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

Macintosh port

Where to get

You can download the Mac version here. However, you can only play it with a Mac Classic PowerPC.

Audio files

The audio files are hidden in the resource forks of the files in the directory AUDIO. How to extract them? Open the files in Rezilla, then export the map as XML. Then use this script to convert them to RAW. Then use Audition or any other sound editor like Audacity to convert RAW to PCM Wave. (22050Hz, Mono, 8 Bit, except 3 files which are 44100Hz). If you want, you can capitalize the file names with this script.

The comparison of the English Windows version and the English Macintosh version gives shows following:

• Only in Windows: LB05A23NV.WAV (Patrick: Another dead end, turn around and get over here!)
• Only in Windows: LR03L01.WAV (Silent audio file)

Movie files

Comparison of Windows directory and Macintosh directory:

• Only in Windows: BV09M01A.AVI
• Only in Windows: GA13M28.AVI
• Only in Windows: GA13M29.AVI
• Only in Windows: GA13M30.AVI
• Only in Windows: GA13M31.AVI
• Only in Windows: HP02M11.AVI
• Only in Windows: LRIPA11.AVI
• Only in Windows: TUIPA06.AVI
• Only in Macintosh: TUIPA07.AVI (in Windows it is in the base directory of the CD)
• Only in Windows: TV04M32A.AVI
• Only in Windows: TV04M32B.AVI
• Only in Windows: TY06M02.AVI

Music files

No differences between Windows and Macintosh version.

Images in BLOWNAWY.ART

Comparison of Windows directory and Macintosh directory:

• Only in Macintosh: ABOUT10.png

Further analysis (TODO)

1. Check for differences in the existing Movies, Music files, Art and Audio
2. Check which Art/Music/Movies/Audio is unused, i.e. not referenced in the binary