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Mine Field

Year

1991
Strategy

Flag Mines OR Clear Mines
Platform

DOS || MS-DOS

Mine Field - Game Overview

Mine Field was written for DOS in 1991 by Charles Hardy.

Mine Field is a graphical game of logic and deduction. Your job is to mark all of the mines in a mine field so that your troups can make it through safely. There are 15 differect board to choose from and you can select how many bombs to put on each board. The game begins with a board of raised tiles. You then have to click on a tile and hope there isn't a mine under it. If you don't get blown up the tile removes itself to reveal either a blank space or a number. A blank space means that there are no bombs in the 8 surrounding squares and the computer will automatically uncover those squares for you until it reaches a square with a number. A numbered square means that there are that number of bombs in the surrounding 8 tiles. You have to figure out where all of the bombs are and mark them by clicking on them with the right button. This turns the tile red and prevents you from uncovering it with the left button. If you change your mind about weather or not there is a bomb under a red tile then you can click on it again with the right button and it will turn back to a normal square and you will then be able to uncover that tile with the left button. The game is over when you mark all of the bombs or when you uncover all of the safe tiles. Mine Field runs in 640 X 480 X 16 VGA graphics mode. It requires about 350K of disk space and about 400K of free memory (RAM). Mind Field also requires a mouse for program interaction. The delay at the beginning of the program is necessary to load all of the pictures that this program uses.

There are 15 grids to choose from including castles and grids where some safe squares are missing the number clues. A counter shows you the remaining mines to mark but there is no timer, no Highscore list and you can lose on the first click. Shareware price was originally $15 later reduced to $12.

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.

DOS	1.00	Original release.
DOS	1.15	Added music to the winning screen, changed graphics, updated the Shareware screen and game documentation.
DOS	1.10	Corrected problems with non-Microsoft computer mice.