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Battle Chess Enhanced CD-ROM

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Category:	Board Game
Perspective:
Year released:	1992
Author:	Interplay
Publisher:	MacPlay
Engine:

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
BattleChessEnhanced.sit (467.31 MB)
MD5: d9c4d0c04243eb1edc36ee048587bab2
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
battle_chess_enh.toast_.sit (15.18 MB)
MD5: 259483a45fa7ec8d9a7eef9729025fda
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
battlechesscd1.1.1update.sit (135.27 KB)
MD5: 4f11c061d40828fb8ac27b248bbb3fb7
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Battle_Chesscr_color.sit (159.89 KB)
MD5: 5ca7d78e8f4ce8d126b9d08726fa0361
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
battlechess_enh.pdf

Emulation
Guides on emulating older games

The color version of Battle Chess was released in several versions, this one likely being the last, v1.1 by MacPlay.

A note about the downloads available above:

The first file above is a bin/cue image of the CD
The second file is an excerpt of the CD, containing Macintosh data partition only
The third file is an updater

'Battle Chess Enhanced' Mac CD image
Download from Mega.Co.Nz (467.3 MB)
For Mac OS 6 to 9

The disc's CD-Audio tracks are tied together with the game not only as background music, but as sound effects and voices tied to the animated graphics onscreen. Unless someone can find a way to mount and run the CD-Audio portion of a disc, the only way to properly run this is by burning it to a CD and running it from there. The hacked version found at Le Grenier du Mac results not only in missing audio but too-rapid animations.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

This is a Mac-only CD-ROM.

System requirements:

Any color Macintosh with System 6.0.7 and 7.0
If using System 6, you need the "32-Bit Quickdraw" INIT from your System 6 disks
256 colors
2600k of free memory

Comments

by MikeatOS9 - 2020, February 18 - 4:18am

Burnt the image BattleChessEnhanced.sit
(BattleChessEnhanced.cue and BattleChessEnhanced.bin)
to CD with ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 (Freeware) on Windows 7.
And also burnt bin/cue very easy in OS X with SimplyBurns.
http://simplyburns.sourceforge.net/
Thanks to protocol-7 !

by MikeatOS9 - 2020, February 15 - 10:05pm

Battle Chess[cr] color.sit added:
Tested working on a PowerBook 1400c with G3 (250 MHz) board with Mac OS 9.1
(February 2020)

by scott Praed - 2017, January 21 - 2:49am

Battle Chess Enhanced CD-ROM don't work in classic environment of Mac OS X 10.4.11 because the game will said CD Error and quit. But in Mac OS 9.2.2 directly the game plays without a CD error.

by soudesune - 2015, November 5 - 9:32am

Review from contemporary magazine (MacFormat — April 1994) added.

by IIGS_User - 2015, March 19 - 8:41am

First d/l above is now the file provided by MCP.

by CalTheOnly - 2014, August 16 - 11:23pm

All I remember is that the Queen was HOT!!

by IIGS_User - 2013, February 23 - 7:52pm

To complete this package, add the manual found in Battle Chess (b/w version) to your collection
(The b/w version is also included in the Enhanced CD-ROM version) .

by IIGS_User - 2012, September 27 - 3:43pm

Audio CD partition has been added.
If you want to burn this on a CD-R, please be sure to burn CD-ROM partition first without finishing the CD, then add Audio CD partition starting with audio track 2, creating a mixed-mode CD-ROM.

by MCP - 2011, September 23 - 2:20pm

Yes, if I were going to play this, I would go with the original monochrome version. I like to keep things simple, and I still find that little compact Mac monitor appealing.

Somehow I forgot to include the v1.1.1 update in the archive; I've added it as a separate file in the same folder as the StuffIt segments, if you click the external download link. I believe it's for improving compatibility with a few select PowerMac models.

by 24bit - 2011, September 12 - 4:37pm

Thanks MCP for uploading! I almost like the B/W version better, running fine with MiniVMac or Fusion_PC/DOSBox. The color version on the other hand, is good for my hardly used PPC7100.

by IIGS_User - 2011, September 12 - 7:27am

I remember playing this on System 6 in black and white.

The Enhanced version directly? The 'Enhanced' CD version includes the original older b/w version as a bonus game as well.

by CyberSkull - 2011, September 12 - 3:35am

I remember playing this on System 6 in black and white.