He's still cool in my book. 😀
It's not like I'm young. 😀
And, hell, the song "It's All About The Pentiums" just rocks. 😀
http://www.thepentiums.com/
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
wrote:Weird Al is sooooooo old. 😉
Wait until you hit 29 and "TurboTime" engages. Then you'll learn about "old" 😉
Ugh, charset Windows-1255? In the future, use UTF-8. Seriously.
Yes, it’s my fault.
You can find it at
http://www.geocities.com/masahirbuv/hirbuv.html
Download both files, unzip them to the same directory and run the *.bat.
Ir = city
buvia doesn't mean anything - but when you say Ir-buvia it sounds like "mess" - an old witch came to a city and turned everything around and now we have to clean things up 😀
You're still going to need UHARC to extract it. And if you don't have UHARC (Current version: 0.4?), it's hard to find.
Here's the error message I get when trying to run it under Windows XP:
.äïÿâää Üÿüàçü 'ÜàëÆüü îàöëê' äÇÿ .2 'æÄ îàù æëêÿï ÜÇëéÖ
I don't know what it means...
To Colin: I don't know how to set this so this can be read in Hebrew... 😒
Geocities is a bad host, Robo... if we all download this, we'll surely cause you to exceed your bandwidth. Here's hoping my download didn't do it.
For those watching, here's the contents of the archive:
Directory of C:\DOCUME~1\stiletto\Desktop\hirbuv\ 03/25/1994 12:36 AM 462 ADVENT.000 03/25/1994 12:37 AM […]
Directory of C:\DOCUME~1\stiletto\Desktop\hirbuv\
03/25/1994 12:36 AM 462 ADVENT.000
03/25/1994 12:37 AM 406,214 ADVENT.002
03/25/1994 12:37 AM 15,221 ADVENT.003
03/25/1994 12:37 AM 35,840 ADVENT.004
03/25/1994 12:37 AM 197 ADVENT.005
03/25/1994 12:38 AM 1,020,177 ADVENT.006
03/25/1994 12:41 AM 2,015,729 ADVENT.007
03/25/1994 12:41 AM 48,588 ADVENT.008
03/25/1994 12:58 AM 6,122,292 ADVENT.009
03/25/1994 12:58 AM 671 ADVENT.010
03/25/1994 12:58 AM 101,282 ADVENT.011
03/25/1994 12:58 AM 1,107 ADVENT.012
08/16/2002 11:06 AM 41 ADVENT.013
03/25/1994 12:59 AM 194,155 ADVENT.EXE
03/25/1994 12:59 AM 1,450 ADVENT.RTS
03/25/1994 12:26 AM 231,179 DOS4GW.EXE
03/25/1994 12:59 AM 2,529 ERRORS.BIN
03/25/1994 12:59 AM 768 FONT
03/30/1994 10:58 PM 4 GLOBAL.SET
03/25/1994 12:33 AM 2,772,585 INTRO.SCA
03/25/1994 12:33 AM 629,172 INTRO2.SCA
08/16/2002 11:05 AM 2,028 MYUP.BAT
08/16/2002 11:05 AM 2,009 MYUPS.BAT
03/25/1994 12:36 AM 30,820 SCOPS.S01
03/25/1994 12:36 AM 637,658 TITLES.S01
08/16/2002 11:04 AM 2,045 UP.BAT
08/16/2002 11:05 AM 2,027 UPS.BAT
27 File(s) 14,276,250 bytes
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Similar error message in Windows 98, Robo. Hmmm...
I'll try it in Pure DOS when I get home tonight.
(Note: The DOS4GW provided by "Boobia City" is v1.8.)
And it -feels- to me like a homebuilt game. We'll see once/if I get it running.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Replacing DOS4GW with a newer version causes no effect. It actually breaks the batch files, which contain commands/switches for DOS4GW before execution. (ie DOS4GW v2.01a is not forward compatible with the commands/switches.)
In fact, in Win98, the whole program crashes with:
A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:FF0E1230 in VXD sbemul(06) + 00002C80. That's on a stock Gateway PRO-S P4-1300 SE. (Sbemul.sys, that is...)
Here's what seemed to be credits at the end of the executable. Maybe we can figure out who made it.
