Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

published by Electronic Arts in 1995, developed by Bullfrog, running on MS-DOS

type: shooter, flight
genre: First-person shooter
series: Magic Carpet
setting: Antiquity
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player, LAN

game engine: Magic Carpet
languages: eng

4.6/5

Technical specs

software: DOS 5.x, Magic Carpet,

hardware: 486DX CPU, 586 CPU, VESA, Gamepad, Math Co-Processor, Mouse, AdLib SPU, Sound Blaster AWE32 SPU, General MIDI, Roland MT-32 SPU, Sound Blaster SPU,

display: _ (mixed), raster, textured polygons

Minimum:
* MS-DOS 5.0
* 486 / 66 MHz CPU
* 8 MB RAM
* 8 MB free HD space
* MS-compatible mouse

Recommended:
* Pentium CPU
* 4X CD-ROM drive
* 16 MB RAM
* VESA SVGA GPU
* souncard

Soundcard support: Sound Blaster, AWE32, WaveBlaster, AdLib, Pro Audio Spectrum, Roland MT32, General MIDI.
Additional controller support: Joystick, i-Glasses, Gravis Gamepad, Joypad.

Multiplayer:
* NETBIOS

Multiplayer supports up to 8 players.

Sanguine # 2008-06-04 11:08:39

Editor note

The game is unusual in the manner that it doesn't have an installer. Only sound setup, and the game executable which places some parts of the game to HD at first run (totaling at about 8MB initially), but mostly runs from the CD.

Sanguine # 2008-05-31 12:04:54