tejtemw@ioe.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) (07/20/90)
Quite some time ago, someone asked for a list of the keyboard commands for MacLanding. Here they are, including information from previous comp.sys.mac.games postings about the smart bombs. ------- Keyboard commands for MacLanding: Left shift key Move ship down Tab key Move ship up Command key Reverse ship direction Apostrophe (Single ') Thrust Return Fire Option key Hyperspace Space bar Pause Number keys 0-7 Set volume Enter key Smart bomb, but only on old (Mac+) keyboards. On newer keyboards (SE and later) it doesn't work. Rumor has it that patches exist (this info comes from other postings on the network). -- Earl M. Williams ?8^) "No matter where you go, there you are." Inst. of Education, U. of London -Buckaroo Banzai INTERNET/JANET: tejtemw@ioe.lon.ac.uk "When in doubt, lay it out." BITNET: tejtemw%<same>@ukacrl.bitnet -Captain Ultimate [Frisbee]
floren@siodo.UCSD.EDU (Joseph Floren x46986) (07/24/90)
In article <1990Jul20.094415.11641@ioe.lon.ac.uk> tejtemw@ioe.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) writes: >Keyboard commands for MacLanding: > ...misc commands deleted... > >Enter key Smart bomb, but only on old (Mac+) keyboards. > On newer keyboards (SE and later) it doesn't work. > Rumor has it that patches exist (this info comes > from other postings on the network). Actually, the Enter key only fires the smart bombs on the truly old, pre-Mac Plus keyboards without the 10-keypad. These old keyboards had an enter key at the bottom right of the alpha keyboard, and this enter key is DIFFERENT from that on all later keyboards. There is a patch to make this work, recently posted by Ted Johnson (ted@hpwrce.HP.COM): s/0010 6758/0008 6758/ and s/0010 6644/0008 6644/ This maps the smart bomb onto the backspace key (use resedit or the like). Joe Floren