I bought shuttle a long time ago. I never got past the first test orbit flight. The recent space shuttle flight got me thinking about it again. I got the game running thanks to a program called DosBox. But I am running into the same problem I ran into when I first bought it.
The problem I have is in the deorbit stage. The launch and orbit phase went according to the book. I then selected mission coms and went about stowing Ku, radiators, and payload doors. The first unusal thing was that the KU band antenna jambed and I was requested to jettsion it, which I did. After the radiators and payload doors were stowed, I was requested to switch the DAP to manual, which I did. This is were I ran into problems. I was not instructed to do anything else, but after awhile I start getting promts from mission control to proceed. I'm not sure what I am supposed to do though. I am running it in full auto mode.
Am I missing something? The manual has very detailed launch sequence instructions. However the landing instructions are not as well detailed. I'm not sure if I am supposed to translate (rotate) the shuttle to position for the deorbit burn and it is waitng for me to do that??? Or is it waiting for me to do something else?????
I than tried starting in orbit. But I get a problem deploying the KU band antenna. The message from mission control when I click on the switch is that the switch is locked. And I can not proceed further in the mission because it is waiting for the KU antenna to be deployed.
I remember somehow getting the shuttle to deorbit when I first bought it, but I don't remember how I did it. I do remember running into these same problems back then.
Can anyone that has played this game have any hints/suggestions!
I have heard that this game has bugs in it, but I don't know if what I am running into is a bug or if I am doing something wrong.
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