Hints and Tips for the ‘Acorn Computing’ Cyborg Demo
• At the start scroll right so that both the left and right hand arched doorways are just off the screen to avoid being fired at by too many troopers at once! Keep shooting the troopers that appear in the upper window while not shooting any of the FGAs (Friendly Green Aliens!).
• Eventually two energy packs and an odd-shaped key will appear (one pack will be off screen to the left). Pick up each of these with the tractor beam.
• Click the switch below the fan to turn the fan on.
• Turn on the tractor beam and click over the keyhole just below the shield (right of the upper window) to open a sliding panel in the wall. Before it closes, quickly turn off the tractor beam and shoot out the glass panel. Poison gas is released but should be dispersed safely provided you remembered to turn on the fan!
• Use the tractor beam to click on the red lever revealed behind the glass panel to activate the statue to the right. Shoot the statue before it drops an ion bomb.
• Pick up the ion bomb dropped by the statue and look out for a small key behind where the statue was sitting - it's not very conspicuous so look hard - and pick up the key.
• Click with the tractor beam over the keyhole in the chest and pick up the crystal that pops out of the chest. As you pick it up a panel in the floor slides open and two small droids fly out.
• Shoot the droids with the laser and drop the ion bomb into the hole in the floor, shooting any further droids that appear, if necessary.
• Scroll over to the right and observe the yellow markings on the wall - they are an alien security code. Scroll back left and click on the three switches on the red/green console in the correct order as given by the security code. (For the brain dead its middle, left, right!) You will hear a whirr (a door opening somewhere) and a further energy pack, ion bomb and a sonic weapon will pop up - make sure you catch the energy pack before it disappears down the hole in the floor!
• Select the ion bomb and scroll right again until you see a large robot firing at you from the newly opened door. Quickly drop the ion bomb on him. He will explode and release a second crystal. Pick up the crystal with the tractor beam.
• Move back left, out of the line of fire of the troopers, and wait until you see the little brown weasel-like creature running to the right, pushing a crystal in front. Select the sonic weapon and fire it to freeze the creature. While it is frozen click on the crystal with the tractor beam to pick it up.
• Look for a secret panel in the wall just to the left of the second arched doorway and level with the top of it. Click on it with the tractor beam and pick up the key that appears.
• Scroll right and click on the second chest with the tractor beam to open it with the new key.
• Grab the crystal that appears and scroll right until you reach the end of the level where you can now click on the switch by the door which will open, provided all four crystal indicators above the door are lit.
