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- S3 Tank v1.10
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-
- By
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- Giles Goddard
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- What is it?
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-
- You are on an alien planet. Twenty years ago it was designated as the
- dumping ground for the most dangerous artificial intelligence
- operated machines known to mankind.
-
- Two months ago the planet's security radars picked up an unidentified
- tank, which was systematically turning each machine back on!
-
- The military have been banned from using nuclear weapons so they have
- ordered the best assasin they have to resolve this potentialy fatal,
- effectively leathal situtation.
-
- Your mission is to stop these machines from destroying each other or
- anything else. The highest priority are the battle tanks which are capable
- of extreme damage and therefore must be terminated first.
-
- You have been equipped with the latest computer assisted battle tank,
- in which you must accomplish the whole mission. Any damage it recieves
- will be repaired by a team of engineers at the end of each level, if
- you survive. Good Luck!
-
-
- The game
- --------
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- The game screen has 5 areas:
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-
- -------------- ----
- | | |Info|
- | Play area | | |
- | | ----
- | |
- | | || ----
- -------------- || |Map |
- | Status | || | |
- -------------- ----
- ^
- Speed meter
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- The Play area is your window into the 3d world.
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- Information such as shield level and the amount of tanks remaining is
- displayed in the Info window.
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- Your tank's on-board computer displays information in the status window.
-
- The Map window contains a rough map of the surrounding objects, enemy
- tanks are shown as big dots, anything else as small dots.
- When all enemy tanks are out of firing range the display is a long
- range radar type. If an enemy tank comes within firing range the map
- display automatically switches to a close combat mode. In this mode all
- objects inside the V in the centre of the display are visible from your
- turret.
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- Front view: Right view:
- ----- -----
- | . | | . |
- | \/ | | < |
- | . . | | . . |
- ----- -----
-
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- Left view: Rear view:
- ----- -----
- | . | | . |
- | > | | /\ |
- | . . | | . . |
- ----- -----
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- There are 10 levels in this game, the first 3 are free, please register
- to access the rest of the levels.
-
- Controls
- --------
- Use the Left/Right cursor keys to rotate your tank, holding the Psion
- key down will increase the rotation speed.
- Use the cursor Up/Down keys to speed Up/Down.
- Press Space to launch a missile.
- Pressing Control and Cursor Left/Right/Up/Down will rotate your tank's
- turret. ie. Ctrl+Left = Left view, Ctrl+Down = Rear view.
- The default view at the start of each game is the Front view (Ctrl+Up)
-
- Have fun!
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-
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- How to install using MCLINK:
- ----------------------------
-
- 1) Make a temporary directory on your PC.
- 2) CD into it.
- 3) Plug your Series3/A into the PC and make sure MCLINK connects correctly.
- (If it doesn't, try changing the port parameters using SET inside MCLINK)
- 4) Unzip the file S3TANK.ZIP.
- 5) Type MCLINST, and press return.
- 6) Install Tank.opa on the Series3/A.
-
- How to modify the MCLINK install:
- ---------------------------------
-
- MCLINST.BAT will run MCLINK in batch mode and copy all the files that are
- needed into REM::M:\TANK\
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- You can change the batch file to copy to another drive ie. A: or B: but don't
- change the directory.
- S3Tank looks for its files in a \TANK directory on all SSDs in this order:
- M:, A: and then B:
-
-
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- How to install using RFM:
- -------------------------
-
- 1) Make a temporary directory on your PC.
- 2) CD into it.
- 3) Plug your Series3/A into the PC and make sure it connects correctly.
- 4) Unzip the file S3TANK.ZIP.
- 5) Type RFMINST, and press return.
- 6) Install Tank.opa on the Series3/A.
-
- Note:
- The batch file tries to make the directories \TANK and \APP. If they
- already exist the MKDIR command will fail. Don't worry, the batch file
- will just continue to copy the files.
-
-
- How to modify the RFM install:
- ---------------------------------
-
- You may need to change the PORT and BAUD settings in the batch file to
- match your system. Check with the RFM manual about how to do this.
-
- RFMINST.BAT will run RFM and copy all the files that are needed into
- M:\TANK\ on the connected Series3/A
-
- You can change the batch file to copy to another drive ie. A: or B: by
- changing the USE command on the first line of the batch file.
-
-
-
- Note:
- S3Tank looks for its files in a \TANK directory on all SSDs in this order:
- M:, A: and then B:
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- Comments to:
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- Giles Goddard
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- gsg@cix.compulink.co.uk
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