Wrong Way Go Back

If you are stuck where I think you are, then you need to turn on the air conditioning to give yourself enough time to reach your parent-bot's ship. To be able to turn on the air-conditioning, you need to have control over the environmental systems of the ship. Hope that gives you a clue.

How do you get environmental control of the ship?

To be able to control the environment within the ship, you need to have command status. To get command status, you must go to the Bridge and register yourself.

The ship you are trying to start belongs to your parent-bot, so it knows how to start it.

if you have a blaster to shoot it with in the first place, you've made a wrong turn earlier.

environmental controls in WWGB?

the point where you finish your encounter with your parent-bot, and are running along a corridor that is rapidly getting hot. The next passage then describes you being burnt to death.

And do you have to beat the soldier in comabt?

Even when I get environmental control I still get vapourised, regardless of timing. In the downloadable version, it implies that you should turn to numbers you find (ie: 24 for Gary Fishbourne) but when onine that's impossible

Just pick Gary's ID and select use!

If you have a command code, then when you reach the final corridor, you will automatically use it to turn on the air-con. Unless there is some flaw somewhere, the only way to get cooked in the final corridor is to run out of time, or not have the command code. Are you sure you have the command code? You went to the bridge after leaving the nightclub? If you do, then perhaps there is a bug somewhere. Alternatively, if you would like to write a description of the path you follow through the book I can tell you where you are going wrong. At this point you might be thinking that it would be much easier if I was to just give out a walkthrough. But I am philosophically and morally opposed to giving out walkthroughs.

Yep, I've test played it multiple ways and the only way I burn up in the final corridor is if I don't have the command code.

I talk to the computer, learning the level I am on. Then I head for the command deck, stopping in the medic's area along the way. I ignore the Observation dome, get my and Gary's IDs, show the guards Gary's ID, return to the bridge, get environmental control, fight the soldier, run along the corridor, turn right for a power pack. Deactivate the parent-bot, get on her ship, with still at least 10 minutes to go and still I DIE of cremation.

Yep, tried using Gary's manual on the parent-bot and nothing happened

To to be able to use the programming manual, you need to access the inside of the parent-bot by removing the panel that is sealed with screws

With the screwdriver in the room with my ID?