First post, by Kilihari
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😁 Ok,
Here is my issue. The best game in the entire world, everyone quotes this game as being one of the first games to combine strategy, with a little bit of research new technology to stop the bad guys from destroying the human race type game. The old dos game is listed as abandon ware, but you absolutely need to buy this game because the controls are complex and it can be bought from www.ebay.com for about 10 dollars. This game is a must have for any collection, I have even bought the second instalment of this game Armour-Geddon II: Codename Hellfire for the Amiga, even though I don't have an Amiga. I think I am the only person in the world who has actually purchased that game. This game is especially important to actually purchase because of the manuals. Inside the manual it is written almost like a diary of the Armour-Geddon war. Without it, the game is kind of meaningless. This game has some SERIOUS story to it, if you collect old games like I do, YOU NEED THIS GAME. So buy it. This game is listed as right up there with X-COM: Enemy unknown and Dune with it's originality in terms of its ground breaking mix of strategy and action!
Anyways... here is the issue, when you play this game, you can now enjoy it in full 256 color mode. When you go into the game click on "Start Single" then click on "R&D” you see how you can easily scroll through all of the units? You can scroll from "Heavy Tank", "Light Tank", "Hover Craft", "Bomber", "Fighter", "Helicopter", "Laser", "Bomb", "Rocket", "Missile", "Retarded Bomb", "Night Sight", "Shells", "Drop Tank", "Tele pod", "Fuel pod", and finally to the "Cloaker". Now, all of these options should be available in the "EQUIP" menu. It seems as if the mouse is "clicking" too fast and it goes right past all the options, because if you go into the "EQUIP" menu, your only options for Equipment is as follows. "Heavy Tank", "Light Tank", "Hovercraft", "Bomber". It seems bad that the most important options are left out (Fighter, and Helicopter). Something is a little messed up. If you play the Amiga version you can access the "Fighter" and "Helicopter" are available right away. I don't understand this, I truly believe it is something either to do with dosbox or the versions of the games that I have. It is strange though, if I can remember from ten years ago correctly, these options were there at the start of the game... but.. now... These two options are GONE.... anyways; if someone could verify this problem, or shed any light on a solution I WOULD BE SUPER GREATFULL! I am trying to remake this game, but I don't know what the ending is, as I have never beaten it. I don't want to play the Amiga version as the graphics are WAY TOO TERRIBLE; the pc version is great for its time. Anyways, someone please help. Thanks everyone and cootoz too the guys who have put all of their effort into DOSBox, you guys rock!
I sincerely apologize for my last post and I will do my best to follow the rules and regulations of this fantastic board. I am absolutely amazed at the quality of posts here, so I hope this will be right up there with these. If anyone has any Armour-Geddon questions, please don’t hesitate to email me. Thanks!
-Joe.
