M2 Crosshairs is a program which adds crosshairs to your Marathon 2: Durandal display to help eliminate guesswork while aiming. It works best for playing Bazooka Tag or sniping with a rocket launcher. It does not work with grenades, and is not very useful with the flamethrower.
Hardware:
M2 Crosshairs requires a PowerMac running MacOS 7.0 or better. It should work with any size monitor and any number of colors that Marathon 2 supports, although it has not been tested with Millions or Billions of colors. It has not been tested on multiple-monitor systems. It does not work on a 68K Mac. It might work with Marathon 1 and should work with Marathon Infinity, but I have not tested them.
Setup instructions:
Run the M2 Crosshairs program. Check out the cool About box (wow! cool!). In the Crosshairs menu, choose the number of colors and the screen size which you use in Marathon (Full Screen or not Full Screen). Choose Draw from the Crosshairs menu to start drawing the crosshairs. They look weird in the Finder, but don't worry. Leave M2 Crosshairs running and start Marathon 2. Kill the Pfhor or your pfhriends. After you quit Marathon, quit M2 Crosshairs, unless you like the crosshairs in the Finder. The colors and screen size are saved for the next time you run the program.
Everyday use:
Since the options were saved when you first set up the crosshairs, they shouldn't have to be changed. Just run M2 Crosshairs before starting Marathon 2.
Possible crashes:
Don't set the number of colors higher than the number which your monitor is currently using. For example, if you set the crosshairs to Billions of colors and your monitor is only using 256, it could crash. Setting the crosshairs for fewer colors than your monitor will cause the crosshairs to be drawn incorrectly but it won't crash.
Special graphics cards or accelerators might crash, because M2 Crosshairs uses a memory trick which they might not like. There is nothing I can do about this, sorry!
Possible problems:
The crosshairs are generally only accurate for a right-hand weapon. A second pistol or shotgun aims slightly to the left.
All weapons have inherent inaccuracy. The best example is the assault rifle at long range. You won't hit much from there, with or without crosshairs. The pistol, fusion rifle, and rocket launcher have less inaccuracy, so they work better with crosshairs.
Watch out with the rocket launcher at close range. The rocket shoots from your left, so it may hit a target close to you on your left before it gets to the intended target.
Grenades fall a lot from gravity, so the crosshairs do not work for them at all.
Fairness:
You will of course give a copy of the crosshairs to all of your friends, right? It's not nice to kill them just because you have a better helmet display. Well, maybe just once…
