Installation Instructions: Replace the original version of the file "Future Cop" located on your hard drive with the new version included in this update.
New in Version 1.0.2
• Added support for the final version of Game Ranger.
• Added support for Voodoo3 video boards.
• Fixed some problems with the version that shipped with a retail version of ATI Video boards.
New in Version 1.0.1
• for RAVE with 8MB (or more) of texture memory, there are now options to turn on 32-bit textures (which makes the terrain look nicer) and 32-bit display (which improves the overall quality of the display).
• Support for 3Dfx Banshee-based video boards has been added.
• You can now adjust the volume of the communication channel seperately. The communication channel receives broadcasts from the Dispatcher, Sky Captain, enemy Bosses, etc. while you are playing the game. You can use this to turn down the volume of Sky Captain's taunts, for example.
• You can now enable "High Quality Video" playback. On machines that can support it, this will cause the video playback (such as the intro, mission briefings, help, and mission payoff videos) to look better. I recommend that you turn this option ON if you have a G3 in your Mac.
• When hosting a network game, the host's weapons settings would be reset when someone joined the game. This has now been fixed.
• Software rendering is slightly faster.
Orginal Release Notes
Reminder: You can copy the "missions" folder from the Future Cop CD to the Future Cop folder on your hard drive if you are experiencing slow load times and/or video glitches when using the missions folder on the CD. These glitches are usually caused by a third-party CD-ROM driver (some CD-ROM drivers do not handle asynchronous I/O very well--Apple's CD-ROM driver seems to work fine, however).
Notes
• Future Cop: LAPD works best with a video board that supports 3D acceleration. 3Dfx-based boards are supported using Glide and ATI-based boards (with Rage Pro or newer chipsets) are supported using QuickDraw 3D RAVE. Users with ATI boards should make sure they are running the latest version of the ATI drivers (an installer for version 3.3 is on the Future Cop CD). Future Cop requires at least 4MB of VRAM on a 3D-accelerated video board in order to take advantage of 3D hardware acceleration.
• Future Cop requires QuickTime 3.0 (or newer). An installer for QuickTime 3.0.2 is on the Future Cop CD.
• Future Cop requires a video board that supports Thousands of colors at 640x480 (or higher). You may need to switch your monitor to Thousands of Colors (in the Monitors & Sound Control Panel) before launching Future Cop.
• Future Cop runs best on a 603e (or better) processor at 180mhz (or higher). Future Cop will run on any PowerPC-equipped Mac, however (slower Macs may need to run in a small window in order to attain a satisfactory speed).
• Future Cop requires 24 megabytes (or more) of physical RAM. The game will run fastest on your system if virtual memory (or "doubled" memory) is turned Off (you can change your virtual memory settings in the Memory Control Panel).
• If the game runs slowly on your system, try decreasing the resolution in the Preferences dialog box.
• Press the Escape Key to get back to the front end while you are playing. Note that the Escape key will abort a network game (there is no way to pause a network game).
• Future Cop runs best with gamepad-type controllers or a keyboard, but analog joysticks and the mouse are supported in case you want to try using them. Playing split-screen with just one keyboard is a problem because most keyboards can only handle 2 or 3 keys being pressed at once (and usually when there are two people playing on a keyboard at the same time they need more than 2-3 keys to be pressed at any given moment). It is best to use a gamepad controller for at least one of the players in a two player game, if you have one.
• Network Play has some limitations: you can't play against Windows users, it runs best when you have a very good connection (i.e. you are on a LAN), there is no direct modem-to-modem play (until Apple support modems in NetSprocket), and there is a very long delay when you try to Join a game (using TCP/IP) at a bad address (or the host hasn't started hosting yet) because of a problem with the current version of NetSprocket (NetSprocket 1.1.1 or newer, when available, should fix this problem).
• Press the Help Button for a video that tells you what to do (there are two videos, one for Crime War and one for Precinct Assault). Don't forget that you can transform from a Walker to a Hovercraft by hitting the Action and Change Target keys at the same time!
Troubleshooting
• Some people have reported problems with immediate crashes on older systems. If you are having this problem, try removing all files beginning with the words "Input Sprocket" from the Extensions folder (which is in your System Folder) EXCEPT for the following three files:
InputSprocket Keyboard
InputSprocket Mouse
InputSprocketLib
A newer version of InputSprocket may fix this problem (check the Apple web site for information on InputSprocket and NetSprocket).
• Others have reported problems running Future Cop with virtual memory On (or when using a "RAM doubling" software). You might want to try turning it Off (in the Memory Control Panel) if you are having problems running Future Cop.
• Also, some people have experienced problems with various video modes that Future Cop switches to when the "Fill the Screen" option (in the Preferences) is On. Try turning it Off if you are having video problems when running Future Cop. You can change your monitor's resolution in the Monitors & Sound Control Panel before launching Future Cop if you do not want to play in the current resolution of your monitor.
• Finally, if your computer has 32 megabytes (or less) of memory and you don't have virtual memory on, it is possible that the Finder (or other programs) will run out of memory while Future Cop is running, which could cause the computer to crash or produce error messages. In these situations, try switching the monitor you are going to play Future Cop on to Thousands of Colors (in the Monitors & Sound Control Panel) before launching Future Cop. It is also helpful to quit all programs except the Finder before running Future Cop.
• When playing a network game, the game runs on both machines at the speed of the slowest machine. If one of the computers is significantly slower than the other, try decreasing the resolution (in the Preferences) of the slower computer (and the other computer too, if necessary) if you want the game to run faster. If decreasing the resolutions on both machines doesn't speed up the network game, the speed of the game is probably being determined by the speed of the network connection (and there are no changes you can make in Future Cop to make the network game run faster...you must try to achieve a better network connection between the two machines).
