Re: Wreck of the BMS Pandora docs. Anyone have any or keyboard commands?

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On May 7, 2:46 am, ".D.E." <arcadeg...@forget.the.spam.hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Anyone have any docs for this game? I have the original board game, but
> would love to play on the emulator, but need some docs or keyboard commands.

I have no docs but the game seems to be controlled by single
letter commands like early RPGs (for example the Ultima series
or several games from Epyx).

To walk into one of eight direction you press the appropriate
number key as seen in the lower right on the screen.

The player apparently has to stop an (alien) invasion on the
space ship. To accomplish this he may have to repair bots
(R key + direction). What these bots do - no clue...

Several pieces of equipment, armour and weapons can be
found on the floor - you can pick these up with the G(et)
command and L(ist) or E(xamine) them.

There are several more keys to experiment with but I have
little time at the moment.

A a disk image of the game can be found at Asimov (in the
"unsorted" folder) and the more adventurous gamer may look
at the BASIC source to gather more info.
The key input routine seems to be at the beginning of part 2...

I haven't found out yet what exactly one has to do but you
may have more luck when googling for the board game
this program is based on - I guess the principles are the same.

bye
Marcus