visconti@banana.cis.ohio-state.edu (mark a visconti) (11/19/90)
I am stuck on the first level of Captive. Here's what I did.
I went to the planet with the green flashing dot and landed. Once on the
planet, I went through the portal. I cleared out the level (from what I
can tell) and now I am stuck.
What do the big energy things do ? Where is the holamap ?
What does the hint in the rule book "dancing on the ceiling" mean ?
(I tried anti-grav, but to no avail)...
Suggestions ? Other than the fact that I am stumped, this is
a great game. The manual seems rather lacking in information, but I guess
that is half the fun.
Hints ? Email or Posts will be fine
Thanks,
Mark Visconti
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visconti@cis.ohio-state.edu spierce@pnet01.cts.com (Stuart Pierce) (12/01/90)
I have been informed that the commercial release of Captive does not suffer from the problems I encountered with the demo copy, so don't let my post stop you from buying it. Has anyone seen the Amiga release of Star Control yet? Stuart W. Pierce
synek@cadence.com (Kamil Synek) (12/07/90)
Hi, I just bought the game Captive but I am having problems with saving my games on the A1000. I put an new disk into the drive, select the disk icon and then I format the disk. After it formats the disk, the message "Disk Status Ok" shows up. I then Save Game 0, it access the save disk but it doesn't save the game and the message "Disk Not Found" shows up. I tried this with both df0: and df1: to no avail. I went back to the store where I bought the game (HT Electronics, in Sunnyvale) but the saving worked on both their A500 and A1000. Because of this the salesman wasn't very helpful and his response boiled down to "You have to know what you are doing". I tried saving the game on my A1000, duplicating all the steps that the salesman went through (see above paragraph), but is still doesn't save. I tried fiddling with my amiga such as disconnecting my memory expansion and that didn't have any effect. I want to find if anyone has encountered the same problem when saving their games. Any help or information is appreciated. Kamil Synek
markwi@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Mark Wignall) (01/25/91)
I have a simple yet very puzzling question Re: CAPTIVE. I start out travelling to the blinking plannet, and upon landing, I find the note indicating the correct order of buttons to press for opening the "porthole"/door. Anyway, once I get in, I find a thing of dynamite and it says to use the explosive to destroy generators. Okay, neat, now I know what it is used for, so off I go, trying to find one of these "generators". Well, I spent nearly 5 hours trying to get out of that little 1x3 square room, can't go out the door I apparently came in, tried reversing the sequence of buttons, and that didn't work, finally saw the little electric outlet, touched it and started firing at the walls, and noticed one wall "sounded" different. So I tried desperately to throw this electricity at the wall for about 30 minutes then realized that that was not going to work. Anyway, in short, HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS PLACE!!!!! Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall