DOS Days

Centurion: Defender of Rome

Released: 1990
Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: Bits of Magic
Author(s): Kellyn Beck, Evan Robinson, Nicky Robinson, Ken Zarifes, Jim Sachs, Scott Wallin, Dennis Clevenger, Michael Kosaka, Jon Newton, Michael Bard.

System Requirements Intel 8088 or 8086, DOS 2.11 or later.
Graphics support for EGA, VGA, MCGA and Tandy. Tandy 16-colour mode requires 384K of free memory.
Audio support for PC Speaker, Ad Lib and Roland MT-32.
Keyboard and Mouse supported.
Original Media Three 360 KB 5.25" floppy disks
Installed Size (MB) MB

From where can it be run?

The game can be run directly from floppy disks, but is better installed to a hard disk.

Copy Protection

The original game comes with a map, which acts as the copy protection mechanism. When the game starts you will be asked to enter a specific location.

There are cracks out there that circumvent this.

How to Setup

There is no setup or configuration program for Centurion.

To run the game after installation, simply run centurio.exe.
The game automatically detects if you have an Ad Lib sound card and will use that, otherwise it will play sound via the PC speaker. If you have a Roland sound device, type:

centurio roland

 

 

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To Quit the Game

From the main map screen press 'Q' followed by 'Y'.
Alternatively, press ESC at any time to open the Game Control Menu and go down to the second from last item, "Quit to DOS", then hit Enter.

Supporting Documents

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Save Games

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Versions of the game known to exist

Version Date Comments
2.01B 7/11/90 Initial public release.