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Re: Pause button-Primal Rage-PC

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From: za... Zatar
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00
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In <DExAK...@news.cis.umn.edu> Jon <rein...@maroon.tc.umn.edu> writes:

>ZKZ...@prodigy.com (Barry Kosh) wrote:
>>I was wondering if there is any kind of way to pause in the middle of the 
>>game for the cd-rom version for the PC.  I haven't been able to play the 
>>game yet, since I'm still waiting to get my new computer.  No where in 
>>the stupid manual does it say anything about pausing the game.  But it 
>>would be kind of stupid to not be able to pause the game whenever you 
>>want.

>Yep, just press the "Pause" key on the keyboard, next to SCroll 
>Lock and Print Scrn.  Very user-intuitive :-)


Or just hit escape - it will ask you if you want to quit,
and just press N when you are done pausing.  I find this
works well on a lot of games that don't have
a built-in pause key too... :)


					-Zatar
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Subject: Re: Pause button-Primal Rage-PC
Date: 1995/09/15
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