Are there any DOS versions for these old games?

cjmg85 · Post by **cjmg85** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:42 pm

Crystal Quest (NOT XQUEST!!! I've already tried that one and it's too different for me. I like the original Crystal Quest the best. Hell, if there's a version with the original sound effects and that's in B&W for DOS link me to it!)
Glider (the original version where you had to get past the cat at the end)
Brickles

Also, there are a couple of old DOS games I've been looking for:

Castle
Goose

Also, there's this one game, I don't remember if it was for DOS or MAC, but this guy was hanging from a helicopter and you had to drop him into a passing hay truck.

While I'm here, I might as well ask about any free downloadable versions of Oregon Trail (the original, not the second one).

Thanks in advance!

Post by **Wally** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:49 pm

Crystal Quest is not ported to dos... Its purely a mac game. Due to respect to the author i dont want to give a link for this game. I emailed him requesting it to be liberated but he said "No, we are making a new version of CQ for palm or a console

"

Again
Glider (And Glider Pro) is mac and thats freeware http://homepage.mac.com/calhount there is a windows version but I quote "And I found the Windows version as well! I can't promise you that it functions. "

Brickles is and has been freeware for years. If you want please visit www.macgamesarchive.com in a few weeks and i will have it up for you. Not ported

The last game is called Stunt Copter by Duane Blehm he passed away unfortunatelly but all his games are actually freeware as declared by his parents. Visit www.extremegaming.tk for this (My old website)

Oregon Trail is not freeware/shareware and is avaliable from www.the-underdogs.org

These games (mac) might be playable under emulation but im not sure.. You probably are best getting a Mac Classic to fiddle with

Good luck!

cjmg85 · Post by **cjmg85** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:59 pm

What a shame, Crystal Quest was the one I was looking most forward to playing again.

Thanks for those other links though! I'll check them out.

cjmg85 · Post by **cjmg85** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:56 pm

Just in case anybody else is looking as well, I found one of the ones I was looking for called Star Goose. (I thought it was just called Goose when I made my first post).

http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/gam ... Goose/167/

Post by **Wally** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:15 pm

This Castle one can you describe it?

cjmg85 · Post by **cjmg85** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:55 am

Hmmm, Castle, if I remember correctly (it's been a while) was a game where you went around through different rooms of a castle looking for things. All the graphics were ascii. The main character you controled looked like the spade symbol on a playing card.

So is Crystal Quest really Mac only, or there is just no DOS / Windows version? Is there a Linux version? I want to be able to play the original version of that game again so badly. LOL.

Post by **Wally** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:39 am

Well the sequel is better

Crystal Crazy..
CJMG buy an old mac. Prolly get one for $10-$15 and run these games on it.

Post by **emmzee** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:14 am

cjmg85 wrote:Hmmm, Castle, if I remember correctly (it's been a while) was a game where you went around through different rooms of a castle looking for things. All the graphics were ascii. The main character you controled looked like the spade symbol on a playing card.

This is Castle Adventure, available here:
http://www.dosgames.com/g_adv.php

cjmg85 wrote:So is Crystal Quest really Mac only, or there is just no DOS / Windows version? Is there a Linux version? I want to be able to play the original version of that game again so badly. LOL.

There's two remakes listed on this page of Allegro.cc:
http://www.allegro.cc/depot/category.php?_id=2
Unfortunately neither of the download or homepage links work for those games

One is called "Crystal Chaos" and the other is "Crystalis". If you can find those remakes somewhere on the web (or maybe contact the authors to get the files) they'd probably be good options. (Note that there was also a Nintendo game called "Crystalis" so it may be tough to search for on the web ...)

Or I saw Swarm mentioned as being sorta inspired by Crystal Quest:
http://www.reflexive.com/index.php?PAGE ... arm&AID=30

Post by **Wally** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:12 pm

Crystal Quest (NOT XQUEST!!! I've already tried that one and it's too different for me. I like the original Crystal Quest the best. Hell, if there's a version with the original sound effects and that's in B&W for DOS link me to it!)

He said he didnt like Xquest Emmzee

Post by **emmzee** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:15 am

Oops, lol missed that part ... um, I'll edit my msg above to remove that