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

YouTube Videos

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

Compatibility issues

The games Blown Away and Panic in the Park have big issues in regards to compatibility, even on older Windows 95 systems. I still search for the reasons of the incompatibility and maybe I can create a patch someday.

If the game keeps crashing, please make sure that you have tried following:

• Run the game at Windows 95 or Windows 98. It might not work Me. If you have no native machine, you can try a Virtual Machine.
• Set the Graphics Hardware Acceleration to level 0 or 1, but not to 2 or 3.
• Do NOT install the Virtual PC 2007 Addons
• If you have an ATI graphics card, edit or add following in WIN.INI:

  [MACH]
  DeviceBitMap=OFF

• Copy the contents of the CD to your hard disk and edit the Config.ini
• If nothing helps, try to disable fullscreen mode in the Config.ini file.

If it is still not working, you can try setting up a Virtual Machine. I have described how to setup a DOSBox as well as a PCem Virtual Machine. The games both work perfectly on these machines.

Please also see my test results for other VMs / computers.