Litude's launchers for Apogee's early episodic games

[MrFlibble]

Litude has just posted some awesome launchers for early Apogee episodic shareware games which do not have built-in episode selection. The launchers have great ASCII art logos and are fully compatible with DOSBox.

Detailed info, screenshots and the download link can be found here.

[Quadko]

Thanks for posting this, they look great. I've had exactly this problem with creating "one click to play" links for those games - Arctic Adventure has 4 separate exes to run! - and this will be a big help. Cheers to Litude for the creations and cheers to MrFlibble for the advertising!

[dr_st]

Very nice!

I made similar batch files to run all such multi-episode games on my DOS machine, but I never took the time to create (nor could I, probably, even if I wanted) such fine ASCII art.

[wardrich]

They're actually ANSI art

ASCII:
<img src="http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs31/i/2008/ ... ansi86.jpg">

ANSI:
<img src="http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/ ... 345w8l.jpg">

Anybody interested in this totally awesome artform should check out <a href="http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/">PabloDraw</a> for creating the art.

Also make sure you peruse <a href="http://blocktronics.org/">Blocktronics</a> and <a>16c</a> for some incredible galleries.

/shameless plugs

[dr_st]

You are absolutely right, I stand corrected. ASCII refers only to the lower 128 characters, which excludes most of the extended set used to make these graphics.

[wardrich]

Correct