Exploration DOS (1994/5)

[corsair91]

Exploration DOS (1994/5)

Probably now abandonware
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Dosbox freeware emulation required for a modern windows OS


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_(video_game)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/4223/exploration/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/4223/exploration/screenshots/

Exploration is a strategy-simulation game set during the Age of Sail. From the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus (the late 1400s) to the French Revolution (1789), you are put in charge of a nation's imperial destiny. This means financing voyages, assembling crews, sending out land and sea expeditions, founding colonies, and occasionally engaging other European powers for global dominance.

Exploration may seem familiar to players of Civilization, Colonization, Conquest of the New World, Gold of the Americas, and even Sid Meier's Pirates!, as they borrow from exploration and cover a similar topic.


English DOS Manual
https://archive.org/details/exploration-manual
Manual and Quick Reference Card for Exploration (DOS)


Exploration 1994
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT1mhjvuh0T6SVyp6DzofbA

[corsair91]

Exploration - Voyages of Discovery gameplay (PC Game, 1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7_2SmBTX0

Squakenet

Gameplay for Exploration - Voyages of Discovery, Dos PC game
produced by Software 2000 in 1994

Exploring the interface in this complex historical strategy simulator.
Played through Dosbox emulation platform.
Recorded with original sound.

[corsair91]

EXPLORATION DOS - 1994 Keyboard layout

In addition to mouse control, some menu items can also be accessed directly via the keyboard:


MAIN MENU INFORMATION

F1 home port
F2 general map
F3 Search
F4 Save
F5 End of game
F6 goods
F7 soldiers
F8 Production


COMMANDS

M move
W wait
S Anchoring/fastening
E expedition form
U unload army
Space no commands
C centering
F ships
Esc end round