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Cheating at OMEGA - getting level "Omega" clearance and generaly kicking the
game's ass.
First off, you need to acutally have an Id.Disc setup by the game - in other
words, you've gotta be playing first. Next, enter "Design" and select Design
Cybertank. Select "New" - you want to make a new one. Let's call it "Target"
Select "Chassis", and the worst of everything - don't bother with any of the
"Special" gizmos, just with the other junk. If you have extra cash, leave it -
you're building the target for you to blow away.
Select "AI" and enter the following:
program
turn left 1
move forward 2
turn right 2
move forward 2
branch to program
"Authorize" this tank and save everything - select "ECM" so that everything
gets saved off.
Now boot your file-copy program. You should make a copy of either your Omega
3.5 or your Omega "/system/" disk [the boot disk] - this is what we need to
screw with.
In any case, select DELETE FILE or whatever, and delete all the files from the
"/system/cetanks" directory [3.5": /o/dir1/cetanks/] - that WAS a list of the
tanks that you're go up aganst in Clearance Evaluation.
Now select COPY FILE, and copy the "O.TARGET" [the sitting duck tank you just
made] from your Id.Disc to the .../cetanks directory. Copy it 7 more times -
use "F2" "f3" etc as filenames when your copy program bitches 'cause of dup
filenames.
When you have 8 copies of "O.Target" [most renamed, of course], select RENAME
FILES and change them to this list:
BUSTER
DINKY
DUCKY
EIDOLON
INTREPID
MIRAGE
OGRE
PANDA
Check and double-check your work. If all looks good, boot the game.
What happened, you say? Well, in the ../cetanks subdir is the 8 tanks that the
game throws at you for each level of clearance evaluation. PANDA is tough, and
OGRE is impossible. So all you did was create a tank that travels in a drunk
line and doesn't shoot back.