Demo questions/problems

[Q]

Phoenix-D said:
The cheat codes should work in the demo.

EDIT: make sure to use your system map, too. I just tested it, and with default engines I can go from Freeport->Genesis->Pakulon->Biktos->Lothon->Styz->freeport in just over 80 days..

This is weird.
So the trip you describe was done from 2400.00 to 2400.80 (0.01=1day)?? In that time I just get from one side of the freeport system to the opposite!
I checked the movement of other (AI) ships: they seem not to move faster than mine. The maximum speed of my ship is indicated as 500, as expected.
At standard time rate 0.01 stardate (=1day) takes about 10 seconds of real time on my computer (P3, 500Mhz, 256Mb RAM, Matrox Graphics MGA-G200AGP B8R2). So the trip described above takes about 800 seconds real time at standard time rate (1x) and on higher time rate (8x) about 100 seconds.

And I don't get the cheat codes to function, but as mentioned that could be a problem with the country selection of the key boards. The "~" is on my keyboard an "Alt Gr" character on the key "^`" just left of the "Backspace" key. Where is it on the US keyboard?