Rescue on Fractalus
time for some serious 8-bit action; one of the best games ever and we need to rescue some downed pilots and shoot some Jaggies![:)]()
If you've not played R.O.F. before (why?!) then you need to know some of the basics so here goes:
fly around shoot the Jaggies, land near the pilot (<3 on the radar) get enough of these guys return to the mother ship and level up! You need to have the joystick near the keyboard for this one...
R adar long/short range
L and
S ystems on/off - use to fry aliens
A irlock open/close - to let pilots on board
B oost - return to the mother ship
+/-? take off / change speed
hint: when rescuing fly slowly and start to land and then take off again quickly to get near to a pilot![:)]()
play the full disk version (if you can) with the animated loading and score table (I think?) - atarionline.pl V1 ATR or Fandal ATR are the kiddies. Atarimania has ROM (of '87 version suitable for XEGS) and guide in the atari user review at the bottom.
regular gaming - play any levels as you wish (you may start on level 1)
pro challenge - start on level 4 (default), go up every 4 levels, you must find the ace on each level (I expect the better players to go for this one)
post score and level reached.
[scoring...hmm]
EVERYONE WELCOME to play; if you need any help just ask - it's a relatively tricky game to understand the controls but really worth checking out. Some links that might help:
http://www.retrocoll...800xl130xe.htmlhttp://www.qlam.com/...i/s_rescue.html
http://en.wikipedia....ue_on_Fractalus!
round closes Tuesday 2nd July 10am UK Time
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time for some serious 8-bit action; one of the best games ever and we need to rescue some downed pilots and shoot some Jaggies
If you've not played R.O.F. before (why?!) then you need to know some of the basics so here goes:fly around shoot the Jaggies, land near the pilot (<3 on the radar) get enough of these guys return to the mother ship and level up! You need to have the joystick near the keyboard for this one...
R adar long/short range
L and
S ystems on/off - use to fry aliens
A irlock open/close - to let pilots on board
B oost - return to the mother ship
+/-? take off / change speed
hint: when rescuing fly slowly and start to land and then take off again quickly to get near to a pilot
play the full disk version (if you can) with the animated loading and score table (I think?) - atarionline.pl V1 ATR or Fandal ATR are the kiddies. Atarimania has ROM (of '87 version suitable for XEGS) and guide in the atari user review at the bottom.
regular gaming - play any levels as you wish (you may start on level 1)
pro challenge - start on level 4 (default), go up every 4 levels, you must find the ace on each level (I expect the better players to go for this one)
post score and level reached.
[scoring...hmm]
EVERYONE WELCOME to play; if you need any help just ask - it's a relatively tricky game to understand the controls but really worth checking out. Some links that might help:
http://www.retrocoll...800xl130xe.htmlhttp://www.qlam.com/...i/s_rescue.html
http://en.wikipedia....ue_on_Fractalus!
round closes Tuesday 2nd July 10am UK Time
