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Best games to play on an STN display?

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Capt. 2110

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I have a Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 with a monochrome STN LCD. I'm looking for games that would play well on the machine. It's a fairly fast display, but still not great. Preferably the games will fit on a single 1.44Mb floppy, but I can manage if not. I'd like older RPGs if I can find them.

Thanks!
 
Microsoft Word. Stop playing games and get to work! That's why your employer supplied you an STN display.

Hahaha. :p Just kidding. I found that on an inverted display like your Contura Aero, ptrooper.com or Paratrooper works quite well. Doom & Wolfenstein weren't terrible either but on a 4/25 you need to turn down the screen size a bit. That will fit on two. Many puzzle games will. Minesweeper and Solitare are solid choices. If it isn't a platformer or a shoot'em up, it should be OK/
 
Capt. 2110 said:
I have a Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 with a monochrome STN LCD. I'm looking for games that would play well on the machine. It's a fairly fast display, but still not great. Preferably the games will fit on a single 1.44Mb floppy, but I can manage if not. I'd like older RPGs if I can find them.

Thanks!
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How about Othello and Space Invaders? Both are more or less mono and can be found on the net. I have a clone of Space Invaders which is done in QBASIC which looks and works like the original console game. Hearts is another one that just came to mind.
 
I remember playing a ton of Heroes of Might & Magic II on my Thinkpad 365e (color DSTN display) back in the day. It might be pushing your CPU a little much though (and it won't fit on a floppy.) You might have some luck with the original HOMM?
 
Might and Magic 1 & 2 can fit on their own floppy disks respecively.

sierra early AGI games should fit on one high density floppy as well.

you could also try cave quest,rouge, and nethack.
 
Pong.


Just kidding. Infocom text games, older RPGs and strategy games probably many of the atarisoft arcade conversions.
 
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