>Is it intentional that the minimum thrust setting is 10%?
I'm afraid I can't answer that... only Jack can.
I seem to remember that with that setting, if nothing else is
changed, you get pretty close (though you have to do 100% thrust
for a few seconds...)
>After the game ran correctly for about six hours, it lost the thrust
>indicator (the little horizontal line with a two-digit percentage right
>next to the thrust control bar). It was still possible to control the
>thrust. After another half hour, the display stopped working entirely,
>although from the keyboard beeping on crashes, it was obvious that the
>game was still running. I surmise that the display list was getting
>corrupted.
That is possible... each crash extends the display list because of the
wreckage. But I'm not sure. I have seen the unit run for MANY hours
without crashing or even losing any of the display... I guess it may
have to do with how much memory you have.
A few tricks...
o I'm sure you know about flying through the mountain, so
I won't mention it here.
o Same for the trick of flying up over the mountain and
landing on the other side... I think these have both been
documented
o If the lander lands successfully within range of the
McD's, it sets the amount of fuel to be a constant for
the take-off. You can land again if you are fast on
reducing the amount of thrust.
o The amount of fuel left is kept in location 130 or 140
(if I remember correctly). If you run out of fuel, it
is possible to halt the machine and fuel-up :-)
>If I'd had time to do it, it would have made sense to ask someone for a
>copy of the RIM loader and a description of RIM format, and use that
>instead, since it would require much less time to toggle in, and be less
>error prone.
Or take out the extra serial interface and put in an RX11 and attach
it to a desktop RX01... My first contact with a GT40 was in such a
configuration... running RT-11 (1975)
>I suppose that I should mention that Mike Cheponis and I won the VCF
>First Place award in the Minicomputer category for our GT40 exhibit. It
>was rumored that Jack Burness might attend the VCF, but AFAIK he didn't.
Congrats!
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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