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What a great game man.
I played this when I was kinda young.
It's good fun.

haha i remember this, wasnt there two versions though with different names?

Thanks for the upload

i love this game i´m playing about 2 weeks and i like very much this game :ok:

Could someone perhaps explain the basics of this game? How to build power, advance in technology, use inventions, all that...

LOL...i remember getting this game from pc gamer as demo.

there's a way to make the baldies XXX in a house to reproduce as well *i think* :ok:

Thankyou for the game!

The main point of this game is to exterminate your opponent. By doing so, you need to kill them all, and you have a lot of means to do so.

First, you'll start with some Baldies. You'll need a red house, so turn all your Baldies into Carpenters (blue workers) until the meter to the bottom right rise. Once this is done, use the flag icon to decide your new house location and place a Carpenter at that location. Soon (if not instantly if you have enough blue power), a small house will appear. Notice that the flag is red, so it's yours.

When this is done (or if you started with a house to begin with), you can take your Baldies with the grab (hand) icon and place them in the house. A basic house can hold 10 Baldies. From there, you want to have more men under your command so you'll probably want to upgrade your house into the next red house (you can click on the chalkboard above your Carpenter in the house to select which type of house to build, but the red one is default) while at the same time placing at least 2 Workers (red workers) in their respective room. This will "generate" more Baldies for you, and the biggest the red house you have, the faster they "reproduce".

This is only to get a high population tough. To attack, you will either need to use Soldiers (green soldiers) or traps (white Scientists). To build a house of either type, you need a normal house, then you select another type on the Carpenter chalkboard in the house. A green house give bonus to your Soldiers when they make ammunitions for the Soldiers outside when they fight your opponent. This mean they'll have access to different weapons as your green metter, to the bottom right, rise. Tough the first weapon, the gun, is usually way enough.

The white house is the Scientist house. There you will have bonuses to "research". I think over time they produce their own traps and spells, but you can help them by grabbing things on the map and dropping them on the white house. For example, a Skunk will give you a Skunk spell, and a rock will give you a Rock Rain spell. Note that those spells, which you get by using an object, give you only one use per object. Also note that animals can also be used. Not all objects and/or animals work tough, you'll have to experiment yourself.

Once those three houses are built, you will be able to use your digging power (red metter on the bottom right). To make it rise, just keep Workers (red) loose on the map (not in houses). As it rise, you'll be able to fill water or make land disapear. It use red power, so be sure to have a lot of "worshipers" around if you want to make an extended use of it. Note also that your grabbing power (the hand icon) also use red power. If you have 0 red power, you won't be able to grab objects.

To use traps, you will need to have access to the said trap in one of your houses. Using the chalkboard in the Scientist area of any house will bring a trap or a spell in one of your 6 slots in your menu (which you can move anywhere on the side of the screen BTW). Once this is done, you will need Scientists roaming the land free so the little scale grow up until it's ready, and then you can use it as you wish. Traps require that you also sacrifice a Scientist in the process, the Scientists "flying" at the designated point and setting the trap up. Spells works instantly. Some traps/spells don't last forever in your inventory, but this is in direct relation to the spells you get from objects/animals. If your trap/spell disapear, it is likely that you ran out of "charges" of it.

Soldiers works pretty much by themselves and roam the land in search of a Hairy to kill. If they don't have ammo (your green power to the bottom right is gone), they'll punch their ennemies down and it will immobilize the target for about 5 seconds. If they have ammo, they'll run after the Hairies trying to kill them. To make your green power rise, you'll need Soldiers working in a house.

Last point of interest; you can enter trees just like house if you drop a Baldie on it. I never found a point in doing so tough. You also can attack an ennemy house by dropping (or using the icarus wing to mass drop) Baldies on it. Either way, you lose your Baldie by doing so, but you have a chance to kill an ennemy Hairy inside the ennemy house also. If you kill all the ennemies and you put a last Baldie inside the house, you capture it.

In resume:

Carpenters (blue workers) raise your blue meter when roaming the land free. They build houses when you use the flag icon and the blue meter is high enough. They are also needed in a built house to keep it erect and in shape, as a house without carpenters will decay over time.
Workers (red workers) are your basic "normal Joe" men which worship you. Without them you would receive no "mana" to use your normal powers, which in turn mean that you would have no hold on the physical realm of the world. Workers raise your red meter when roaming free the realm and generate more Baldies for you to command when they are at least 2 in any given house.
Scientists (white workers) raise your white meter when they roam the realm free. They are also needed to "set up" traps when you want to use them. You lose one Scientists per trap, but you will kill many more with a single trap so it even out in the end. When used in a house, they research new traps/spells for you.
Soldiers (green Soldiers) are your basic all around commando guy. They'll try to take down ennemies, with a weapon or not. When roaming the realm free, they run after ennemies to kill them. The weapons they have available depend on the green meter, which in turn get raised as you place more Soldiers in houses so they can make ammo for those outside.


I hope this post will be usefull enough for the new Baldies players. :)

This game is nice! I used to play the CD-rom version but after a little while of playing it always crashed. I still enjoyed it though. I think I'll download this version and try to play it again, hopefully without it crashing all the time :ok:

Anyway to slow it down? its going SO fast.. even if i manually
slow the game down using the speed bar

are you using dos-box?

IIRC, a few years later there was a Windoze-native game under name of Skullcaps, practically identical to Baldies. Is that what you mean?

And... 1997? I remember having a demo of it in 1995 or 1996 quite clearly.

are you using dos-box? [/b][/quote]

Nope, it said it needed windows...... this blah blah only works in win95

Thats the one! :ok:

Follow the instructions below the review and it should work in Windows XP:

<!--QuoteBegin-review
NOTES FOR INSTALATION: after extracting the files, run the "setup.exe" file; It is advisable to answer "no" when it asks if you wish to install DirectX, because it is an old version of it. That installation will create a "baldies.bal" file, where it is stored the path of the game. If you ever change the game to another folder, don’t forget to edit this file and place the right path. You need to leave the original extracted files at their location after the installation, or the game won't work! [/quote]

i ´m going to the 10 level in green land :Brain:

Sweet :) Not as good as Settlers, but highly enjoyable anyway. Especially if you like bald little people ;)

It's very fun, but it's also very frustrating to kill the opponent since those baldies reproduce really fast and the computer's also really fast at rebuilding houses as necessary.

YES! i played the demo a long time ago.

it's a funny game.

happened to me when I first played too...press escape or however you go to options, and slide the speed meter down

Follow the instructions below the review and it should work in Windows XP:

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Read up, you got the wrong idea guy was asking me if i was using dosbox :crazy:

happened to me when I first played too...press escape or however you go to options, and slide the speed meter down [/b][/quote]
Still too fast... :ranting: :bleh:

i like very much to put my baldies in the sea , it is very funny.

i dont know,i played only few levels,but it seems little repetitive.i found most of the traps pretty useless and it was like build red houses,upgrade them breed MANY workers then get wings and sen flying squadron to every house,cleaning it from hairies and populating it at the same time.mission acomplished.duh

I got the same problem and I found an answer. Strangely, the game seems to slow down if you decrease the game resolution to the minimum and turn the speed to slowest... :blink:

Anyhow, works for me. :ok:

but the scenarios are different and in begining is different also, at the momment i do´t feed up the game and also i´m trying to beat my brother in law, finishing the late as possible.

I can't seem to get past the first level.

It says I level complete and there was a tick on that map. However the second map had a cross on it and i can't play it. Is something wrong with the game or did i miss out something on the first map??

And i remember that they made this game on year 1998 or 1999.

