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Astro Solutions Darkwar Magnets 3D Applet 1-2 players
1.10.2024

This is a version of Darkwar Magnets with untextured 3D graphics. You must destroy the bombs in this space shooting game. Your bombs fly to the nearest green ball or away from the nearest red ball, if it is nearer. This game is for one and two players. The game is won after 100 eliminations. The first player changes the position of his spacecraft with the cursor keys. If the game mode is the fly up mode, the key , is used to change between flying up and flying forward with the cursor keys. DELETE or BACKSPACE is the shooting key. The key . activates and deactivates the camera moving mode. The keys + and - can be used to change the camera distance. ESC is a key for quitting the current game. The second player changes the position of his spacecraft with the keys s, y (or z), x and c. If the game mode is the fly up mode, the key w is used to change between flying up and flying forward with the cursor keys. The key a is the shooting key. The key e activates and deactivates the camera moving mode. The keys r and t can be used to change the camera distance. If you start the game in the standard mode, you can define aliases for the steering keys at the beginning. This can make sense for keyboard layouts different from the german keyboard layout. There is also a one player mode for starting the game. It was added, because then the playing frame can be smaller.

This Applet version is compatible to JAVA 1.1.8, MSJVM (JView) and JAVA 1.8, because it uses a deprecated JAVA API.