Date   : Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:35:57 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Re: Elite

FARAZ CHOUDHRY writes:
>Hi dudes/dudesses, I need your help on something.  Can
>anyone please tell me, how do you actually make IFF
>work on Elite A?  OK, I buy the stuff and equip my
>ship with it.  However, I don't see a great difference
>from not having an IFF  -  OK, I notice difference in
>shades of the radar object, I see the offical objects
>like the space station as white.  Though I can barely
>see any red in the missiles of pirate ship, I can't
>see any blue colouring about.  Does IFF have to be
>enabled in any way, does it explain in CTRL-f6?

No, you just buy the IFF unit and a decent colour monitor for your beeb :-)
The easiest way to identify unknown objects is to roll or pitch so there is a
decent length of tail showing on the radar; note that some objects share the
same head colours, but have different (striped) tail colours. This is an
unfortunate consequence of trying to implement this feature in 3 bytes.

a.