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Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

Strategic Simulations Inc. released Gary Grigsby's Pacific War for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.2 in 1992. Pacific War was designed and programmed by Gary Grigsby. What makes Pacific War impressive -- aside from its scope and historical realism -- is that it displays in hires and employs extensive hotkeys and smooth hardware mouse cursor, which makes it easier on the eyes and comfortable to play.

Pacific War is a Grand-scale turn-based wargame that treats the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War from 1941-1945. In Pacific War players assume the role of Supreme Commanders Nimitz of the U.S. or Yamamoto of Japan as they deploy strategic assets of land, sea and air in the Pacific Theatre, which encompasses 78 million square miles of territory.

Pacific War consists of five campaigns and two scenarios:

Campaign 41 (7 December 1941 to End of the War)
Campaign 42 (2 May 1942 to End of War)
Rising Sun (7 December 1941 to 31 March 1942)
Coral Sea/Midway (2 May 1942 to 30 June 1942)
Guadalcanal (7 August 1942 to End of War)
Marianas (12 June 1944 to End of War)
Leyte Gulf (13 October 1944 to End of War)

Each turn in Pacific War represents one week and each hex represents 1 mile.

Pacific War Features

1-2 players
5x campaigns & 2x scenarios
Scalable hex-grid map with 3x terrain-types: open sea, coastal, land
3x play levels of human & computer involvement
Orders Phase & Execution aka Combat Phase
Weather & Day/night cycling
22x combat forces

Pacific War Technical

Pacific War displays in 16-color EGA 640x350, but its active map drawspace is only 640x288. Pacific War requires an i80286 CPU, 570,000 bytes of free conventional memory and an EGA video card with 256K of vRAM.

Pacific War audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro I, Sound Blaster Pro II, AdLib Regular, Media Vision Thunder Board, Roland LAPC-I and PC Speaker.

Pacific War was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DD diskette or 1x 5.25" 1.2MB HD floppy disk and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Installer for Pacific War and UNARJ v2.21 by Robert K. Jung. The install size is 1.4 megs and consists of 57 files.

Pacific War controls support mouse and keyboard.

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War manual: 155 pages

Gary Grigsby's War in Russia copy protection: manual word look-up

Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

Strategic Simulations Inc. released Gary Grigsby's War in Russia for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 in 1993. War in Russia was designed and programmed by Gary Grigsby and developed by James Young.

War in Russia is a Corps-scale turn-based wargame that treats the Russian Theatre aka The Eastern Front of the Second World War from 1941-1945. In War in Russia players assume the role of either Soviet or Axis Commander.

War in Russia consists of four campaigns, eight historical scenarios and one hypothetical scenario:

Campaign 1941 (June 22, 1941 to July 1945)
Campaign '42 (June 28, 1942 to July 1945)
Typhoon (September 21, 1941 to March 1942)
Case Blue (June 28, 1942 to April 1943)
Campaign '43 (July 5, 1943 to July 1945)

Each turn in War in Russia represents one week and each hex represents 20 miles.

War in Russia Features

1-2 players
4x campaigns, 8x historical scenarios & 1x hypothetical scenario
Built-in Scenario Editor
Scalable hex-grid map with 9x terrain-types
Corps-level land units composed of 1-8 divisions

War in Russia Technical

War in Russia displays in 16-color VGA or EGA 640x400, but its active drawspace is only 640x288. War in Russia requires an i80286 CPU, 588,800 bytes of free conventional memory and an EGA video card with 256K of vRAM.

War in Russia audio supports General MIDI, AdLib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro I, Sound Blaster Pro II, Sound Blaster III, Sound Blaster Regular, Media Vision PAS, Media Vision Thunder Board, AdLib Gold, Pro Audio Spectrum, Gravis UltraSound, Logitech SoundMan and PC Speaker.

War in Russia was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DD diskette and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Installer for War in Russia and DearJ v2.30 by Robert K. Jung. The install size is 1.8 megs and consists of 60 files.

Gary Grigsby's War in Russia manual: 74 pages.

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