The CD or 3D Realms downloads are easiest to work with, as you can just copy the contents into a folder.Ĭlone the BStone Github project.

To start saving mankind, you can play the shareware version, but it's more fun to play with a retail copy (mine is the 1994 FormGen release, but the one you can still buy from Apogee will work), or extract the game assets from the DOSBox-based GOG installer. It also supports the IMHO inferior sequel, Planet Strike. Despite the fact that DOSBox does support this game, however, I do actually own a retail copy of Blake Stone from back in the day and it runs like dried snot even with a JIT.įortunately, the source code to Blake Stone was released back in the day as well after it was long believed to be lost, and an excellent SDL/OpenGL port called BStone is available which adds many graphical improvements, mouse look (well, side to side, anyway), and 16:9 modes as demonstrated in the screenshot. Ordinarily this wouldn't be worth a mention that's what we have DOSBox for (see our article on adding an OpenPOWER JIT to DOSBox). It kept the basic formula but added subtle lighting effects and ceiling and floor textures, along with more varied environments, lots of (cartoony but fun to shoot) monsters, and a very helpful automap.

One of the more entertaining games based on id's Wolfenstein 3D engine was Apogee's Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold from 1993, developed by yet another set of apparent refugees from Softdisk, but that's another story for another day. Everything is awful, so now that we've rescued a Blackbird let's go shoot more aliens.

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