CREATED & DESIGNED BY MIRI LACHOVITZ ROI GINAT AMIT ZOHAR PROGRAMMING BACKGROUND ART & ANIMATION PATRICK BUGNET PHILIPPE SELVE Y […]
CREATED & DESIGNED BY
MIRI LACHOVITZ
ROI GINAT
AMIT ZOHAR
PROGRAMMING
BACKGROUND ART & ANIMATION
PATRICK BUGNET
PHILIPPE SELVE
YASHA KNECHT
MITYARIV GOTLIV
TAMARA YERUSHALMI
AVITAL MARKS
ORIGINAL MUSIC
HTAVIV KURDITZ LIV.
SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST
AMNON TIL PHD#
VOICE ACTORS
NALINES EHRLICH NALPETER R#
ALLEN FROST
HTSTIMMEN MICHAL KRAUS
NATAN JESSEN NG
SOUND RECORDING
ZINKO LTD
*searches with Google*
Maybe the same guys as this?
http://www.avcom.co.il/mod/credits.htm
A lot of the same people. All Israeli. hmm....
Oh, and I found a (C) 1993 in the executable...
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Don't worry about the bandwidth 😀
I'd rather have the game fixed and exceed it 😀
Sorry about the UHARC - you can find it here:
http://www.geocities.com/masautil/uha.html
Just rename uha.dat to uha.exe
The error message is probably
"error in sound card"
The game was made by MAHSHEVET - an israeli company that made MOD (the link Stiletto gave) too.
Pictures can be found here:
http://www.masagames.f2s.com/hirbuv.php3
I hope this info helps...
I just found out the game was exported to outsite of israel under the name - The upside town.
Robo -- that's some impressive hunting. Now we need to find the English version of it (and maybe that one'll work! 😜)
Yes, it’s my fault.
So unless I'm mistaken, "Upside Town" is a kid's/"edutainment" game. Just up Nicht Ser Gut's alley. 😀
Haven't found a download link for the game yet, but I have found a few places to buy it.
http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/upsidetpr.htm
http://www.softwarecheaper.com/product1148.html
Hmmm... I don't have any kids.... Nicht?
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
wrote:Hmmm... I don't have any kids.... Nicht?
Nope. Two nephews and a niece.
"Upside Town" was produced by "Softkey", which became part of the "Learning Company", which has (apparently) become Broderbund.com. Searched their catalog and found nothing.
My previous experience with Br0derbund is that their tech support absolutely sucks. 😀
Wonder what they'd say if we contacted them about a Softkey product? 😀
http://support.broderbund.com/techtips_detail.asp?id=126
At any rate, one of us will have to purchase the product to help Robo. I doubt we'll find this on any warez sites (although you guys are welcome to try).
Or we can continue experimenting with Robo's copy (the URL of which he thoughtfully provided).
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
At any rate, one of us will have to purchase the product to help Robo
I forbid you to do that 😀
Then we need to find a warezed copy to test. That's rather unlikely.
Tested Robo's copy on my home PC in "pure" DOS last night. Same error message.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
did you load your sound driver?
I think you need to.
wrote:did you load your sound driver?
I think you need to.
Yes. I have a SBLive MP3+ (non-5.1). Loaded everything I needed to usually get sound in DOS. I'm hopelessly confused by all this.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Are there any switches you can use to force certain sound options? Did you make sure your BLASTER= line was set? (type "SET" to see if it is). Have you tried copying all the files on the CD to the game directory? (Unlikely this would fix it, but worth a try nevertheless. And, err, IS there a CD?) Is it possible that perhaps the game's sound files are missing? (Kind of an out-there proposition, but it could very well be the problem, if the sound never worked to begin with, and especially so since you uploaded it.) Now, this IS an actual purchased copy, right? Because I know that sometimes files (like audio) are stripped from the game to make it easier to download illegitimately.
Yes, it’s my fault.
The game has sound. I heard it myself. I had to run a file called ess.com first (that is how I load my sound driver. I tried to use
set blast=....... but it didn't work)
It isn't VERY important and it works sometimes...
I'll just let go...
Thanx for all the help!
Alright. If I ever get a spare $20 to spend, or if we ever get a copy another way, we'll let you know and pick this subject up later.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
