The War Engine

Xrati · #1 March 20th, 2008, 10:10 AM

It's DOS based game. I remember it from the early 90's. I'll have to find the info on it to be sure. It doesn't run at all on the newer machines as the program controlled all the I/O functions. I do know that I was running it on my PII 333!

but originally was used on my 486 before that one.

When I get time, I will look for the manual and disks.

jars_u · #2 March 20th, 2008, 08:28 PM

Don't make any special effort on my account but would be curious to know. Always kind of nice I think to see the history/evolution of a game the way http://www.malfador.com/ has the old Space Empires up as an example. That might be something worth putting up as right now http://www.bokustrategygames.com/ has nothing. If you ever really got the notion you could probably play Circa 7000 in DOS mode on a Win95/98 virtual machine - I've had some limited success with that in conjunction with http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/ although I suppose http://www.dosbox.com/ might be a better solution for games but have not yet tried that.

capnq · #3 March 21st, 2008, 07:35 AM

Floppy disks that old aren't likely to still have the data intact. When I was trying to install old games to run in DOSBox on my system, only one of about five disks that I tried produced a working install.

Xrati · #4 March 21st, 2008, 11:28 AM

I burned backups on CD. I'll have to look for that disk to, but I know it's around here somewhere. I was able to find the instruction book on the game last night and did find the floppies as I've always been careful with original disks on games and programs. The cd is in a stack of old file and programs disks. The original name was Circa 7000 Armies of Armageddon.

Annette · #5 April 15th, 2008, 06:25 PM

Looks like Gamershell is the place to go for your free download of The War Engine

jars_u · #6 April 16th, 2008, 10:16 AM

Thanks!

For others who might be interested you can read the full story about the release of The War Engine and sites that have it mirrored for download at:

http://tinyurl.com/6oye6d

Xrati · #7 April 18th, 2008, 03:33 PM

Thanks for the info Annette.

I did try dosbox, but the original program (Circa 7000) still has problems with the XMS settings (I have more XMS then the game requires). Maybe Mike Cooney would know how to set it up to run under dosbox?

Annette · #8 April 18th, 2008, 04:01 PM

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Xrati said:
Thanks for the info Annette.

I did try dosbox, but the original program (Circa 7000) still has problems with the XMS settings (I have more XMS then the game requires). Maybe Mike Cooney would know how to set it up to run under dosbox?

He may. Let me know if you'd like for me to pm his email address to you.