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MS-DOS è il sistema operativo, prodotto da Microsoft, che fu abbinato al primo PC IBM. Il nome deriva dalle iniziali della Microsoft, cioè MS, e dall'acronimo DOS ovvero Disk Operating System. L'interfaccia standard di MS-DOS, un'interfaccia a linea di comando, era una shell (chiamata command), come su tutti i sistemi dell'epoca. In seguito divennero disponibili altre interfacce utente, basate su menù testuali (come, ad esempio, Norton Commander) o grafiche, come il GEM e le prime versioni di Microsoft Windows fino alla 3.11. [WIKIPEDIA]

Published by: Crack dot Com
Developed by: Crack dot Com
Released: 1995
Platform: DOS
Genre: Side scroller, Shooter

Description:

Abuse is an action game that pits you assuming the role of Nick Vrenna, resistance fighter against ruthless alien killers, called ants, that have taken control over humanity.

A nice side-scroller with a twist, you control the game with both the mouse and the keyboard. The mouse is used to aim and shoot and the keyboard is used to move. A level editor is included with the game.

Published by: Apogee Software, Ltd.
Developed by: Mountain King Studios Inc.
Released: 1994
Platform: DOS
Genre: Shoot'em up

Description:

Raptor is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. It features smooth scrolling VGA graphics, a variety of enemies on ground, air and sea, and an original soundtrack.

After completing each level you have the option of upgrading your ship with a powerful arsenal of weapons and goodies. Some weapons are effective on only ground or air targets, while some are on both. There are some really advanced weapons like the auto-track mini-gun which can effectively destroy almost any kind of targets without aiming the ship.

Dying in shoot'em ups can be annoying, especially if you have to start all over the beginning. However, in Raptor you can save your game between each level. If you have enough credit you can even buy multiple shields for further protection.

Published by: MicroProse Ltd.
Developed by: MicroProse Software, Inc.
Released: 1992
Platform: DOS
Genre: Simulation, Racing, Driving

Description:

Formula 1 Grand Prix is the first instalment of what would quickly become the Formula 1 simulation series for the PC in the 1990's. Designed and programmed by racing game specialist Geoff Crammond (REVS, Stunt Track Racer), Grand Prix 1 did not only introduce a multitude of features previously unknown to computer racing simulations, but also sported a physics engine that was, at its time, unmatched in its complexity and realism. Grand Prix 1 features:

- 3D graphics out of filled, unshaded polygons on PC and Amiga the PC version has pavement and lawn textures. The sheer number of track-side details (down to billboards and camera cranes) forced any computer below a decent 386 DX to its knees.

- Working rear mirrors. Though they show only cars and no scenery,
they are invaluable for blocking overtakers.

- Collisions with flying debris and actual crude damage models: wings are visibly bent after crashes.

- Wet weather that influences traction. No rain graphics, but a fog effect obscures your vision when you drive in another car's splash water.

- An extensive tuning part that greatly influences the performance of your car. In-race setup allows you to adjust gear ratios, brake balance, wing downforce and tires during each visit to the box.

- Six optional driving aids that help F1 rookies finish their race: toggle best line and suggested gear displays to learn track tactics, or have auto brakes, auto gears, self-righting spins and indestructability improve your driving.

- A replay system that lets you watch race scenes from three different views, including track-side cameras.

- Formula 1 Grand Prix includes all 16 international GP circuits of 1991.
You may drive them in quick race mode, single race or a full Championship. The 18 teams and 35 drivers and their performance are based on the 1991 season, but the game doesn't include real names. You can edit and save team and driver names by hand.

While the Amiga version allows multiplayer races in hotseat mode, the PC version originally had solo races only. In 1993, the v1.05 update added modem support (and a couple of other improvements).

Published by: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., Philips Interactive Media, Inc.
Developed by: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd.
Released: 1993
Platform: DOS
Genre: Adventure, Puzzle

Description:

Very nice action/adventure game for kids, as much as for the adult-kids. You are, as a game's name says, a little devil, in a real sense of word. The playing is either from the back view as you go wandering the tunnels and castles, or like an ordinary 2D adventure where you have to fight, jump or squash something.

Trivia:

After the disk version, a deluxe CD version of the game was released which added some cut-scenes and extra rooms not present in the earlier release. [MOBYGAMES]

Published by: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd.
Developed by: Celestial Software
Released: 1991, 1995

Description:

This CD version includes both the classic game and its data disk, The New Worlds:

- Utopia: takes the Sim City gameplay concept and adds a military element to it. The game is set in the distant future, where your job is nothing less than Colony Administrator for a new settlement on some far-flung planet. Your aim is to provide the highest Quality of Life rating for the colonists.

You do so by ensuring that there is enough life support, power, housing, employment, police and entertainment to keep the citizens of your colony happy. Hindering your goal are random events such as solar eclipses (which can render your solar panels inactive) and also a different, hostile alien race that inhabits the planets in the many scenarios at offer.

Not only do you have to be a good mayor but you also have to be a good general. Resources must not only be attributed to civilian research but into weapons research, intelligence and the building of tanks and spaceships, if you wish to survive long enough to see your colony flourish into a metropolis. As a rule, you will have built a strong colony before the aliens come, but the final push towards a QOL of 80% or higher can only be achieved once there is no outside threat.

- The New Worlds: is a data disk add-on to the strategy game Utopia. It supplies ten new worlds to work through, each of which has a new alien race to encounter. These include the Sarturians, The Rako-Gorda, and a tribe of humans who had previously colonised. The planets themselves also vary in terms of areas to develop. [MOBYGAMES]

Jurassic Park

Published by: Ocean Software Ltd.
Developed by: Ocean Software Ltd.
Released: 1993
Platform: DOS
Genre: Action, Adventure

Description:

A game based on the hit movie Jurassic Park.

The game starts just after the T-Rex pushes the visitor's van into it's pit. You play the role of Dr. Alan Grant, so you have to find Tim and Lex, take them to the Visitor's center and get everybody out of the island. But this time it won't be half as easy as it was on the movie.

The game is split in two missions, played in two different ways. The firstm mission is to take Tim and Lex back to their grandfather and is (almost exclusively) played from a top-down perspective. The second mission involves getting the power back on line and returning alive, so everybody can leave the island and is played like a FPS (First Person Shooter).

Published by: Interactivision A/S
Developed by: Interactivision A/S
Released: 1996 Platform: DOS
Genre: Shoot'em up

Description:

You was found guilty against empire, but you are innocent. So you have a choice to spend a rest of your life in colony or become a front-line warrior in the quest to conquer new planets, for the empire. You choose the second. You have to pilot a one of two types of ships, to shoot everything on the screen, to collect power-ups, and to kill the boss at the end of each level.