Does somebody know were i can download SKULLCAPS ? i played it a few years ago and i loved it! i want to have skullcaps!!!

i played skullcaps a few years ago and i loved it! i've been searching for it but i didn't find it.... cas somebody help me? plsssss! I MUST HAVE THIS GAME!!!

you only get out thr cross of the second map , only when you finish the first level.

he finished small fish,or at least he says so.but are you sure you selected the second island?

little fish and not small fish , but if he add a cross in second map it is impossible him add to finished the first.

oh sorry,little fish my mistake

little fish and not small fish , but if he add a cross in second map it is impossible him add to finished the first.[/b][/quote]

I did finish the first... It said Congratulations! Level complete... After that there's a tick on the first island.

OMG i love this game used to play it but the cd got broken and couldnt buy it but its here on this site awesome :D .

ok now; what is the "fish rain" for? can anyone give an answer?

ok baldies is not bad. but skullcaps is better!

:help: nothing happens whhen i click on a house what am i suppose to do to bring up the house screen

And i remember that they made this game on year 1998 or 1999. [/b][/quote]
Oops! I touht that this was Skullcaps!

do you know any working cheats for it?
holding F8 doesnt seem to work

:w00t: I know a cheat that'll freeze the whole world. Just run it on my computer, and when you start to do well (without saving), everything freezes, and nothing moves! Not even your cursor!! How cool is that?!

Totally uncool. You just don't know how to run it right.

Q: What do the goldfish do?
A: You can pick them up and feed them to your Baldies, increasing their energy.


Are you sure you are clicking in a house that beçongs to you? because you can only "bring up a house" if it belongs to you. you can not pick on enemies' s houses. and this is also valid for trees

i just past to 12 level in the greenland




:w00t:

How do you run it right?

Usually, running the aplication starting the game should start the game, Honkers. :rolleyes:

If you have a problem post about it in the troubleshooting section or read this thread whole.

This game is fun, and run well under XP with sound and music.

If you got trouble running it, consider redownload the zip file or there is a serious error with your XP/98 installation. Reinstall XP/98 if necessary

I love the fact that use mines and traps to kill the baldies yet you force them out of the house using a skunk!!
LOL
Ohh man they dont make games like this anymore!

Actually, I've already tried that, but thanks for that in-depth solution. ;)

I can't get past the 1st world level wherein I've got to save 12 > Baldies from those freaking mines. It won't slow down. No slow down option. OMFG.

i finish one more level i´m finish the green world... :w00t:

I have the same problem (and the house I am clicking on definitely is mine). Is there anybody out there who can resolve this issue? I am running the game under Win 2000 if this should be of relevance ...

You ever tried slowing cykles in DosBOX??? OR ever heard of "TURBO"??

I have a problem with the instalation....


When i try to install(the dir selection screen) it shows me an error...."Can't create uninstall information"

PleaSE
HELP!!!

i just love this game...i played it a long time ago....


Ps....I use an XP os....

how are you installing it?

you will need to:
1- download the "baldies.zip"
2- unzip the its content to a folder
3- run "setup.exe"
4- don' t forget you can' t delete the folder to where you unziped the game (in step 2) because that folder will "act" as if it was the instalation CD

I hope this works, if not, give us more details about your problem.

how are you installing it?

you will need to:
1- download the "baldies.zip"
2- unzip the its content to a folder
3- run "setup.exe"
4- don' t forget you can' t delete the folder to where you unziped the game (in step 2) because that folder will "act" as if it was the instalation CD

I hope this works, if not, give us more details about your problem.[/b][/quote]
I did all of that....

But still....Nothing the same error....Anything else?

maybe you should do what this member sugested:

<!--QuoteBegin-minhtuan@Sep 16 2005, 05:00 PM
This game is fun, and run well under XP with sound and music.

If you got trouble running it, consider redownload the zip file.[/quote]

Oh god, I love this game. I've played it since... I can't remember when.

Is skullcaps available anywhere? It looks good, I'm very interested in trying it.

it's not work to me wath to do?

You have to download, unzip and play.
Maybe if you tell us more about the problem: what exactly isn't working?

I think this guest will find answer if he actually considers reading the thread. What's so hard about two pages, huh?

i finish one more level.. :Brain: Someone finish the game ? :whistle:

I'm soo dedicated to this game... But I just now blinked that this site has a forum to it! :ok:

Well, since I started the 3. world (DESERT) I can tell you some about these levels. & I hope you will fill me too if you have more ideas.

First, cheats, secret levels and other technical:
1. Be sure you will win the level. Build a science lab (white house) near water (need at least 6*6 hex water). Drop a useless sheep in the water (of course the gamespeed required the minimum). Get 10 "dolphin" (grey fishes), drop them in the science lab, finish the level (must be L5 or higher). Check the first 2 level!
Additional advice: complete the first bonus level before this (it desappears if the secret levels are active). The SLs will de-activate if you quit. They reactivate if a level completed again (don't know if that could be a bonus level).
I can't play the second SL - it did nit activated yet. I have an original CD. Doesn't seem to be a bug. (Well mostly I'd like some informations about beating the WHOLE game).
2. bonus levels: they appear regularly. Can't slow down the speed (set to maximum on the option bar what is not on the bonus levels).
3. if the game running too fast try a CPU-slowdowner as CPU-killer. Well, not much but if nothing else helps...

basic datas:
energy bars: red be filled if you have a lot of red men OUTside. Blue will be filled, if you have some blue OUTside (3 will do for a whole level). Green bar will filled, if you have soldiers in BARRACKs. Have at least 3 barrack to maximise this bar - for the helicopter (it is sad it uses that energy, not avaiable yet). Whites: have a science lab. Fill it at least 5-10 white men. Have a lot outside to refill the energy faster. Otherway you won't need too much on your white bar.
Suggestion: always have 1 from all type except green men outside. The blue gives energy to build, the red to moving objects the scientist to start the inventing fast.
Shovel icon: can build/destroy land. Needs 3 houses and some red energy.
Wing icons: uses red energy. After "used" on yours clikck on goal position. Good for attacking houses/fill expanding/attacked houses. Needs 4 houses and more red enegy than the shovel.
If something invented on L3 (to level 3 on the level) it will be given in the next level as L1. Not really useful sience you won1t have scientists for long, but having a mine is good to slow down the computer a bit and flamtouch to kill the first "soldeir" puted next to your house.
L1 green house: make bullets (if soldiers are inside)
L2 green house: make granades too (for attacking houses)

useable (reasonable) inventions:
L3 mine: blow up "big rocks in the ground" to appear secret warps. If you put baldies in these later you get that number of starting baldies on a later levels, not the original 10-20. (According to the manual)
L2-3 rain: works as shovel - destroys land. In the ice world it builds the land. Makes winged persons to land.
rock(item, not invention)/rockrain: bloking enemy houses from expanding/coming out enemy units
mass pouch: quickly finishes the level. Don't let the computer invent this.
drop a skunk in the water (gamespeed minimum) - get the red fishes ("piranhas") - "give" the fishes to the enemy. Works as an early solution on the computer's birth-rate.
flame-touch: the first is good on early later the others. My favourite.
earthquake: damages houses on screen. Droping inside-unites outside. Good if combined with flametouch than armageddon.
angel-cloud: combined with baloons would be good to turn enemy scientists to our side. But needs too much time.
rabbit: gives incredible birth rate. At least 5 red inside suggested.

useless inventions:
tree (not invention, works as house): no birth rate. The computer will attack the tree if yours are inside. Sad rises energy. Not sure its the baldies hp or the energy bar.
storm L1: don't do anything.
gun: worse of the worse. after puted down needs to decide where to fire. You won't be able to do anything until then.
fishrain: says rising energy. Same problem as with the tree. Use: start rain. Get fish. "Give" fish to allies. Reusable.
snake: no use (attack trees is a small task)
sknuk: do not invent this. Use skunks for piranhas.
dog: slows down birth rate. Don't know timing. Too long to invent.
mine/pit/trap/pusher/popper/electric: sames. Won't give enough bonuses. Electirc said good with rains.
Fields (mine/popper): too long to invent. The computer has a tendency to avoid this.
earth-shark: no succes
earth-shark repellent: why would I need this?
gas mask: never found, said it prevents skunks. But the computer never invented that.

unknown items: sticks, sheeps (except for the secret levels), red sings (on World 3, looks like Candy-World)

basic tips:
- the sknuk-made piranhas (see above) (can win some levels just with these)
- put a rock before an enemy house. Put your shield on it. Yoiur soldiers will uses granades on it, won't going inside. The shield works ONLY soldiers (yours) and ONLY 2 screen away!
- use rocks to prevent enemy houses expanding.

