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13-10-2008, 04:35 PM | #1 | ||
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im looking to try and find some old computer games so hopin someone can help
can anyone send me to a site that offers free downloads without having to sign up to a sponsor site etc etc or does anyone have the games that they can send me??? what im lookin for are: street rod 1 & 2 Stunts stunt car racer (commodore 64 game) yeh they old games but always found em fun and a good way to kill some time : , so can anyone help??? cheers |
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13-10-2008, 04:49 PM | #2 | ||
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No promises - but I just might have a copy of Stunts around somewhere; in this moving house phase I'll search through those old things they called "floppy disks" and see what I can find. None of my computers have floppy drives, but if its there I'll work something out. Twas a cool game in its day! I used to switch between that and Test Drive II - The Duel. Hmm 16 colour low resolution Porsche 959 goodness.
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13-10-2008, 06:14 PM | #3 | ||||
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http://www.abandonia.com/en/search_abandonia/stunts http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/93...Car+Racer.html Google is your friend - the site was like the 3rd search result listing Abandonware is the term you are looking for when searching.
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14-10-2008, 12:00 PM | #4 | ||
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Correct Paul.
Looking for any old game, type in the name of the game, followed by "Abandonware" Also, for the benefit of sound and playability, get "DosBox". We still have our original copy of Street Rod, bought in 1990. Classic game.
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14-10-2008, 12:57 PM | #5 | ||
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With Dosbox, I also recommend the D-Fend front end for it. This lets you set up profiles for it, so you just double click the icon and it runs it through Dosbox
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14-10-2008, 02:18 PM | #6 | |||
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oh wow... this is going to give me hours of fun!
I still remember the cheats for Street Rod 1!
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14-10-2008, 02:55 PM | #7 | ||
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hahah, ahhh memories of streetrod
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14-10-2008, 04:22 PM | #8 | |||
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Trouble with Street Rod 2 is there is an unavoidable obstacle in Mullhulland Drive that you always crash and die into. Drages (on and off street) and the go grease lightning go LA River races were always fine. Lumpy
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14-10-2008, 05:11 PM | #9 | ||
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yeh i loved the street rods and i also loved stunt car racer when i had my commodore 64 as a kid, many hrs of fun .... cheers for the links i'll go check them out
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14-10-2008, 05:33 PM | #10 | |||
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14-10-2008, 05:51 PM | #11 | ||
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ok ive got dos box up n running, getting a little confused with it (and trying to remember how dos works again)
is there a way to open dosbox and the game when i just click on the games icon?? cause atm if i have to type in the directory all the time etc where the game is located in the system i gota few things to type in just to find it |
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14-10-2008, 05:54 PM | #12 | ||
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also what are the commands again for dos to start the games .exe file... sorry about all the questions hehe, im determined to get these games working but ive forgotten more than what i know now about computers hehe
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14-10-2008, 06:19 PM | #13 | ||
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You could probably get some sort of GUI front end so you can use icons to start games, but I just use the command line. With DOSBox you first have to mount the location where the game is, for example:
mount c C:\SR1 Here you are telling it to mount C:\SR1 to the virtual drive called 'c'. Then you change to that virtual drive by typing: c: Then finally now that your in the drive where the game is you need to run it by calling the *.exe file. In my example it would be as simple as just typing: SR.exe Note to list the contents of a folder you can use the command: dir |
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14-10-2008, 06:35 PM | #14 | ||
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when i open dosbox it opens up to
z:/ so how the hell do i load up street rod 2 that i have saved on my hardrive. lol its been so long since i have used dos
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14-10-2008, 06:54 PM | #15 | ||
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Wow ive never heard of those games in my life. but to open games from dos you need to type in the full Directory to the game file. or just try what Kev wrote.
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14-10-2008, 07:41 PM | #16 | ||||
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d:\games\sr2 so I would type at the DOSBOX prompt: mount c d:\games\sr2 Now to put myself in the correct drive in DOSBOX I'd type "c:" as I chose to refer to the game directory I mounted as "c:" "dir" to list the contents of the directory if I didn't know the file to launch it This would show me "sr.exe" being the only exe file in there, so then I'd type "sr" or "sr.exe" to start the game.
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14-10-2008, 08:45 PM | #17 | |||
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I almost pooped myself when I saw the screen shots from Stunts... and California Games and Street Rod and...
KEVSXR8 knows his stuff
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14-10-2008, 10:34 PM | #18 | ||
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LOLZ, I used to cheat with "Fast hack'em" on Street Rod. Ahahaha.
I threw out my old C64 games and console about a year ago, after hanging on to them for about 20 years, "just in case" I might use it again. After the PC, I figured it wasn't going to happen sometime soon. Then the wifey got the clean up bug and I had to decide if I had to let my childhood go or not. I think the old hobo's down the local tip, would have had an early xmas with the present I gave them. Ahahaha. |
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14-10-2008, 10:50 PM | #19 | ||
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BA Wagon...there are C64 emulators. Many of them, and they emulate games quite well, though some are far better than others.
Did you have Wizball? That game kicked bottom. And with regards to selling the Styleline on Street Road, max was 30,000 or 31,000. Any higher and it would result in a negative figure.
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14-10-2008, 11:14 PM | #20 | |||
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Here's a link to the D-Fend download which is what I use with Dosbox http://emulationrealm.net/modules/wf...id=219&lid=363
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14-10-2008, 11:37 PM | #21 | ||
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Big mike, ahahaha man i spent my child hood playing test drive II.
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17-10-2008, 09:13 AM | #23 | ||
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I have never got California Games working on DosBox.
I also downloaded Microprose F1 GP, but it runs terribly on DosBox. If you all want a real game, download Star Control II, but you will probably only appreciate it if you're a science fiction geek like me. Nerds will love it even more.
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17-10-2008, 12:37 PM | #24 | |||
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17-10-2008, 01:25 PM | #25 | ||
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Unfortunately I can't get Grand Theft Auto 1 running properly. The newer Windows version runs like crap on my system, and the Dos version doesn't run much better, even in Dosbox! I've tried speeding it up, I've changed half the settings and it's still no good.
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17-10-2008, 02:14 PM | #26 | ||
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Cal Games doesn't even start up for me.
The execute doesn't like DosBox for some reason. So I just accept it. Many other great games.
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18-10-2008, 10:30 PM | #27 | ||
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well im happy i got all the games to finally work...... huge thanks to all the replys... i feel like ive got some of my youth back!!! again many many thanks again!
on another note, i was stoked to be playing stunt car racer and my 6yr old daughter loves the game now too.... we spent some good quality time to "huge stacks" as she called em hehe, looking forward to it again |
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