So, it got me thinking, Syndicate was an old DOS game, sure slightly different but I thought if Syndicate can run which uses DOS Extender to get access to more memory beyond the 640KB limit imposed by DOS. There it is running on my machine, which specs exceed that of the 286, 386 or even 486 required for the game. I have already spoken about one of them, Syndicate and I even now have some videos which I will put up there as I go more and more of them.īut I have recently decided to take out the old floppy disk I had of the game and I started playing it. No before I get all nostalgic and think back to those heady days when working out if a game worked or not was a simple matter of VGA/EGA or CGA, memory wasn’t a massive issue in many games, though the advent of EMS, XMS, high memory made better and better games possible. One of the games we used to play and swap was this, it would fit on a floppy disk but it is OK, a 20 MB had drive was able to house this game with room to spare.
The game was Tank Wars.Ī game that I played back in 19 when computers started to invade our school and we also began swapping games on disks. A game from the throws of DOS when running a single process at a time was more than enough and Windows was merely a nice way to show DOS (a shell so to speak). One feature that Tank Wars has that the very similar Scorched Earth lacks is team play: players can be grouped into teams instead of fighting "every man for himself".This post goes to a game that I managed to get working, on Windows 7 圆4 edition. Weapons and armor must be purchased, and money is awarded based on kills. Use guidance to seek and destroy your friends and enemies, or unleash multiple projectile weapons on everyone on the screen. Tank Wars is a turn-based tank battle game where up to 10 humans or computers can use tanks to blow each other up with anything from small missiles to thermonuclear weapons. Apparently no one answered his call, made by at least v1.2, "If there is already a game of that name, would the author please inform me so that I can change the name again." Snider's game featured only two tanks and included only one type of weapon, so it was basically a graphical version of GORILLAS.BAS (i.e. He was unaware that a DOS game called Tank Wars had been released by Cory Snider in 1986. Originally named BOMB, Kenny Morse changed the title to Tank Wars when he discovered that there was already a game called Bomb. Must be capable of 320x200 resolution with 256 simultaneous colors
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