Till Friday I will translate my home-made level-walkthruogh and if you don't say no I will pu it on the forum. :evil:

I read through the forum carefully and I decided to add one more comment oday:

inventions:
cow: rare. 1-3/level maximum. Long to experiment. Said it attracts people and blows up in a crowd. Never tried. Also sad, an invented cow putted in an enemy house will destroy everyone inside, but it doesn't work :cry:

another good attacking strategy: invent L3 mine. Put it near one/more enamy house. Start blowing them up. Kills 4-9 men/blow.

the F8 cheat: press it, then click on a land. Keep the button pushed (no repeating!). Well, it is the correct form of the cheat. Not sure, if it works on PC.

rock: reusable after rockrain. Fixed number on a level when started.
skunk: fixed number
dog: eats rabbit "in nature" (bad thing at start)
cow: fixed number
earth-shark: can' catch it (and not needed)

enemy traps:
the computer ("C." after this point) likes them. Use anything to destroy them - and the C. will waste his men.
Pit/pusher: grab one men of your. Drop it on the trap. Klick again fast. No harm done to you, but the trap will expire. The C. don't do this. :cheers:

Basic strategy till level 6-8: build a castle. Start build another. Then/or a science lab - invent rabbit.
Build a barak (maximum tonage). Finish the C. with winged soldiers.

carpenters (blue men) in houses:
basic: needs 1
science lab: needs 3 to build (much faster) than 2 to keep.
barak (green L2 - I mean L2 after the indifferent house): 5. Grows really fast.
red: L1: 2
L2: 4
L3: ???
L4: 9?, but for expand 15 gives the fastest

Seems you can have just a limited amount of houses. If you play a lot (not just on one level, but still): on smaller PCs restart recommended after some hour (once I had so many men on a level I needed start it again after half hour, but after than I understanded the wings' useness).

Birth rates: 1 red also reproductive (don't ask). Two should be the minimum, but it isn't. 5 give minimum usefulness, but will be enough till L28-30.
10 red inside seems always enough for a start. Above 20 is very good. Above 25 means fast repacement (the rest can always be pushed out - for some soldiers/redirect them).

Well, that's for today, pals :Titan:

Hi!

As I sad I continue write all I know about this game to help you or what. So again I start with some "basic" controll as I made the first level on the third world (Europe, not Desert, sorry). this was the first time when the vehicles was avaiable:w00t:


garage: Can build after RL2. If builded the house can’t expand anymore (same with the helipad). Then you can invent the car. The car will stay as an object. Controll the car: pres hand on it with a left klick. Moving: move the mouse. Beware, it is fast! Release: klick again. Destroy it: with L3 mine.
helipad: can invent helicopter. Works as the car, but can only hit winged men. Can bomb with right click (uses green energy). The bomb will fall c.a. 2 hex downer than we are. Controll the heli: use the wing. If touched with the hand you won’t be able to touch ANYthing for quite some time. Can build on RL3. Can be destroyed by L3 rain, if not on the helipad.
The houses minimum carpenter is the level of them (RL1 needs two, sience that is a 2. level house), but the vehicle-expansions don’t need +1 blue men. Strongly suggested have more carpenter inside than the minimum!

The snake will try to disappear when touched than puted down. The skunk will even drown in earth if do the same! But the fishes can survive for some seconds on the ground (this is a hint!).

If you invented something than dumped you still be able to inven L2 from that kind of invention.
inventing:
Mass poch (what I call Armageddon) needs RL4. Flametouch needs a GL2.

Look-a-like:
Green (world):
indifferent: house
red L1-2: house but with more window
red L3-4: catlse
white: watermill
green: stone fortress
dog: brown

Ice:
indifferent: iglu
red L1-2: sema as in the previous world
white: astronomical house
green L1: wooden house
green L2: two leveled wooden house
pit: thin ice
earth-shark: orca
dog: grey
rain: snow
warp: ~buried iglu

Europe:
indifferent: holyday-apartman
red: L1 – hotel
L2 – Colosseum
L2V - +garage
L3 – pagoda
L3V – + helipad
L4 – Warcraft: ork fortress
white: windmill
green: L1 – same as RL1, but in brown
L2 – the Tower
red ball: stone
earth-shark: hattyú
warp: big stone. Resembles the warp in the previous world

Desert:

Hell:

And sience it was so long I write in my level-walkthrough in the next qoute. :ph34r:

Level walkthrough:
level on my type of letters means you need to invent your strategy on that level. The whole game seems like it teaches you slowly how to play.
The qoute in th ( ) just after the number of the level means what the look of the map resembles me. Watch it as a decoration.
„pálya”: means level or map on my language

1. pálya (means map or level on my language) : (starting islands) there is just one single enemy. I suggest instead of instant winning try out everything you can. I made this level under 2 hour!
2. pálya: (starting islands 2) The C. Builds only a basic house. First time the wings are avaiable.
3. pálya: the C. Starts to bother you, but no danger involved.
4. pálya: (opposing countries) the C. Builds houses continuously, but won't attack you.
5. pálya: the C. Builds level 2 houses.
6. pálya: (borders) the C. Start creating inventions. No science lab for him.
7. pálya: (horde attack) there are not too much place, but build anyway. We are faster then the C. And can position the buildings better. Do not hasitate letting collapse a bad positioned building! The basic idea of this map is to conqer one building then right after it another then another... as fast, as possible.
8. pálya: (chessboard) The C. Builds science lab. We need to build more houses for a start not just wait for a full castle. It will help to confuse the C. & get invaluable time.
9. pálya: nothing much to say. But after this comes a bonus level!
bónusz 1: minefield. Grab the reds & put them on the center's isolated island. Repeat this until at least 5 bouns you reach.
10. pálya: (chained) for the first building we need to go the very down of the map. No need to move the screen horizontaly for this. Start build a castle AND a science lab. Put a barrak in the original starting position. First time, when the C. will have his most hated cheat-spell: he will destroy a lot of our carpenter inside our houses. Players can't invent that kinda spell. You too will hate this cheat.
11. pálya: the C. Builds a RL3. No more, so you will be able to handle it. The first time, when a cow is avaiable.
12. pálya: First time for Armageddon (mass poch). Although not really needed...
13. pálya: average difficulty level – compared to other games. If you get bored start Armageddon! Only thing to mention: enemy barracks are also hard to capture just like ours.
14. pálya: the C. Will happyly dig the land. But we are experienced enough not frighten by this.
15. pálya: (Amerika) Nothing special. Not even Armageddon needed – we wikll be much faster than the C.semmi különleges.
16. pálya: (Europe) The C. will use again the self-burning spell (aka.: our carpenters will die as – well, something that dies quickly & in great number). Both opponent will attack us ONLY. So build at least a RL3, than a barrak for the start. Then a science lab (invent rabbit). Than another castle on the other side of the little rock-border.
17. pálya: RL2 – science lab – invent rabbit – RL2. Make it & you will survive. Move baldies between houses as necesearry. Basic idea: build houses as fast as possible (red ones): I call it rush! There comes a bonus level.
bónusz 2.: put the flag immediately in the hole, than start build bridges between lands, than destroy them preventing the baldies going backward. (Almost) every baldie can be saved.

