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Patton Versus Rommel

Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4 (3 votes)
Category:	Strategy
Perspective:	Top Down
Year released:	1987
Author:	Chris Crawford
Publisher:	Electronic Arts
Engine:

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PattonRommel_1.05.sit (584.66 KB)
For System 1 - 5

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PVR_Manual.pdf

Emulation
This game works with: Mini vMac

Command the Allies or Germans c. June 1944. The AI strives to mimic the tactics of the titular personalities.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Comments

by bertyboy - 2010, February 8 - 10:25am

I'm sure Chris Crawford wrote about this game (and PSB and the copy protection methods used) in his "The Art of Computer Game Design" book - freely available from Chris Crawford's web site (use google)

by kondor999 - 2010, February 8 - 5:29am

Yes, I'm afraid this game is copy protected in a most devious way. God that sucks - I wasted dozens of hours in college playing this and it's still a great wargame...

by bertyboy - 2010, February 7 - 9:14pm

Not tried this one, but "Patton Strikes Back" was definitely one of the greatest strategy games ever. This looks remarkably similar.

by IIGS_User - 2010, February 7 - 6:35pm

Replaced floating files download by Disk Copy 4.2/Stuffit 4.0 Disk Image ready-to-use in emulators.

by bertyboy - 2010, February 7 - 11:15am

Chris Crawford was (is) a master of cunning at stopping game piracy. This sounds like something he would do if the game detected that it had been tampered with.

by kondor999 - 2010, February 7 - 10:06am

Unfortunately, I can't get this to run properly under any OS ver from 6 onward. Basically, from turn2 onwards your units start disappearing at random. Bizarre and unfortunate - this is still a great game.