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Mine Field

minefield

  • Year
    1985
  • Strategy
    Find Path
  • Platform
    HP-UX || 5.0

Mine Field - Game Overview

Mine Field was written in 1985 for HP-UX by Keith Marchington.

Mine Field is a 15x10 grid and you must cross the minefield using number clues. You may select between 1 and 99 mines before starting a game and you use the keyboard to navigate. There are no highscores but you receive a score for each game (number of steps) and there is a "safeties" counter (number of cells marked safe).

The game was included in an Integral Games pack. Games included Boggle, Minefield, Fish, Fortune, Hangman, Snake, Arithmetic, Back, Blackjack, Craps, Maze, Mov, Quiz, TTT, Cribbage, Rain, Rivers and Senet. Interestingly, the Hangman dictionary includes the words mine, minefield, minelayer, minesweep and minesweeper. The games were released on 3.5 inch floppy disks in DS/DD format and the download includes these as Teledisk compressed disk images.

Keith was a software development engineer at HP when they released the HP Integral PC in 1985. He submitted Mine Field v0.00 with the title "The Explosive Game of Mine Field".

Special thanks to "Shattered" on bannister.org in 2016 for getting these games to run and taking screenshots.


Version History

A list of all known versions sorted by platform then version. Email admin@ if you have more! See the Downloads section for available files.

HP-UX0.00Original release as part of the Integral Games pack.

Pictures

Screenshots are sorted by platform then version.


Mine Field 0.00 - New game screen

Downloads

Versions are listed by platform, version, year, earliest known date and source of the date information.

HP-UX0.001985Copyright
ZIP (TD0)English

Credits

People and companies are listed by platform, version, name, role and source of the information.

HP-UX0.00
Keith MarchingtonCopyrightGame

Game Links

Dead sites are often available at archive.org.

  • https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=185
    Mine Field download.

  • https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=107819
    Forum thread booting an HP Integral PC and playing Mine Field.


Entity Links

Dead sites are often available at archive.org.

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-marchington-77518510/
    LinkedIn profile for Keith Marchington.