Comanche: Maximum Overkill in DOSBox
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- This is me playing through "Oil Tank Holiday", the first mission of Comanche: Maximum Overkill. This is a helicopter simulation of the (now-cancelled) RAH-66 Comanche. The game pioneered the "great graphics, low realism" characteristic that went into most of NovaLogic's games. The graphics were quite impressive for a 1992 DOS game (thanks to the then-pioneering voxel rendering engine), but the flight model is a bit lacking (for example, the collective acts as an altitude selector, changing your actual altitude instead of your rate of climb or descent). At the time, this game competed directly with Gunship 2000 (the only other major helicopter sim of the day), which beat Comanche hands-down in terms of realism and depth of play, but featured relatively flat graphics.
Filmed using the direct-to-AVI feature of DOSBox 0.65, and converted to a RUclips-compatible AVI with mencoder (which comes with MPlayer).
This was the first video game I really played. Hearing the music when you start flying is intoxicating, so much nostalgia.
That's when I know my Dad started gaming when I was only 11 years old back then.
voxel graphics!
damn, i was blown away by this back in the ’92 …
First game I ever played on my IBM 486SX!
Same here 😊 on a 486dx2 66, sb2 and a et4000 nostalgia.
This was a classic game! The voxel engine was revolutionary at the time, made all the polygon-based flight sims look dated. Thanks for the memories!
I found this video because after all this time the music just popped up in my head this morning. Great game.
Wow, the voxel GFX were so much state-of-the-art in that days and they still look good.
i love it when a mission starts with "the enemy is on vacation"! I remember playing this in 93 when my dad took us computer shopping for the first time.
WOW! That is AMAZING!...... I remember playing Gunship, and then learned about he comanchee games and gave like a later one a try.. love those days...
It's from 1992, not old at all... It's younger than we are! This game still has its whole life ahead of it!
Thanks, LateBlt. This vid is perfect. I've been wanting to see this game since I heard about it over ten years ago.
Thanks! :D Glad you like it. One of the great things about RUclips is how it allows people to experience games that they never got to play, and might not be able to play because of technology/skill limitations. Too bad I'm only good enough at Comanche for this one mission!
OMG I used to play this game like all the time! Great game, I even remember the level you played. Nice to see =)
Yup! This game (and indeed, this game company) was a pioneer in voxel graphics technology.
First PC game I ever played. God, this video is a throw-back.
More videos of Comanche please! It was my first sim and I still love it!
Memories! Loved this game back in the days! :)
what a mission... was frightened you never make it back home :-D
From what I remember: 1 Hellfire could take out 1 tank, but 2 stingers should be used to take out a tank if you had to. The artillery should be used sparingly, the wingman could be used as extra Hellfires though. The unguided rockets were useless but could be used in a last-ditch effort against tanks. Cannon was useful against Hokums and oil barrels. The training missions were actually progressive and got harder like they should have.
Nostalgia bomb! I use to play the hell out of this game.Just the music brings back so many memories. Good times.
when this game came out, my friend and i thought the graphics were fcking mind blowing (which they were for the time). the music is so nostalgic. thnx for posting this video
That music makes me feel goooood.... so mellow.
I remember SimCopter and the way it allowed you to fly over cities generated in SimCity. I know some people didn't like it because it was too simplistic and repetitive, and in some ways it was, but it was still a lot of fun for a while.
Very Good.Good memories an Late Nights with this Game.Grafix this Time was revolution.
This was the first game i ever owned on my "new" floppy disk only pc in about '95! Loved this game!
What pc was sold without a hd?
Man, that's some awesome graphics for 1992 :O
Indeed! In 1992, only the most revolutionary games had sound.
I truly loved that game!!! Miss that times!
This was my first PC game ever! Thanks for the video :)
I remember when this came out. Everyone was going crazy over the voxel spacing graphics and for good reason because they looked the bomb, it was the nail in the coffin for the Amiga fanboys who said "PC's will never get better than amigas because they are business machine". Voxel spacing baby put that in your blitter chip and smoke on it!!!
this game was freaking cutting edge for its time.
