Everything looks quite simple and schematic, but nice: the standard MCGA mode (256 colors, 320 by 200) barely allows you to fit 10 tanks on a screen that hosts a randomly generated monotonous green landscape without any frills (i.e., it is uniquely projected onto horizontal axis, unlike Worms).
You can choose opponents (with different algorithms: from "stupid", which most often just kills itself, to "super-killers", which always falls), adjust management, add people-players (yes, playing with someone else is more interesting!), set the number of rounds, add corrections to the wind and so on. A well-known example is the Worms series, but in many of the so-called forerunners of Tank Wars worms, pyromania blooms even more violently: there is only one screen, up to 10 enemies, and the explosions are so powerful that most rounds end in 2-3 moves. NET 0x80073d0a 3DBuzz Achievement Anti-Virus ARM ATI Banner Battlefield 4 Blogging C# Champions CodePlex Cowon.Do you like the explosions? Of course, like! That is why such popularity always get the game where you can smash everything and everyone around. So anyone who read my blog, reads it now, please if you know of a way I would be greatly appreciative of it.
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If anyone knows how it get in contact with him, or knows where I can get the source code so I can work out how to get the ground working I would be more than happy to provide a nice HD version of the game, with permission if I can get a hold of him. I would like to make it official and I know there are web versions out there similar but my heart lies with this game, it has made me get through my Maths 2 classes when learning to program in Pascal (and this game was written in Pascal). Though I could love to know if the developer a Mr Kenneth Morse is available or has the source code. This slows down the animations drastically, but also updating the command line switches will also change the way the game behaves.īut to HDify this game would be ideal. So you change the emulation, the number of cycles it wants from the CPU. The difficult part has been making sure the game is playable since it can be played but it runs WAY to fast to make it playable. In the video you will see it runs and not too fast. I can work out the tanks, the angles, the backgrounds, the walls, the wind and so on, but the ground was something that I have been caught up on. I have been for the longest time trying to get a version of this that is true to the original running, on my PC, Windows Phone and XBox360 and other platforms as I felt.
A Returnīut playing this game makes me want to perhaps look into making a Tank Wars HD.
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So, I installed it, copied it configured it and presto, I have Tank Wars running with sound, sure emulated PC speaker and the same quality graphics I remember from the days running on my Intel i7 3.8GHz and 32GB RAM. So, I looked into DOSBox a little more, which is an x86 DOS emulator. 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).
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This post goes to a game that I managed to get working, on Windows 7 圆4 edition.
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