Endless hours of lost sleep when this came out... in diskettes, way back in the late 80's (or 90's ? I can't remember). True turn around game, great, great stuff. You cannot stop playing until you see the result of the science research going on... or until the next technological weaponry is available. Summary: play it !!!! Then play TFTD then Aplocalypse.
I've played this when it came out first time ... at the time I used (I think) a 486-DX 100mhz :-) After many years I have had cravings to play this again so I bought an original CD out of ebay, maybe 4 or 5 years ago, but could never make it work on my Mac... until I finally found that some had success with the GOG version and sure enough, it does work on my Macbook + DOSBox 0.74... the catch was that it had to be installed first on a Windows machine (Win10) and then I copied over the entire thing to my dosgames directory on my Mac. I just modifed the screen size to 1024x768 and had to make the mouse captive. Works flawlessly, or better, with the original flaws - but honestly I have not found any. The only two "issues" I have is with mouse operation of the game itself: 1) I wish they had put a "center on base" hotkey: workaround - use the 2D map view and mouse right-button click 2) A slider to adjust the screen rolling speed : no workaround so I go back to the 2D screen. Now, one thing that always bothered was the aliens concept... they don't look nothing like any inteligent alien capable of building (growing) anything capable of interdimensional travel, so after some time it just becomes a point and kill... still enjoyable so, I'm enjoying.
