First post, by Ferromancer
This was my favorite game for the IBM PS/2 286, until the poor thing went senile a few years ago.
They game *actually* runs in windows without a hitch, keyboard, graphics, and PC speaker all work like they're supposed to. Yes, you heard it, a game that has a time stamp of April 17, 2000 and runs just fine in windows XP SP2, with one major caveat...
This game was back in the day when programmers were too lazy to put in timers for their games, so the game is unplayable on anything faster than a 486. So I decided to run the game in DosBOX to slow it down to 4MHz.
So I fire it up in dos box 0.62 (using the D-Fend v2 front end), and the timing is perfect.
However, once you get past the menu and into the game, the keyboard stops responding. (the default controls are alt, z, and x, which don't do crap no matter how often you bang on them). Also, instead of the adorable tinny little sounds I'm used to from PC speaker, it comes out as a very brief *pop* instead for each sound.
I've tried a variety of permutations of the standard settings in the front end, different processor emulation, memory settings (you can set it to NO RAM! only conventional!), etc., and it runs exactly the same way every time.
Also, I think dosbox is pretty compatible with my computer, I got tempest 2000 to work without a problem (with just a little stuttering when things get bogged down), keyboard and sound works fine.
Here's a link to one lonely site that hosts it:
http://www.juegomania.org/creador/pc/d/30
It claims it works in DosBox.
