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How to play
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It's really very simple. Just follow this link, wait for the game to load it's graphics,
and push the button with a ship shooting a beam. This will connect you to the game server, and if you coordinate with
your friends, you'll see other ships to shoot at when the game starts. You steer your ship using up, left and right
arrow keys, and fire by pushing space.
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Troubleshooting
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What? It doesn't work? Sosumi. (All Apple geeks ought to recognize this reference!) Here are some hints to making it work,
and even some reasons why it might not work at all. Oh, and be sure to check out the list of known bugs!
- Your Java applet permissions are "too secure." You may need to enable applets to access sites outside the source domain,
as well as making sure that you don't run them in a sandbox. These are the settings to check:
MacOS (IE): Select the Java panel from Edit->Preferences, and make sure that Network access is set to unrestricted,
and that access to non-Java class files is enabled (ie, the check box should be disabled..).
WinNT/2k/whatever: Open Internet options from the Control panels, select the Security tab, and modify the Internet settings.
You should scroll down to the Java security part, and select Custom. Then set everything to enable (the power user will understand that
enabling to settings takes care of biznizz). Now, just below this setting is a setting called Access to other domains (or similar). This
must be set to enabled.
Linux: Linux users shouldn't need help to configure their machines! Bwa-hahahahahah! I believe Galaxy Gladiator works best when run
in Konqueror.
With luck, you should now have your machine configured for running Galaxy Gladiator!
- The server is down -- there's fairly little you can do about this. Actually, there's nothing you can do about it.
- Can't see the title screen? Is it all messed up, showing only parts? Check the list of bugs, it should be listed.. Reloading usually does
the trick. If it doesn't, you may still be able to push the button for starting a game.
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Known bugs and shortcomings
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- Sometimes, the screen doesn't update properly after everything is loaded.
- High scores isn't implemented yet
- Nor is points
- No notification exists yet for determining if the server is up, that kind of thing.
- Everything else I forgot to mention
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Screenshot from the actual game
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