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Re: Best Control Combination?

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From: jma... John Marra
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 23:36
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In article <3e1hrk$l...@clarknet.clark.net>,  <vict...@clark.net> wrote:
>Anyone suggest good control combinations?  I am biased towards keyboard 

Try reversing the slide left, right, up and down keys and think of them
as thrusters on the respective side of the ship.  It gives the ship a
kinda Asteriods-like feel to it.

Here is my setup:

Left hand keyboard:            Right hand Joystick:

Caps Lock(pinky)= reverse      trigger= weapon 1
A/Q= slide right/bank left     top= weapon 2
S/W= slide up/down             rest are defaults
D/E= slide left/bank right
Space(thumb)= forward
rest are defaults.

It may feel kinda funny at first, but for me it gives great control of the
ship by having all sliding/banking on the left hand and rotating up,dn,left,
right on the right hand.

A great feature of the game is being able to remap all the controllers.
It would be great if you could also control amount of inertia from all
thrusters or adding degrees of gravity for multi player games.

have fun,

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John Marra
jma...@ritz.mordor.com
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