Re: Domark's Flight Sim Toolkit - any shareware or commercial games based on it out there?

Posted on 2021-07-08, 12:57

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This site mentioned a link to the Great Air Battles homepage, but the Wayback Machine does not have it, unfortunately: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~claw/gab.htm

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Re: Kesmai Air Warrior DOS version 1.20 - anyone have it or know where to download?

Posted on 2021-07-08, 11:28

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You are probably right, I checked the readme and it doesn't seem to be free. The version (1.4 and not 1.14) is written in both the main screen and the readme, it looks like EGA too Hmm, it seems that they might have switched to different version numbering at some point (for SVGA releases perhaps), …

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Re: Kesmai Air Warrior DOS version 1.20 - anyone have it or know where to download?

Posted on 2021-07-07, 16:38

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Thanks for the info! Do you know the licensing terms? I got the impression that everything below v1.20 was not officially freeware, and the previous version patches that are available are for the owners of the commercial release -- unlike some other primarily online games with free clients. …

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Kesmai Air Warrior DOS version 1.20 - anyone have it or know where to download?

Posted on 2021-07-07, 14:01

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I seem to be unable to find the DOS version 1.20 of Kesmai Corporation's Air Warrior anywhere. According to this source , the version 1.20 was available as a free download: Eventually Kesmai released version 1.20, which included a couple of extra planes, to induce users away from Version 1.17. …

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Re: Domark's Flight Sim Toolkit - any shareware or commercial games based on it out there?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 20:33

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Here's what looks like an official FST preview from October 1993 with full-sized screenshots: fstkpics.zip

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Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS

Posted on 2021-07-06, 18:22

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Here's another game that apparently uses the ACK3D engine (as the credits say "3D engine by Lary Myers and friends, Slightly Modified by Michael J. Henderson"): https://dosgames.com/game/thanatos-3d-army-of-the-night/

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Re: Ports better than original.

Posted on 2021-07-05, 19:54

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Generally, In later 80s / early 90s you could expect DOS versions for IBM/PC to be more advanced than the Apple II originals they were based on. Dangerous Dave and Prince of Persia come to mind. Of course, for Prince of Persia you had the SNES version, which was possibly the best port of the …

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Re: TIE Fighter Total Conversion (TFTC) v1.0 Full

Posted on 2021-07-03, 20:15

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liqmat wrote on 2021-07-02, 19:26: Pretty nifty. The file is huge, but it's free. Apparently you need X-Wing Alliance to play it.

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Re: Did you ever have a realisation that your retro memories or assumptions weren't quite accurate?

Posted on 2021-07-03, 19:17

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Imho one difference (maybe a bit off topic) is in that in the past maybe there wasn't exactly the need or even the concept of "wasting time". I think it would not be way too off to say that games are, in many aspects, like books. Some you like and want to go back to, others you've read and maybe …

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Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS

Posted on 2021-07-03, 18:52

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Nice to know that, thanks! I have not yet figured out why the title changed. There are shareware versions of the game with either Slob Zone 3D or HURL as the title, but I haven't tried to compare them yet.

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Re: Future Conflict - Sound Blaster freezes at mission end

Posted on 2021-07-02, 20:17

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Hmm, I just tried this in DOSBox 0.74-3, the first campaign mission played fine and took me to the level tally screen as expected, but as the second mission started, a sound went into a loop and effectively froze DOSBox in such a way that I couldn't kill it with Ctrl+F9 and had to click on the …

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Re: graphics that over promise and under deliver

Posted on 2021-07-02, 19:49

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I always feel these games somehow promise more than they deliver when i first saw them, with their multiple movable objects, vehicles, desks full of paperwork, lamps, plants and more I was very impressed and then i tried interacting in some way; surely if there are papers on the desk i can read …

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Re: Did you ever have a realisation that your retro memories or assumptions weren't quite accurate?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 19:35

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I'm sure that's partly down to having a lot less free time so feel I want to get more achieved in the few hour I do get. This, and there's also one thing that, once it goes away, I'm pretty certain you can't get it back. I can still remember the excitement of playing an interactive game, whatever …

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Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS

Posted on 2021-07-02, 19:07

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Gered wrote on 2021-07-02, 00:40: Lary Myers' book "Amazing 3-D Games Adventure Set" When I was contributing the Station Escape entry to MobyGames I noticed Lary Myers' name on the credits for HURL a.k.a. Slob Zone 3D. It wonder if that game also uses the ACK-3D engine?

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Re: Marathon is the game that System Shock wanted to be

Posted on 2021-07-02, 19:01

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I never really played System Shock other than the demo, but played quite a bit of Marathon via Aleph One, and even tried to run the Mac demo inside Executor (with moderate success). I have got the impression that the two games are quite different, with Marathon leaning rather heavily towards Doom …

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Re: Future Conflict - Sound Blaster freezes at mission end

Posted on 2021-07-02, 18:01

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As usual, your help is highly appreciated!!!

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2021-07-01, 17:40

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Alright, let's arrange some of the findings into the good old-fashioned list by genre: Adventure Twinland Arcade Biprolex+ Cosmic Ambush Greedy Pebbles Tecnoball Z Fighting Fostiator First-Person Shooter Absence Freaks Lord of Lightning [ download ] The Orb of Dilaaria Resistance Platform Akiko and …

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Re: ACKNEX / 3D GameStudio game projects for DOS

Posted on 2021-07-01, 16:52

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I found a zipped up version of Lord of Lightning on this coverdisk and re-uploaded it here.

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Future Conflict - Sound Blaster freezes at mission end

Posted on 2021-06-29, 14:08

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Recently I found a freeware Command & Conquer clone that was programmed in 1997 by the creator of Adventure Game Studio called Future Conflict . It supports Sound Blaster sound effects, and indeed plays them in DOSBox, but as soon as I complete or abort a mission, the game freezes. If sound effects …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2021-06-26, 20:55

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A couple more potentially interesting German sites about free games (Wayback Machine): http://www.mrgame.de/ http://www.gamezworld.de/

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