Star Fighter 3000 Pilot's Manual
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All options on the menu can be selected / altered using the
return key or clicking the mouse. Use the cursor arrows or move the
mouse to select different options
- Start Game
- Start the currently selected mission.
- New Game
- New game clears all progress on the current level pyramid, and
starts a new game.
- Select Level
- This toggles through whether the game should start on the Easy,
Medium, or Hard level pyramid. Alternatively, you can enter a
password.
Selecting 'Pcode' displays the password for the last completed
mission and allows you to enter a new code, which if correct, will
select and set up the correct pyramid to a previous setting and
start the game.
- Configure
- Selects the configuration menu.
- Quit
- Quits the program.
Although the original in-game Configure menu has been retained
in this version of Star Fighter 3000, it does not give access to
all the options available from the Choices
dialogue box and often a more limited range of settings is
available.
Some earlier versions of the game saved configuration to file
every time it was updated. You now have to explicitly save
configuration (using the desktop interface) if you wish to retain
settings between sessions.
- Volume
- Alters the sound & music volume.
- Control
- Select Keyboard, Mouse or Joystick control. Mouse control has 3
levels of sensitivity, 3 being the highest. Joystick may be either
switched (Atari-type) or analogue (PC-type).
- Setup
- Setup allows you to customise the game format by cycling
through 7 options, each of which can be selected and altered:
- - Setup Backdrop [On / Off]
- This toggles the war backdrop. Turning the backdrop off will speed up the menu.
- - Setup Detail [V Low, Low, Medium, High, V High, Max]
- Reducing the detail level will speed up the game (especially on
'V Low', if your eyes can take it). The configured detail level
affects both the texture map and the distance at which you
can see objects.
- - Setup Music [On / Off]
- Toggles the in game music.
- - Setup Speaker [On / Off]
- Switches the internal speaker on & off. Unlike other
options, the speaker state is not configured on start up.
- - Setup Keyboard
- This option allows you to redefine the ship control keys. On
selection, you will be prompted with Left, Right, Dive, Climb,
Thrust & Fire. Press and then release the required key at each
of these prompts.
- - Setup Speed [Slow / Medium / Fast / Max]
- This sets the maximum speed of the game, the default being 'Medium'. 'Max' is unlimited just so people with fast computers can show off.
- - Setup Stereo [On / Off / Reverse]
- Turning off stereo sound effects will speed up the game. Reverse stereo is for people with their speakers the wrong way round.
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