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Firstly, the robots have not been blessed with a great deal of intelligence,
and will be destroyed if they crash into each other, or any other debris
which has been left around from previous collisions.
Secondly, if you do find yourself in a tight spot, you have the ability
to teleport randomly to another spot on the screen.
Unfortunately, randomly teleporting means that there is a chance that
you might end up being right next to a robot so they can kill you when
they make their move. All is not lost however, as you can have a number of
safe teleports which will place you out of immediate danger. You can earn
more free teleports as you go along, getting one for each robot that is
destroyed while you are 'waiting', up to a maximum of 10. If you don't
want to waste your saved up safe teleports you can choose to randomly
teleport if you think it's safe enough.
You can switch the safe teleport option off to make the game behave
like the classic robots.
If you press the 'Wait' key (see below) you will no longer be able to move until either all of the robots, which still move towards you, are gone or you are killed. Doing this will earn you extra safe teleports as described above.
If you manage to reach the point where more than half of the screen is occupied by robots, the number of robots will be reset to the starting amount, allowing you to continue.
Up Left: Y Up: K Up Right: U Left: H Stand Still: . or Space Right: L Down Left: B Down: J Down Right: N Teleport: T Randomly Teleport: R Wait: Enter
Up Left: Q Up: W Up Right: E Left: A Stand Still: S Right: D Down Left: Z Down: X Down Right: C Teleport: T Randomly Teleport: R Wait: Enter
Up Left: 7 Up: 8 Up Right: 9 Left: 4 Stand Still: 5 Right: 6 Down Left: 1 Down: 2 Down Right: 3 Teleport: + Randomly Teleport: - Wait: EnterIn addition, the 'Space' key will start a new game if one is not already in progress.
You can select which game graphics you want to use from those available
in the drop-down list box.
This selection will remain in effect until the next time you start
the game unless you select the 'make default' check-box.
If the game is in safe mode and you try to make a move which would cause
you to be killed you are prevented from doing so. This only takes effect
if there is another safe move which you could have made, otherwise you
are allowed to proceed to your death.
If you don't select safe mode, then you don't get any protection at
all.
If the save teleports option is selected then you can earn safe teleports as you play they game. These will allow you to teleport without the risk of appearing right next to a robot.
The sound option allows you to switch off the beep when you get killed or make a invalid move.
If you have any suggestions or discover any BUGS you can e-mail the
author at Mark.Rae@ed.ac.uk