Battles on a Distant Desert

Year:
1993

Genre:
Strategy

Language:
1-2P - Local

Number of players:
English

Developer:
Glacier Edge Technology

Publisher:
Glacier Edge Technology

License:
Shareware

Minimum version:
Windows 3.0

Minimum CPU:
80286 - Standard Mode

Minimum RAM:
2MB

Video modes:
CGA
Hercules
VGA Monochrome
EGA
VGA

Sound:
PC speaker
Sound Blaster

Additional runtimes:
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 SNDBLST.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 VGA

Gameplay 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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