ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Ancient Art Of War In The Skies, The

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

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Stats

5,585

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on the 'Game' boot disk (i.e. disk 1).

- More than 1MB ram is required for HD gameplay.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1993
Ancient Art Of War In The Skies, The
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
English, German
4
One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes

[1] Based on the classic strategy text "The Art of War", written by Sun Tzu circa 400 B.C.

[2] Game includes Amiga reference docs on-disk (see "ReadMe.txt" on disk 1) and a built-in campaign editor. Additionally, the game supports different keymaps (to change from the GB default refer to "ReadMe.txt" on disk 1), savegames and PAL/NTSC screenmodes.

[3] The NTSC version of ANCIENT ART OF WAR IN THE SKIES may be activated by double-clicking the
"60Hz Screen Stretcher" icon on disk 1, but publisher MicroProse warned in the on-disk docs that this software solution may not work on all Amiga set-ups and might require the ECS chipset and a monitor.

[4] According to the on-disk docs, the "Game Options" clipboard in-game displays an option to turn off the joystick. However, clicking on it doesn't do anything as it is a leftover option from the original PC version that wasn't removed.


Known releases: V1.12 (18-May-1993)

Conversion Notes

Based on 1992 Evryware/MicroProse PC (DOS) release.
PC versions: MCGA/VGA

Screen info

ECS / OCS
Screenshot ECS no. 3

Screenshot ECS no. 4

Screenshot ECS no. 5

Screenshot ECS no. 6

Screenshot ECS no. 7

Screenshot ECS no. 8

Screenshot ECS no. 9

Screenshot ECS no. 10

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

German Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 2

German Release (back)

Box scan ECS no. 3

U.S. Release (front) [Source: Every Game Going]

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

European Release

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 45, 5/1993, Page 35)

ECS no. 2

German Advert (Amiga Joker 5/1993, Page 9)

ECS no. 3

U.S. Advert (CGW 100 11/1992, Page 48)

Manual info

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual (English)

ECS no. 2

Manual (German)

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Conversion info

Atari ST/E
No conversion screens found.
PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Action
46 (Jul 1993)
61%
Steve McNally
2
Amiga Computing
63 (Aug 1993)
79%
Simon Clays
2
Amiga Force
8 (Aug 1993)
39%
Phil King
Ian Osborne
0
Amiga Format
48 (Jul 1993)
87%
Richard Baguley
2
Amiga Joker
Jun - Jul 1993
68%
Reinhard Fischer
1
Amiga Power
27 (Jul 1993)
65%
Mark Winstanley
2
Amiga Style
6 (Nov 1993)
83%
Vladimir Vodalov
0
Amiga User International
Vol 7 No 9 (Oct 1993)
62%
1
CU Amiga
Jun 1993
45%
Mark Patterson
2
Datormagazin
No 13 (Aug 1993)
75%
Dan Josefsson
0
The One
57 (Jun 1993)
73%*
Simon Byron
4

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Action
43 (Apr 1993)
Huw Melliar-Smith
Preview (in-depth)
2
Amiga Computing
60 (May 1993)
Paul Roundell
Preview
1
Amiga Power
25 (May 1993)
Mark Winstanley
Preview (in-depth)
1
The One
55 (Apr 1993)
Preview
1

ECS / OCS

Lore Score: 65%

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