Independence War Cheats

Start the game with one of the following command line parameters to activate the corresponding cheat function:
Result
Command Line Parameter
Play in desktop window -w
Disable sound -xsound
Play the game in English -english
Play the game in German -german
Play the game in French -french

When your ship is heavily damaged, press [Left Shoft]
+ O to enter the options menu. While the enemy ships are
paused, your repair teams will still be working.
Strategy
Published strategy guides

K - Dock with ANY vessel
0 - Destroy targeted ship
S - Force next mission event
; - Freeze target
I - Invunerability
J - Jump to lagrange point
8 - Jump to target
9 - Match target's velocity
A - Superspeed
BACKSPACE - View previous movie
W - Win the mission

LEFT-SHIFT-8 jump to target vicinity
LEFT-SHIFT-9 match target's velocity
LEFT-SHIFT-0 [Note: That's a zero.] explode targeted ship
LEFT-SHIFT-I invincibility
LEFT-SHIFT-W instant mission win
LEFT-SHIFT-P send a PCX image file (screen shot) to PSGRESOURCEARTSCREENS directory
LEFT-SHIFT-M send a continuous stream of PCXs to Directory