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INT-13
P*R*E*S*E*N*T*S
1LAZER SQUAD DOXS
Your ship is equipped with an Energy Shield, up to six Missi-
les and two Beam Lasers, front and rear. If your Energy Shield
is totally exhausted, your ship will cease to function. Energy
shield absorbs incoming laser fire, as well as missile explosi-
ons, if it is fully charged. Missile hit reduces shield energy
very substantially, so it is always better to outmanoeuvre any
incoming missiles (if you learn how to do it...) Energy shields
will recharge gradually when you are not in fight.
When you fire lasers (using ALT-key), your Laser Energy will
decrease. When it is exhausted, your lasers start to go on and
off. This is not dangerous, release the ALT-key, and soon Laser
energy will increase. Any laser fire that hits your ship will
show in blue, while your laser rods are yellow if you miss, and
red if you hit your target. When your target is destroyed, the
lasers register a sudden energy burst and turn white for an
instant. (EGA version).
To fire a Missile you should have your target on crosshairs,
then press CTRL and a missile will be launched, provided you
have any left. I should also tell you that there is a chance
your Missile Launchin System (MLS) jams. If this happens, you
cannot use missiles during the battle.
Game Keys
The keys you need in this game are as follows:
Up Arrow = Dive (nose down)
Down Arrow = Climb (nose up)
Left Arrow = Rotate (roll) ship counter-clockwise
Right Arrow = Rotate (roll) ship clockwise
PgDn = F9 = Decrease Speed
PgUp = F10 = Increase Speed
Alt = Fire Laser
Ctrl = Target/Fire Missile
F1 = Front View
F2 = Rear View
F3 = Left View
F4 = Right View
ESC = Quit (that is, surrender!)
All other keys are sent to your opponent's CommScreen, so you
can chat in the middle of a game. (But don't fall into that old
trick, when your opponent asks you something, and then attacks
while you have your 'pants down', ie. your fingers not on the
control keys!)
Main Menu
When the game begins, you are presented a menu. This menu is
what I call 'Main Menu'. It has eight options, each of which is
described below in detail. You can select using either cursor-
keys and pressing RETURN (or ENTER or <┘), or you can press the
appropriate function key (F1 ... F8). ESC will get you to main
menu from anywhere, and pressing ESC while in main menu drops
you back to DOS (or to BBS, if that is the case).
MODEM CONFIG
This is a menu that needs to be used if you play LAZER SQUAD via
communications line (which should be the case, although this is
ofcourse not necessary). If you plan never to use a line, you
can skip to the following chapter.
There are four switches on this menu, as follows:
1) Port. You must select which Com Port to use. Currently the
options include COM1 to COM4.
2) Baud. You also need to tell the game what is the baud rate
of the connection. You can select a fixed rate between 300
and 19200 baud, or Check to make LineWars use the presently
active baudrate of the line.
3) Connect Mode. There are three possible positions for this
switch. If you plan to use Lazer Squad with a direct line or if
you use some other program to make calls with your modem,
you can set it at the 'Direct Line' - position. Note, that the communications line MUST be 8 databits, 1 stop
bits and no parity !
War Settings
This menu you need to use whether you play single or with a
friend. The switches are:
1) War Mode. Select 'Duel' if you want to use the line, 'Single'
if you want to play alone. If Single, the Line Settings will
have no effect on the game.
2) Key Damp. Turn this switch off, if you are very experienced
in flying a spacecraft! Try it, at least.
3) Framerate. Use this setting to select the best framerate for
your skills and machine. I think the 18 Hz (that is, 18 new
pictures, 'frames', every second) is the best. Unless you
have a 6+ Mhz AT, 'Fast'-position will not make the game run
any faster. On 12.5 Mhz AT the difference is very notable!
If you are just practicing, the 9 Hz might be right.
4) Enemies. Against how many at a time can you handle? Note by
the way, this the maximum number of ships, not the number of
ships that attack you all the time. This has no effect when
playing 'Duel'.
5) Codename. If you are playing 'Duel', you can now select a
horrifying nick-name that creates terror in your enemy...
Terminal
If you have no other terminal program to use when dialing the
computer of your friend, you can use this one integrated into
LAZER SQUAD. It is very simple, for example it doesn't interpret
ANSI-codes, but it works. When Terminal is started, you can see
the active com port and baudrate from the bottom left corner.
From the bottom right corner you see whether you are Offline or
Online. The keys you can use are as follows:
F1. If you have selected 'Hayes-modem' and you are Offline, now
pressing F1 lets you dial a number. If you are Online, you
can hang up pressing F1.
F3. Pressing F3 switches between Server-mode (Local echo on, if
Offline and Hayes-modem, wait for a caller) and Normal-mode
(Local echo off, don't answer incoming calls). You should
not change this unless you can't see what you have typed.
If both ends are in Server-mode, characters will echo from
one machine to another endlessly ! By convention only STM
door activates Server-mode automatically.
ESC quits Terminal and returns you to main menu.