Alien 8 Remake 1.0.1 for Mac OS X

Original Alien 8 Remake by Ignacio Pérez Gil

Mac OS X port by Michael Thies
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Overview

Alien 8 Remake is my Mac OS X port of Ignacio Pérez Gil's outstanding remake of Ultimate's (now Rare) legendary 8-bit isometric computer game. See the included documents and the web site http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/ignacio/a8i.htm for details.

Alien 8 - start of game screenshot
Click for full size version of screenshot.

System Requirements

This port of Alien 8 Remake has been built as a universal binary for PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs. It has been built and tested on Mac OS X 10.5.3, but should be compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Fullscreen mode is broken on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), but windowed mode works fine.

Download

This port of Alien 8 Remake is provided as a disk image for MacOS X. It comes with more detailed documentation.

Mac OS X

Download for Mac OS X Download Alien 8 Remake 1.0.1 for Mac OS X (14 MB)

Version History

1.0 14-Jun-2008
  first Mac OS X port of Alien 8 Remake
1.0.1 03-Nov-2011
  fullscreen mode is disabled on startup to avoid crashes on Lion

Contact Information

email: mthies@uni-paderborn.de
Web: http://ag-kastens.upb.de/wir/mthies

Legal Information

The Macintosh port of Alien 8 Remake is provided free of charge in the hope that it will be useful but comes with absolutely no warranty, neither by Michael Thies nor by Ignacio Pérez Gil.

Several terms used above are trademarks of their respective holders.


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