Incoming (demo, "Lux et Robur")

Rage Software, 1998, Direct3D (DirectDraw + D3D, DirectInput keyboard, DirectSound, DirectPlay) arcade shooter: you fly or drive vehicles and man gun turrets. Candidate incoming-demo, app incoming_demo, local only.

Source and layout

• archive.org incoming_201401, incoming.exe (3,971,633 bytes, sha1 c00f73f19088d50c8fb3690fc7a0fea503ea5f5f).
• That file is a WinZip self-extractor, and the zip inside is a ready-to-run tree (no installer): incoming.exe (the game, 926,208 bytes), gameindex.exe, asc\ (language text, level scripts levels.txt, africa\*.odl/.wdl/.bin, pads\PAD0.CTL), ppm\ (256x256 PPM textures), pcobject\ (.ian models), wavs\, and save\incoming.cfg plus store.lev.
• The candidate extracts the zip to installed/incoming (guest c:\incoming). The working directory must be the game folder: it opens asc\language\.\keychar.txt relative to it, and a bare --exe= run stops on the "Incoming Error Report." MessageBox "File asc\language.\keychar.txt not found !!".
• Imports: USER32, GDI32, WINMM, ole32, DDRAW, DINPUT, DPLAYX, DSOUND, KERNEL32. The readme lists its command-line switches (-notfullscreen, -nosound, -nolighting ...); none are needed.

Route (headless, --batch-size=100000)

• About 1,500 batches of loading ("Please wait.... loading Incoming." window, 646x506), then the 640x480 3D main menu: Start Game / Load Game / Game Options / Exit.
• Enter on Start Game, then Enter three more times (about 400 batches apart), goes through the Mission Briefing (Kenya, ADATA installation) into phase 1/10 in the gun turret. Frames at 3,400 batches and later show gameplay.
• In the browser, four taps on the touch Enter button do the same.
• Game Options = Down x2 + Enter; Controller is the fifth item. Its Keyboard page is the authoritative key chart: Space fire primary, L Shift fire secondary, arrows left/right/up/down, Q forward, A reverse, Z/X rotate left/right. The touch layout uses exactly these keys.
• Don't press Enter blind in the Video submenu: it toggles the first setting (Lighting).

Verified behaviour

• Left held about 90 batches turns the turret about 180 degrees, toward the base.
• Space fires: the score went to -3000 with "RADAR DAMAGED" when the turret faced the friendly radar dish.
• L Ctrl does nothing, as the chart says.
• Browser at 844x390: holding the dpad turns the turret, and holding Fire draws tracers.

Evidence: scratch/runs/20261011T1822Z-incoming-demo-w4/.

Not checked

Audio output, DirectPlay, flying/driving phases beyond the first turret phase, Threads vs cooperative mode differences, WebKit.