Trying to find a late 80's-early 90's game

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:41 pm

I knew the game simply as Tank Wars, the game consisted of a 2D cutthrough of a mountain, with different color "tanks" positioned around it. Each tank took turns firing at the others, over or sometimes through the hill. There was a variable of wind added in, and you could play up to 10 people I believe. After each match you could purchase weapon and armor upgrades for your tank.

Thanks in advance

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:48 pm

Seems like an accurate description of Scorched Earth by Wendell Hicken.

Download it at ftp://ftp.etel.ru/pub/games/scorch15.zip

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:02 pm

From what I can see of the icons, that looks to be the game, thanks a bunch. Now to just get it to work. Like most guests here I am more of a point and click type than a DOS pro.

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:06 pm

You're welcome.

If you have Windows XP, 2000, or NT, you may have problems since XP is not very DOS friendly. If you have Windows ME, 98, or 95, it should work fine, since those 3 Windowses have a DOS foundation.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:11 pm

Yeah, unfortunately I am running XP on this PC. I tried a few of the compatability fixes listed in the Getting Games to Work Forum, but I keep getting a 16 bit MS-DOS sub-system error that says invalid startup directory, please check your pif file.

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:14 pm

Delete SCORCH.PIF, found in the same folder as the game. Then run it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:51 pm

There doesnt seem to be a PIF file in the game folder. Guess I will just have to wait till I can log onto my other comp which is running ME

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:42 am

There are a few Java Scorched Earth games online, search around.

guest · Post by **guest** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:41 am

there is a .pif file, its the MSDOS shortcut.

Post by **wardrich** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:11 am

delete it

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:55 am

Interon wrote:Delete SCORCH.PIF, found in the same folder as the game. Then run it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:58 am

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:15 pm

Thank you very much, i was having the exact same problem, you guys really helped

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:30 am

Interon wrote:Delete SCORCH.PIF, found in the same folder as the game. Then run it.