Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that I might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in the 80' called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Great game based on the novels of Douglas Adams.You might want to look and see if you can't get it to run with that AGT
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Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that
I might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in
the 80's called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Great game based
on the novels of Douglas Adams.
So, I go out looking for this, thinking by now it's gotta be freeware
by now & there HAD to have been someone who ported it to dos.
WRONG!
This game, written by Infocom in 1984 supports only: Amiga, Amstrand
CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Browser (ok, a new modification), Commodore 64, DOS, Mac, PC Booter, TI-99/4A, TRaSh-80, and TRaSh-80
CoCo.
So, seeing that the game is OLD to begin with and it only supports operating s ystems that went out with prohibition, you'd think it'd be cheap or even FREE....
WRONG!
They want $74 bucks for that damn thing! I think back in the 80's I
paid like $10 to register my copy so that I had something better than
ZORK on my system.
Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that I might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in the 80's called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Great game based on the novels of Douglas Adams.
So, I go out looking for this, thinking by now it's gotta be freeware by
now & there HAD to have been someone who ported it to dos.
WRONG!
This game, written by Infocom in 1984 supports only: Amiga, Amstrand CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, Mac, PC Booter, TI-99/4A, TRaSh-80, and TRaSh-80 CoCo.
So, seeing that the game is OLD to begin with and it only supports
operating s ystems that went out with prohibition, you'd think it'd be
cheap or even FREE....
WRONG!
They want $74 bucks for that damn thing! I think back in the 80's I paid like $10 to register my copy so that I had something better than ZORK on my system.
Ya, ya, ya...I'm old...I think I broke my hip...
But, SERIOUSLY, WTF?!?! I think someone's got a babel fish inserted into the wrong oriface...
Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that I might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in the 8 called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Great game based on the nove of Douglas Adams.
So, I goout looking for this, thinking by now it's gotta be freeware by no
& there HAD to have been someone who ported it to dos.
WRONG!
You might want to look and see if you can't get it to run with that AGT
door program. HHG was an older infocom game, and I think it may have bee
based upon the same game system Zork/ZorkII/ZorkIII was based upon.
If so, various places have made intpreters to read those files and make t
work on newer systems without any protection....
I actually have an original copy of the game. It's not in great shape
though, and I no longer have a 5.25" drive with which to read it.
Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that I might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in the 80's called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Great game based on th novels of Douglas Adams.
love the book, movie, have'nt tried the game.
So, I go out looking for this, thinking by now it's gotta be freeware by now & there HAD to have been someone who ported it to dos.
WRONG!
This game, written by Infocom in 1984 supports only: Amiga, Amstrand CPC Commodore 64, DOS, Mac, PC Booter, TI-99/4A, TRaSh-80, and TRaSh-80 CoCo.
that sucks.
So, seeing that the game is OLD to begin with and it only supports operating s ystems that went out with prohibition, you'd think it'd be cheap or even FREE....
WRONG!
They want $74 bucks for that damn thing! I think back in the 80's I paid like $10 to register my copy so that I had something better than ZORK on system.
that sucks even more, maybe a new one should be developed.
Ya, ya, ya...I'm old...I think I broke my hip...
But, SERIOUSLY, WTF?!?! I think someone's got a babel fish inserted into the wrong oriface...
Greed man.. Greed does many bad things and is what has fucked our world up.
Take a look at abandonia.com. I found it there with no problem.
I actually have an original copy of the game. It's not in great shape
though, and I no longer have a 5.25" drive with which to read it.
Ya, finding a computer with a 5.25" floppy drive is harder than finding a turntable.
as it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs computer (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)
Re: Re: HHG - Another MUD
By: Gryphon to Rassilon on Wed Mar 24 2010 02:35 pm
Take a look at abandonia.com. I found itthere with no problem.
That's funny...I couldn't find it...
as it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs computer (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)
Eh, I know a computer store where I could probably pick one up for a buck.
Don't know how I'd get it to work with any of my machines but I'm sure I could figure it out.
as it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs comput (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)
Eh, I know a computer store where I could probably pick one up for a buck. Don't know how I'd get it to work with any of my machines but I'm sure I could figure it out.
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In a reply from Rassilon on 15:28 about Re: HHG - Another MUD
I actually have an original copy of the game. It's not in great shape
though, and I no longer have a 5.25" drive with which to read it.
Ya, finding a computer with a 5.25" floppy drive is harder than finding a turntable.
as it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs computer (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)
Somewhere in my garage, I have a couple of 5 1/4" IBM drives, 5-6 Commodoreas it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs computer (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)I suppose I do have a 5.25 drive for the Apple II. I bought it just to play
a complete copy of Might and Magic II I purchased on eBay a few years ago.
Too bad I sold my Apple II to buy my wife a laptop. Got a fair price for it
though. It was in great shape.
On 03-24-10, Rassilon said...
Re: Re: HHG - Another MUD
By: Gryphon to Rassilon on Wed Mar 24 2010 02:35 pm
Take a look at abandonia.com. I found itthere with no problem.
That's funny...I couldn't find it...
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/228/Hitchhikers+Guide+to+the+Galaxy%2C+The tml
I did a search for hitchhiker, and it was the only one it found.
as it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs com (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)
Eh, I know a computer store where I could probably pick one up for a buck Don't know how I'd get it to work with any of my machines but I'm sure I could figure it out.
IIRC it's pretty much signal compatible with a 3.5" floppy drive, so you jus need simple adapter. You can also find cables that have both types of connectors (5.25" used an edge connector typically, 3.5" typically used an I connector) on them. Assuming your floppy controller still supports a 5.25" drive, you're good to go.
echicken
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230
I actually have an original copy of the game. It's not in great
shape though, and I no longer have a 5.25" drive with which to read
it.
Ya, finding a computer with a 5.25" floppy drive is harder than finding a turntable.
as it so happens, I have a 5.25 working floppy drive in my old bbs computer (no, I won't give it away, not even for money)
I suppose I do have a 5.25 drive for the Apple II.
I bought it just to play
a complete copy of Might and Magic II I purchased on eBay a few years ago.
Too bad I sold my Apple II to buy my wife a laptop. Got a fair price for it
though. It was in great shape.
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