- HD installer is contained on disk 1. - At least 1.5Mb ram is required to play the HD version (launch "DuneII"), except on 1Mb A500+/A600 machines (launch "Dune600" instead).

Based on 1992 Westwood/Virgin PC release. PC versions: MCGA/VGA N.B. Released simply as DUNE: THE BATTLE FOR ARRAKIS on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

[1] Licensed game based on David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi novel of the same name (see HERE).

[2] Game design by Aaron E. Powell and Joseph Bostic.
Coding by Joseph Bostic, Denzil E. Long Jr., Scott K. Bowen, Rob Povey, Mark McCubbin and Bob Koon.
Graphics & animation by Sandy Dobbs.
Audio direction by Paul Mudra; music & sound by Frank Klepacki and Dwight Okahara; digitised voices by Frank Klepacki, Glenn Sperry and Julie Stainer.
Game story & text written by Donna J. Bundy and Rick Gush.

[3] DUNE II, perhaps inaccurately, is widely considered to be the first contemporary real-time strategy (RTS) game ever released, and pioneered many concepts and conventions of the RTS genre.

[4] Game features multitasking (> 1Mb ram required), VGA screenmodes (configured using Preferences IControls), and savegame support.