Tank Wars

Tank Wars
Developer: Kenneth Morse Publisher: Kenneth Morse Platform: DOS Released internationally: October 28, 1990 This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences.

Tank Wars is an artillery game, much like Scorched Earth. However, it also has team play.

Debug Printouts

Enter the command line parameter debug to show the current parameters for the game, a memory stats screen and show some debug print-outs during the game.

The player can also just show the memory screen with either showmem or mem.

Revision Differences

Version 1.3

• Added the option to have computers buy and use the weapons bought.

Version 1.5

• Added the mass kill command.

Version 2.5

• Added a new weapon - high powered lasers.

Version 3.0

• Finally added a help screen that can be accessed in the game by pressing F1.
• It also added the "boss screen", a screen used to prevent bosses from thinking one was slacking off during work.
• Entering the command line parameter h showed a complete list of all the commands (except for debug, showmem and mem).

Version 3.1

• The speed of the laser was made its own parameter.