this old game...

brain · Post by **brain** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:53 pm

hi i was wondering if anyone knew the name of an old game i used to play; it was VERY MUCH like crystal caves, the main guy looked alot like cry caves guy but had blond hair, also i can remember that the background was blue (?!?!?!?!?!) and there were loads of signs everywhere saying things thike this is shareware and there were silver fans and robot dogs as enemies (?!?!?!?!?!?!?) note: this is a real game. any help?????

Post by **emmzee** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:01 pm

Its probably Secret Agent. It uses the same game engine as Crystal Caves and looks a lot the same.

On dosgames.com:
Screenshot: http://www.dosgames.com/cgi-bin/ss.php? ... tagent.gif
Download: http://www.dosgames.com/cgi-bin/dl.php? ... 1agent.zip

More info:
Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,982/
Official site: http://www.apogee1.com/agent/index.html

Buy the full game for $10:
Floppy disks: http://store.yahoo.com/3drealms/secretagent.html
Instant download: http://store.yahoo.com/3drealms/secagdow.html

brain · Post by **brain** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:07 am

thanks alot but i can't seem to be able to start the game, this blue window with white writing just keeps coming up. what do i do?

Post by **emmzee** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:58 am

Probably the easiest thing is to use DOSBox:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

For help setting it up and running it, heres some info copied/pasted from another post:

Download from:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1
(Select "Windows" ... unless of course you're not using windows )

Install DOSBox.

Tweak the settings file (dosbox.conf) to change the cycles= line (under the "cpu" heading in the file) to be like:
cycles=10000
That means the games will go faster.

Also, add the following in the "[autoexec]" section at the bottom of dosbox.conf:
MOUNT C C:\where ever your game's location is
C:\
That will send you straight to that folder without any hassle of typing it again.

(If you also have other drives you want to use in DOS, also add MOUNT lines for those drives ... ex, "MOUNT D D:\")

Start up DOSBox. You'll get a normal DOS command prompt. You should then be able to execute programs just like in a normal DOS prompt.

Frenkel · Post by **Frenkel** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:09 pm

I just ripped all the tiles and sprites of all three episodes. You can get them from here.

There are even some sprites that aren't used in the game, like a brown dog.