DOS Games Discussion

Hi all!

I'm new to this forum, have read the rules and don't understand some of the referents so please forgive gaffes in advance.

I've been computing since 1985 and never thrown out any software, so I have more than a few. However, there was a program called "Living Jigsaw" that ran on DOS 5.0; copyright should have been about 1991. The puzzles were animated, with tropical birds, fractals, balloons moving thru the sky, and about 20 others. You were a big hand, and used the keyboard commands to maneuver around. There was a cartoon gnome who might help you, but sometimes he just sassed you. The game pieces were spread across several screens you clicked between, and the pieces were moving with their part of the animation.

I previewed the game from a local dealer, but did not have the money to buy it at the time, and he'd sold his only copy by the time I was able to buy it. There was a key printed in the instruction booklet that was thousands of alphanumerics; you had to look up the grid given at the front to unlock the game.

I would like to buy a commercial copy of the game, including the instruction book, impossible as that seems; I have the software on disk, and a copy of the key (I typed the whole thing out in a stubborn move; it was in red to defeat copiers of the day....lol). I don't know what protocol is here, but I would swap/trade/sell any other title in my stock to find this one.

Has anyone ever seen this game, or know what happened to it? Thanks for any replies...

Are you absolutly sure it was called living jigsaw?

I have found a version for windows 95 an up
http://www.games-for-pc.com/PUZZLE/Livi ... uzzles.htm
your game might be there somewhere

Wally,

I've googled into the same game, and this isn't it, though I very much appreciate you checking. The programming on this other is beyond belief; I checked the old DOS files, and they're dated 1991. It won't load on my new computers, even thru the c prompt. However, the game is definitely called Living Jigsaw. It was a small California company.

The people who programmed this game had to have been some of the most brilliant ever; I could not believe what they could pack into 1mg RAM. None of the scenes were pictures; they were all animated full-color realistic cartoons (though most were a background with animated objects; some used fractals and the whole thing changed colors continuously.) I'm going to try to run it on my 486DX again and dig into the credits for names.

Thanks for the follow-up!

Babs

So you wanna play on a recent machine right?

Or is it you wanna buy it?