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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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Blue player:
- Forward: E
- Reverse: D
- Turn left S
- Turn right: F
- Fire: A
- Turbo: Q
- Change weapon: 1
- Strafe: TAB
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- 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
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- Additional controls:
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Technical support email:
- support@chaseace.com
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- 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.