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When the lander hits a speed of 75, press 5. This applies enough thrust to maintain
the current speed. Now just coast down towards the plant’s surface. When the
altitude reaches 1000 (feet? Meters?), press 8. You’ll be dropping fast, but the rate
of descent will slow down. Once your speed reaches 5, press the 5 bottom and just
wait for a safe landing.
Short version:
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When speed reaches 75, press 5.
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When altitude reaches 1000, press 8.
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When speed reaches 5, press 5.
After Glenn passed away, I spent many hours trying to perfect various two-button
solutions, but never got a one button solution that worked reliably. So here it is, but
it requires careful attention when doing the first button press. If the speed reaches
83 then you’ll almost certainly die:
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When speed reaches
exactly
82, press 6.
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When speed reaches 5, press 5.
Farmer Brown
This was another favorite of family and friends. When this was loaded into RAM, the
fun part was changing the table of the six animal patterns. Since this version is in
EPROM you can’t do that, but it’s still a fun game. I like running this at vintage
computer shows and demonstrate the “graphics” capabilities of a computer with six
7-segment LEDs (not much) to kids.
[AD] [1] [8] [0] [3] [GO]
Press RS (reset) to end either game.
Using the TTY Mode
Back when the KIM-1 was popular, teletypes were the most common terminal, as
they were readily available used for a decent price. A lot has changed in 40 years.
Now we use our PCs/Macs/whatever and run a terminal emulator.
The KIM Clone has a type B USB connector on the back edge. When this is plugged
into your PC, it might take a minute for the proper device driver to be loaded, but
you should get a new COM port corresponding to your KIM.
