Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 15 minutes ago
This black and white port of 'The Ancient Art of War' from Brøderbund was released in 1985, one year after the IBM PC release of 1984. It was probably released with the Mac 512k in mind.
Considered the grand daddy of real-time-strategy games, this featured unit condition, terrain advantage, supply line mechanics with villages, squad formations. You could even create your own campaign maps. It featured beautiful artwork throughout and used some famous war strategists and tacticians of history.
Feel free to watch in augmented speed, it is relatively slow. I already increased the speed of most fights by a factor of 3x.
The video signal comes straight from 4 wires from inside the Macintosh Plus, into a RGB2HDMI device that I self-assembled by using the info in this project: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
0:00 Intro
0:40 Macintalk Description Readout
1:38 Enemy Character Selection
2:22 Gameplay
20:45 Formation Browser
21:55 Map Editor
This black and white port of 'The Ancient Art of War' from Brøderbund was released in 1985, one year after the IBM PC release of 1984. It was probably released with the Mac 512k in mind.
Considered the grand daddy of real-time-strategy games, this featured unit condition, terrain advantage, supply line mechanics with villages, squad formations. You could even create your own campaign maps. It featured beautiful artwork throughout and used some famous war strategists and tacticians of history.
Feel free to watch in augmented speed, it is relatively slow. I already increased the speed of most fights by a factor of 3x.
The video signal comes straight from 4 wires from inside the Macintosh Plus, into a RGB2HDMI device that I self-assembled by using the info in this project: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
0:00 Intro
0:40 Macintalk Description Readout
1:38 Enemy Character Selection
2:22 Gameplay
20:45 Formation Browser
21:55 Map Editor
