Balance of Power 1985 Edition

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Balance of Power 1985 Edition

Balance of power is a strategy game where one must lead a superpower nation to avoid war. It was ported to the Mac, Apple II, Windows, Atari ST, and Amiga.

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cafyon

For 1985 version... Any suggestions to make the PC-USB mouse work, when running the game from DOSbox image folder?

SomeGuy

To use the mouse with that image in DOSBox, you will need to configure DOSBox to emulate a Microsoft Serial mouse rather than a PS/2 mouse.

Alternatively, you could install a Windows 1.x environment within DOSBox adding the PS/2 Windows 1.x mouse driver, then run the extracted BOP executable.

ibmpc5150

This version exists as follows.

1) Version 1.00 (1985 Edition with disk copy protection)
2) Version 1.10 (1986 Edition with disk copy protection)
3) 1990 Edition with Windows 2.x
4) 1990 Edition without Windows

DeFacto

I think these could be 1.0 and 1.10:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Balance-of-Power-1985-1986-Editions-IBM-Untested-Original-Disks-/154341957981

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114803151968?hash=item1abacd1460:g:z4oAAOSw5NZgQBT2

If anyone's willing to buy and dump them, please do. It doesn't ship internationally, unfortuantely.

Also a 3.5" version:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362895018585?hash=item547e3a8a59:g:Hs8AAOSw4tVeLhMH

ibmpc5150

3.5" media type seems to be very rare than 5.25" one.
But I guess actual disk size seems to be same as 360KB of each disks.

cafyon

@SomeGuy thank you. I'll try all.