Apollo 18

Accolade, 1988

This game was a port from the Commodore 64 to the IBM PC. Specifications were as follows: supports EGA, CGA, Hercules and Tandy 1000 video modes, runs in 384k, fits on one 360k floppy disk, supports keyboard and joystick.

The shipped version ran at a 320x200 resolution, but for a few dollars more, you could mail in a postcard and get a high-resolution (640x350, 16 colors) EGA resolution, considered revolutionary at the time.

The game had on-disk copy protection. It wouldn't run unless the original floppy was in the disk drive.

It was written in Fortran and assembler. Can you imagine that?










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