Battle Isle

You can download Battle Isle 1 (Moon of Chromos) free of charge at Abandonia and you can run it under GNU/Linux using DOSBox (update: DOSBox also runs on Windows and MacOS). Battle Isle is a turn-based strategy game. The game can be played against the computer as well as against another human player. It always runs in split-screen mode. I.e. each player specifies the moves using half of the screen.

Here’s how to run the game (under GNU/Linux) after downloading it

unzip 'Battle Isle 93 - The Moon of Chromos.zip'
cd BI193
dosbox MOON.EXE -exit
cd ..

• First player keys
  • '⇦', '⇨', '⇩', and '⇧' to move the cursor
  • '⏎' and cursor movement to select action
• Second player keys
  • 'x', 'v', 'c', and 'd' to move the cursor
  • 'ctrl' and cursor movement to select action

Here’s a gameplay video of the Amiga version of the game.

See also:

• Blue Byte’s page on Battle Isle 1
• Battle Isle 1 level codes
• Wikipedia article on the Battle Isle series