Hey Guys!

I'm quite new to this forum, but i was wondering if you Johann67 could tell me where i could get the Tribal Rage game you have. Iv'e been looking for years for it and when looking through this forum i saw that you had it on a CD.

Could you please tell me where to get it or if you could upload it to some site.

Ardell has done some fantastic work, which means that Striker works now, and the .bas files too.

However, the .bas files are linked by menus, so I think it will need to be treated as a collection of games instead of as 45 separate ones.

mailed you. Thanks!

All right, let's try then. You can mail me via the members page here for details if you want.

Thanks! Additional help is always welcome.
The situation now is that I have quite a few games to review, and a directory filled with other files that may be salvagable, but may also be garbage.
The time I have is currently spent on reviewing, but if you want some files to check, I'd be glad to send you some!

If recovering / testing those old disks is still an issue, I could give it a go.

quick update, since it's been a while: still writing reviews, getting there. I received 10 very old warez cd's from a friend, and will add those too.

Working on a lot of reviews-I expect a rather huge site update will come soon
I'll put my website on hold for it-just like I usually do
Meanwhile: I got this back from the developers of Eat This:

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Hi,

This is not for sale anymore.

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "*NAME EDITED*" <filesharemail@yahoo.com>
To: <fvb@image-line.com>; <jmc@pavell.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:36 AM
Subject: Eat this: still available?


> Hi!
>
> I have a question: does your company still sell the
> game "Eat this"?
>
> Thanks in advance,

*NAME EDITED*
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Sorry, but I won't choose what you should do. It's your choice - do what you consider most interesting

-a tetris clone from 1988
-"asklaver", card game from 1993(dutch)
-"boggle", 1990, dutch
-"Code breaker" from symantec game pack, 1990
-"Hangman",from symantec game pack, 1991
-"Jacks", from symantec game pack, 1991
-"klaverjassen" from earlier in this topic, dutch
-"Taipei", 1988, Chuck Norris
-"TriPeaks", card game from early nineties
-"turbo-Bridge"
-"Ultimate arcade", a compilation of pacman, tetris and space invaders
-"Defendroid", 1995
-"yahtzee" by malcolm garrett, somewhere from the eighties, probably
-"Mario", some clone for pc
-"battle chess 4000"
-"3-Demon", 1987
-"sextrix"
-"world tour golf" by EA
-the six astrological sims
-"monopoly" v5.1
-"pitfall", NOT the mayan adventure
-"packman"
-"pc-man"
-"Space commanders 2"
-"Roulette", 1980-ish, dutch
-"Hi-Q"
-"de gouden kelk"(the golden chalice), dutch

Just a small list, there are others.

I obviously can't review the space invaders clone you tested.

Edit: though they are old, I haven't checked their abandonware status yet!

Edited by Johann67 at 12:49 on March, 20th 2005

Okay, I'll make separate reviews.
I'll make a list of what I've got that I think needs preserving the most for now, then you can choose which one you want reviewed first.

Wow, that's great news! Looks a bit like the incredibly non-classic game Abuse

Every game needs its seperate review on the site. I've sometimes done it differently in the past, but that wasn't such a great idea in retrospect.

Argh, forgot to attach! Well, here it is.

Oh, Tuss, did you ever find those disks?

Other update: I might have found someone who has an even older pc who may be persuaded to test digger on it, if it's done quickly etc.etc.etc.

I've got some very good news about this topic: I've managed to find Eat This and quite a few other games on an old hard drive from my parent's old computer.
Eat This works! screenshot, of course, attached
I've also found this very interesting link:
www.eatthis.com
I just never thought about trying it...
It's not registered with any search engine I tried.
I've sent an e-mail to the makers asking if the game is still being sold.

For the other games: Apart from one or two games, I think I have gotten most of those still possible working. Shall I make a big review about all small games at once, or do you want separate reviews for all games?

Striker: What you got was what's on the install disk. The installer(strkhins.exe) just copies everything from the floppy it's run from to the harddisk.

Temporarily back to the original topic: I found a link with a marginal amount of info on eat this:
http://www.ag.ru/geo/nfo/1797

Still working on those other games, but even though I'm a biologist, I can't clone myself

Digger: Seems to work, but there's a problem with display. Everything seems to be drawn to the screen several times next to each other, making it impossible to figure anything out. Probably uses some strange video mode which even my video card from 1993 can't understand.

Spacewar: Working fine

Striker: Complains about a faulty disk. I thought this could be related to the files being write-protected, but using attrib didn't change anything. Most likely indeed corrupted. Could you just give me the uninstalled version to try?

Edited by Mr Creosote at 19:09 on March, 13th 2005

Thanks a lot for your help! That can make a big difference...

There are three games I'm having problems with now.

1. Digger. Once my favourite game, then missing for some years, now troublesome
It won't run under a native windows resolution,
and DOSBOX also gives a scrambled window.
I have four different copies of the file(digger.com)
from four different disks, and all give the same result. As this was once my favourite game (though I stink at it, never could get past level three)
I'm really hoping this annoyance will run.
I've added two, since all four are the exact same size anyway.
I've found a remake from another site. Still VERY interested in the original...

2. SPACEWAR or something. It seems to run, but even if I use CPUKILLER to slow down my PC by 99%, it still goes too fast for me to do anything.

3. STRIKER. All files are in the RAR, copied directly from the disk. It gives an error I'm not familiar with. This is the one I think least likely to work, but I found all files on another disk as well, so broken files may be fixable.
The dir STRIKER in the original dir is another instance from another disk.

Again, I really appreciate the help!

Edited by Johann67 at 23:32 on March, 12th 2005

I tried these .BAS files, but to no avail. It's definitely not Quick Basic. I can't even figure out what character encoding these files are using - only garbage comes out.

If you have problems with other games, just attach them here. I'll try them on my MS-DOS computer.

I've been trying to get them to work in a basic compiler, but I haven't had much luck. Here are three of them as an example.
I did find one compiler which told me that a compiler called BASICA may do the trick, but that one's nowhere to be found, sadly.
I'm very certain that I've played these three as pc games.

I've also found a game called "Striker" from 1985 (not in mobygames database) which includes an installer.
It lets me install but keeps on bitching afterwards.

By the way, is anyone interested in a preliminary archive containing all working games so far?

edit:dang, I think I found Blackjack, a game on HOTUD's most wanted list.
I can't get it to run

Edited by Johann67 at 17:07 on March, 11th 2005

They could be source codes of programs in a Basic (.bas) language that have to be compiled. Are they PC games? Perhaps it's Quick Basic that came with DOS.