Alternate history Abuse

[jk]

#12106

I know the podcast’s stance on Amiga but what’s less clear is the position on old Mac games. Given it’s been 30 years or more, I hope this is close enough to DOS and thought I’d share a bit of alternate history from someone who grew up with 68k and PowerPC Macs.

This is my boxed copy of the Abuse… demo.

In the late 90s I was gifted a big box copy of Marathon Trilogy from my Dad’s friend. I’m unsure _why_ he gifted it to me and also knew to pick a seminal series but they did and it’s one of 2 boxed computer games I still have.

On the main CD of the Marathon Trilogy was the 3 Marathon games, Pathways into Darkness (pre-Marathon Bungie FPS) and an Extras folder. The Extras had a simple slideshow for Myth (another Bungie developed game), a product catalog and an Abuse Demo.

I don’t know if Bungie ever published another game (was Oni internally developed?) but at this point in time, Abuse made the cut.

I took a screenshot of the included Bungie Catalog ’97 on the Abuse page since I doubt anyone would’ve seen this before.

Here’s a couple of screenshots from the Demo that would be different to the PC version.

I returned to the demo a bunch it’s unique control scheme and the fact there was a bunch of secrets to find. I don’t think there’s anything else unique to the version outside of the publisher, unless there was an action mapped to right click which I wouldn’t have had access to with my one-button mouse handicap.

Looking forward to exploring the game more this month and give me a reason to fire up Mac OS 9 again.

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[Tijn]

#12112

Oh yeah this is cool! I’ve read the Mac port of Abuse is quite well done. It’s not a simple straight up port at all, it really makes use of the Mac’s capabilities.

Oh and just for the record, all the Amiga stuff is just having a laugh of course. I know it’s obviously a joke, but I just felt it’s good to have it out there that we don’t actually hate the Amiga (or any platform for that matter) 😛

[Evil Taco]

#12113

This is super neat for sure!

Smiling wide about “the Amiga stance” too ^_^

[watchful]

#12114

Mac?! That’s a completely distinct platform! You’ll have to start a totally different spinoff podcast for that! 😉

For real though, I didn’t realize the Mac port was so distinct. Will have to check it out myself once I can get some hardware. (My experience with emulation of Macs has been mostly negative.)

[jk]

#12115

I’m unsure the Mac port is different aside from the publisher. I’ll have to try the DOS version after to see if there’s anything obvious.

I won’t try the source ports with the nice framerates until later in the month to avoid ruining the originals though.