Most users should find that they can play the game without the need for the manual at all, however. :->įor those who are confused by some aspect of Solarian II, we have an online manual that covers the common questions like display configuration and game performance (and there is a PDF version of the manual for download if you wish). We hope nobody is outraged by this please keep in mind you had more than a decade of playing version 1.0.4, paid for by your first $25. Additionally, we don't have any payment records from the old version of Solarian II – more than 20 years ago! – so we could not verify who had already paid. The amount of effort expended seems to us to justify a new registration fee. Usually we provide free upgrades for registered users, but this is not just a new version, it's a complete port to what is effectively a new operating system. Thanks!įolks who paid for the old Classic version are not registered for this version of Solarian II. For details on how we handle payments, see our main software page. Feel free to try it out for a little while before paying, but please don't forget that it is ultimately your responsibility to pay for it if you use it. Solarian II is shareware (which means we rely on you to pay for it if you use it). All the sounds are the same (but cleaned up to have less hiss and noise), the graphics are untouched (but it can now switch your display's resolution so it fills that nice big monitor you have nowadays), even the user interface is preserved in all its archaic wonder! Here's a screenshot of the game in action ( click for the full-size version): We made this port as faithful to the original as we possibly could. It's now a native Cocoa app (!), and should be good to go for another 15 years, we hope! We kept getting email about this, and so we ported it to Mac OS X. It ran happily for years, but Mac OS X broke it – it never ran well under Classic. ![]() Solarian II was first written in 1988–1989, and was one of the first color games for the new color Macs that came out in 1988. NOTE: Solarian II 1.1 has not been updated in several years, and does not work on recent versions of OS X (10.6 or later).
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