This three-mission demo contains a selection from two episodes.
These missions are just a sneak peak at what awaits you in the
full release coming on October 31 from P. & A. Shareware.
Chasm: The Rift, full version, will contain four 4 episodes
comprised of sixteen missions plus six Deathmatch multiplayer
levels.
*Installing and Running the Chasm Demo -
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You must have at least 25 MB of hard drive space to run this demo.
- The demo can be run from Windows 95, but we recommend you exit to DOS
- From the drive in which the Chasm demo resides, simply type CHASM and press <ENTER>.
*The Story -
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Mankind, in the process of development is facing an inexplicable
phenomenon - the destruction of normal sequence of time from the
past to the future. Time channels are forming in the earth's
atmosphere, and these channels are leading to different periods
of social development. Through these channels a series of twisted
and powerful creatures penetrate from both the past and present,
and into the future. You are a soldier of the Special Commando
Unit with the mission to track, pin-point and finally destroy the
time channels and eliminate all alien life forms. While migrating
along time channels, all living creatures are undergoing irreversible
mutations that are making them barbarous and hostile. The game
features 15 intriguing and interconnected missions. Each mission
begins with the unit commander briefing, at which the team leader is
setting the target, mission and the goal of this military assignment.
*The Chasm Engine -
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Unlike any other game in this genre, Chasm: The Rift allows gamers to
strategically blow off monsters' limbs even as they continue the attack
with their remaining appendages. Other incredible features include:
-=>3D polygon texture-mapped vector models for structures, monsters
and weapons
-=>Realistic special effects including rain, snow, wind, smoke, dust,
sparks, and explosions
-=>Dramatic structures featuring lights, shadows,
sprites and game objects
-=>Lightning quick 3D gameplay on 486 and higher machines
-=>Object-linked 3D surround sound
-=>45 degree maneuverability
-=>Multiplayer battles through TCP/IP (Internet), IPX, modem and serial port
*To play Chasm - The Rift on KALI
To make CHASM playable over KALI or any other ipx-internet emulators, run chasm.exe with parameter "-kalirateXX", where XX specifies maximum send speed (packets/second) and tells CHASM to use little packets. XX must be in 06..20, for example:
chasm.exe -kalirate10 will set the send speed to 10 packets/second.
First off, make sure you have the most up-to-date version of KALI which can be found at http://www.kali.net. We included the new version 1.2 of Kali which supports Chasm.
Also, the registered version (which costs yen 2,800) is needed to play for more than 15 minutes. (As a bonus, people purchasing the full version of Chasm can get the registered version of Kali for only yen 2,000.)
1. After having installed KALI to your disk, load up KALI.
2. We recommend you play CHasm using the launch Window.
To setup Chasm: The Rift under KALI :
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A. Go to the 'Games' menu and then go to 'Configure Menu...'.
B. Choose 'Game 1' tab.
C. For 'Menu Title' type in Chasm: The Rift, for 'Program' type in
C:\CHASM\chasm.exe, for 'Arguments' type in -kalirate10,
for 'Directory' type in 'C:\CHASM\' . (i.e. "C:\CHASM\chasm.exe -kalirate10")
D. Check the boxes that specify 'Allow KALI to drop packets to speed up game' and 'Drop packets that are out of order'.
E. Under the 'Icon' sub-menu, go to 'Name' and type in C:\CHASM\chasm.ico
F. Click 'OK' to exit this menu and you now have the Chasm: The Rift icon in the Game Toolbar.
2. Find the server with the lowest ping in the list of servers, and connect to this server.
3. You are now in KALI chat. Find someone that would like to play Chasm: The Rift.
4. Decide which person will start the game, usually the person with the best PC should start the game.
5. If you are the one to start the game, click on the Chasm: The Rift icon in the Game Toolbar of KALI.
After Chasm: The Rift has loaded, press ESC to bring up the main menu and choose NETWORK, and then choose OPTIONS to configure your name and color of armor. Then choose 'Accept'. Press ESC to bring up the menu and choose NETWORK, then choose START. Configure the game to your liking, then choose 'Start Game'. Make sure that CONNECTION is set to IPX.
6. If you are the one to join a started game, click on the Chasm: The Rift icon in the Game Toolbar of KALI. After Chasm: The Rift has loaded, press ESC to bring up the menu and choose NETWORK, and then choose OPTIONS to configure your name and color of armor. Then choose 'Accept'. Press ESC to bring up the menu and choose NETWORK. Then choose JOIN. Make sure that CONNECTION is set to IPX.
7. Have fun playing Chasm: The Rift over KALI!
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START
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Brings up a submenu that allows you to choose the desired game mode(Deathmatch, Deathmatch with monsters or cooperative); enables or disables teamplay; and selects the difficulty (easy, normal or hard), the level of game you want to play on and the type of connection(IPX or serial link, com port and its baud rate).
JOIN
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A submenu appears allowing you to choose the connection type (IPX or serial link)and connect to a running server. If no server is running at the time you try to join a game, you will not be able to connect.
Note: You should START multiplayer game only on one PC (SERVER). Others
(CLIENTS) should just JOIN a game.
OPTIONS
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In this submenu you can choose the desired color of your shirt and enter your name. If teamplay in enabled, players of same color will not hurt each other when shooting.
MONITOR
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The network monitor is a mode of the multiplayer game that can be activated on the SERVER machine and allows two main features:
1. View the action of up to 4 players in different windows.
2. Make the SERVER machine work in dedicated mode.
If you have a VESA compatible video card and your computer runs in the SERVER
Mode, you will see a monitor screen. The SERVER can not play the game while the Monitor is active. The Monitor screen consists of four windows showing you directly what other players see on their screens. The Control Panel is visible in left-down of screen. The list of players with their kill counts is located in the right part of the screen.
Press Esc to switch between the Control Panel and Monitor windows. If you are in the windows mode, the current window is highlighted with a border. To move selection, use the arrow keys. At the start, the first window is assigned to the first player, the second window to the second player etc. You can reassign any window to any player by simply pressing the number of player ("1".."7") when the desired window is highlighted. To disable the active window, press "0". If all windows are disabled, the SERVER switches to DEDICATED mode. This mode is the best mode for multiplayer game. The SERVER will not show anything on the screen and will only control the game. This provides the smoother action for all the other players in network.
To return to the normal game mode, select BACK TO GAME in the Control Panel's local menu and press ENTER. You will return to the same position you were at before starting the Network Monitor.
