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- Wing Commander Armada: Proving Grounds Mode
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- This Add-on is being distributed free of charge. It does, however, require
- the original Wing Commander Armada.
-
- This version of Proving Grounds is believed to be free of bugs. If you
- find any problems please report them to the Origin BBS at (512)331-4446
- or through our internet address at SUPPORT@ORIGIN.EA.COM and we will
- fix them as soon as possible.
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- Installation:
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- To install Proving Grounds just unzip the pgrounds.zip file into
- your Wing Commander Armada directory, the run PG.EXE.
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- Features:
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- 6 player IPX support.
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- Proving grounds mode that allows players to kill each other
- while competing for powerup items to increase your ships
- capabilites, including shields and armor, weapons, cloaking
- device, fuel, and a cloaked ship scanner to view ships that are cloaked.
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- Battle mode allows any combination of 6 player (ie. 1-1-1-1-1-1,3-3,2-2-2)
-
- Colorado Spectrum notebook support added
- Notes: 1) Follow the instructions provided with the adapter to enable it.
- 2) type pg.exe -j to use the notebook gameport
- 3) The Colorado Spectrum adapter only supports COM 1 and COM 2
-
- Note: One player play is not supported in proving grounds mode.
- Note: Proving Grounds does not support NetBIOS.
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- Keyboard reference for Proving Grounds:
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- Key Function
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- T = Toggle Target
- L = Toggle Lock
- KEYPAD8 (up) = Control Down
- KEYPAD6 (rt) = Control Right
- KEYPAD2 (dn) = Control Up
- KEYPAD4 (lt) = Control Left
- TAB = Afterburners
- G = Toggle Guns
- W = Toggle Weapons
- BACKSPACE = Full Stop
- SPACEBAR = Fire Guns
- ENTER = Fire Missile
- KEYPAD MINUS = Slow Speed
- KEYPAD PLUS = increase Speed
- COMMA = Roll Left
- PERIOD = Roll Right
- 1 = 1/3 Speed
- 2 = 2/3 Speed
- 3 = Full Speed
- APOSTROPHE = Launch Chaff
- Q = Toggle Guns to Cloak
- A = Toggle to All guns
- C = Activate Comm VDU
- D = Activate Damage VDU
- S = Activate Score VDU
- N = Toggle between graphic and numeric displays for gauges
- Alt-KEYPAD PLUS = brighten the targeting crosshair
- Alt-KEYPAD MINUS = darken the targeting crosshair
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- During the ship selection screen you just need to hit T to change teams.
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