Reviews
Game
Bio Menace lets you play the role of Snake Logan, the CIA's top secret agent who must infiltrate Metro City which has been overrun by horrible mutants. In the 90's Apogee was well known for making the best action platformers for the PC market. Bio Menace was built on the Commander Keen engine, making it one of the last 4-bit color games made by Apogee. The story is fairly typical; an evil scientist named Dr. Mangle is creating mutants to take over the world. The game is certainly fun, but like most PC platformers of the day, it couldn't stand up to the console market.
For a Christmas present in 2005 Apogee released Bio Menace as freeware, so you can download the entire game from their web site.
Music
Bio Menace's music is pretty standard for DOS games of 1993. It uses id's music format (IMF) which only allows for a weak FM synthesis, but Bobby Prince did a good job with the composition. Since the game was released in three different episodes, each episode has unique music and music pulled from a previous episode. The track numbers are prefixed with the episode from which they came from.
Ripping
The IMF files were ripped from the AudioHed.BM* and AudioT.BM* files using DarkOne's Wolfenstein music ripper and then played through Ad-Plug (version 1.8) and recorded with Winamp. The titles have been extrapolated from the file names in the IMF files, but are most likely incomplete. Bobby Prince may know the correct titles of the tracks.
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_Menace
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