Sorry I am a bit late to this thread, but I had this software early in college and remember having such fond memories of it. I would love to buy a copy of it but seems impossible to find. I did go ahead and download it archive.org but does anyone remember if it came with a manual? I've been looking online for one and have had no luck.

lgbsoftware wrote on 2020-11-15, 06:41:

Pictures of deadly technology game

Dude this game looks awesome!!!

Is it a fully playable demo or game?>

I gotta try it...

ArcadEd wrote on 2021-06-11, 03:06:

Sorry I am a bit late to this thread, but I had this software early in college and remember having such fond memories of it. I would love to buy a copy of it but seems impossible to find. I did go ahead and download it archive.org but does anyone remember if it came with a manual? I've been looking online for one and have had no luck.

Sorry, I am even later, and I have scans of the manual if you want them. I love GCS!!!

beefjerky26 wrote on 2021-11-22, 13:14:

ArcadEd wrote on 2021-06-11, 03:06:

Sorry I am a bit late to this thread, but I had this software early in college and remember having such fond memories of it. I would love to buy a copy of it but seems impossible to find. I did go ahead and download it archive.org but does anyone remember if it came with a manual? I've been looking online for one and have had no luck.

Sorry, I am even later, and I have scans of the manual if you want them. I love GCS!!!

Oh my goodness, yes! My email is arcaded at gmail.com. Thanks so much

It's really great to see the efforts of finding Pie3DGCS games still ongoing.

Recently I've gotten back into the GCS and had to discover that despite backup efforts my GCS archive was lost 🙁

I've been searching for weeks now and have gotten a bunch of games back from various sources and people, but a couple are still missing.

Here's a short list of titles (mostly share-/freeware) that I had in my archive, but couldn't find again:

1D-Day
2Demon
3Elapse
4GCS Demo levels (different music)
5GCS Xmas Demo
6Outnumbered
7Soren 3D
8Stop Nick Macki
9Wing Do

For these games I only have found a partial download. NvM crashes after level 1 and I couldn't get Earth Defender to start at all:

1Earth Defender
2North v. Memorial (Beta 2.0)

These are the games from the original missing list, that are still, well, missing:

1Gangbusters Deluxe
2Iraqi Scum-Bag
3Martial Arts Warriors
4Murk
5Operation: One Level Quickie Demo
6Operation Web
7Power Booster 5000
8Project Thunderbird
9Realms of Evil
10Return to Ghost Manor
11Suburbia Squad
12Zombie World

If anyone has some of the games on these lists or even games not mentioned here or in the starting post, I'd love to hear from you 😀
Thanks everyone for keeping the Pie in the Sky spirit alive 😁

Stop Nick Macki was a prototype of Lethal Tender and is the earliest game on the engine (June 13 1993). I don't think that was freeware IIRC.

While I'm still in the process of recovering games, I've been able to dig up a few previously unknown titles and some media:

The Violent Adventures of Gumby: https://web.archive.org/web/20011218072625/ht … ft/gva_pics.htm (screenshots)
Screenshots of North v. Memorial: https://web.archive.org/web/20011218073112/ht … ft/nvm_pics.htm

I've managed to re-recover "Demon", "Soren 3D" and "Wing Do", although the last one doesn't work with sound as some files are missing.

In Soren3D another title is shown with screenshots "Mortal Areas", info can be found here: https://ogdb.eu/index.php?section=title&titleid=917 but it seems to be lost for now

Another new game was discovered on a german cd: "John Westwood" a western style shooter (think outlaws in gcs3d), but unfortunately the author screwed up the installer and a bunch of essential files are missing. Only the first room works, which is a shame, because a lot of work seems to have been put into that one.

Here's an old website that mentions a couple of previously unknown titles: https://web.archive.org/web/19991011154907/ht … 07/3dgames.html
Ninjawars, Ninjawars 2 and Hallways of Brutality.

