Jouni Miettunen wrote Minerva in 1993. The title is a play on Mines and the Roman goddess of wisdom and the arts. The full title is 'Miinantallauspeli 1.0 Minefield Stomping Game'.
This is the best ever mines game. Really! It's a DOS program, needs 286 processor, standard VGA with 256k video RAM and about 200k free memory. Mouse is recommended to see the cursor, otherwise you get the invisible virtual cursor. There are too many features to describe, latest add-ons are a color editor, 'Hazards' menu items and a partial keyboard support for menus! Besides it looks great. The object of the game is to step into all safe squares, you do not have to mark mines.
There are three grids (10x10, 16x16 and 34x23) with four densities (18%, 23%, 28% and 33%) and 12 Highscore lists. You can choose from three skins (grass, metal, sea) and there are four optional hazards (rocks, faulty mine detector, transporation, wandering mines). The game comes with a very lengthy and detailed Help file.
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.