Note: in this world I never used piranhas (forgeted).

Note: in this world your birth rate is low, the maps are big. The red energy is not trustable: needs too much even flying.

18. pálya: No rabbit. Armageddon is a must to be fast. Build as on the prvious level at the start.
19. pálya: again we are much faster than the C. Armageddon is again a must.
20. pálya: the C. won't do much. Don't know why.
21. pálya: same as above.
22. pálya: (two feuding empire) the C. went military, but we can have a very high bierth rate. Good idea to build a barrack in the beggining (building second or third), but not that important.
23. pálya: again a cheat for the C.: it can build land without houses! And we have sooo few men. So use piranhas! If you survive the start you will be OK.
24. pálya: (aurora borealis) Bad starting position. Need a lot of time to put us to a better. Just don't panic!
25. pálya: same as above, but there will be NO good position for a RL3-4. Build land than!
26. pálya: For opponent, all against all. Build 3 houses (2 RL2 and a science lab – for rabbit). Reds above 15 can be placed to an isolated island to produce energy. Need there 1-2 blue too. Than build another castle & a barrak. On the safe island the baldies can be changed to white – produce energy for the rabbits – after they completed they mission (all icons avaiable).
27. pálya: the C.'s birth rate is very good, but we have strategy! There is a WARP on this level! And bonus level comes too.
bónusz 3: there are enemy on the trees! I think you could draw a map, but it is not that hard, and won't need the extra men that much.
28. pálya: Very small map. Don't need to build anything, just use skunk-made piranhas. If the C. can create a building you will be able to capture it for the end (don't start it till all hairy on the screen killed!)
29. pálya: Four opponent, but we have a good position. The main enemy will be the diagonal one (blue flag). For the start the hairies above allied to us. Later they too will attack us, but 'till then we can build something nasty just front of them. The others won't attack them. Tip: after our building started drop a skunk in each corner in the water to reach some advantage. At least two houses (red) needed for the start (RL2), far away from each other. Really hard level, watch it, pals!
30. pálya: Again we won' need to build, just use piranhas then capture the C.'s house. LEAVE 1-2 hairies ALIVE! Because here is a WARP! Isolate the remaining hairy, turn everyone away from beingsoldier. Put in the hole 1-200 men, than continue on.
31. pálya: Absolutly no place to start! We don't have time for skunks, as the C. have too much hairies! Turn everyone to blue (as normaly). Use a skunk to kill as many hairies as possible. Put down the flag in the enemies mouth! Start building: RL1 will be enough with 10 red and 2 green inside. Is it stands and expanded to RL2 and have at least 20 red (inside of course) start an otherone. Start playing. Use sknuks (I mean: piranhas) when waiting (for expand).
32. pálya: Again a minimap. Use piranhas.megint egy minimap.
33. pálya: We have room, a house but not too much men. Let EVERYONE out and the house collapse. Use skunks to kill hairies. Then capture his house. Needs to be fast.
34. pálya: Turn the gamespeed minimum. Use skunks. Be fast & agile. There comes a bonus level.
bónusz 4: again a field but this time huntingtraps. Higher rescue-limit. I could only made 2-3 bonus here.

Note: this world really looks funy. Don’t bother the candies, they are just decoration.

35. pálya: (fat tissue) The only place good for building is the C.'s – what has more man than we. Start a buildin down there. He won't build any more, so we have chance, but a thin one. Build an RL1. Collect 10 red. Expand to RL2. Collect 15-20 red. Repeat the process (but maximize the population in the first one). I saw a rabbit, but a dog eated him and never reborned. Try out the heli and the car! WARP!

secret level 1.: the demo's first map. Slow mission, but we are always on the top. Have some extra men on a neerby tree. :Brain:

I Played the demo b4 (When I was 7)
I LOVED DROWNING THEM MUHWHA! HA! HA! :sneaky:

I keep Drowning them its fun if your bored :D
I had a demo disk when i was 7. I RELLY MISED THIS GAME.
I just found out how to download finly :Brain:

I'm a noob so what :sneaky:

Some said Skullcap is a better this-like game. Weel I looked after it and it appeard that is a SEQUEL to Baldies! ABSOLUTLY NO differences between the two, just a somewhat nicer toolbar, and a better starting picture - nothing more - well at least as I know.
No download on the Net possible currently

can some1 tell me how to get it working because i dont check any of the boxes (DX2) and dont delete the files or anything is says succesfully installed and then when i click start balies single players it says "C:/My Documents/Baldies/baldies.exe is not a valid Win32 application"

can you tell me how to get it working

Look here.

This game is so cute!! but i seem to be stuck on level 6 of the first world.... the hairies keep coming over and killing all my baldies before i get a chance to breed them properly.. does anyone have any suggestions/tips??

yes.... breed them faster :whistle:

Build a few houses, put 2 builders (blue guys) in each house and all the others make them workers (red guys); a basic house can hould 10 baldies, and each worker inside an house contributes to "breed" more baldies, so with 8 red guys inside you can breed faster :D

make the same to all your houses... the hairies will begin to place traps at your houses doors, preventing you from upgrading them, so the trick is, instead of upgrading, just build more and more houses. :Titan:

On level 6: it's not that high. I suggest build just the basics:
if you are tucked try to build a Castle! It is at least a L3 red house (maximum 4 possible). Have at least 10, than 15 than 20-25 red inside! All above should turned to blue until 15. Have 1-2 soldier inside ALWAYS! On higher levels 2 will suffice anytime (I'm on level 35! or so, still no problem). Have 1-2 blue one outside!

Use your starting invention carefully!

Don't forget about skunks! at least 4-5 enemy soldier can be killed with each! I hope this will help.

For the others (and for him too): I found ALL the WARPs until my levels, replayed them, and played 1-2 new levels. So watch it!
ishes:
- goldfish: can eat, can take: jump out from water, fall from sky as fishrainm, can invent fishrain
- yellow fish: drop a rabbit into the water, usefullness: can’t eat. the baldie/hairy will cicle if the fish droped to him, can invent to fishrain
- grey fish: drop a dog into the water, usefullness: as the yellow fish

new warps!
warp in the first world: ugly grey rock – resembels a cappuchino’s cream
can find warps: on L4, L6, L9, L15, L16 (as replayed found that a car and a heli can be invented. First time I *meep*ed it and the C. Armageddoned us – but I won. Much more: the second secret map turned playeable after that.), L26

secret level 2: nothing much to say. We have a lot of baldie, have a lot of skunks, and a big plain terrain. And the C. bulds a science lab. I petty.
:cheers:

level 35: again only one RL2 against us, but the C. is really fast, cheats on birth rate (as I feel). I built a garage, than tried to invent the car. Nothing happened. So I built a science lab (5 scientist inside). They started to invent it. And the car is a weapon of mass destruction! Well as I count 'till the C. build 5 house or a castle.
level 36: easy. Use skunks wisely (I had a flamtouch too - tried turn all to scientist, but seems U need scientist inside to rise the inventsmens bar), than just capture the enemy instíllation. You won! :bleh:

Oh, and curiousfire!
I really believe you just need 2 house maximum for a start. Just plant them a little far away (c.a. 1 or half screen away). The C. will be confused what to attack and needs sufficient time to reach here-from-there. Gives U worthy time.
But if you need two houses use this method: build a RL2 (house with 3 windows). Have just 2 red inside, maximum 15 blue inside 3-5 blue outside, 1 red outside, 1-2 green inside.
In the very moment you reach this expansion downbgrade the blues to 4, turn them red. Anyone above 15 red can be pushed out (start it when you reach 20 red inside), and start build a new RL2!
If you made it decide which to expand - depends on enemy traps around.

