If you have virtual memory turned on, it may slow down the game. The only thing you can do about it is turn virtual memory off and reboot.
See the chapter Setting Preferences for some important keyboard compatibility notes.
窶｢ Other Important Notes
If the program displays an error message like 窶彝an out of memory during a critical operation窶 or 窶弑nable to load a needed resource,窶 try increasing the application memory size. Go to the Finder, select Space Madness, select Get Info from the File menu, and increase the number shown where it says 窶呂urrent Size:窶 by 100-200K or so. Space Madness comes set to 2800K, so you should never run out of memory. Make sure your system has enough free memory.
Space Madness comes with its minimum memory partition set to 2300K. However, in order to play Space Madness with only 2300K, you need to set the 窶漏educed game screen size窶 and 窶漏educed viewscreen size窶 options on the Preferences screen.
Space Madness will probably load without an error message even if you don窶冲 give it enough memory. If you get an error message when you press the Start button, you need to give it more memory even though it seemed to start up okay.
The Create a Demonstration Copy command can take a couple of minutes on a fast machine, so please be patient. Future versions will show a progress bar, so you窶冤l know it窶冱 still doing something.
窶｢ Known Problems
The animated ships and such in the about screens flicker on some machines. We know about it, we know it's ugly, and we窶冤l be fixing it in the next update.
Dialog boxes are centered on the main screen (the one with the menu bar) instead of the screen you're playing the game on.
If you have any problems with Space Madness, please contact us immediately! We will fix it as soon as possible!
窶｢ Hints, Tricks, Etc.
You can press the L key instead of the S key to start a new game on any level between 1 and 30. Your ship will start out with extra capabilities, depending on which level you start on, and whether or not you have discovered that capability in previous games.
