Cosmic Conquest

COSMIC CONQUEST by Carl Edman

Description

Cosmic Conquest is a 4-player turn-based tactical conquest game by Carl Edman and released for the Amiga in 1988.

The aim of Cosmic Conquest is to be the sole remaining ruler over the complete star cluster of 16 stars.

This is a Windows/Linux port of version v1.0035 that was released into the Public Domain.

See the github README for more details, or Carl's original docs

AI

AI is based on the name of the player. Carl only created AI for the "klingon" race, so if you want any sort of challenge you should include the name "klingon" somewhere in the name.

Controls

This game is a text-based game, and as such the control are primarily text-based. This port uses the original control scheme, which can be a little bewildering.

• `h` shows the help screen
• `G` completes your turn
• `l` land a task force on a planet
• `c` carry ships
• `h` hyperspace travel for a task force
• `j` join two or more task forces
• `n` split a task force into two
• `b` opens the build menu
• `,` and `.` moves left/right through the build menu
• `e` emigrate population from planet
• `d` declare war, peace or alliance on another player
• `p` possess a planet
• `k` kill a planet's population
• F11 - toggle windowed mode (required for mouse to work)

Files

• amiga - original ADF file
•  doc - original docs from the ADF
•  ubuntu22.04x64 - built binary for Ubuntu (tested on 22.04)
•  winx64 - built binary for Windows x64

See README.md for more info on the port and licence info.

See doc/cosmic.txt on how to play.

Bugs

This game is a low-effort port of an Amiga game from 1988. Whilst I've tested this by playing a lot, there will definitely be bugs/quirks and all sorts of things that offend your modern sensibilities.

Save Games

For the save game system to work, make sure you create a folder called "games" next to your executable.

Source Code

https://github.com/evolutional/cosmic_conquest

Credits

• Carl Edman, original Amiga game
• Mattias Gustavsson, dos-like framework
• Damien Guard - ZX Eurostile font

Greetz

h0ffman, nivrig, korruptor, evil_paul^atebit