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                                CHASE ACE 2 DEMO
                              from Space Time Foam
				  August 1999
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This document describes the basics of Chase Ace 2 demo and
some technical support issues.


How to play
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Fly your spaceship around on the level and shoot at everything that shoots at you. 
There are 2 different playingmodes for single player games and one mode for
multiplayergames.
The level "VENTING COOLANT" is a singleplayer only missionlevel where you have to
complete the mission pointed out to you at gamestart.
The level "NEBULAR" is a multiplayer or singleplayer level. When played in single
player mode, enemies and hostile turrets keeps spawning at random positions with
the only goal to destroy you. When you play multiplayer games you are alone on the
field with your friend (soon to become your enemy!)
You can pick up weapons and other goodies spawning on the level or by shooting the boxes.
Some of them will contain a powerup giving you extra firepower, more shield etc.


Controls:
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Red player:
	Forward: 	CURSOR UP
	Reverse: 	CURSOR DOWN
	Turn left	CURSOR LEFT
	Turn right:	CURSOR RIGHT
	Fire:		CTRL
	Turbo:		SHIFT
	Change weapon:	'
	Strafe:		ENTER	

Blue player:
	Forward: 	E
	Reverse: 	D
	Turn left	S
	Turn right:	F
	Fire:		A
	Turbo:		Q
	Change weapon:	1
	Strafe:		TAB
	
If you cannot find all the keys due to keyboard layout differences you can just
go to the keyboard configuration menu and remap the controls

Additional controls:

F1:  Help
F3:  Sound on/off
F4:  Adaptive zoom mode
F5:  Display framerate on/off
F6:  Take screendump (a bmp file will be written to the Chase Ace 2 Demo directory
F7:  Display helperarrows on/off (points at off screen enemies)
F8:  Sound volume down
F9:  Sound volume up
F12: Display map on/off


Direct X
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Chase Ace 2 Demo requires Microsoft DirectX 5.0 or newer. 
You can download the latest directX drivers at http://www.chaseace.com or at
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp


System requirements
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Pentium 200 mhz
Windows 95, 98 or 2000
11 mb free harddisk space 
32 mb ram
Svga graphicscard capable of running 640x480 8bit.
Sound card (optional)
Joystick/gamepad (optional)


Tech issues
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Playing in higher resolutions
   Chase Ace can be run in higher resolutions by giving command line parameters in your
   shortcut.
   Available resolutions:
	"chase ace 2 demo.exe -800" 800x600
	"chase ace 2 demo.exe -1024" 1024x768
	"chase ace 2 demo.exe -1280" 1280x1024
	"chase ace 2 demo.exe -1600" 1600x1200


Problems
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Keyboard not responding properly in 2 player mode:
   On some systems combinations of keys can cause the computer do halt and beep,
   or just not respond. Try reconfigureing one of the players until a combination that
   works is found.

Chase Ace wont start:
   If your DirectX seems to be okay, you have done the standard rebooting stuff and 
   Chase Ace still refuses to start, tell us. Email your problems to support@chaseace.com 
   and describe the symptoms. If Chase Ace reaches the loading splash screen, tell us at
   which stage the game crashes.

Jerking and nonsmooth performance:
   If you have to many programs running while running Chase Ace 2 demo you might experience
   performance loss or crashes (ICQ is a bugger!)
   If you experience really bad performance (2-6 frames pr. sec.) in the interface after
   finishing or exiting a game, please let us know.

Error message when exiting Chase Ace:
   This has known to happen on win 98 or 2000 systems, and very rare on win 95 systems.
   No harm is done.

If Chase Ace crashes one way or the other, restart your system before attempting to launch
Chase Ace again (or any other game). Non terminated DirectX processes can be lurking in the
background making life hard for newly started programs.



Contact information
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Check out the Chase Ace 2 web page for info on ordering and general news abount Chase Ace 2.
www.chaseace.com

Technical support email:
support@chaseace.com

If you contact us with problems, make sure to describe your system in your email - and check
if Chase Ace has made a file called "chz.log" in your Chase Ace directory. If so please 
send it with the email - it can contain vital information.