Nyerguds Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I found this on ebay, for $15. Despite the shipping to Belgium coming down to an additional $33, I could absolutely not resist this: The box arrived yesterday, and I immediately got to work. Sadly my current PC doesn't have a floppy drive, so I couldn't get the content off the disks, but I'm fairly sure I already got that version on my disk anyway. The main reasons I had for buying this didn't really include the floppies, anyway. These reasons, besides the fact this is a treasure of gaming history, and the fact the box is complete even down to the original receipt of the sale in a game store, are these: -The cover art. I haven't found any place online that has a high resolution version of that, or even a good quality one. -That cute little newspaper thingy, which is more or less their newsletter with added internal development anecdotes, and some hints and tricks for their games. -The lovely ring-bound manual. Of course, since I already remade the manual as PDF file with colour images, there wasn't much use in scanning that. Not to mention, A) there must be plenty of scans of that going around, and B) it's ring-bound, which is annoying to scan. However, the other two items are scanned, and posted here for your enjoyment: Find them all here: Scan of the cover image (larger version) Full scan of the cover (the gold letters came out quite nicely I think ;) ) Newspaper page 1 Newspaper page 2 Newspaper page 3 Newspaper page 4 These are, in fact, still downsized versions; I scanned everything at 600 dpi. You can find the ultra-high lossless png versions in this folder: http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/dune/dune2box/png/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnovice Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 2 MS-Dos (1,44 MB) HD Floppies? For Amiga it was: 5 Floppies (720 KB). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 The newsletter is cool. Is it even mentioned elsewhere that Command & Conquer was the series title which had already been conceived in 1992? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 2 MS-Dos (1,44 MB) HD Floppies?It's four, actually. What you see on this photo are two stacks of two floppies each. This will disappear soon since the item is sold, but for now, you can still see the full set of showcase photos here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/191469375225?orig_cvip=true The newsletter is cool. Is it even mentioned elsewhere that Command & Conquer was the series title which had already been conceived in 1992?Yeah, I loved that detail. Also, the audio guys going around punching people to record screams, and the designers trying to find a way to sneak atomic weapons in (which, on one hand, they got around through the non-atomic Death Hand Missile, and on the other hand totally did include, with the Devastator :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vota dc Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I have four disks too but with different cover: big image of harvester and two smaller image one with Atreides Mentat and one with carryall "vast armies have arrived" from the introduction. Also is battle for Arrakis and not building of a dinasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 The Arrakis version is the European one, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segra Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 There is one of these for sale right now (black disks), sadly the back of the box is ripped :( http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dune-II-IBM-PC-MS-DOS-Classic-Real-Time-Strategy-Frank-Herberts-Dune-/131534473383?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1ea010c8a7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnovice Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Battle for Arrakis (floppies):http://www.ebay.it/itm/Dune-2-II-Big-Box-Rare-PC-Game-/151714225915?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2352df5efb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segra Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 i need this box, ive only got this one for Amiga! too bad its bidding and not buy now :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Glad I got mine; it doesn't have any stickers or stuff over the cover image :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenspiral Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Fantastic. The manual is a work of art. I now have your pdf on my phone while I play the game for reference and for the security questions. Thx a million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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