First post, by DracoNihil
- Rank
- Oldbie
http://www.udhq.org/dl/SPIN.7z
This is a simple little freeware game, it may also probably fit easily on a floppy disk too. Despite it's size it has some very interesting sprites apparently created with raytracer software.
It came off of a big 2 disc shareware\freeware CD compilation. It's basically a top down free roam space shooter where the goal is to keep the trade lanes free of pirates and make sure the freighters themselves stay safe.
Game ends when either you run out of energy (like in Elite) or you accumulate 5 freighter losses.
Things to note:
- This uses Causeway Dos Extender, replace the dos extender at your own risk.
- The audio library can play oldskool Amiga mod files, but music playback is plagued with clicking and squeaking, audio playback is fine though. (This is NOT a problem with DosBOX but rather the audio library the game uses)
- S3M support is heavily broken, do not use it. (Many S3M effect commands are ignored and not played properly)
- Do not attempt to load large music files, make sure they stay under around ~100 KB. Loading too large music files will result in LOUD staticy noise or the game crashing.
- SLL2.MOD originally shipped with this was improperly ripped, I replaced it with a proper version.
- The audio library cannot load 6CHN 8CHN ,etc but it can load M.K.
- The audio library will proceed to the next song alphabetically in the game's root directory if there is no song jumps that loop the song currently playing.
Config to use in DosBOX:
[dosbox]machine=svga_s3captures=capturememsize=11[cpu]core=normalcputype=386cycles=fixed 20000cycleup=100cycledown=100[mixer]nosound=falserate=48000blocksize=1024prebuffer=512[midi]mpu401=nonemididevice=nonemidiconfig=[sblaster]sbtype=sb16sbbase=220irq=5dma=1hdma=5sbmixer=trueoplmode=autooplemu=compatoplrate=48000
If you need a bigger screen use this:
[sdl]fullscreen=falsefulldouble=truefullresolution=0x0windowresolution=1024x768output=opengl[render]frameskip=0aspect=truescaler=none
Can any of you beat my "highscore"?
“I am the dragon without a name…”
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