Posted October 19, 2018
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"Star Miner" is a lot like Asteroids except you collect material dropped by stationary asteroids (and sell it for upgrades, repairs etc.) and fight other ships. It's a simple game from 2003.
I *think* it's hard to find the full version of this game, so I'm sharing a link here. While doing some research recently I came across an old email from 2012 when I contacted Cliff Harris of Positech Games about his old game "Asteroid Miner" (or "Star Miner" as I played it in an eGames shareware disc). I re-contacted him, asking about getting the game on GOG, and ultimately he didn't seem that interested (and admittedly the game isn't high on the wishlist and isn't a particularly complex game so GOG might have rejected it). So I got permission to share the game; the zip file is the demo version with a registration key to make it the *full game*, and I included a dll to stop a crash and selected those standard compatibility fixes on the EXE.
It seems to run okay on my W7 machine but obviously I can't guarantee it for anyone else.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4bqb8g548v8guj1/asteroidminerNew.zip/file
Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1fseBg0E-g
I *think* it's hard to find the full version of this game, so I'm sharing a link here. While doing some research recently I came across an old email from 2012 when I contacted Cliff Harris of Positech Games about his old game "Asteroid Miner" (or "Star Miner" as I played it in an eGames shareware disc). I re-contacted him, asking about getting the game on GOG, and ultimately he didn't seem that interested (and admittedly the game isn't high on the wishlist and isn't a particularly complex game so GOG might have rejected it). So I got permission to share the game; the zip file is the demo version with a registration key to make it the *full game*, and I included a dll to stop a crash and selected those standard compatibility fixes on the EXE.
It seems to run okay on my W7 machine but obviously I can't guarantee it for anyone else.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4bqb8g548v8guj1/asteroidminerNew.zip/file
Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1fseBg0E-g
Post edited October 19, 2018 by tfishell