Re: The Double 3D Extravaganza of October

On 21-Oct-07 18:27:07, Seppo said
>On 21 Oct 2007 15:59:35 +0000, "Angus Manwaring" wrote:

>>
>> A good plan, I think, but it may not be a long term policy as your
>> stockpile island changes so often,.

>Trust me, I know what I am doing  ;)


Oh my God......    :)

>>
>> Or you could try and lure in the enemy carrier for a confrontation. At
>> this stage, you are unlikely to defeat it, but you could bloody its
nose,
>> and cause it to disappear fro a while giving you time for expansion - I
>> don't know how well that would work, but there are options.

>You forget one thing - chances are both of the carriers are badly
>damaged meaning Epsilon might need some serious repairing, too.

That is probable, but you may find, repairs aside, that Omega's "morale"
is more seriously affected than yours.

>>
>> Come on Seppo, dish the dirt, we want details.  :)

>Been busy with Interphase lately, I shall concentrate now on this  :)

Yes!   :)

>> I've been rediscovering aspects of the game. I have made quite good use
of
>> the comms pod this time, keeping a small defensive force on a key
island
>> while Epsilon went off to mess up some enemy islands. It didn't stop
Omega
>> from attacking however, but it may been the crucial element in
repelling
>> the assault.

>Maybe it even made Omega to attack - a retaliation of you messing up
>with enemy islands?

Having considered this more carefully I think my forces arrived just after
the attack had begun, a bit like the Cavalry.   :)


>> I feel a speech coming on.   :)

>Uh, oh...   ;)

Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many, to so
few.   etc etc etc


>Ran into small hickup with save games - it seems I cannot save under
>E-UAE. The game uses NumL key to quit, and apparently the NumLock
>key in the PC keyboard won't work. I suppose it is impossible to change
>the quit key in this slave? As I cannot quit the save game is not
>written
>to the third disk image and is lost when I quit the emulation.

>So, I have been playing Carrier Command on A1200 - the problem there is
>the
>TFT monitor which has some problems with Amiga video...  :/


Well, can't you UAE bed-wetter girlie toss-pot bar stewards use the save
state function or something?

But otherwise if you use the tooltype quitkey=$59 that should remap the
quit function to F10.

Cheers.

                  All the best,
                        Angus Manwaring.       (for e-mail remove
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