Keyboard Controls

From Aleph One Wiki

The background story of the game and the keyboard controls are explained in the manual or README file on your Marathon CD or in the Demo archive. Here is a rundown of the default keyboard configuration (assuming a US keyboard; all keys are mapped by position):

  On the menu screen:
    N - Begin new game
    O - Continue saved game
    P - Preferences
    R - Replay saved film
    C - Show game credits
    Q - Quit
    Command-Option N - Skip to a level (Macintosh)
    Ctrl-Shift N - Skip to a level (other systems)

  In-game:
    KP8     - Walk forward
    KP5     - Walk backward
    KP4     - Turn left
    KP6     - Turn right

    Z       - Sidestep left
    X       - Sidestep right

    D       - Look up
    C       - Look down
    V       - Look ahead

    A       - Glance left
    S       - Glance right

    Space   - Fire weapon, primary trigger
    Alt     - Fire weapon, secondary trigger (e.g. grenades)
    KP7     - Select previous weapon
    KP9     - Select next weapon

    Tab     - Action (open doors, flip switches, log in to computer terminals)

    Shift   - Sidestep
    Ctrl    - Walk slowly/swim
    Meta    - Keyboard look

    M       - Overhead map

  Other keys (not configurable):
    -       - Zoom overhead map out
    =       - Zoom overhead map in

    ?       - Toggle FPS display
    \       - Activate text chat (net games only)

    Esc     - Quit game/leave terminal
    Alt-Q   - Quit game
    Alt-C   - Quit game (use this under BeOS because Alt-Q will quit
              the whole Aleph One application without warning)
    Alt-P   - Pause game (press Alt-P again to resume)

    F1      - Decrease screen size
    F2      - Increase screen size
    F3      - Toggle high/low resolution
    F4      - Reset OpenGL textures
    F5      - Make the chase cam switch sides
    F6      - Toggle chase cam
    F7      - Toggle tunnel vision
    F8      - Toggle crosshairs
    F9      - Screen dump (saved in Screenshot_*.bmp files in ~/.alephone/ or ~/Application Support/AlephOne)
    F10     - Toggle position display
    F11     - Decrease gamma level
    F12     - Increase gamma level

    ,       - Decrease sound volume
    .       - Increase sound volume
    [ and ] - Scroll player inventory view

    Backspace - Switch player view in replays
    [ and ] - Adjust film replay speed

If you click on "Defaults" in the keyboard configuration menu when mouse control has been turned on you will get a different keyboard layout, more suited to mouse play.