Re: Oil Landers

[florpch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Lawrence S Lee)]

In article <C4EzoH.3s5@news.claremont.edu> dhua@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Hua) writes:
>
>	How do you play Oil Landers?  No matter what I try, I can't seem to
>do anything in the game.  Is it because you need a joystick, and all I've
>been using is a mouse?  Help!

As far as I've been able to figure out, you use the mouse on the main map to
highlight individual blocks... your tanks face right, the others face left.
You can move tanks by selecting the MOVE button and clicking on the tanks
that you wish to move, and you can also attack other tanks by going into
action.

Once you choose to fight, you need a joystick. One button fires, one button
arms the aiming reticule. When you turn on the aiming ret, your turret
becomes detached from the chasis, meaning that you can move in one direction
and shoot in another. When you're using the crosshairs, you can use the up
and down arrows to zoom your view in and out, and pressing enter, I believe,
turns on telemetry data.

My problem, however, is that my joystick doesn't quite work with the game
(ie. I can't slow down once I start moving!) and the game crases when I try
to VIEW a type II tank. I got my copy of Oil Landers from cco.caltech... and
i've tried several times. I dunno if I'm jinxed or something.

Good luck, and happy hunting!

(It occured to me that the combat mode in oil landers is MUCH like
Spectre... if someone could release something like spectre, that'd be REALLY
cool.)  Speaking of cool, I sent in my registration fee for Dueltris, and
it's WELL worth it. Kudos to the packaging, too!


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