System Shock Original Version IBM PC 1994 Looking Glass Technologies

System Shock 1994

System Shock was released by Looking Glass Technologies in Sept. 1994 for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 4GW Protected Mode run-time. Note that System Shock is NOT an immersive sim with emergent gameplay; it's just FPS. You are thinking of Deus Ex.

System Shock employed crouching, jumping and up/down looks.

Distributed on 9x 3.5" diskettes, System Shock requires an i808486DX-33 MHz CPU with 4½ megs of RAM (for 128x128 textures). Displaying in 256-color VGA 320x200, System Shock features a full-screen render-field.

The CD-ROM version of System Shock was released in Dec. 1994. Most notably, this enhanced version (which should have been the initial version) features SVGA resolutions: 640x400 and square-pixel 640x480. That means a render-field of 640x480.

The CD-ROM version requires 530K of base RAM (conventional memory) and 3072K of XMS RAM (expanded memory specification). 7168K of EMS RAM is required for speech + SVGA VESA (extended memory specification). Nice. :)

Pity it's only a sprite-scaler.

cf.

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