Avaiable trick: try gather rabbits and sheeps on a very small island - can used for inventions or eliminating traps.
And: if the C. creates tons of traps it won't stop that. So grab a baldie and exterminate useless traps as pits, guns and pushers - and the C. will waste its men to replace those.

can any1 tell me if baldies runs very slow when u start getting more baldies and that.
it cant be my ram or memory coz its all high.

does it do it to any1 else or does any1 know y ?

Amybe U have too good machine. Try refresh the codecs or try out some older codecs.
Alternative: maybe the game was optimalised for older C.s and maybe there is a limit what amount of power (ram and so) can it use, and will slow down after having tons of units around.

Try out: download and install it again.

How many baldies are around? Tell us which level U are, and how many houses are around, and what type of houses.


Oh, and before anything else: it works very slow JUST if U have a lot of baldies or otherway? If all time try incrise the game speed from the option menu.
If it turns if U have a lot of baldies, but the effect is not immediatenely try restart your C.

If nothing helps, well, it died for U.

Merry X-mass-destruction!

if you use Dos-box try to change the cycles, to make the game more fast.... :w00t:

anyone playing still? Which level You reached? :bye:

i finish the green land and no i will play the next level of land. why?
:cheers:

Nope. Finished the first epizode and not willing to start the second

this a good game but if we play a lot it then to get borring, this is a game to play a little bit and forget some time and after play again , if not we became fill up.... :crazy:

Just to know, where you are guys. Or everyone died out of boredom, and I'm alone stand agains a whole hairy empire, as the last action heroe. :Tom:

just like i said before play 2 or 3 days and after i dasn´t play about 15 days, and you were in the game are you? :cheers:

hey

To my shame, I cannot get past level 3. I once got to the Ice world, but I guess time+no playing = crapness.

Your walk throughs aren't f much help....can you not provide us with a cheat to access all levels? I found it on the net once..but it seems to have dissappeared. Hmmm.

The level-access cheats are all over the net. But they are not for the PC but for other platforms (nintendo/playstation or what).
If you want that use a searcher. Any of those will work (codewords: baldies, cheat or walkthrough).

My walkthrough is not an ultimate guide sience it is not possible as this is a real-time strategy. I only can suggest tactics, and basic strategy to start those levels. Basicaly if you can succesfully start a level you will win as the only thing that counts is the number of units in the end. I just report U how can U easely outnumber the C. on the beggining: with big red houses, with science lab, or U will specifically need soldiers, or everything fails so try a car. That is the most I can do. But ask questions and I try to help U specifically.

On level 3 U say? Which world? The first? That sucks. The C. wont build too much or fast, so don't mind it, just build as soon as possible the biggest red house, than build another, than kill the C.'s men. It is that easy. Oh, and if you have just small time to play use SAVE. If U do not want to play again all levels use those arcive saves. All in all: if U want I can send U MY best save in e-mail if U want it. That's the most I van do.
But I ave to learn a lot these times so I'm still didn't played any new levels. Just tried out the next to see where are skunks, how many place and enemy will there andso. There will be 3 separated island far away from each other, and 2 enemy. The blue is the strongest as always. Bilds fast, at least RL2. I could capture the other for good, but I would be too weak after that.

Does anyone found my writings useful? What else should I try to put here?

You have to wait, only when the people have problems with the game, came here, so they read and solve their problem, so don´t expects, they tell you something, because you have resolved in last posts.... :cheers:

its a great game iv got it installed on 3 computers :ok:

Ok, I read the entire thread... There are 3 peepz that have the same prob as I have...

I cannot get into my own buildings... I know their mine! For sure...



Can anyone help me?

Hopefully some one will come by and read this since this a good game and would like to play it again. I can't seem to click on my houses. I have played previously on diffrent computers without having a problem. I've looked all over and haven't been able to find myself a solution so any help would be appreciated.

Did you put your mouse in max movements? If yes, maybe that was the problem....

Yes, and you can try a reinstall too (from this site again).

Great game :ok: but the .net file is a waste since nobody plays it :eeeeeh: :tomato:

or mabye im just not doing it right..

Goodguy! give an appointment, and we will try out! I mean the bald.net.

Other: I accomplished the actual level (with the three separated island on it), and it was kinda fun. I tried out something difference this time, so watch out!

Instead building the two lowlevel building I build a large RL3, and planed to have a heli as fast as possible. So I hoped I will have enough men, enough skill and I knew I will need the best barrack. 2 if possible.

Up on my island I started to build (just the basic house nothing more), than went to skunk the C. This point is vital. Kill as many enemy as you can to slow down the C. Both will attack You, and the blue is twice as fast as the white.

Well, to be honest I had problem with the birth rate. So I tried out to trick with the gamespeed. And I had right: faster in-ame speed = fewer soldiers go inside my buildings. So if I had to rearrenge my baldeis, or try a skunk or whatever I slew down, otherway I let it work on MAXIMUM speed. This way I got 7 more men than on the slowest (all alive).

But of course the rain came, so I needed a third house, so I planned the next barrack. But I missplaced it. But I thiought: what the heck, I don't have more men, so I kept it. And it worked pretty well.

Just one more thing: we won't have a natural island for the "spare-men", so we have to create it from nothing. First we will need a LITTLE red power and only 2 blue men from that "spare-island". Than we will need science energy (have men in houses not outside for most - I only had 10 science, 8 red - just enough to have enuóough land to expand the houses if necesseary, 3 blue in the end). Inside the houses I suggest 5 scientist if possible as we won't build a lab.

The end comes when the two enemy goes against each others throat, we build a house near their territory (a red house with a car, just in case) (they build a lot of ground on the maps downside), and bomb them to death. Although the trees can not be bombed (there is only 1 on the map). :angel: :ok:

The next level seems kinda stupid: There is a continent on the north for the C. and a VERY thin landbar for you in the south. Actualy it is possible to build 1 acceptable house in the middle, but...
To be better the C. has so many men that he can build and fullfill 2(!) house just at the beggining. This is unfair, and there is only 2 sknuks around. So it seems it will be a must to manipulate with the gamespeed.

But a question :help: : what would you suggest: should I try to build another house (RL2) than a barrack and try a heli, OR try invent the car to ensure the territory (than try to build a landbridge and cause mass destruction)? I don't know how much time I will have or what I should do. Although it is sure that I can not expand the first house to RL3 this time.

awsome im a member now.
*sees the new "Buy it!!" button for baldies*
man! i cant believe my luck :O

Where can I buy Baldies? The link has no buy option.

