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Game Links

Game Links

Right - some links for my favorite games, like promised.

Everything you need to know about Warlords II:
https://www.heeter.net/warlords/



The all-inclusive Mission Impossible site, with winning strategies and manual:
https://home.arcor.de/cybergoth/gamesa/impossiblemission.html


The two essential UFO sites:
https://www.xcomufo.com/
(Read the short story series!)
and
https://dynamic.gamespy.com/~xcom/
Has tons of mods, files, apps and what-not.



Metal Marines.
Rocks.
https://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/strategy_games/games_m_n/metal_marines_master_edition.html



Paradroid - best game ever:
Paradroid ASM Longplay (sorry, German only)
https://www.longplays.de/longplays/p/paradroid/paradroid.htm

Paradroid Shrine, listing all droids with pics and info:
https://home.hawaii.rr.com/mafioso/games/pdroid.htm

Paradroid Port 1:
https://paradroid.sourceforge.net/

Paradroid Port 2: Freedroid.
Totally weird - seems they built an entire roleplaying game around it.
https://freedroid.sourceforge.net/

Still weirder: Urbandroid for Java:
https://www.javaonthebrain.com/java/noids/


(edited: added MI link)


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Re: Game Links

Anyone interested in looking up Star Control II, pay a visit to the website for the remake:
https://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Artinum.



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Wow. They're pretty good, though the spelling/grammar was a little dodgy...

Artinum.



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Well, yes.... I meant: read the original X-Com saga comissioned by Microprose...


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Das Lemsche Gesetz:
Niemand liest etwas; wenn er etwas liest, versteht er es nicht; wenn er es versteht, vergißt er es sofort.

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https://dadgum.com/giantlist/

The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers. If you want to know who has done which games - seems pretty exhaustive.

A few download links (to be updated in the future):

Craftgold Softography - will yield Paradroid, Uridium etc.
https://www.nemmelheim.de/graftgold/games.html


C64.com - tons of C64 games
https://www.c64.com/

C64 heaven -
https://www.lemon64.com/


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Das Lemsche Gesetz:
Niemand liest etwas; wenn er etwas liest, versteht er es nicht; wenn er es versteht, vergißt er es sofort.

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Aha! I knew it!
Whenever I start thinking of old games, I look them up and find a remake!

Magic Carpet is being remade. But not *quite* the original...
https://ogrian.sourceforge.net/index.html

I am intrigued.

Artinum.



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Hi,

another link to another re-make of tob2 for PC. https://www.tob2.com
like the models... https://www.tob2.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=6



But go live seems a long way off!

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WE ARE NOT ALONE!!!



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You sure aren't. What do you do here? How do you define your levels? I think it would be quite cool if we could exchange levels between the 2 games, wouldn't it?

We currently are using a fairly simple standard text type file, with multiple puzzles per level. 9 levels per stage, 10 stages. But any other ideas, or a standardisation of the format would help the players, right?

ANyway.. good to see that some people appreciate the game

Have you downloaded and played the original?

have fun



looks can be deceiving

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Hi Chris, and welcome!

All of us have played the game on the Amiga or Atari back in the days, and all have played it using some emulator on the PC. And most of the original towers are also playable in the latest development version of the remake now.

Sure, that's what I also posted to your forum!
You'll find hundreds of towers in various disk files in the "Building the Tower" section of the forum. If you have some, too, we'd be happy if you post them there!

Mayo's remake level format is described here:
https://file2.carookee.com/forum/ToB/6/file/459120/level-format-remake.txt?w
I have written a tool to convert towers between ADF/ST/remake formats. Including your format shouldn't be too difficult, if you're interested.