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[Asquire]

Great game.... but I can't figure out a lot of the controls.

[Geezer]

Originally Posted by Asquire

Great game.... but I can't figure out a lot of the controls.

I'll have the manuals done and uploaded tomorrow (2/17/2008). Then it's a matter of where in the pecking order the updaters can get them on the site.

[Japo]

The specific controls are in a separate document called "technical supplement", since the manual is the same for every platform (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64).

[Geezer]

Originally Posted by Japofran

The specific controls are in a separate document called "technical supplement", since the manual is the same for every platform (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64).

I scanned the technical supplement as well.

[Robsie]

I am a big fan of modern submarine warfare (i don't really like WW2 sub games though), and i play often with Sonalyst/Jane serie 688i Hunter Killer, Sub Command and Dangerous Waters.

After toying around with Red Storm Rising, i just can't believe i missed that game for so long.
It is an incredible game, certainly not as realistic as the other sub sim i play as the combats are a bit simplified in the detection department, but the campaign is way more interesting than them due to its dynamic nature.

Microprose was really something, it is sad there is no such modern sub sim made with this kind of dynamic world and only ww2 sub sim ones have some.

[Fubb]

if I could code, I would wanna make a modern sub sim, but it would placed in either the Pacific or atlantic or indian ocean. It would be derived from the game 'Submarine Simulation' because you could actually go pretty much anywhere in that game, which is why it was so awesomeness.

Cept it would be like a freeplay sort of game, where you will like get a mission like 'Sail to the Sea of Japan and spend a 1 week patrol of the area there' or 'Oh Noez red october is going to America!' or something, or you could be a rouge and nuke Russia or something awesome like that

But i dont have coding abilities. Unti lthen, ill have to do with this great game

I actually own the DOS version of this game, red box and all. Unfortunately, a) I lost the floppy disks a long time ago, b) even if I hadn't lost them they probably wouldn't work anymore (magnetic media like floppy disks do actually go bad in 10 years or less), and c) my latest computer doesn't have a floppy drive anyway.

I loved playing this game. Some may have a problem with the fact that the battles are often very slow and ponderous, but if you try to fight them too fast you just end up dead. Things like torpedo trajectory matter, and the AI is surprisingly smart, and will attempt to trace back a torpedo based on where it came from. They zig-zag through the water so you can't reliably sneak up on their rear. The diesel-electrics are practically ghosts until they surface for air. Destroying a convoy while remaining undetected is very satisfying. Playing the game in the Seawolf time period is arguably a cheat. Some of the "future weapons" are just there for the sake of making the game easy, like the swimout torpedoes which don't produce a launch signature.

Great game, and hopefully I'll be able to get it working in dosbox so I can play it again.

The game works, but now I don't know what key to press to confirm an acoustic signature. It's not on the keyboard overlay in the PDF. Enter doesn't work. Shift+enter doesn't work. The manual says to "hold down the Vessel Signatures key [which is shift?] while pressing the Confirm Choice key [which is apparently not enter?]." I've tried most key combinations that aren't marked and nothing seems to work.

Originally Posted by Unregisteredd

The game works, but now I don't know what key to press to confirm an acoustic signature. It's not on the keyboard overlay in the PDF. Enter doesn't work. Shift+enter doesn't work. The manual says to "hold down the Vessel Signatures key [which is shift?] while pressing the Confirm Choice key [which is apparently not enter?]." I've tried most key combinations that aren't marked and nothing seems to work.

In the acoustic signatures menu, press <shift>+the letter of the craft you suspect. This will put that profile above the signature composite you have. Then press enter to check if the signature for that contact matches your guess. If it does, the contact identity is assigned, otherwise, your CAS profile goes back to 0% (resulting in a lost contact if signal strength is below tracking.)

In difficulties below ultimate, craft will automatically be identified once your solution gets high enough. Also, at any difficulty you can identify ships by going to 55 ft and using the periscope with F4. Rapidly pressing "c" in periscope view allows you to cycle through all ships you have any solution on, identifying them and boosting your solution up to 99%. I'll use this at distances of about 20ky.

[Duda]

Originally Posted by Asquire

Great game.... but I can't figure out a lot of the controls.

Just experiment

Some of the main are 1,2,3,4... and Z,X,C... , i.e. the whole row of keys

Hope it helps.