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.

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.

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).

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.

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.  

                -- System Shock Development Team
                   LookingGlass Technologies
