Can you guestimate what year it was released?

It used VGA graphics so I'm going off and guessing somewhere between 1994-1996.

I had the game on a shareware\freeware compilation 2 CD set called "The Complete Encyclopaedia of Games" by "Microforum".

There are only 6 DOS games with the word Cosmic in the title, and none of them look like what you're describing:
http://www.mobygames.com/search/quick?q=cosmi … sFilter=1&sG=on
Maybe you can try different words in the search if you can think of any that are like "cosmic".

DracoNihil wrote:

It used VGA graphics so I'm going off and guessing somewhere between 1994-1996.

I had the game on a shareware\freeware compilation 2 CD set called "The Complete Encyclopaedia of Games" by "Microforum".

http://www.computer-legacy.com/items/sources/ … a-of-games.html

The game is possibly obscure enough to not be in Moby Games...

And yeah that's the compilation awgamer. The game I want is on the 2nd CD of that collection I think.

DracoNihil wrote:

The game is possibly obscure enough to not be in Moby Games...

And yeah that's the compilation awgamer. The game I want is on the 2nd CD of that collection I think.

https://archive.org/details/cdrom-encyclopediaofgames

and I had no idea this was archived, downloading it now. Thanks!

DracoNihil wrote:

and I had no idea this was archived, downloading it now. Thanks!

You'll have to tell us what the game is when you find it, perhaps a screen shot or two, to wrap up the story:)

That's odd, I was looking through the two ISO's and they're different than what I remember my CD's being (when they were readable). Instead of folder names I got 4 digit numbers for all the different game folders that correspond to entries in the catalogue program included with the set. I wasn't able to find Nanotech which was a obscure 3D game that used Varmints for sound and music and came with a bunch of original and odd sounding .MOD files.

Perhaps a different revision of the compilation. There are a lot of entries for microforum, BTW. https://archive.org/search.php?query=MICROFORUM

Looked through another "1000 games" and none of the zip files on it seem to ring any bells. I do know the disc set I had, contained a MS-DOS shooter called "Avenger" which was pretty basic shmup action with bland sound effects but VGA 256 colour graphics. The player's ship in that was weird looking as it looked like it had two purple ampoules for guns.

I guess I wont have any luck finding it online, going to have to check back with my friend who took my CD's to a place offering rebuffs, might have to get ahold of the discs again afterward.

Round 42 or its followup, Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom, sound like likely candidates. But those wouldn't have pre-rendered backgrounds.

Cosmic Ambush?

Yeah that's the one.

Hunting for a zip right now

i've tested this exposed on some Microforum 1000 games/"Encyclopedia of Games" thing where it was just shoved in a 4-digit 1018 directory. CA.EXE and COSMIC.UFS are significant filenames

Don't forget you can add a forward slash to iso filenames on ia to get a file listing (And individually download them if you wanted) but this only works on ISO images, ZIP/TAR files and not any other. I usually do that to peek into new (And now very unfrequent) shovelware uploads to see if a rarewhitewhale-x has surfaced

Much appreciated if you can get the game packed for me. I don't remember if it was a shareware or freeware title though... It seemed to be a full game because it had quite alot of stages enough to not be a demo of any sort.

this should answer that concern

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3³                             - Cosmic Ambush -                               ³
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5³                  Copyright (C) 1996 by Shades of Evolution                  ³
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Should mention there's a 1997 date on cosmic.ini with the rest of the files in August 5 1996 so there is a modification oh no 🙁

Also another clue

1Cosmic Ambush is distributed in one ZIP file named:
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3	AMBUSH.ZIP

EDIT: Zip found on a giga games, and seems 100% identical to the zip on the site in the post below

http://www.danielsevo.com/download.htm

Wow that's awesome, glad to finally have this again.