The logo of the lost game "Power Booster 5000" was recovered here: https://web.archive.org/web/19991001112456/ht … bros/games.html
Confirming that it's a 3DGCS game

Also the previously unknown game "Vitron" is on the previous website. Archive.org has some screenshots saved.

Three more previously unknown games can be found here: https://archive.org/details/barts3dactiongamescd
/B3DACT/DOS/3DSHOOT > unknown title
/B3DACT/DOS/EGGHUNT > Egg Hunt
/B3DACT/DOS/AVENGER > Avenger: the robots of sigma 7

There's still a bunch of stuff that can be found even today!

Hi all, been looking for a 3D GCS community and it was fantastic to come across this thread!

I've been looking for a boxed version of 3D GCS for quite a while but haven't had any luck. Would anyone know where one might be able to find a copy? I've been keeping an eye on Ebay but haven't seen a single listing.

I myself made a game in 3D GCS (the first version I think) called Squirt, which was a water gun type skirmish game that I distributed via bulletin boards back in the day. Had a lot of fun with it. I tried to dig it out recently and found one of the four 3.5" inch floppies is corrupted 🙁 Still hoping I can find a copy somewhere among my backups.

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right place at all but is this one of the type of games you are looking for?

It's called:
Thundra: Alien Wackiness from the Future
https://archive.org/details/Thundra_201611

I was hoping to get some advice about running this title specifically, any help would be appreciated. If I'm in the wrong place I apologize.

ben_3dgcs wrote on 2022-02-04, 03:50:

Hi all, been looking for a 3D GCS community and it was fantastic to come across this thread!

I've been looking for a boxed version of 3D GCS for quite a while but haven't had any luck. Would anyone know where one might be able to find a copy? I've been keeping an eye on Ebay but haven't seen a single listing.

I myself made a game in 3D GCS (the first version I think) called Squirt, which was a water gun type skirmish game that I distributed via bulletin boards back in the day. Had a lot of fun with it. I tried to dig it out recently and found one of the four 3.5" inch floppies is corrupted 🙁 Still hoping I can find a copy somewhere among my backups.

Well, here's another one for your collection - the game I mention above - SQUIRT. I managed to locate it and still runs on Dosbox. This is the shareware version, I never ended up releasing the full version as I suffered a hard disk failure at the time where I lost much of the work, but now that I have this, I may just finish it off at some point. It was meant to be a shooter suitable for all ages featuring a water squirt-gun tournament with a number of different scenarios/levels.

You can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eeyg0rhenzxdgzg/SQU … reware.zip?dl=0

I just found a download of Murk (demo), not sure if it's rare or not: murkdemo.exe

Well, it's been a hot minute since I've shown my face around here.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the search over the years!

After recovering my lost GCS archive, I've been continuously working on finding new and lost titles. You can check out the new and very much improved list of everything DOS 3D GCS in this document.

If you want to check out these games yourself, the current version of the archive is over here. There are a few titles still commercially available, so these won't be in the archive.

There are still tons of games that are completely lost, broken or just have a surviving demo. I'm sure we're not at the end of the search as I'm still finding new stuff after almost 15 years.

The biggest thing still missing is the GCS for C Programmers or the GCS Pro version for MS-DOS. There were a few games made with it (supposedly), which were "Subterraneans" (unreleased), Escape P.O.W., Life's Battle and Darkness of Space. There are (very) few developers still working with the DOS GCS who would love to get their hands on this.

I just wanted to give an update to everyone who's still interested in this old DOS engine. I hope you have a blast playing all the newly discovered "gems" 😉

If you have something to add to the archive or just have a story to tell, maybe you made a GCS game yourself back in the 90s, feel free to chime in.

leileilol wrote on 2016-06-18, 22:53:

IIRC that's a different, completely unrelated 1997 GCS game that's coincidentially named "Terminal Terror" (I have it and it's most definitely not the 1994 GCS game by Pie)

And somehow I completely missed this. Do you still have this game? I'd love to add it to the archive.