Welcome to the demo of the Macintosh version of Shockwave: Assault. Shockwave will be available in November, 1995. The game will feature two seperate episodes (Invasion Earth and Operation Jumpgate) comprising 15 levels (this demo includes one) and 50 minutes of video with surround sound (none of which can be seen in this demo, due to size constraints).
Shockwave: Assault requires System 7.0 or higher, a double-speed (or faster) CD, a PowerPC- or 68040-equipped Macintosh, 4 megabytes of available real (NOT virtual or doubled) memory, QuickTime 2.1 (or higher), and Sound Manager 3.1 (or higher).
Note: Using virtual memory (or "doubled" memory) can have a detrimental effect on the speed of Shockwave. Also, many system extensions which place "floating" windows on the screen (such as the Control Strip) can interfere with the game display while Shockwave is running. Please turn them off if you experience difficulties. Finally, many non-standard system extensions are incompatible with Shockwave. Please try disabling your third-party Control Panels and Extensions if you are experiencing problems while playing Shockwave.
The optimal Disk Cache setting (in the Memory control panel) for Shockwave is 32K for most systems. Please note that the game will be available only on CD-ROM. The game is tuned to perform best when running off a CD, so the demo may appear rough at times (since you may be playing off of a hard disk), because many hard disks do not read their data in the same way as CD-ROM drives.
Checkpoints are not supported in the demo, so if you fail an objective you will have to start all over again. Also, we made the demo a little bit easier than the easiest level of play in the game, since the demo is mission 2 of the game (and normally you will be a more seasoned pilot when you get to mission 2). Finally, the actual game has quite a bit of video which you won't see at all in the demo, including mission briefings, death and injury videos, and the introduction.
