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In 2014 the game was ported to SDL2 and transferred to a GitHub repository. Until 2011 the game was maintained by Sam Hocevar on his webpage. The game has also been ported to the mobile devices, to iPhone/ iPod Touch under the name Abuse Classic. Over the years, the game became available for many more platforms, for instance BeOS, Nintendo Wii via Wii homebrew, OpenBSD, and in 2009 AmigaOS 4.
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The SDL version allowed easy porting to modern platforms, for instance Microsoft Windows, Linux/ X11 and also the Mac version has been updated to run on OS X. In 2001 Abuse was adapted to SDL multimedia library, with other technical refinements like more than the 8-bit color depth the original version was limited to. Also the shareware release's game data (excluding the sound effects) was handed into the public domain.īased on the source release the game's community worked initially on maintenance work, e.g. The port was largely reworked for Mac, with the graphics partially redone to work better in 640x480 resolution.Īpproximately two years after the release of the game, Crack dot Com decided to release the game's source code.
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The game was ported to Mac OS by Oliver Yu of Crack dot Com and published by Bungie on March 5, 1997. The game was in development for 6 months by three people with a budget of $150,000 Release Ībuse was originally released on Februfor MS-DOS and Linux, as an incomplete shareware version by Electronic Arts in North America, and Origin Systems in Europe.
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This story was alluded to in a hidden section towards the end of level 14, where a large area, full of maroon tiles, can be found. The player was a special ops agent, sent into their 'hive' to covertly destroy the aliens by shutting down the cooling system. The original involved an invasion by an alien species called "ants".
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The update for it replaced the original introduction with the current storyline. Networked play, through IPX/SPX, is supported.Ībuse had a very different storyline coming out of production. The gameplay consists of fighting various enemies (mostly the various forms of mutants, who prefer to attack in huge swarms) and solving simple puzzles, usually involving switches. The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons. With the water supply in danger of being infected, Nick arms himself and fights through the horde to prevent this, and then escapes from the prison complex.Ībuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game.
The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - are infected with a substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters. A prison riot occurs and an experiment goes horribly wrong. Turns out there are loads of people interested in playing these old games, some of them quite young too! And with how many games are available all over the place, it looks like we'll have plenty of material to keep us busy for many years to come.The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical medical experiments upon the inmates. At the end of the month we invite some members for a chat and publish it as a podcast. The accessibility and availability of this stuff is one of the reasons why we started DOS Game Club a few years ago over on - it's like a book club, but instead of books we focus on a different DOS game every month and discuss it on our forums as we're playing them. These old games are more accessible now than they were back in the day, when you had to configure your AUTOEXEC.BAT, get all your IRQs in order and make sure you have enough memory and whatnot. Not just because of The Internet Archive's fantastic work in recent years with getting these onto their website, but also the work put in by the Dosbox and ScummVM people. It's so easy these days to play old DOS games, it's great.
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