrolling, speed up and slow down the ship.
- Please see inbuilt help screen in the game for details of what these
- pickups look like.
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- The enemy ships will attack wave after wave, trying to destroy you.
- Although they have no fire power, they dont mind crashing into you!
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- ** Weapons **
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- You have a choice of 3 different weapons, standard fire, scatter fire
- and whirlwind fire. Whirlwind fire can only be used 5 times, and then
- you revert to standard fire. You can of course pickup extra whirlwind
- fire, or scatter fire.
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- ** Note **
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- This games requires VGA to run, and at least a 286 12MHz.
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- SOUNDBLASTER USERS
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- The default base I/O port is 220 and the default interrupt number is 7 .
- You can change these by typing:
- machine pX iZ where X is 2 for port 220 or 4 for port 240
- and Z is 2 or 3 or 5 or 7 for interrupt 2,3,5 or 7
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