I believe the best strategy(well, its worked for me so far) is to immediately work on getting a huge house, and not breed until it is completed. then i build a strong house/barracks, a science house, and then i work on another huge house. by then i have the angel wings and control of the game :ok:



:sniper: :Brain:

Hey You All
i Love this game, and i am a Pro
i am up to the 2nd last level in HELL
no freaking joke
i can even provide screen shots of the level
:ranting: i need a cheat or something because i find it impossible
the F8 one doesnt work for me someone has a save game editor or something ANYTHING???

Hello. only one advise, you don´t need to make 3 post, just edit your last post and put all in the same post. :cheers:

:ok: I would like to add that I LOVE THIS GAME
about time theres a forum for this
i need a CHEAT BAD :cry: :cry: , are there any decent hackers out there which can make any form of a cheat plz :kosta:

About buying the game: it is not possible, maybe on amazon or so, because ALL official part of it (i.e.: the official online-walkthrugh, the multiplayer-site) are ALL gone for good, and won't return.

for cheaters: there is the F8 cheat (be happy if it works), and the level codes for other-platforms versions. There are NO other cheats ever avaiable. But I wpould be glad if SreekX could send me the savegame file. That would allow to play his/her level.

for Goodguy3: your strategy works fine on the FIRST world, but not on the laters, and especially not from the 3th. Or could you write the exact technic of yours? How many breeders/workers/etc. inside/outside? What you do with the insane amount of traps? The lack of territory? Or the low starting unite-number?
I'd gladly read your playing style. :sniper:

Hi!

I've played this game for some months, and have got to the penultimate desert level (not counting the bonus level). There, though, I'm stuck for good, will appreciate any good ideas.

In response to earlier posts,
about not being able to enter your own houses:
I downloaded Baldies from the Underdogs site and had the same problem, nothing helped with that version. Then I downloaded the game from some other site, and it worked OK. So, recommendation is (worked also for other games I've had problems with, like Adventures of Lomax): download it from different sites, and try all installations. Usually several different versions are available on net, some may be corrupt, but some other may work.

A useful hint.
At one of the last World 3 levels I got stuck for the first time: too few Baldies, too much Hairies; they quickly build the maximum living house, and start breeding with awful rate, while I have only level 2 living house yet. I get overwhelmed hopelessly. Couldn't get past this before the following tactics occurred to me: at the start, turn all Baldies blue, and bring one Baldie to the enemy-occupied part of land, approximately where he is going to build his living house; put the Baldie somewhere there, but out of immediate reach of Hairies, so they won't beat him. At the moment the Hairies create the house, put your own flag beside it, as near as possible, creating your own house. After the Hairies start to attack it, you can as well evacuate the Baldie from it, returning it to your own continent, and building your own living house for real. Now, the hairies will have two minimum level houses which block each other from growing, and it will not occur to them to build another living house. Well, you will have some hard time dealing with the already existing Hairies, then the ones appearing from the two small houses, but after all you'll overwhelm them.

In the Desert World (World 4) this tactics was often very handy.

Well, up to the said penultimate level. The situation there is next to hopeless:
* you have only 10 Baldies at the start, there are *lots* of Hairies,
* the Baldies breed *awfully* slowly compared to what Hairies accomplish during that time,
* you have no houses, the Baldies have about 6, including level 3 living house and barracks (so blocking growth of enemy houses has no effect, since he already has quite good living house),
* having barracks, Hairies can shoot you, while you can fight only with bare hands,
* the Hairies are very energetic on this level, continously building new houses, then upgrading them to maximum level (this is good to some extent, since it partly turns Hairies' attention away from attacking the meagre 10 Baldies, however, there still are quite enough Hairies not allowing the Baldie count to reach more than about 14 at any moment),
* even if you survive building one or two additional houses (to the living house without which you end quickly and miserably), about when you start having some hope of staging an attack or having the third/fourth house, or having as much as 30 Baldies in the next 5 minutes, the enemy gets grenades and finishes you off quickly.

Of course, I've tried lots of ways to help the Baldies:
* trying to warp Baldies into this level from earlier ones (no success),
* building first a decoy house, so Hairies spend some time attacking it instead of my real living house which I build as the second one (try to save the decoy house builder before enemy takes the house, you will need every Baldie),
* bringing a "burn" invention from the previous level (can kill only 1 Hairy though),
* using piranhas to kill Hairies (only 3 skunks; Hairies breed and recover quickly),
* trying to get the rabbit invention as quickly as possible (but you need to start breeding before that in a living house, or you'll be killed off before finishing invention; and by the time you get it, you typically have only about 3-5 red Baldies, so the increased breeding rate is just enough to fend off the Hairies until they get grenades),
* building barracks (about the time you build one and have bullets, the Hairies get grenades...).

Has anyone passed this level? If so, HOW did you do it?

Perhaps someone has worked out some other tactical idea when fighting with very few Baldies against lots of and strong Baldies. On other levels, where there were not SO few Baldies, the following tactics helped:
* if enemy invents grenades, keep considerable amount of soldiers (being able to shoot) in the front of your breeding house(s), not to let Hairies do considerable damage to your breeding,
* build 2 barracks quickly to have grenades yourself,
* attack with grenades Hairies' living house(s). Even 1 attacking soldier sometimes is good if you don't let him enter the house: he may throw enough grenades to keep Hairies inside house, until you breed and build up enough to stage a real attack.

:ok: ahh, dont worry, i got it, quite a struggle too! then i cleared the next 3 maps and stopped

Well, I did manage to win the last two Desert World levels, with half-cheating: I just discovered that there is another save option (in addition to remembering the maps you've finished in the slots visible at startup): press Alt, and you get a Windows-menu, there is File->Save/Load where you can save within level. So, with saving often (very often) and restoring whenever the Hairies made a decision Baldies wouldn't like (e.g. attacking a useful house instead of just a decoy house with 1 Baldy inside, created exactly for getting attacked). Still, it took long time. I believe, without this cheating I'd have to spend some half-year before the probabilistic decisions of Hairies would turn out so lucky that the Baldies would have chance to build up so that they can stage a real fight. So, if anyone finds an effective strategy how this level can be won in a logical way, I'd still appreciate that.

By the way, only this late I discovered the law about grenades: I thought that you get them when the green bar raises high enough, but, here, I got it to maximum, but still no grenades. It turned out that you get grenades if you have the maximum-size barracks. So, better build one big barracks than four small ones (grenades being the most effective way to fight enemy houses, especially with high breeding rate, if you cannot afford to lose >= 1 Baldy for 1 Hairy).

And this is why the helicopter rocks: it is (nearly) invulnareble, fast, and You controll it.

p.s.: I thanx remembering me the fake-house strategy. I will try it out.

Please if ANYone beats higher than me send the save-game file to me to this adress: twillight AT freemail DOT hu

I'm just on the 3-4th level of the 3th world (Europe), and I have too little time for this nowdays.

Edit by Reup: never put your email in plain-text in a forum post.

I'm pretty curious about this game. Can't download it though. Did the developers force you to remove it from here or something? :(

It's still being sold. We try to avoid trouble, so we don't host it anymore. Mind you, the status of the game might change in the future, after which we will host it again :)

I'm sorry. But hope everyone can send me still (through the contact form).

Hi
New to forum, :)
I brought the game for my grandson when he was much younger and now he is older he has asked me if I can find it for it again because he would like to play it again, nostalgic I guess LOL
The problem is I cant seem to find anywhere I can buy it from safely using my credit card.
I would appreciate any help or advice from some kind soul here :)

You can try to find the game in a local shop, or you can try to find in the Ebay. :cheers:

why do you think the advisor guy says "you need a barracks so yoursoldiers canmakegrenades"?


aggh!dang spacebar is screwing upagain. i gotta practically punch it to get a space in.

