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RepelZ: New game for a 40 year old IBM PC

resman

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Here is a new game written for the original IBM PC with a CGA (EGA & VGA compatible). It is a top-down 2D shoot-em-up scroller using the very under utilized 160x100 16 color mode. Perhaps not the most in-depth game play, but it is somewhat challenging and a little topical:


Your region has just been invaded by a neighboring country. You must defend your homeland by destroying the invading tanks and surface-to-air (SAM) launchers with your drone(s). They will be entering on roads leading from the region boundary (marked in red) towards your town center. Don't go past the red boundary as the enemy has full control of the airways and your drone will be immediately destroyed. The SAM installations will launch missiles at your drone when in range. The faster you fly the drone, the harder it will be for the SAM to hit, but also more difficult to fire at the tanks and SAM launchers.

Controls:
UP ARROW - speed up
DOWN ARROW - slow down
LEFT ARROW - turn left
RIGHT ARROW - turn right
SPACEBAR - fire rocket
ESCAPE - quit game

Good Luck!
(Any similarity to current events may or may not be coincidental)

To run on modern hardware, a DOS emulator such as DOSBox-X can be used. Note that DOSBox in it's current release has CGA emulation bugs (DOSBox-X works fine), however, using the Tandy or VGA machine options does seem to work.

Included are a zipped directory and a zipped DOSBox disk image. Unzip the directory into a mounted DOSBox directory or mount the unzipped image directly.
 

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