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Re: oxyd -- what's up?

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From: Dan Cable
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:37
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klassa@aurs01.UUCP (John M. Klassa) writes:

>Howdy ST Gamers...

>I downloaded oxyd.lzh over the weekend & can't get it to do a whole lot.
>It throws up screen 1, then this little propellor/flower-looking thing
>drops down on my little icon (a cannonball, it looks like) and smashes
>it all to hell.  When I try to move (via the mouse), my icon moves a
>little bit, then gets smashed by the propellor thing anyway.  I die
>almost instantaneously, three times in a row, then the game ends.

>What am I doing wrong?

I can't tell you what you're doing wrong, but did you let any kids look at
it? Mine's (11 year old) been playing the stupid game continuously for
days now. I gave him the disk and he just started up like he was born
playing it.

Dan

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From: dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable)
Subject: Re: oxyd -- what's up?
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