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Welcome to APC's haven for games aficionados

Many games have special requirements. Windows games frequently need DirectX (for help click here), so be sure to read the instructions below and any README files included with these games. Download the DirectX 7 file \gamezone\dx70eng.exe to your local drive, then run the program from the command prompt.

 

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100% Free Hearts 1.8

Download the version for your operating system here:

Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Description: A versatile card game, it has playful characters that you play with while you master your skills. All card players will appreciate playing their favourite variations of hearts, including Jack of Diamonds, Spot, Gates, Sunshots, and hundreds of other game and scoring options.
Licence: Freeware
Requirements: 24MB RAM
Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Netscape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file.
Links online: http://dq.com/spades.html

 

BVS Solitaire Collection

Download the version for your operating system here:

Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Description: This group of 160 solitaire games comes from Russia. The game features 256-colour graphics, sound, multilevel undo, statistics for multiple players, selectable backgrounds, automatic card moving, a restart feature, and shuffle selection.
Licence: Shareware
Requirements:     
Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Netscape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file.
Links online: http://www.bvssolitaire.com/

 

Clusterball 1.002

Download the version for your operating system here:

Windows 95/98/2000
Description: A fast, intense, and addictive futuristic ball game, the basic idea of this game is simple: fly your ship around the landscape; fly dangerously low as you gather coloured balls from the tracks; use the equipment found hidden in depots and quickstops to interfere with your opponents' attempts to score; then score points by flying your chain of collected balls through the goal.
Licence: Shareware
Requirements: Pentium II-233, 64M RAM, 8M 3D video card
Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Netscape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file.
Links online: http://www.daydream.se/

 

Dark Reign 2 (Single player demo)

Download the version for your operating system here:

Windows 95/98
Description: The ecologically unstable Earth of the future has fallen under the rule of a repressive world police force called the Jovian Detention Authority. Charged with protecting the elite's exclusive "dome" cities, the JDA is battling the masses of urban "Sprawlers", those people who dwell in the toxic, irradiated world outside of the cities. Gamers can take up the cause of either side, fighting through 20 missions.
Licence: Demo
Requirements: Pentium II-233, 64M RAM, Direct 3D video card, DirectX Drivers
Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Netscape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file.
Links online: http://www.activision.com/

 

No One Lives Forever Technology Demo

Download the version for your operating system here:

Windows 95/98/2000
Description: This is a story-driven, first-person adventure. It delivers action, tense subterfuge, outrageous villains and wry humour in the tradition of the great spy films and TV shows of the 1960s. Players assume the role of Agent Cate Archer, a beautiful but deadly operative working for UNITY, a super-secret international organisation dedicated to protecting humanity from megalomaniacs bent upon world domination. Armed with an assortment of conventional and experimental weaponry and gadgets, the operative will explore exotic locales, circumvent devious traps and contend with deadly agents determined to take her out of the spy trade once and for all.
Licence: Demo
Requirements: Pentium II-300, 64M RAM, 8M 3D hardware accelerator card with Direct 3D, DirectX Drivers
Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Netscape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file.
Links online: http://www.foxinteractive.com

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