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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Landing the plane in Blue Max
Keywords: How do you do it?
Message-ID: <3592@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 06:39:19 GMT
References: <789@unm-la.UUCP>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <789@unm-la.UUCP>, peter@unm-la.UUCP (bill peter) writes:
< My 5-year old son recently got the new 8-bit cartridge Blue Max.
< It's a good game for his Atari 800 XL, but he has had trouble
< landing it according to the instructions.  I also have trouble.
< After pressing the joystick button, the plane sometimes can
< land and sometimes can't.  What's wrong?  Thanks in advance.
< -- 
< Bill Peter                            wkp@lanl.gov.arpa   
< Los Alamos National Laboratory        ihnp4!lanl!wkp

I believe, Bill, that you must slow all the way down (to 100 mph, is it?)
before the plane will land safely.  I.e., you press the joystick button,
the "speed" readout starts dropping, and you can land safely only after
it STOPS dropping and "bottoms out," as it were.  Try that.


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