Battles on a Distant Desert

Year:
1993

Genre:
Strategy

Developer:
Glacier Edge Technology

Publisher:
Glacier Edge Technology

License:
Shareware

Minimum version:
Windows 3.0

Minimum CPU:
80286
Standard Mode

Video modes:
CGA
Hercules
VGA Monochrome
EGA
VGA

Sound:
PC speaker
Sound Blaster

Visual Basic:
No

WinG:
No

Win32s:
No

Other notes:
Attempts to run on a 8088, but cannot allocate enough memory regardless of how much conventional RAM is available.

Has optional Sound Blaster support, either through SNDBLAST.DLL on Windows 3.0/3.0a, or MMSYSTEM.DLL on Windows 3.0/3.0a with Multimedia Extensions or Windows 3.1.

v1.0 complains about MMSYSTEM.DLL not being found on Windows 3.0/3.0a upon startup, but continues to run without issues.
v1.9 limits the shareware scenario to 25 turns, compared to 50 turns in earlier versions. The v1.9 releases only differ in their readme file.

Screenshots


Title screen CGA

Gameplay CGA

Title screen Hercules

Gameplay Hercules

Title screen VGA Monochrome

Gameplay VGA Monochrome

Title screen EGA
VGA

Gameplay EGA
VGA

Downloads

v1.0 (1993-03-01)
v1.5 (1993-09-23)
v1.6 (1993-12-02)
v1.6 (1994-02-12)
v1.6a2v (1994-03-24)
v1.7 (1994-04-09)
v1.8 (1994-05-07)
v1.9 (1994-08-17)
v1.9 (1995-03-19)

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