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- Comments and Errata for the System Shock Playable Demo, v1.1
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- 1. Memory: System Shock requires 4 Megs of memory to run, including
- approximately 500k of low memory. System Shock will attempt to use more
- memory than that for additional features, such as higher resolution
- texture maps, blended bitmaps, and improved cache performance.
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- 2. Playing the Game: System Shock comes with some on-line help tools to
- help you learn to play the game as quickly as possible. When you first
- start the game, a screen overlay will appear, labelling the various
- regions of the game screen. This overlay can be brought up again by
- hitting Alt-O. In addition, there is an automatic on-line help system
- that will advise you on how to play the game and manipulate the interface
- during the early stages of the game. It will turn off automatically after
- leaving the initial area. If you want to turn it back on again, use
- Alt-H. There is also a list of keyboard commands, that can be accessed
- via the ? key. These keyboard commands are also in help.txt, in the same
- directory as this file.
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- 3. Changes from the Real Game: Since this is, well, a demo version of the
- game, we've disabled saving and loading. Needless to say, in the real
- version of the game, you can save and load games. In addition, a few
- features regarding the "look" of the game were removed for the demo.
- Specifically, there are fewer unique textures in the demo than there are
- in the real level 1, and some anti-aliasing techniques that work in the
- real game are not in the demo. A few creatures and sound effects that are
- present in the full game have also been removed for the demo. On the
- other hand, the audiologs that are in the CD demo are not in the floppy
- version of the full game (but will be in the CD version).
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- 4. Running the Game: To run the demo, put this CD-ROM into your CD-ROM, go
- to your CD-ROM drive, and type sshock at the DOS prompt. This will bring
- you to a menu from which you can run the game, configure and test your
- sound card, or exit out. Playing the game requires 5 Megs of available
- hard drive space, although that space is only needed while you are
- actually running the demo itself. Once you are in the game itself, select
- "New Game", set your difficulty levels, and have fun! Remember that
- difficulty level 0 in a given category means that we have attempted to
- remove that element as much as possible.
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- 5. We hope you enjoy this demo! If you do, the full game is available
- at a computer software retailer near you, or can be ordered directly from
- Electronic Arts at 1-800-245-4525.
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- -- System Shock Development Team
- LookingGlass Technologies
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