Conquer GS 1.2.1

Conquer GS 1.2.1 fixes the sound volume on a real Apple IIgs.

Fixed: the game ignored the Control Panel volume

• The game now plays at the volume you set in the Control Panel. Before, a real IIgs always played it at full volume (level 15).
• Emulators such as MAME don't use the Control Panel volume, so there the sound is as loud as before.

Thanks to the player who reported it.

The disk holds CONQUER.SYSTEM, CONQUER.DATA, CONQUER.SOUND, CONQUER.TITLE and CONQUER.HELP. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy all five.

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ConquerGS-1.2.1.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.2

Conquer GS 1.2 gives the enemy a much better head - and fixes units that could get stuck for good.

A smarter enemy (ideas from the AI of the original Command & Conquer, no code)

• It defends. Hit its base or its harvester and its nearest units come after you - enough to beat you, not all of them - and walk back home afterwards.
• Its waves keep together instead of trickling in, and go for your economy: your refinery first, then your power plant, war factory and harvester, then the rest. They come at random intervals.
• It trains troops while it rebuilds a building, puts its power plant up first, and saves up for what it lost instead of spending every credit on soldiers.
• Its damaged buildings repair themselves.

Fixed: units and harvesters stuck for good

• Units take turns for path searches. In a crowd, some never got a turn and stood still forever, often around a dock.
• Two units each waiting for the other's tile now swap places.
• A harvester whose dock is taken waits out of the way, and a unit parked on the enemy's dock is moved off.

The disk holds CONQUER.SYSTEM, CONQUER.DATA, CONQUER.SOUND, CONQUER.TITLE and CONQUER.HELP. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy all five.

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ConquerGS-1.2.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.1.3

Conquer GS 1.1.3 adds a way to leave the game.

• New: a QUIT button on the mission setup screen (top right). It hands the machine back to ProDOS: booted from the game disk you get ProDOS's program selector; started from the GS/OS Finder you go back to the Finder.
• Fixed for GS/OS: started from the Finder, the game used to overwrite memory that GS/OS keeps for itself. It now asks the IIgs Memory Manager for the memory it uses, and leaves GS/OS's alone. If that memory isn't free (for example with many desk accessories or inits), it says so instead of starting.
• Includes 1.1.2's mouse fixes.

The disk holds CONQUER.SYSTEM, CONQUER.DATA, CONQUER.SOUND, CONQUER.TITLE and CONQUER.HELP. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy all five.

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ConquerGS-1.1.3.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.1.2

Conquer GS 1.1.2 fixes the mouse jumping when you move it fast.

• Fixed: moving the mouse quickly made the arrow jump the wrong way, sideways and up or down. A fast movement is more than the mouse's report can hold, and MAME wraps it around into the opposite direction. The game now reads the mouse more often and undoes that, so the arrow follows even fast flicks.
• Fixed: a quick click while the game was busy could be missed.
• Includes 1.1.1's smoother arrow movement.

The disk holds CONQUER.SYSTEM, CONQUER.DATA, CONQUER.SOUND, CONQUER.TITLE and CONQUER.HELP. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy all five.

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ConquerGS-1.1.2.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.1.1

Conquer GS 1.1.1 makes the mouse smooth.

• Fixed: the arrow moved in stutters and jumps, on every screen. The mouse's movement reaches the game unevenly, and the game used to pass that straight to the arrow. It now smooths it out, so the arrow glides at an even pace and still stops exactly where you put it.

The disk holds CONQUER.SYSTEM, CONQUER.DATA, CONQUER.SOUND, CONQUER.TITLE and CONQUER.HELP. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy all five.

Download

ConquerGS-1.1.1.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.1

Conquer GS 1.1 brings together the updates since 1.0 and a fix.

• Volume controls: set the volume of the music and of the sound effects separately on the mission setup screen: off, or one of four steps. Your choice is kept from game to game.
• HOW TO PLAY: three pages of instructions from the mission setup screen: the mission, the controls, the units and the enemy.
• Esc pauses the game, and the pause panel lists the controls.
• Fixed: on the mission setup screen the arrow could not reach the effects' volume buttons.

The disk holds CONQUER.SYSTEM, CONQUER.DATA, CONQUER.SOUND, CONQUER.TITLE and CONQUER.HELP. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy all five.

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ConquerGS-1.1.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.0.3

A small update to Conquer GS 1.0.

• Volume controls: the mission setup screen now sets the volume of the music and of the sound effects separately: off, or one of four steps. A click on the effects' buttons plays a sample so you can hear how loud they are. Your choice is kept from game to game.

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ConquerGS-1.0.3.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.0.2

A small update to Conquer GS 1.0.

• HOW TO PLAY: a new button on the mission setup screen opens three pages of instructions: the mission, the controls, and the units and the enemy. Leaf through them with NEXT and BACK; Esc goes back to the setup.
• The copyright line moved to the title screen, under CLICK TO START.

The disk now also holds CONQUER.HELP, the instruction pages. If you run the game from a folder on a hard disk, copy it along with the other files.

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ConquerGS-1.0.2.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.0.1

A small update to Conquer GS 1.0.

• Esc pauses the game (instead of P). Esc, Space or RETURN goes on; Q quits the mission.
• The pause panel shows the controls: clicking, dragging, Space, scrolling, building and queueing, Option-click to cancel, rally points, music and pause. It works as the game's instructions.

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ConquerGS-1.0.1.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game. It needs an Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory and a mouse, or MAME.

Conquer GS 1.0

The first release of Conquer GS, a real-time strategy game for the Apple IIgs, written from scratch in 65816 assembly. It runs at 60 frames a second in Super Hi-Res, with sound and music on the Ensoniq chip.

What's in the game

• Build a base: a command center, power plants, barracks, a war factory, refineries, a radar center, gun turrets and guard towers. Sell or repair them.
• Economy: harvesters mine ore that grows back, and bring it to the command center or a refinery. Watch your power: without enough, everything builds at half speed.
• Five unit types: tanks, buggies, soldiers, rocket soldiers and harvesters. Each weapon is strong or weak against infantry, vehicles or buildings.
• Four build queues: structures, infantry, vehicles and harvesters all build at once. Queue up to 5 units of a kind, Option-click to cancel, and set rally points for the barracks and war factory.
• A computer opponent with its own base and harvester. It attacks in growing waves and rebuilds what you destroy. Three difficulties: easy, normal and hard.
• Four maps: Green Valley, River Crossing, Twin Lakes and Stone Pass, with fog of war.
• A scrolling battlefield twice the size of the screen, a radar, pause, and an end-of-game debriefing with your stats.

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ConquerGS-1.0.po is an 800K ProDOS disk image that boots straight into the game.

Requirements

• An Apple IIgs (ROM 01 or ROM 3) with at least 1 MB of memory, and a mouse.
• On real hardware: a 3.5" disk, or a FloppyEmu, BlueSCSI or similar. The files also run from a folder on a hard disk.
• Or an emulator: MAME (on a Mac most easily through Ample), Apple IIgs with 1 MB or more.

See the README for how to play and docs/BUILDING.md to build it yourself.