One Must Fall:2097 special moves
Posted by danielmeyer on February 3, 2009
Remember One Must Fall:2097? It came out in 1994, and Diversions Entertainment has released it as freeware:
By popular request, the full version of OMF:2097 is now available for download. OMF:2097 is freeware, so you can copy this file as you please. However, please be aware that Diversions Entertainment no longer supports OMF:2097. So, if you download this file, you’re on your own – all requests for help with 2097 will be ignored.
Getting OMF Running
Using dosbox, I was able to run OMF without any of those old setup headaches (fiddling with config.sys to load device drivers in high memory to free up more of that low 640K…remember?)
I didn’t have to do any special setup to dosbox or OMF — I just
- Ran dosbox
- Ran the OMF install program
- Ran omf.exe
- Went into Setup and chose something like Sound Blaster 16
- Everything just worked and I started playing the game.
And this was on my Linux PC. (It worked just as seamlessly on my Windows 95 PC too.) Wow! Thanks, dosbox developers!!
Special Moves Reference
I found Matt Williams’ OMFMOVES.LST in an old archive, listing all the special moves for the OMF:2097 robots in two-player mode. This is a great resource. For myself and my colleagues (casual players), though, I preferred to leave out the more complex Scrap and Destruction moves. I did this (and also simplified the key sequences for keyboard use, from D-DB-B to D-B and B-DB-D-DF-F to B-D-F, for example), resulting in this OMF Special Moves One Page Reference (PDF).
(Thanks to Ben the Dean for pointing me to dosbox.)
