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- Playing SPIN:
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- Upon starting SPIN, you will be presented with a series of
- title and information screens. Pressing the spacebar will take you
- past each one of the screens and into the game.
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- Pay attention to the information screen that shows you each of the
- items you will encounter in the SPIN universe. You will see
- a picture of the item and a brief description of the item.
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- Also pay attention to the Control screen. It will identify the
- keys used to play SPIN.
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- [SPACE] Fire Weapon
- [ALT] Fire Weapon Backwards - Only on Advanced Weapons
- <-- and --> Spin Left or Right
- <W> Toggle WARP drive On or Off
- ^ and v Accelerate / Deaccelerate
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- Other Keys
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- [+][-] Set the music volume
- [F1] Change to the next song
- [F10] Clear stuck keys
- [ESC] Quit playing SPIN
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- Items found in the SPIN universe can be collected by touching them
- with your ship.
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- SCANNERS:
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- Long Range Scanner:
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- You are in the center (The purple crosshair). Objects appear
- as colored dots in the scanners. Pirates are RED and they blink!
- To fly towards an object point the nose of the ship in the
- general direction of the object from the crosshair. Use the
- <W>arp drive to quickly move towards the object.
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- When a freighter is being attacked by a pirate you will see a
- little blue crosshair at the location of the freighter.
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- Short Range Scanner:
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- Again you are in the center. Watch for the object you are closing
- on to appear in the short range scanner. Once it does press <W>arp
- again to shut down the WARP drive. Steer the ship towards the item.
- Fly over the item to collect and/or activate it.
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- BAR Indicators:
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- Energy Indicator:
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- Along the LEFT edge of the screen is the energy indicator.
- Your ship can initially store 2000 energy units, indicated
- by the WHITE bar. The colored bar on top of the WHITE bar
- indicates the energy remaining. When it turns ORANGE or RED
- your energy reserve is critical!!!
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- By adding addition storage tanks you can increase you capacity
- to 6000 units. Look for objects in the SPIN universe that add
- storage capacity.
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- There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your energy status.
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- Speed Indicator:
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- Next to the energy indicator is a speed indicator. It shows your
- speed from 0.0 to 9.90. It turns blue when you are in warp.
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- There is also an alpha-numneric indicator of your speed.
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- Other Indicators:
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- Weapon Indicator:
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- You will see an alpha-numneric indicator of your current weapon
- type and the shots remaining on it.
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- Shield Indicator:
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- When you first start you have no shield, the indicator will
- show an OFF status. Collect shield objects to increase your
- shields effectiveness. Higher values are better here!
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- Run-Time Options:
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- SPIN will load up to 10 MOD music files for background music.
- These can be any MOD's you like. Copy your favorite MOD's to your
- SPIN directory. Remember that <F1> will change to the next song.
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- STATIC: On some sound cards there is an annoying static with
- the music. Pressing <F4> should clear this static up!
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- Several Options can be specified at run time.
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- spin -s no sound at all
- spin -m no music but spill play sound effects
- spin -q for slow PC's, will make it run quicker.
- spin -? get quick help on these options
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- Multiple options can be specified. IE: spin -m -q
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- Now go at it!!! Type SPIN and enjoy our little demo!!!!
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