Aaaah this was my favourite game when I was a child...I played ALWAYS this mission, because I was afraid about the others, here there were not enemies XD LOL!
memories comming back, was really a nice game. i played it on a 486 long time ago!
Bought this back in the days, All i have to say is
"wedidit! Lets head home"
Its kinda one of my personal memes. Still use it to this day.
For a 1992 game, this looks excellent!
It is the special famous high-tech buzzer which makes the oil tanks blow up if they make a wrong guess on the game show. Too bad the Comanche got cancelled, so the world will never see such power unleashed for practical purposes. :)
Great blend of arcade action with a tad bit of simulation/tactics thrown in. Calling airstrikes to clear canyons of anti-air tanks while defending with Stingers against KA-50s was awesome, all with digital samples, speech and a great midi soundtrack for that extra bit of atmosphere. I love this game!
Oh man, there's some great nostalgia!
Yay, the voxel space engine in action. Ah..., those were the days.
It's a 1992 combat flight simulator, with one of the most advanced voxel graphics engines at the time. there's a lot of info on it in the video description, and probably mobygames and wikipedia as well.
wow! this looks awesome for a DOSbox!
Back then,this looked like the future.
that cannon sounds so much like my lawnmower lol. this reminds me of comanche 3 good times, good times.......
Habs auf meinem ersten PC gespielt, einem 486 DX2 66. Good Times!
@busrel I didn't have that problem, but if you do, you can bring down the cycles in DOSBox by pressing CTRL-F11 repeatedly until the game reaches an acceptable speed.
I loved this game when I was a kid
For the time, the graphics look great!
This was the first game I played on a PC and it was awesome^^
I ran and recorded this video in DOSBox. The latest version of DOSBox should run Comanche with no problems.
LMAO... That's one reason why I haven't put more videos of this game up; I generally am not good at these kinds of action-sims. The video is just to show what the game looks like, not for any kind of death-defying stunts.
As mentioned in the video description, this is a 1992 DOS game.
This was the most lifelike Helicopter Actionsimulation back then, compare it to vector games like Thunderhawk or Gunship 2000... this was like a small revolution. I wanted a PC back then just for this game and Wingcommander (but stuck with my trustworthy amiga for another 7 years or so ;) ).
NovaLogic did the good job! I still remember this game, as well as Comanche 3, Armored Fist, and of course the Delta Force series. I thought the company no longer exists, but they still do and develop new Delta Force game. Maybe there is still hope for Comanche 5 and Armored Fist 4?
Aaaah... brings back the memories.. :)
Crysis is good too. As with any art, there's no "better" or "worse". It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Awww the good olds of dos pc
Wow, this looks like a pretty cool game...despite the age.
Anyone remember SimCopter? That was an awesome game as well.
Amazing game, I spent many days playing it. I think Comanche 3 was the best of the series, C4 had amazing graphics, but was more arcade-like.
what a class act; also: voxels
Now you mention it, Crysis uses a voxel engine for the terrain too, that's why there's such a long view distance. It's a lot more advanced than this game's, obviously, but shows that voxels aren't dead yet!
I have this game!! havent played it in years i really gotta hook my old windows 95 up and take it fer a spin
It was supposed to come out on super nintendo using one of their FX chips but it got cancelled for some reason, there's videos of the snes version on youtube though.
I had this as a kid. freakin awesome game i loved playing it. Still have the CD but i would like to get the disk version with the cool box.
Agree that it's a very cool sim; F29 is pretty good too, although I'd probably pick TFX over it. By the way, the DOSBox keys you're referring to are actually CTRL-F11 and CTRL-F12 (though I believe you can remap these if you want).
my god,the memories
I tried installing this on my windows 7 OS, but it doesn't work. I just wanted to see what it looked like again, thanks for posting this, brings back some good memories :)
i was so fascinated ..
