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Blackthorne

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Feel free to rate and discuss this game.
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Good, but gets a bit repetitive towards the later levels particularily that wasteland level

The DOS version is the only version that has blood. It also has a soundtrack unique to that version. (all subsequent versions for consoles, handhelds and Macs were different and censored)

There is a Pentium problem with this game's speed. In 1994 it wasn't a big deal since only the rich and daring had Pentium 60/66's when this came out. With that in mind, this is definitely a game strictly for the 486 processor. Other 5th generation CPUs like the K5 and Cyrix5x86 suffer the same problem.

I think it works fine on 386 too, but I have not tested that yet. I can't see why it wouldn't, i mean it doesn't scroll or animate more than 64x64 sprites on top of palette cycling environments.
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Apparently the full game can be downloaded for free from Blizzard (a Battle.net account is needed):
http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/10/31/blizz ... -download/
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MrFlibble wrote:Apparently the full game can be downloaded for free from Blizzard (a Battle.net account is needed):
http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/10/31/blizz ... -download/

This is either a hoax, the game was pulled down again, it's not available in Europe or it requires Starcraft 2/Diablo 3/a WoW subscription.

It's not available on my bnet account.
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Actually it turns out that you don't need an account after all:
https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic

Just go there, works fine for me (the site even switches into Russian).
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MrFlibble wrote:Actually it turns out that you don't need an account after all:
https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic

Just go there, works fine for me (the site even switches into Russian).

Oh, thankies :)
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