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Is there a way to display a timer that ticks down at the top of the screen?

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Please answear my question!

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Mag Steelglass i like him ok slug?

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Originally posted by Avatara:
**Is there a way to display a timer that ticks down at the top of the screen?
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No, but there is a way to make a timer that ticks down at the bottom. 🙂 Just set a condition for the game time to display messages. Hint, the time tick rate is twenty a second.

Oh, and Eminem, stop posting in this topic.

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Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour... Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-Polaris Confederate Recruitmant Theme
StarLance

What all needs to be done to make a level multiplayer only? I tried to modify one so that Tyrael and me could play it, and it didn't work. It kept going back to the default levels.

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"I can ail what cures you."

What all needs to be done to make a level multiplayer only? I tried to modify one so that Tyrael and me could play it, and it didn't work. It kept going back to the default levels.

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"I can ail what cures you."

Slug, in your Iron Fist plug, I can't seem to fulfill the winning conditions for "Raiders of the lost Narc". Even though I've killed everything and captured both planets, I still don't get the winning condition. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Maybe you could start a thread that has to do with help topics. Or no...

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Ne Cede Malis Sed Contra Audientor Ito

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Originally posted by Slug:
**I'm considering it, but the only format at my disposal is Simpletext.
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Hi there! Being in the publishing business, I could probably turn your Simple Text Manual version into a miracle in Quark XPress, and then into a pdf document, readable by all (thanks to those wonderful people at Adobe!). The current manual is, shall we say somewhat lacking in printability, not to mention readability...
🙂

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Oh, so it is another bug hunt then...

Is there a way to make a cruise missile type thing? I tried making a warping ship that looks like a missile and inherits destination with an arrive sequence of dying and creating a missile, but it didn't work.

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"I can ail what cures you."

Nono, just make this the arrive sequence:

-ALTER:
->OBJECT TYPE CMISSILE
-->KEEP AMMO set to OFF

Ta da! (there's a thing like that in StarLance except that it's a planet-to-planet Nuclear Missile, supposed to decimate the planet so you can send colony ships to colonize it)

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Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour... Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-Polaris Confederate Recruitmant Theme
StarLance

Well, you could have KEEPAMMO set to ON, but you might get some strange results...

(yet again I've changed my Sig.)

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Oh, I'm not saying those Alduran ships are bad. In fact, they make excellent minesweepers. Once.

-Orion Axis General Marxx
StarLance

Slug. You have a website. So tell me how to get one!

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Just go to (url="http://"http://www.treeway.com")treeway.com(/url)(the service I used for the Slugsoft site before the merger with Axis), (url="http://"http://www.homestead.com")homestead.com(/url), (url="http://"http://www.angelfire.com")angelfire.com(/url) (What Slugsoft used for miscalanious image and sound storage), (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com")geocities.com(/url)..... there are literally hundreds of free webpage sites out there......

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Good laws are produced by extremely bad manners.
Alduran Pirate Captain Macrobius
StarLance

It's that time of week! I've once again changed my signature.

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Good laws are produced by extremely bad manners.
-Alduran Pirate Captain Macrobius
StarLance

Slug, where's your new site?

By the way, tree, Geocities is a good one to use because they have an excellent file manager.

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Long Live Apple! Long Live the Mac!
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/salrillian")http://www.geocities.com/salrillian(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/evclassic")http://www.geocities.com/evclassic(/url)

Don't have a new site. I use the Axis Software Integrated site, but I keep losing the darned link!

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Good laws are produced by extremely bad manners.
-Alduran Pirate Captain Macrobius
StarLance

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Originally posted by Macintosh Man:
**Slug, where's your new site?

By the way, tree, Geocities is a good one to use because they have an excellent file manager.
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Except for the annoying ad. When my family subscribed to @home cable, we got 10 free megs of web space. There was a time when Apple was giving out 20, and we got that too. Now only if I was allowed to use it...

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(This message has been edited by Avatara (edited 10-06-2000).)

Oh, and is my signature too dumb?

I'm still trying to find a good one...

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Behold the Avatar of Fire!

I answered my own question: it is.

How do you make a beam weapon like the trazer that fires ONLY forward?

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Long Live Apple! Long Live the Mac!
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/salrillian")http://www.geocities.com/salrillian(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/evclassic")http://www.geocities.com/evclassic(/url)

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Originally posted by Avatara:
**Oh, and is my signature too dumb?

I'm still trying to find a good one...
**

Try taking off the exclamation point. Which sounds more serious:

Behold the Avatar of Fire!
or
Behold the Avatar of Fire

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Good laws are produced by extremely bad manners.
-Alduran Pirate Captain Macrobius
StarLance