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First post, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2016-04-08, 23:17

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Greetings:

I'm trying to track down an old DOS title called "SeaWord". It was an edutainment title involving two scuba divers that would collect words under the sea. Any ideas of where I can find this game? It's from the early 90s... possibly late 80s, I'm not too sure.

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

Reply 1 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-04-08, 23:27

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This is probably not your game but I wonder if this childhood-scarring creature is involved

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Reply 2 of 8, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2016-04-09, 08:33

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Unfortunately that's not quite it. To wit, I don't recall any sea monsters in the game.

I do know that up to two scuba divers could be on screen, with one being red and the other being green. The graphics were EGA or possibly VGA quality. It might have even been a graphics mode hacked from text mode 80x50... Hmm...

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

Reply 3 of 8, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-04-10, 02:16

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My Kung Fu is strong:
https://archive.org/details/SeaWord_1020
(license says shareware, so I'm comfortable with posting this)

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Reply 4 of 8, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2016-04-10, 06:07

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gdjacobs wrote:
My Kung Fu is strong:
https://archive.org/details/SeaWord_1020
(license says shareware, so I'm comfortable with posting this)

How the hell did I not find this on archive.org?

You sir are awesome!

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

Reply 5 of 8, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-04-10, 16:45

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To find SeaWord, you must be one with the Tao.

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Reply 6 of 8, by VileR

Posted on 2016-04-10, 16:49

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gdjacobs wrote:
To find anything at all on archive.org, you must be one with the Tao.

Fixed it for ya. 😉

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Reply 7 of 8, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-04-10, 17:30

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VileRancour wrote:
gdjacobs wrote:
To find anything at all on archive.org, you must be one with the Tao.

Fixed it for ya. 😉

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Reply 8 of 8, by MrFlibble

Posted on 2016-04-10, 19:41

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VileRancour wrote:
gdjacobs wrote:
To find anything at all on archive.org, you must be one with the Tao.

Or, you could just search Demu.org (formerly DOS Museum). Basically, the Classic PC Games collection at archive.org, or whatever it's called now, is a mirror of Demu.org.

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