@fisk0 the water reflection could be turned on or off, it was a cpu killer tho, even on a 486/33mhz with 8mb of ram (incredible machine in 1992) it would make the game crawl. The 486 50 or 66 was really needed, but they weren't yet available when I played this.
Gotta remember this was all done with CPU, there were no 3D cards available for PC's until a few years later.
Also other versions on RUclips have the original but different music, higher-pitched, etc.
Yeah, the classics are often the best. Higher-res graphics and more color depth doesn't always make a better game. They usually can't capture the magic of the "first time" again...
i love the music !
OMG I loved this game!
awsome!!! man i still dont get how they got those grafics back then.. and worked fine in pretty much every pc back then.. though i was more of a LHX guy heheh great memorys... i was 6 years old back then
from the soundtrack of the game hunting to sleep)
the true landmark 3d games appeared before 3d hardware. biggest example of course being Doom.
Loved this game...
I had this game. It was the big hit at the time because it used a new graphical technique called 'Garaud Shading'. I remember having to clear some of my HDD at the time because it was a whopping 60MB installation! (which was HUGE back then)
It's DOSBox 0.65. I haven't tested Comanche with the newer 0.70, but it seems to run without a hitch in 0.65.
another way also is to change the cpu type and core in the config settings for the game - changing it to something like 386 slow and simple core will slow it down nicely - well this worked for me with werewolf
It runs very well in DOSBox; I think even the default config should run it fine. You may want to fiddle with your sound card settings, and I'm not sure if Comanche will choke on the default DOSBox settings of EMS and XMS enabled; try turning either or both off.
well its okay dude, i kinda liked it, remebers me of the good old... :)
MEMORIES!!!
This has got to be one of the best looking engines in the early 90's. Those voxel graphics still look a lot better than most of the early 3D accelerated games from 1997-2001.
I have seen screenshots of this game with some extremely good looking water reflections too (the kind that games usually didn't have until 2003 or something), but couldn't see any of that in this video. Anybody knows anything more about that?
Does anyone remember what the expansion for Commanche was called?
I miss this game. Hearing "target destroyed" brings back fond memories.
This game was a triumph for 92.
I remember back in those days these game was like Crysis in 2007. Only the absolute best PC could run it in full specs but in 1992 with no internet it was harder to have a great PC running and these game as kind of like an elitist game.
The game is so old that I'm almost tempted to just put it up for download somewhere (I seriously doubt NovaLogic cares about enforcing copyright on this 15-year-old game when much newer and "better" versions exist), but I'm not in a position where I can afford to expose myself to legal liability. Google for it, and if you really can't find it, send me an e-mail.
@drvoke Search for "Unlimited Detail" it runs in software. For a comparission, Crysis on Very high 1 runs at about 5-10 fps in software, if you're using one of the best CPU's. And yes dx 11 can be run in software mode
Ahh the memories :)
The NovaLogic logo is AdLib music I think, and the sound that comes right after it is digitized sound, so this mostly likely is a problem with your audio settings. Try changing dosbox.conf to have a regular Sound Blaster (dosbox.conf calls this "sb1") with the usual settings of I/O address 220h, IRQ7, and DMA1.
This is from 92'? Holy fuck, this looks great considering when it was released.
@TheRighteous123
It's been 20 years!
pretty good graphics
@LateBlt:
I never really liked SimCopter, but Streets of Sim City was really cool. Same idea, but with cars instead of choppers in your own city.
What are you running this on?
I used to play this back when I was in 10 grade, I loved it. A few years ago I bought a copy on ebay, but for some reason it wouldn't run.
Nope. But it was a graphical revolution back then, anyway. And it is still a beautiful game.
I'm sure you can still find it on eBay or someplace similar.
First game i ever played.
I remeber this game required 4mb of RAM to run. I couldn`t run it with my 386SX 40Mhz with 2MB of RAM and B&W screen :)
@Algren334 just think 93 this was awsome
I had weapons and fuels 98%, when I was six years old.
Does anyone know how to get the music in MIDI format please?