Already tried Ebay first up, no luck, and yeah right the corner store LOL theyr sure to have it LOL why didnt I think of that LOL
Thanks for those helpful suggestions!
I actually still have the cd but it has too many small scratches on it so I am going to try
and find one of those disc repair programs, might be lucky!
Emailed you Twilight, did you recieve my reply?
If the contact form here is not delivering your messages email me at YOU_CANNOT_POST_EMAILS@ITS_IN.THE_RULES.

heres an almost flawless strategy. placearocknext to your enemies' buildings, perferab;ly when they are still lvl 1 houses. itl really slowthemdown alot!

I was searching in the net and i find the problem, the game it is selling it tho playstation, and not pc, to pc this game belong to Abandonware, so the Admi, have to decide if this game, wil be avaiable again, or not. THis has been a great mess, because like i said before, the game is avaiable to buy is only to Playstation. :cheers:

Twilight go Here and you might be able to find something of interest in the blog or anyone else interested to get to the 2nd last level of hell(last world)
Heres my msn space
http://spaces.msn.com/sreex/
:ok: :Titan:

Someone really get to the last but one level - or finished the game entirely. At least he send me a file, what reached that level.

But about my "walthrough". For this last level it was really an adventege the build-your cheapest-house-just near the enemies-than leave it immediatley. Then I sunked them, then I placed more houses beside the new ones, then invented the heli, built 2 barrack - so I had unlimited ammo and finished the level in less than 5 minutes! :w00t: That was awesome! I really hope the C. never get this invention.

On level 41 again the "put there a house" strategy is very paying, especially that the C. won't try to capture that building immediately. So we can have a spare house there, what will be useful when we wait for the shovel or the wings icon to appear. Very easy level if you ask me. :cheers:

Level 42: Here will be two enemies, but strangely they try to cut each others thorat, not yours. So turn blue, build a house next to the blue, escape the carpenter, build a house next to the grey player, than see if the C. still try to capture any of your houses. If not let the house ruined, but not collapsed! Wtih this if he decides to capture it and you haven't the ammo to defend it, it will release enemie units much later.
Than build heli (withthe 2 barracks) and bomb everything into the ground.

Oh, if you use the build to slow down the C. strategy it is advised run the game slow :yawn:

Level 43: easy. 1 enemy, small place, many skunks. Just do not let it evolve. :Titan:

It seems I mad somewhere a mistake in numbering the 3th world, but what the heck. So here comes the 43th levels description.
There will be 2 enemy, and both will strike agains You. You can not believe how I hate to fight against more than one opponent...
So PLAY THE GAME SLOWEST, and keep an eye out observing where the C. builts, as it can develop its buildings very fast. I made the mistake once letting out the controll and I had to fight very hardly :wall: .
But here is the perfect GUIDE: turn immediately everyone blue. Bulid a fake house next to the blues( :D ) then the greys. Then keep them buisy with other houses. As the C. don't immediately attack these houses and there will be a lot of them, so just build them, turn the carpenter to a soldier for maximum effectiveness (the houses won't collapse, just being ruined).
What You should bulid: a maximum red house and a helipad, than a science lab to incrise further your birth rate (with the rabbit - and to invent the heli faster.
Than to use the heli for the basics you will need the two barracks. If the C. is out of controll you will need a third too. Beware, and do not let anyway the C. build grenades (L2 green).
In the end bomb thm to the ground. If there are a lot of enemy building than bomb and capture them systematicaly (in sectors, do not care on the sizes).
It is important, that you do not need to conquer these buildings, just capture them. Put in 2 soldiers, and you won't lose them.
So that's about it. We are over the half of the game!

woah!full ESA! canteven buy it now:O!

Live with that.

Two more level and a bonusz!
On level 44 just use the fake house strategy, than do finish the rest however you want. Wether you prefer mass paga, bombing with the helicopter, or even just capturing houses with winged soldiers they will all work on this level, as there are only 1 enemy group.

Here comes the next bonus level: there are 6 rocks and 9 baldie around. The time her will always be enough. The problem is: the place of the warp is random, and you have only 3 bomb. Wouldn't be fun maximising your chanes? So drop down 1(!) bomb, blow it with one other baldie (still this tmie you lost a scientist and another) then rescue everyone else (7 more). If the warp isn't there just quit and start again. This was the first time I thought I won something from the bonus levels, so I strongly advise doing this.
The only drawback is that there are no skunk on this level to help You out.

Level 45 is an easy level, IF you are fast enough. First thing to slow down the game as the bonus level incrised the in-game speed. Then turn to blue. Well, as You will see ther is absolutly no place to build where you start this level. So first do fake houses, than when it is time build near them a real one, and expand to the maximum. For this level you won't need any more houses.

Level 46:
That was tiresome. So, you will have to use the fake house strategy, but not just that.
First turn to blue. You start with a RL1, but only 2 red inside, and you need the birth rate. So put in 3 more men and turn them red. Then IMMEDIATELY start building the fake houses. There will be skunks and you'd better care on your on, but that's just not possible. Keep bulding until you are SURE the C. won't build more.
THAN leave outside (on an island) 2 blue, and all the others should go in. Advence slowly: keep a balance between the house's size and the red baldies. Is suggest have 10 unit as basic, than give +5 after all expansion. Build to the maximum.
During the dead time use as many skunks as possible to neutralise the outside-enemies' threat. Strangely I found skunks again and again on this map, so I think they are repleaced after a certain amount of time.
If you feel build a lab for the rabbit invention. It will ease your life.
In the end just capture all house manualy.
advenced soldiers: keep 1 soldier in each house as you will have very few men for the start, and put one more in the actual house the C. trying to attack. This way you can keep these houses too, what helps you with the shovel/wings icons, lowers the enemy birth rate and makes you need less unit.

The next 2 levels are very simlar and easy :brain:
Uniquly you have the adventages of the better terrain, both of you have the same number of units, and there are only 1 opponent.
Although on the 48th ther will be no skunks (and interesstingly it is a small map instead of the expected large). But if you carried some flame-invention from the 47th the rest soldiers will be easy to eliminate.

L49: The only real difference here ... L47-8 is, that your starting place is not acceptable, and a WARP is on this level.

yeah a :max: game played it a few years back yeah its like the moden day settlers it so :max: i love it :kosta:

Level 50:
Hard time we get.
First place 1-2 fake houses, then the C. will build only barracks (good time for in-game save). It will also build a lab, and invent on skunks, so try faster.
You have very few baldies around, so firstly you won't be able to keep the fake-houses. The barracks won't mean any hamr as they never grew to make grenades.
Buildings: Firstly build a helipad. Than a lab, and reserch as many rabbit as possible. Overwatch the whole level for animals preventing the C.'s inveting. You also will need a barrack.
For this level the speed suggested for minimum or one above.
So, build the red house than the lab, than the barrack, and then fill them in that order.
Under this time invent rabbits and the heli, nothing other. Have the spare-units too on a safe island if you forget (1-3 scientist for the inventions, 2-3 carpenter for emergency fake-houses and 3-5 red for the special icons).
If you made this far start a castle in the C.'s continent, and start bombing around. Start to capture the barracks as they will give you more useful energy if captured. This way you will be victorious. :ph34r:

How many did you need to complete to finish the game? you just beat me....

There are 85 level, and 2 bonus level to each world (maybe 1 for the Hell), and 2 bonus map. Why? Do I botherr you? :huh:

And one thing I forgot to mention for the last: the C. turned suicid, and its last man walked right through my door, so I missed the warp, but I could - fortunately - reload.

