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From: ldoering@caen.engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: SimEarth goodies (again!)
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.083458.14029@engin.umich.edu>
Summary: What they do (some of them anyway)
Keywords: Is this all?!
Sender: Larry Doering
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
References: <1991Mar16.040825.27676@mcs.drexel.edu> <1991Mar20.003050.17175@mcs.drexel.edu>
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 08:34:58 GMT

In article <1991Mar20.003050.17175@mcs.drexel.edu> urwest@mcs.drexel.edu (Richard W. West) writes:
>>	Anyhow, so far all I have gotten for additional options is:
>>JOKE
>>RAND
>>SMOO
>>ERAD
>>
>>	Are there any others?  What about the robots?  There should be more
>>considering the amount of hub-ub over these SimEarth goodies..
>>
>
>	Well, the answer I got was a copy of the message that I got those four
>commands from in the first place.  I thought there was a list out there
>somewhere that contained more than the ones I have listed above.  Can anyone
>help?

Well, I tried the four-letter words the other night.  Just type the word
and hit return.  The game does its thing and then plays the little tune
you hear when life evolves, or civilization develops, or whatever.
They do the following:

JOKE - Briefly displays a joke in a dialog box in the middle of the screen.
RAND - Regenerates the terrain on your planet with random elevations at
       every location.  All elevations seem to be above sea level, so any
       oceans you may have disappear.
SMOO - Smooths the contours of the terrain in the close-up box.
ERAD (and ONAN) - Make time accelerate.  Couldn't tell if evolution speeds
       up too, or just the time scale.

As for robots, all you have to do is wait for a nanotech city to appear,
and then nuke it (or wait for a nuclear war, or whatever.)  A single robot
will appear on the site of the nuked city.  There are 16 species of robot,
and the lowest species appears first.  (No, they aren't in the manual.)
Robots reproduce and mutate like crazy, and will displace *all* other life
on your planet.  When they develop civilization, they start in the 
Industrial Age, and will attain exodus quickly.  The remaining less-
developed robots then evolve to civilization, and attain exodus, leaving
less-developed robots who quickly evolve to civilization, and attain
exodus...

Don't know if there are any other "Easter Eggs" out there.