Round-42

Post by **AutoAdmin** » July 8th, 2006, 9:13 pm

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kryglik · Post by **kryglik** » January 24th, 2007, 3:52 am

Hello!

Since ever i've been looking for source code for this game. Any ideas where to find ?

And some bonus: all 42 levels in screenshots:
http://pic.kryglik.org/round42/

DOSGuy · Post by **DOSGuy** » January 24th, 2007, 3:59 am

Hi kryglik. I've been waiting for you to post ever since I saw your webpage. I love those screenshots.

Mike Pooler is a hard person to get a hold of. I was contacted by someone who has contact with him in September, but Mike never got back to me. I'll email him again. As I'm sure you know, the "Note to Programmers" states: The code for Round 42 is written in Turbo Pascal. Source code is available from Elven Software Company for a $30 contribution.

Elven Software became Pop Software, author of the Mutant Space Bat series, which can still be purchased by email at http://www.spacebats.net. If you order the game, you'll have a way to contact him!

kryglik · Post by **kryglik** » January 24th, 2007, 6:02 am

$30 is quite a money for that. I would like to see the sources but that price is too high for that. At least, for me.
I am just curious, i was using turbo pascal at the time i played it.

Anyway, it's great there is someone else who knows the game. I think it is one of the best of the kind (if only one of its own kind?).

I still remember playing it on old cga XT computer ... that were the days

what time you played it for first time?

DOSGuy · Post by **DOSGuy** » January 24th, 2007, 6:15 pm

I discovered the game less than a year ago. I discovered it by accident while searching through a compilation CD.

Fragger00 · Post by **Fragger00** » April 29th, 2007, 12:27 pm

I also have the full version of this game. The game played really fast on my 33 MHZ 80386 machine and only works correctly with a CGA or EGA monitor because it uses an undocumented video graphics mode. Despite these drawbacks, it is also one of my favorite games.

I was wondering if this game works correctly in DOSBox? I was also wondering what the difference is between the shareware version and the full version?

DOSGuy · Post by **DOSGuy** » April 29th, 2007, 9:36 pm

I don't think there is a full version. In the olden days, the author just asked you to send him money if you liked the game, which they sometimes referred to as "registering" it.

As for whether or not it works in DOSBox, there's an easy way to find out!

Okay, fine, I'll tell you.

DOS Games Compatibility Wiki wrote: DOSBox:

DOSBox runs this game perfectly, but should be run as a CGA machine.

Command line example: dosbox.exe -machine cga

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