Content for everyone

• Overview over the releases and variants of the game
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Cheats and Glitches
• Compatibility issues
  • Test results
  • Installing on a PCem Virtual Machine
  • Installing on a DOSBox Virtual Machine
• German Censored version
• Known bugs
• Inofficial patch / bugfixes
• Extracted content:
  • All graphics of the English version
  • All graphics of the German version
  • All graphics of Special Edition
  • All graphics of Macintosh port
  • Mouse cursors
  • Soundtrack
  • Miscellaneous
• Walkthrough / Solutions
• How scoring works
• Hidden and unused stuff in the game:
  • Hidden dialog boxes
  • Hidden configuration
  • Unused graphics
  • Unused videos
  • Unused audio files
• Macintosh port
• Reviews at magazines
• Credits and Staff

Technical stuff

• Analysis of BLOWNAWY.SAV savegame
• Helicopter codeword bugfix
• Scoring bugfixes
• Phonegame analysis and patch
• How to disassemble
• Analysis of BLOWNAWY.ART
  • Artfile variants
  • Packer/Unpacker written in C
  • All original ART files
  • Statistics
• Statistic of the used codecs in the game
• Analysis of the IPMA codec
• Analysis of ANIMDLL.DLL
• Technology overview

Links

• Blown Away at mobygames.com
• Blown Away at The Cutting Room Floor
• Archived web site of Imagination Pilots
• Article at IMDb
• Blown Away at world-of-fmv.de (in German)
• Blown Away at fmvworld.com
• Blown Away at The Collection Chamber
• "Grid Game" inspired card game for Windows

YouTube Videos

• Game trailer (English)
• Game review by fmvgamer2010
• Longplay video by Frank Minichini (KingOfApoc)
• Speedrun video by Frank Minichini (KingOfApoc)
• Let's Play by FlettyTube (German): YouTube, Twitch
• Let's Play by RetrogradeTom
• Let's Play by Buggynautin (German)
• Walkthrough (No Commentary) by Andrea Pannocchia
• Walkthrough (No Commentary) by ZXGAMER22

Used codecs in Blown Away

The following statistic was created using this tool written in PHP.

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English edition         AVI Audio Codec:  Microsoft PCM (0x0001)  176
                                          none                     20

                        AVI Video FourCC: ipma                     17 /
                                          IPMA*                     3 \ 20
                                          iv32*                    14  /
                                          IV32                    157  \ 171
                                          cvid*                     5

                        WAV Audio Codec:  Microsoft PCM (0x0001)  290

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German edition          AVI Audio Codec:  Microsoft PCM (0x0001)  178
                                          none                     19

                        AVI Video FourCC: ipma                     14 /
                                          IPMA*                     3 \ 17
                                          iv32*                     9  /
                                          IV32                    166  \ 175
                                          cvid*                     5

                        WAV Audio Codec:  Microsoft PCM (0x0001)  290

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Special edition         AVI Audio Codec:  Microsoft PCM (0x0001)   17
                                          none                      2

                        AVI Video FourCC: iv32*                     4 /
                                          IV32                     13 \ 17
                                          ipma                      2

                        WAV Audio Codec:  Microsoft PCM (0x0001)   74
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* These FourCC codes are probably invalid. Note that FourCC codes are case sensitive!