Does Team7 == System7? I only have a couple of their [System7] games, but they're both Win9x-only (Constructor, Mob Rule). If you mean Team7 as in the people that made WORMS, then again, I've only got Win9x games (Worms: Armageddon, which, while it doesn't work in Windows 2000 natively, some kind user created a patch entitled Silkworm -- the original Silkworm site appears to have been deleted by TopCities). (Too many companies with the number 7!) Um...other than that...I am not really sure.

Snover wrote:

Does Team7 == System7?

He means "Team 17". When they first started out they were called "Team 7" (Although the "Team 7" logo even made it into a couple of games after they had changed).

Both of these were Amiga originals and their earliest titles tended to suffer when ported to the PC. Might be worth the effort to check out Amiga emulation. The game files might be hard to find.

Heh, I *love* companies that do that. It makes it *so* much fun trying to find stuff about them.

Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

Both of these were Amiga originals and their earliest titles tended to suffer when ported to the PC. Might be worth the effort to check out Amiga emulation. The game files might be hard to find.

Yeah, I remembered the Amiga orignals, but my recollection tells me that the PC port of Body Blows was slighty better than the Amiga. (My Amiga friends may disagree with this...)

Anyways, I haven't had any luck running any of the Team 17 games on my new PC ... 🙁

gish

gish wrote:

...but my recollection tells me that the PC port of Body Blows was slighty better than the Amiga. (My Amiga friends may disagree with this...)

Then you're probably referring to "Ultimate Body Blows". It was PC-only, all the others were fairly straight ports. "Ultimate" had more animation, wider color palette, etc...

Anyways, I haven't had any luck running any of the Team 17 games on my new PC ...

BTW, it's kind of hard to help when you haven't told us _anything_ about your PC.
*cough* postingguidelines *cough*

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Snover wrote:

Heh, I *love* companies that do that. It makes it *so* much fun trying to find stuff about them.

Well, They didn't plan it that way. All started out as various Amiga Coders who just creating "neat stuff". They were associated with "17Bit Software" which was a Public Domain" distrubutor in the UK. Then they decided nobody was really using the full capacity of the Amiga (they were right), and so they decided they would make their own. I think "Alien Breed" was their first big success, then they just expanded from there.

Um, if they were associated with 17Bit Software, why did they change to Team 7 instead of Team 17? I mean, they're Team 17 now...

Snover wrote:

Um, if they were associated with 17Bit Software, why did they change to Team 7 instead of Team 17? I mean, they're Team 17 now...

Ok...digging through my memory.

Originally they had been graphic artists, music mod makers, etc... Their stuff was all PD and of course, all the other PD houses had it as well, but I believe they primarily submitted it to "17 Bit" because they were overall the best Amiga PD distributor (right up there with Fred Fish).

They made "good disks" unlike the slapped-together disks of some others. They also charged about 2.5 quid a disk (I think) including the postage when others were charging 3 or 4 (<very> roughly that would've been from $4 to $6.50 a disk).

They started as Team 7 while working with "17 Bit Software" (not _at_ if you get my meaning). Someone got the idea to go commercial and 17-Bit Software was part of this process (getting very fuzzy on details now).

They changed to "Team 17" as way of showing a connection with 17-Bit software which all Amiga owners (in England anyway) recognized. They had already been in development on a few titles (which is where the old logo slipped in). "Full Contact" (martial arts arcade game) was the first (I think). Too simplistic gameplay and animation but a decent start (plus I loved the opening screen/intro).

Hrmm...Answer's in there somewhere.

Snover wrote:

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Well, I wasn't exactly asking for help, I was just wondering if anyone has gotten those Team 17 games running on their systems ... 😕

It'd be different if someone else got them to work, then I know I'm definitely screwing up somewhere ... sorry for the confusion ...

gish

So you're asking about these (from MobyGames)?
Alien Breed
Alien Breed: Tower Assault
Body Blows
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
Stunt GP
Ultimate Body Blows
Worms
Worms 2
Worms Armageddon
Worms Blast
Worms World Party
Worms: Reinforcements

Let's check NTCompatible...
Alien Breed - http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=7203
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy - http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1052
Stunt GP -
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=5272
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=5726
Worms -
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=6402
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=7671
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=7672
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=7673
Worms 2 -
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1751
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1752
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1753
Worms Armageddon -
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=5909
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=8912
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=8913
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=8914
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1754
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1755
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=1756
Worms World Party -
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=5528
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=5726
- http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?details=5833

Looks like hits and misses. And several games (Alien Breed: Tower Assault, Body Blows, Ultimate Body Blows, Worms Blast, Worms: Reinforcements) have no entries at all.

Good luck!

It appears old Moby's missing a few games...
http://www.team17.com/softography.html

gish wrote:

... sorry for the confusion ...

Don't take it personally. We've just been having a (seemingly) never-ending flow of questions with precious little data supplied.

Stiletto wrote:

It appears old Moby's missing a few games...

How could they forget Project-X? Oh, and "Ultimate Body Blows" wasn't PC-only after all. oops.

Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

Snover wrote:

Does Team7 == System7?

He means "Team 17". When they first started out they were called "Team 7" (Although the "Team 7" logo even made it into a couple of games after they had changed).

Both of these were Amiga originals and their earliest titles tended to suffer when ported to the PC. Might be worth the effort to check out Amiga emulation. The game files might be hard to find.

Worms Armageddon is still in support
(http:\\forum.team17.com)

You can get the games from here:
www.dream17.co.uk
(Thanks to Squirminator2k on the Team17 forum)
and get the emulation pack from here:
www.amigaforever.com