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Article #1000Re: Slowing Down Wing Commander
From: no... Norm MacNeil
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 17:15
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 17:15
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I believe it is ALT-+ or ALT-- on the numeric keypad which will increase or decrease the frames/second rate. I played WCII on a 486-33 at 5fr/secs and finished ok. One tip I used was in dogfighting, as soon as one of the sleath ships appear, bank hard to immediatly face him. His first shots should miss you since you're banking hard and you can usually get a couple of shots in before he cloaks again. Another is when in the <insert-name-of ship-that-has-turrets>, I put my left hand on the function key row and key the right on the joystick. This allows me to very quickly change turrets and fire. By the way, thanks to all who put up the info on Stacker/WC incompatibility. I had recently installed Stacker (along with other things) and couldn't figure out why it was screwing up. My anomalie was that about 1 min. into flying, the attitude would just go nuts (hard spin) and suddenly level out at 0 velocity and the joystick would not respond. Kinda frustrating. Norm. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Norm MacNeil Phone: (613) 763-7497 CAD Operation Tools Development Fax: (613) 763-3317 Bell-Northern Research Ltd. EMail: norm@bnr.ca.BITNET (INTERNET)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!cunews!nrcnet0!bnrgate!bcrka451!norm From: no...@bcrks122.bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil) Subject: Re: Slowing Down Wing Commander Message-ID: <1992May21.171535.5745@bcrka451.bnr.ca> Sender: 5E00 Corkstown News Server Reply-To: no...@bnr.ca Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 17:15:35 GMT Lines: 24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit