Introduction
Storyboard
Original Manual
Scans
Starting a Game
About A. Crowther

Monitors
Movements
Droid Status
Disk
Group Display
Hands
Sleep & Pause
Remote Control

Skills
Inventory

Encounters

Weapons
Droid Parts
Items
Dev-Scapes
Optics
The Camera
Walls
Shops

FAQ
Miscellaneous
Tips & Tricks
Sounds
Pre-Captive
Bugs
Did You Know?
The Map Generator
Tools

History
Thanks
Links/Contact

• Improved the droid parts page by adding part specifications
• Remove "from droid" in sound description of "Electric Bolt". It's the same sound generated by some encounters too (ie. R2D2).
• Swap "Tripos" and "Diplocus" in the sound page
• Clarify the reason for the different explosion sounds (same reason as the elevator sounds)
• New "Did you know?" entry regarding the text around the Holamap
• Many new bugs related to the elevators
• Mention that the strength of an exploded camera is related to the dexterity of the leader
• Update SuperCC tool

• New sound page
• Remove section "Encounters in solid rock" on Miscellaneous page. It's already mentionned in the bug page.
• Explain on the walls page that grate traps unlockers are initially pushed in on base 2 and 3
• Add arrows to move from screen to screen in the storyboard
• Mention the alternative "Guru Message" in the "Did you know?" page
• Add the note regarding the snake encounter being the only one not generating a sound when attacking
• Specify that the mapper optic is 11 x 7
• For the supported weight written in the inventory, add that a part with low health will only support 1 kg
• Add keyboard click small bug

• Move the history archive links at the bottom of this list
• Convert introduction graphics (title and suitase) from PNG to JPG files to increase loading speed
• The mystery of the second floppy disk on the Atari ST has been solved. See the scan page for details.
• Change the name of the "Punch" weapon to "Fist"
• New weapon deactivation delay table
• Add an asterisk next to "Twin Cannon" in the damage table to specify the value is per boulder
• Correct the total amount from the trick of selling clipboards on the first planet
• Explain in the "Did you know?" page what Ratt-DOS does and also explain why the screen turns red and green when booting Captive
• Add that devices must be offline in order for sleeping to not reduce electricity. Also add the same remark in the "Tips and Tricks" page.
• Add the PC medium bug about maps being only "Basic".
• Correct the size of saved games from 15,050 bytes to 14,990 bytes.
• Update SuperCC tool to version 2.4

• Inverse the order of months in history. No need to scroll at the bottom anymore to see if anything has changed.
• Update the image of the planet probe and Ratt message items.
• Change the image of DigDug in the map generator section. Previous version was too fuzzy.
• Add "Punch" as a brawling weapon. This one was somehow left out!
• Specify that the hand deactivation delay is shorter with high quality weapons.
• Remove the "Weak", "Average" and "Strong" factor for doors in the weapon section and change it to a fix damage value.
• New "Electricity Cost" column in Dev-Scapes and Optics tables.
• Modify some elements of the mapper optic legends.
• Rename "Power Zapper" Dev-Scape to "Power Sapper".
• Add the switch activation medium bug (good catch Mike!)

• New "Pre-Captive" section.
• Move "Miscellaneous" under "FAQ" in the menu.
• Confirm the bug about the experience points wrapping back to 0. Been meaning to verify this for months!
• Mention that the MapGen bug is fixed in the integrated version of SuperCC.
• Say what happens when a droid is using a droid part without having enough skills for it.
• New damage table in the weapon section.
• Talk about Zlots in the weapon section.

• Specify that "Track Ball" and "Floater" encounters also detonate mines with their electric bolts.
• New logic bug about fire hydrants not extinguishing fire.
• Add new theory about the mysterious Guru message on the FAQ page.
• Change "roughly converted to C" in the map generator introduction page. It's fully converted to C++!
• Explain what is considered an empty base in the "Placing Generators" page of the map generator section.
• In the weapon page, indicate that electricity in a charged hand slowly drains even if unused.

• Add logic bug about the exploding generators following the root path.
• Add price of the map item when sold at a shop.
• Mention that bolts of R2D2 encounters detonate mines.
• Remove theory of "TV Guns" fireballs flying under doors. It's illogical to say that for iris doors.
• Use "Weak", "Average" and "Strong" to describe door crushing factor insetad of "1", "2" and "3".
• Remove a little blue box generated by Steem on the screenshot of "Encounters in solid rock" of the miscellaneous page. This has also been added as a bug. Finally, invite the reader to read the map generation section to understand the concept of floors in Captive.
• Remove the "2 Ladders" in the miscellaneous page It's not THAT rare to be worth mentionning.
• Talk about the weight and supported weight information in the inventory screen.

• Indicate how much money is given for some items sold a shop.
• Indicate that dice don't work on base entrances in the items section.
• Specify that you can toggle between the inventory and skills of a droid by clicking its name while either one of them is displayed.
• Mention that fireballs fired from "TV Guns" encounters will detonate mines.
• Add the fact that a camera can travel on fire.
• Add doors as a form of weapon.
• Add bug of an item being dropped above a ladder leading up and down (thanks Mike!)
• Explain my theory why the displayed experience is not more than 65,535 even though it can get much higher than this.
• Mention that the more greaser Dev-Scape you have, the easier you will walk under heavy weight.
• Add droids icon in the legend of outside mapper Optics icons.
• Remove IE7 menu problem notice in Links page. Long live Firefox :)
• Remove FreeCap link in the Links page. I knew this wouldn't go anywhere.
• Rename "water fountain" to "fire hydrant" in the miscellaneous page.
• Change the maximum flying items from 16 to 32 in the "Did you know?" page.

• Change "Lifting door" to "Raiser wall", and "Sliding door" to "Door" on legend of Mapper Optic.
• Specify that the quality of a Tindron head has effect on its view in the droid parts section.
• Add droid chip in the list of items.
• Remove the mouse cursor from the screenshot of MapGen in tools section.
• New MaxSkill tool.
• Shrink the size of the Lock Decoder screenshot in half in the tools section.
• Fix discrepancy between history page and bugs page about space station 3613 (thanks Andrea!)
• Minor changes here and there to map generator section, except perhaps for the floor creation page that has new graphics to better explain the creation of random rooms.
• Move 2 "Serious" bugs into the "Medium" section for the PC version of Captive (infinite electricity bolts and die sometimes not working) .
• Clarify what a weapon quality is used for.
• Add protection notes about regular shields and fire-shields Dev-Scapes.
• Specify that a die item will not work on Trill doors.
• Mention the trick of throwing a Ball/SuperBall item from the weapon section to have one automatically placed in the hand from the inventory.
• Add the tip of clicking directly on the shopkeeper to go back in the chain of menu sequence.
• Indicate when personal skills (dexterity, vitality and wisdom) increase.
• Add the section "Logic" in the list of bugs.

• Started to archive the history. Only the last 12 months will now remain on this page.
• Add bug of space station 3613.
• Add more breathing room around text of weapons to make it easier to read .
• Add power sockets in the list of walls and weapons.
• Add more stuff on the "Did you know?" page (pictures and "Federation War" info) .
• Change text on scans page that says the second floppy is never asked. It's not entirely true.

• Rewrote paragraph on "When does it end?" of the FAQ page, simultaneously indicating that the last mission is 2316.
• New Bugs page. The bug list of the PC version have been moved from the FAQ page to this new page.
• Rewrote the "I'm stuck on..." sections of the FAQ page to make it more obvious for people looking for help because of the PC bug.
• Add arrows to navigate through each pages of the Map Generator section. Also made minor fixes to the entire section.
• Add more info regarding disk two of the Atari ST version on the FAQ page.
• Change images of grate traps unlocker to be in a dead end (as it should be) on the Walls page.

• Step by step creation of a map is now explained in 'The Map Generation' section.
• Be more precise as to what "25 elevators maximum" means in the "Did you know?" page.
• Add "GoBot" in the list of inspired encounters in the "Did you know?" page.
• Clarify some bugs in the PC version.
• Add a table in weapons page to show their accessibility related to skills.
• Add a table in droid parts page to show their accessibility related to skills.
• Change the strange 1234.8 base on the miscellaneous page with an even strangest one: 2640.2
• Removed the "My Imaginary Friend" section of the miscellaneous page. It's not a weird bug after all (Michaël was right... again...)

• Click here to see the history of 2007

• Click here to see the history of 2006

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