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Thorn · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2000 2:08 pm

Does anyone know if there's some company somewhere where you can get outdated or classic games? I came across a game years ago that used Giger's artwork. From memory it was called Dark Seed.

I never got round to finishing it, and it was only on floppies at the time, so the disks are now dead. Any help--totally appreciated.

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

http://www.gamingdepot.com/DarkSeed.htm

It's a 16Mb download though.

Thorn · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2000 2:53 pm

OH, WOW, Ceenda, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!!
I'd pretty much given up on ever finding this game...

May all the gods of cyberspace pour endless blessings on your sweet head.
mmmmmMah...*Thorn plants a big mushy one on Ceenda*

faustgfx · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2000 4:05 pm

now if someone'd tell me how the fuck can i get it to work under nt 4 i'd be quite happy...................... . . . .. . . ..

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Francis · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2000 10:51 pm

Guess you'd need to find and install that 286 emulator.

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Thorn · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2000 11:46 pm

Oh, poo, I can't get it to work either.

Spent ages trying this, trying that with my limited programming knowledge and it won't even install itself. For some reason the system doesn't recognize the folder. ??!??

*sniffle*

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el tigre · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2000 3:13 am

that game scared the shit out of me on my amiga. I have vague recollections of a baby in a box at the front door that kept changing into a skeleton thing?

does that make sense?

weird.

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Thorn · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2000 3:23 am

Yep, it does. From deep, dark, dim memory its a very creepy game. I just wish I could get it to work...

Can anyone out there help? *big puppydog eyes*

Actually, no, scrap that request. There's a forum at the Gaming Depot. I think I'll lurk over there for a while...

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faustgfx · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2000 6:26 am

although miracles happened and now i'm a happy addict of colonization, master of magic, master of orion, dune 1 and battle isle 2, and god damnit they work under nt..

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the not so resident caustic bitch, and the owls turned back the way they are.. even the foos ain't trippin' no more. 35983387 / [email protected]

Thorn · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2000 7:47 am

They do! Oh, f**k, what's wrong with Dark Seed. I even tracked down cyberdreams. http://idg.ienet.com/cyberdreams/current/dawson.html The lights are still on, but noone appears to be home. mumble, mumble...

Anyway, its still a great link Ceenda, thanks again. I'm going to go lurk some more. No, scratch that. I'm going to sleep.

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Thorn: Tell me the exact error that you get when trying to run the game and I'll see if I can offer any solutions as I'm quite into the abandonware scene and have managed to get quite a few games to work.

Thorn · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2000 7:51 pm

Oooh, thanks Ceenda, I'll try to be as clear and waffle free as I can. Ok, here goes.

In Windows 98, after winzip unpacks everything, I get at the beginning of the installation-
error as follows:
On script line 31 we had a problem:
file C:\DARKSEED\*.* not available

Much the same thing under DOS. Its like the folder is invisible in the system, if that makes any sense. Maybe I'll try downloading it again. Who knows...*sigh*

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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Hi there.

When people archive the games they usually just zip up the gaming directory. When you unpacked the archive, was there only an INSTALL.EXE(or something like it) or were there any other *.EXE or *.COM files in the directory, as you may not need to install the game. You might be able to run it from the directory you unpacked it to.

Thorn · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2000 2:37 pm

Oh!!! Got it! It does run straight out of the zip, with a few tweaks here and there. I was so excited, I was missing the obvious.
Definitely a "windows icky!" dos game, though. Hangs after the intro, but I should be able to fix that with a customised boot disk.

I can see why you're into abandonwarez, Ceenda. This is fun stuff.

Thanks