REALLY old PC game - found it - how do I download it??

Marsh_Samphire

Anyone remember "Halls of the Things"? You were a little stickman running round corridors shooting blob monsters with fireballs and arrows and collecting little blue bottles and coloured rings.

Swan_2

Marsh_Samphire wrote:

Anyone remember "Halls of the Things"? You were a little stickman running round corridors shooting blob monsters with fireballs and arrows and collecting little blue bottles and coloured rings.

AAAAAAARGH! I remember that, a friend recommended it, it cost all of £10 & It would have been great fun if it hadn't been far too easy to get killed & was imposssible to play*

*for me anyway, never did have very good reflexes & I guess that's why my favourite games are of the Lucas Arts point-&-click adventurey type

Monkey Island anyone?

lewt

pww2004 wrote:

Chuckie Egg is available as freeware for the PC. I have it ans it plays more like the MSX one than the BBC one but still is good fun. If anyones interested I'll try and fins where I downloaded it from (or could email the zip file to install it)

Yes mate i'm up for that i'll get my sis round and remind her i was better than her, i wont ask her to bring her friend who used to beat me though

johnmcn

You can download many many retro conversions at http://retrospec.sgn.net/index.php

jetpac was my first game waayy back

trets77

right back to sorcery +

man is this a diificult emulation to get working !!!!!!! but i have got it running at last ( although i,m still to find the fire key to start the damm game )

The Ape one won,t let me get to basic mode so i gave up with it and tried a simpler emulator. so here we go one step at a time

download this Caprice emulator

http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/emulators/emulators.php

scroll down to windows emulators and download the 1st caprice version 3.01 in zip file

unzip to somewhere you will easily find it again .....

load up the Caprice 32 emulator via icon where you unzipped it too by clicking

you should see a basic amstrad screen with flashing cursor.

now it gets complicated as you bascically have to load it the disk image of your game like you would of back when you had the old computer. refer to the read me file that you unzipped with the Caprice32 application if you get stuck or need to trouble shoot

copying and pasting from that read me file is the following

LOADING GAMES

Start the emulator and hit F6 to open the file selector for CPC drive A.
Navigate to where you placed the DSK or the ZIP which contains it.
Highlight the desired file and click on OK. If you selected a ZIP and it
contained more than one DSK file, you now have to choose which one to
load. Once again, highlight an entry and click on OK. Back on the blue CPC
screen, type

CAT

to list the contents of the disk image. Two things can happen at this
point: a) either a bunch of names appears, or b) you get a "Drive A: read
fail" error message. Depending on what you got, follow the instructions in
the corresponding paragraph below.

a) locate the file with the smallest size and a .BAS, .BIN, or no
extension. Now type

RUN"filename

and hit Enter (you get the quotation marks with SHIFT+2). This should
get things going. However, sometimes the file you identified is not the
game's loader, and the RUN command results in a "BASIC 1.x" or "Memory
full" message. In that case, use CAT to locate a different file and try
the same procedure again.

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here is how i did it

press f6
select the ...sorcerpf.... file

type CAT

you get a whole list of files

type run"sorcery+" then enter (+ is where the @ is on my comp )

now wait and it will start to load up ......unbeliveably at the speed it would of all those years ago !!!! UNLESS you go to system menu and uncheck the the orginal speed option


I think the english file i got from you is corrupted but the french one IS OKAY

okay it is CTRL key to start but i have not figured out how to move ect ...a job for you (try activating number and caps lock if your stuck)

PHEW !!!! did i ever want to nail this once i started !!!!!

good luck

johnmcn

emus are great for playing the original game (if you can find the roms) but i remember seeing a remake of classics a while back and decided to do a wee search and came up with this site...excellent and i've had a go of monty mole and jet set willy as well as others...

http://www.retroremakes.com/

trets77

fantastic !!!!! and so easy !!!!

better than SEX !!!!!! lol

garcia

http://www.the-commodore-zone.com/java64/java64.htm

Bring back the good times ....

Yeah buddy!

billywhizz

10 Print "Billy woz ere ";
20 Goto 10

Ahh the joys of childish pranks in WH Smith on a saturday afternoon.

wackojackouk

The eggman game was probably Treasure Island Dizzy or one of the other sequels