A quick start at

Much of this information has been taken from the readme that comes with Descent. Make sure you read it

The story

The year is 2132. You are an outside contractor working for the Post Terran Minerals Corporation, a company known for its power, technology, and shameless materialism. Rumor has it the untouchable PTMC has a serious problem with its planetary mining network... you are ordered to report for a briefing...

Descent is a heart-pounding, gun-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat experience. Following is a few pointers on how to easily get inside and move around the Descent universe.

System Requirements

BARE REQUIREMENTS:
       - IBM PC compatible 386-33 or faster
       - 4 MB RAM
       - DOS 5.0 or greater

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED:
       - 486 or Pentium processor
       - 8 MB RAM
       - stereo 16-bit soundcard with General MIDI support
       - a quality joystick

Features

texture mapping and light sourcing
5 difficulty levels: trainee, rookie, hot shot, ace and insane
30 true 3D levels (7 in the shareware version)
full manouverability along 6 axes
: 8 player network support with joining/leaving at any time. Modes in netgames are (only anarchy in shareware version):
- anarchy
- team anarchy
- anarchy with robots
- cooperative
asynchronous modem/serial support with no slowdowns
3D realtime automap with rotate/zoom
robots with AI manouvering that dodge, lurk etc
demo recording at any time
many different weapons
and powerups powerups
support for the following hardware :
- Forte VFX1 Head Mounted display (stereo vision and motion tracking)
- Cybermaxx HMD (stereo vision and motion tracking)
- Gravis Phoenix
- Gravis Gamepad
- Logitech CyberMan
- Thrustmaster WCS, FCS Mark I+II and FLCS
- Standard joystick
- Keyboard (all keys can be redefined)

sven@ ping.de, 3rd of February 1995; Comments welcome!

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