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- Options
- File Menu
- New Game - start game with settings in the preference menu
- Open Game - load a saved game
- Tournament - a standard 10-round battle in an attempt to win fame & glory (high scores)
- Quit - (sort of obvious)
- Preference Menu
- Music - turn music on and off
- Sound - turn sound on and off
- Speech - turn computer speech on and off
- You must have the Speech Manager installed for speech to work.
- Buy Weapons - allow players (& computers) to buy weapons at end of each round
- Simulate Faster - This will speed the game, but you won't be able to use the menus
- during the game.
- Wind - turn wind on and off
- Shifting Wind - wind will shift speeds during the game
- Trace Shots - turn shot tracing on and off
- Control Panel - display a control panel giving greater mouse control over the game
- Order - This sub-menu chooses how the first player in a round will be chosen. Random
- chooses a random tank, Round-Robin cycles through the tank numbers to choose who
- goes first. Winners & Losers first let the tank with the highest or lowest
- respective score go first.
- Num Rounds - Choose how many rounds to play
- Starting Cash - Choose how much cash each person starts with ($0-$500,000)
- Game Speed - This controls the speed (and accuracy) at which shots are simulated
- 10 is the fastest and 1 is the slowest
- Walls - Choose wall & ceiling settings
- Floors - Choose floor settings
- Ceilings - You guessed it, changes the ceiling settings!
- Computers - This allows you to specify 2 things, if computers buy weapons, and
- if they buy shields. (if they don't buy weapons, they obviously won't buy shields)
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- Other Menu
- Control Help - Shows the controls used to play the game.
- Edit Death Quotes - Edit the things that people say when they die. These are stored in
- your custom weapons file.
- Edit Weapons - This allows you to edit your custom weapons, and create new ones.
- Define mountain - Set the parameters used for generating the ground
- Memory & Graphics - Define what graphics preferences to use during the game
- View Game Config - During the game, this will remind you what the current settings are
- Redraw Screen - If you are overwhelmed with traced shots, redraw the screen.
- View High Scores - These are the best Tournament scores.