Does anyone have a manual for the CoCo 3 game "Overlord"?

[courtesi96]

I'm very interested in learning how to play Overlord from Oblique Triad, however I haven't been able to find a manual and find some of the game a bit confusing.

 

Is there anyone who can help?

[Briza1]

I'm very interested in learning how to play Overlord from Oblique Triad, however I haven't been able to find a manual and find some of the game a bit confusing.

 

Is there anyone who can help?

gidday courtesi.

 

that is one game I have not managed to locate Docs for...

 

Btw You are not the Courtesi that frequented the old coco chatroom years ago?

 

laters

 

Briza

[courtesi96]

Yes it's possible that it was me.

 

I don't have a CoCo so I am using VCC. I attend the yearly CoCo fests but find the prices a bit expensive.

 

Since I am only interested in a small handful of games these days I don't think it would be worthwhile to track down the original hardware.

[courtesi96]

I think I'm slowly figuring out this little by little.

 

The one thing I am having a hard time figuring out is once a factory is set to produce a certain necessity how you can tell the factory to make something else after you have plenty of tanks/etc. Currently it suggests that once you make your initial choice you are stuck with it until you take over another factory.

 

Also it is very difficult to play a game with high difficulty (assigning the computer a higher production yield) without everything coming to a screeching halt. Sometimes I've witnessed the CoCo "thinking" for around 30 seconds.

 

An earlier statement by the author suggests they weren't entirely happy with the AI algorithms used - not to say it's slower but not as effective.

 

The DistantSystems site is down so I don't know how to get a hold of the author. It would be interesting if this game could have the AI routine improved, with Cartridge/6309 support thrown in to help speed it up.