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Are there any DOS versions for these old games?

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:42 pm
by cjmg85
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!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:49 pm
by Wally
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!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:59 pm
by cjmg85
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. :)

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:56 pm
by cjmg85
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/

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:15 pm
by Wally
This Castle one can you describe it?

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:55 am
by cjmg85
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.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:39 am
by Wally
Well the sequel is better :)

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

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:14 am
by emmzee
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

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:12 pm
by Wally
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 :jester:

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:15 am
by emmzee
Oops, lol missed that part ... um, I'll edit my msg above to remove that :shame: