rios@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (Michael "Huh?" Rios) (11/15/89)
<can we....CONFUSE THE LINE EATER WITH MULTITASKING??!!??> Thanks to the all the faceless (from here) names that suggested the Amiga 'lo these many months ago...this is the best computer I've ever owned! But to business... I have a 500, 1M expansion w. clock (A501), and second floppy drive sitting on the desk at home. - Is there a PD program floating around that checks drive speeds? And just what are the normal specs for drive speed. - I can survive the tree in Shadow of the Beast (VERY good game). I sometimes can even make it to the castle and get in. What direction would be the best to run once inside the castle? - There is a portion in Rick Dangerous, in the pyramids, that looks something like this: _________________________ | | | A | | ---- | | A | | ---- | | | ---------- ----- | | | | | | | --| |- | | | | - | | | | ____| | | | | | | | | | | | SS--------- | | SSSSS| ---------------- (where A represents the little Abu Nidal guys, and S represents spikes). How do I beat this room? That's about all for now. Keep up the good stuff, all gamewriters out there! -- Mike Rios AT&T Secret Police att!ihlpb!mrios Happily growing older, never growing up.
mapjilg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold) (11/17/89)
In article <3095@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> rios@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (Michael "Huh?" Rios) writes: > - I can survive the tree in Shadow of the Beast (VERY good game). > I sometimes can even make it to the castle and get in. What > direction would be the best to run once inside the castle? Once into the castle - go left and up the first ladder. There's only one direction to go until you reach the statue that jumps from side to side of a ladder. Good timing gets you past that. Then go right till you find the spanner. You'll pick up extra lives along the way (in fact you'll be back to full strength for a moment!) Back left, keep going (punching and kicking all the way!) and you'll eventually end up, after a few jumps back at the in/out bit. Go left and get past the spiders,down the ladder, past the headless jumping things, till you drop off a ladder. You'll be asaulted by a crowd of brown missiles, but KEEP GOING, and DON'T STOP. Eventually, you'll find a force field which the spanner deactivates. After that, you have to pick up anything useful, get back to the entrance, go right and kill the 3-headed dragon you eventually get to.(I haven't yet managed). How do you survive the tree? I always seem to die when the red dragons pop up and I get jumped on by blue demons. Any tips? I've got past there once, but died at the bouncing balls with faces. Happy punching, J. Gold