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"System Shock" is an awesome game which made me spend many nights on my PC. Everything was there : a good storyline, a stressful atmosphere. Today only its graphics have gone obsolete, but an enhanced version for windows is available (see the links section).
...So nothing prevents you from playing it again !

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Some resources extracted from the original *.RES files :

• ***SPOILER*** - 3D levels :

- Ceilings are excluded, in order to view inside the levels   (but if you prefer, there's also a version with transparent ceilings) - Critters are drawn as vertical bitmaps - 2D items are drawn as horizontal sprites, usually laying on the ground (this choice is arguable)

Useful: all levels gathered into a full scene. Levels are correctly positioned in relation to each other, with lifts:

: 'Reactor' level at the bottom, up to 'Bridge' level.    And the 3 groves (Alpha, Beta, Delta) spread around 'Executive' level.    (I put the CyberSpace at the very bottom).    Ceilings are not drawn, but (like for separates levels) there's also a version with transparent ceilings

• Sound effects  (converted from VOC to WAV)

Audio speeches (WAV) :

English

French

German

• Text  (english, french, german)

• Videos (H264 encoded .AVI) :

Introduction :
		English		French		German

End (success) :

End (death) :

Emails (no sound) (.AVI) :

Bitmaps :

Links

Walkthroughs :

• by Mitch Aigner
• Maps by Saoman

For windows :

• System-Shock portable : an improvement of the original game, running under windows with a better resolution : up to 1024x768 instead of 320x200 !
• The System Shock Hack Project (aka TSSHP) : an attempt to recode the game for windows

Technical info :

• The unofficial system shock specifications : the description a various file formats and algorithms used by Origin for SS1.
  NB : reading these specifications was very useful for writing my data extractor - though I had to experiment ***a lot*** to figure out some oddities.
  And last, I have to confess that when I got stuck in trying to understand certain formats, I did have a look at TSSHP's source code on Sourceforge (it was not a piece of cake for me to read C++).
  Thank you guys at TSSHP!

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