Autobots

Autobots is an old science fiction shooter game, released in 1989. Autobots is currently abandonware and runs on DOS. Autobots is considered to be an arcade classic. It's available for download.

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Genres:

shooter, shoot 'em up

system:

DOS

released in:

1989

designers:

L. Scott Emmons

keywords:

science fiction, fixed screen, arcade classic, top down

Modes:

single-player

Downloads for Autobots

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Trouble running this game? Check out the F.A.Q.

Additional info

Input: keyboard

Distributed on: 3,5 floppy disk, 5,25 floppy disk

Graphics: CGA

Sound cards supported: PC speaker

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Comments

AbandonwareDOS - 27/07/2015 10:24
Scott, it's wonderful to receive such comments! Thanks for the game!
L. Scott Emmons - 23/07/2015 07:50
I released this in the Public Domain (I wrote this before Open Source was popular, or the GPL or I would have released it that way), so not exactly abandonware as such, but good to see it here and that it actually works in DOSBox! This was written on an 8088 (actually probably an NEC V20) in TurboPascal and I remember having some timing issues with the GameOver screen when running on a super fast processor i.e. a 286 :-) and in fact see that animation runs too fast on a modern system as well, where it actually was intended as a few seconds of color cycling.

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