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Playing SPIN:
Upon starting SPIN, you will be presented with a series of
title and information screens. Pressing the spacebar will take you
past each one of the screens and into the game.
Pay attention to the information screen that shows you each of the
items you will encounter in the SPIN universe. You will see
a picture of the item and a brief description of the item.
Also pay attention to the Control screen. It will identify the
keys used to play SPIN.
[SPACE] Fire Weapon
[ALT] Fire Weapon Backwards - Only on Advanced Weapons
<-- and --> Spin Left or Right
<W> Toggle WARP drive On or Off
^ and v Accelerate / Deaccelerate
Other Keys
[+][-] Set the music volume
[F1] Change to the next song
[F10] Clear stuck keys
[ESC] Quit playing SPIN
Items found in the SPIN universe can be collected by touching them
with your ship.
SCANNERS:
Long Range Scanner:
You are in the center (The purple crosshair). Objects appear
as colored dots in the scanners. Pirates are RED and they blink!
To fly towards an object point the nose of the ship in the
general direction of the object from the crosshair. Use the
<W>arp drive to quickly move towards the object.
When a freighter is being attacked by a pirate you will see a
little blue crosshair at the location of the freighter.
Short Range Scanner:
Again you are in the center. Watch for the object you are closing
on to appear in the short range scanner. Once it does press <W>arp
again to shut down the WARP drive. Steer the ship towards the item.
Fly over the item to collect and/or activate it.
BAR Indicators:
Energy Indicator:
Along the LEFT edge of the screen is the energy indicator.
Your ship can initially store 2000 energy units, indicated
by the WHITE bar. The colored bar on top of the WHITE bar
indicates the energy remaining. When it turns ORANGE or RED
your energy reserve is critical!!!
By adding addition storage tanks you can increase you capacity
to 6000 units. Look for objects in the SPIN universe that add
storage capacity.
There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your energy status.
Speed Indicator:
Next to the energy indicator is a speed indicator. It shows your
speed from 0.0 to 9.90. It turns blue when you are in warp.
There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your speed.
Other Indicators:
Weapon Indicator:
You will see an alpha-numneric indicator of your current weapon
type and the shots remaining on it.
Shield Indicator:
When you first start you have no shield, the indicator will
show an OFF status. Collect shield objects to increase your
shields effectiveness. Higher values are better here!
Run-Time Options:
SPIN will load up to 10 MOD music files for background music.
These can be any MOD's you like. Copy your favorite MOD's to your
SPIN directory. Remember that <F1> will change to the next song.
STATIC: On some sound cards there is an annoying static with
the music. Pressing <F4> should clear this static up!
Several Options can be specified at run time.
spin -s no sound at all
spin -m no music but spill play sound effects
spin -q for slow PC's, will make it run quicker.
spin -? get quick help on these options
Multiple options can be specified. IE: spin -m -q
Now go at it!!! Type SPIN and enjoy our little demo!!!!