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LANDER.PAS
This a game where you try to land on a planet. The planet is
unspecified and changes each game. Thus the gravity changes,
as well as fuel supplies, speed, and starting height. In
addition there are meteor swarms to contend with. The file
LANDINST.DAT contains instructions for this game.
LANDINST.DAT
The instructions for LANDER.PAS.
TERMINAL INSTALLATION
Before you use this program, it must be installed to your particular
terminal, i.e. provided with information regarding control characters
required for certain functions such as cursor control, screen clear,
etc. This installation is easily performed using the program contained
in TURBOINS.LBR available elsewhere on this system
The install program will give a menu listing a number of popular
terminals will appear, inviting you to choose one by entering its
number. If your terminal is not amoung those offered, enter the number
corresponding to "None of the above" and answer the questions one by
one as they appear on the screen.
As the questions are asked, you may find some that your terminal may
not support. If so, just pass the command not needed by typing RETURN
in response to the prompt. If Delete line, Insert line, or Erase to
end of line is not installed, these functions will be emulated in
software, slowing screen performance somewhat.
Commands may be entered either simply by pressing the appropriate keys
or by entering the decimal or hexadecimal ASCII value of the command.
If a command requires the two characters 'ESCAPE' and '=', may:
either
Press first the Esc key, then the =. The entry will be
echoed with appropriate labels, i.e. <ESC> =.
or Enter the decimal or hexadecimal values separated by
spaces. Hexadecimal values must be preceded by a dollar-
sign. Enter e.g. 27 61 or $1B 61 or $1B $3D which are
all equivalent.
The two methods cannot be mixed, i.e. once you have entered a non-
numeric character, the rest of that command must be defined in
that mode, and vise versa.
A hyphen entered as the very first character is used to delete a
command, and echoes the text Nothing.