Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Netbook gameing
Today the big new tech toy is the netbook computer smaller than a notebook and bigger than a pda. The major downside is that they cannot run high-end 3d apps due to the limited space and cpu load that also keeps vista off of them leaveing linux and windows xp home as your os options. most likely you probly have windows os and the bulk of stores only mention that the simple flash games will run on them. But you do have another option games built for the older DOS x86 systems. Thanks to the dosbox team the titles that came out when the space on you net book was consitered large can be played. The selection is not just limited to platformers a ton of good game that were passed over in the 90's are out packed with emulation. one site to get older games is GOG.com the titles sold on this site are tested to run on xp and vista and include some titles that had gameplay equaling modern titles such as blake stone and ROTT. Apogee has also relunched there own store provideing all of the titles they still sell packed with a preconfigured dosbox install except for there one windows title witch still runs on xp. id has put a good amount of there back libary on steam also including dosbox for thew ms-dos titles.
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Blake Stone: Planet Strike
A direct sequel to the last game this keeps a ton of the same game play but changes some elements around while adding new ones. The game is built using the wolf 3d frame work so graphics are limited by that. While not nearly as impressive as doom 2 that came out the same month. This game counters with more advanced game play. included in the new additions are crushers auto map is moved to the status bar with the option to zoom in. the game also features re drawn guard sprites instead of the human ones used in the last game. Also the game includes a new missile style weapon that can destroy doors and hidden actors. the level exit procedure is also changed instead of hunting for a red key card to
operate the elevator you need to find a bomb on each level to destroy a security cube. kept from the previous game "reba" provides messages on attackers and other minor functions. the status bar is more cluttered than the last game. the only other thing that would detract is the fact that the game keeps score unlike doom witch dropped arcade style score keeping for mission stats. But this is still an excellent game to play. currently the game is sold by GOG.com and will be on apogees new store.Monday, May 25, 2009
Word Rescue and Math Rescue
Both are Apogee's only edutainment titles and are one of the last of the old style of educational titles. put out in 1992 and built with the same engine that powered the Duke Nukem games. The plot centers around the Gruzzles witch steal either all of the numbers or words. In Word Rescue you match words to pictures by jumping over rectangles along the level witch plays like any other platformer to exit each level you must correctly match all words to
complete the key to the exit. the game keeps a non violent feel by haveing you slime the guzzles makeing them go away instead of killing them.Math Rescue plays much the same way you have to collect numbers and solve math problems to exit the level. Both alow you to play either as a boy or girl. both also split episodes in classic apogee fashion as seperate exe files. The low system requirements make it a exclent game to install on to an older computer to kive to a young child. the shareware episodes can be downloaded here
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
This is Apogee's followup to Wolfenstine 3d. Originally released December 5, 1993 one week before the more graphically impressive doom. While doom continued the basic run and shoot action of id last game Blake added new action elements to the concept some woul not be seen until quake and counter strike came out. One new game play element is the informants scattered across the levels these were randomly placed actors who insted of shooting at you gave you hints and items including an ammo clip and cedits for the vending units on the walls. also some guards would play dead before you killed them. other elements included being able to backtrack levels. some elements also appeared in doom like telepoting and automapping. the graphics are the same level of resulation as wolf3d so the game is not graphically impressive but it is still worth a play for any fps fan being made for a 486 makes it an excellent laptop game. the Free first episode can be downloaded here The full game can be purchased from this site. You can laso buy it direct from apogee sold as version 3.0 gog.com sells 2.10 R the only diffrence is an updated buy this section due to an price drop and a graphics error leaving the shareware ad in the corner of the menus. Both are stable final versions.
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