I made the last level on the European Worls :brain:
It looke hopeless as the C. had 70 unit and the player only 10. But just build as on the previous level, and when the C. drops around a lot of inventions (for me it was 2 minefield) just start a new one.
Dangers: we are far away from the C., have very small territory (enough for 2 castle and a lab, don't worry too much), and if the C. builds a red house you are almost lost. A RL1 iwould be not much of a problem, but more... Well, just keep an eye open, and build fake houses around. :titan:

Then comes a bonus level. This one is interresting: there is only 1 blue unit on the map, who needs to be guided to the warp. You have a lot of time for it, so you can do it for the first time. The reward offered for it is 8 extra unit! :ok:

I peeked on the desert level, so I tell You how it looks.

tree: palm
rock: pyramid-brick
earth-shark: the worm from Dune, but when it moves looks like a classic life-saving belt (red&white)
indifferent house: tent
lab: alchemist lab (a house with a potion)
barrack: well, it's roof is somewhat brown and rocky. The L2 version gets a tower with it.
breeding houses: L1: the roof looks like a giant snake
L2: a stone house from the middle-east
L3: pyramid
L4: a 20th century blackglass pyramidhotel with two palm before it

enemies: looks like they wears the same coat as in the snow-world, but on closer examination they are wearing an egyptian pharaomask.

and for building: seems they won't exoand too much, so you could build a castle first, than do what you want. :w00t:

Just 1 thing this time: in this world the helicopter turned to a jet. It is good, since it has no rotor, so you can grab it with your bare hand too :max:

L53: not much difference from the previous level, just we have a little fewer unit. I just like to avoid the possibility the C. could adapt to my technic, so I built 1 fake house than captured the houses one-by-one with winged soldiers.
L54: this is a minigame. Do you remember those? If no read it again: Get skunks as fast as possible, and kill, what moves. Try the largest group around. helpful thing: you get free killing, if you build a house and there are enemies around they will be disappear when it builded up. Well, if noone goes freely capture the enemy house with your units as sodiers.
Here I think how the WARPS can be used: U have to put in (red?) baldies one-by-one manualy (literally: use your bare hand).
We are over the 2/3!
L55: again a minigame, but this one is harder. First be fast, and turn everyone blue (you are scattered!). Than drop a sunk on 'em. Than you should have the time to build a fake-house. If not start this map again. Skunk everyone. Unload all of your houses and capture the enemy's. Some unit might be on a tree - if the winning title doesn't come up.
L56: same as the previous.
L57: again the same. And you have a barrack at the start.
L58: 3 enemies, but nothing really special. Build a castle, then a helipad, then whatever you need to capture the enemy houses. Needs constant overwatch.

One last thing today: on the (last) level do not let anyone else manufacturing grenades.

Ok, I had some more time: On the next level will be one enemy, what has a slight adventage - well, after a lot of skunk. Sorry, but you won't be able to capture them without a real fight, but you can build whatever you want, and can win the way you like.

Then a bonus level comes. You get a jet, and needs to bomb the houses.
Here the difficulties and some tips:
- only the number of bombed houses counts, and the bigger ones are downside
- there are red flagged houses, what you can also bomb, but as those are yours means penalty on the reachable bonus
- every building worse 1 bomb
- you do not have enough time to bomb everything (well without a CPU-killer)
- on the start time is pasued as always on bonus levels, but you can move the cursor. Move it on the plane THEN click to start. You immediately grabbed the plane, sparing valuable seconds.

The next level's easiest solution is to combine the fake-house strategy with the sunks strategy. Have fun!

L61: 2 enemies. Turn to blue and put some unit in the house you get for the basic - for expand, birth rate and defend). Put a fake-house next to the blue one - with this he is out of game (will build a barrack, so he won't have the birth rate. The other is harder: they build their house in a very defended position, where we can not build. But soon we will be able, so be patient. Under that time put your baldies ion the southwest island for safety. Then use the skunks and play.
L62: 1 enemy, 0 skunk, minimal unit and map. Noting interresting.
L63: minigame
L64: the map is full of trees, and the C. likes that. So find out something else. Build small houses constantly on the enemy units head. This means free killing. Then let some house collapse and build, because here is again a WARP, what looks like a round rock, above the ground. The WARP itself looks like an eye!
We are over the 75%!
L65: little small map, but nothing special, really. Do not forget to use the 1 skunk around! And keep on a safe island some units producing energy.
L66: DANGER! You have very few unit, so needs very careful micromanagement. I only had 2 red in the end in the starting house. Than I fastened the time, and letted grow. This gave success.

:sos: If ANYone has ANY idea how to solve the next level, what look like a Pharao mask - it is the last but one level of the Desert World I would be VERY greatful.
I have NO idea what to do against 5 enemy house with only 10 baldies around :blink:
:sos: :sos: :sos:

I love this game ^.^
I played a demo of it when I was younger....Errm, is there a way for me to download it?
It seems like people used to be able to.... :huh:

Used to be able to. Are not able to anymore.
If you click on the icon that replaced the download icon, you will find out why.

Here was 143 posts. Why have you delete one - after such a long time it couldn't be a sitelaw-break post?

Anyway: noone can help me with that map? :sos:

It was a doublepost, plain and simple.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(little fish @ Sep 6 2005, 10:23 AM) [snapback]151909[/snapback]</div>Please, sent to me this game! I try to find at 2 years! And then it not downlowd. muck.
For windows XP...

Please! SENT BALDIES to me!

Do yourself a favor.
Read this.

Pay particular attention to the first line:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>In other words:
No download.
No sending the game in email.
It doesn't matter how much begging, screaming or threatening you do, there is no way you're getting the game except for buying a legit copy.

God! TFH, my ears are ringing like a glockenspiel after that salvo LOL

So does my keyboard. Sometimes, however, there is no other way to get them to understand.

Okay, so where can we get the game then? The only results I found on Amazon and eBay were for Atari or PS.

This game is still protected by the copyright owner.

Therefore we cannot:
1. put it up for download on Abandonia
2. provide you with links to any source of download
3. send you the archive through e-mail or any messenger programs

So please don't ask for it.

I have a disk of skull caps. But when I play it in just closes it when I choose to play a level. anyone help me with this. I'm on xp

Is that one Windows or DOS version?
Did you try using Compatibility Modes?
Did you try using DosBox?
Did you try using VDMSound?

Windows i'm guessing, it used to work on my old windows 98. Not used it since then.

Sorry but the rest has gone straight over my head.

Here's fun hint in the game, there is a cheat somewhere that allows you to spawn baldies at the press of a button. They spawn from your hand like a fountain. Its great fun to rain baldie death down on your opponenets, but then you are stuck with 200 little guys running around.

Right-click the executable. Go to [PROPERTIES]-->[COMPATIBILITY]. Select Windows 98, you might want to check the "Run in 640x480" and "Run in 256 colors" boxes.

The cheat-button is F8, but doesn't work for all versions. An' I still can't beat that stupid level. I'm stuck. HELP, if you can!

Hi there, I loved this game way back when and I actually bought it but I've since lost my CD for it. It's still installed on my computer though. Is there anyway to play it without the CD with only the installed files :sos: ?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lumen Aeternus @ Jun 4 2007, 09:52 PM) [snapback]292927[/snapback]</div>
Disregard the above, I've got it working. However the music doesn't seem to be working (although others sounds do), why is that?

could be cause music files were on the cd which supposed to be in drive to play music. (hybrid data with audio cd)

or it could just be that you have warezed ripped version somewhere :bleh:

I am having the same problem as 5 or 6 others here. I cant seem to open or view any of my houses that i built. If it matters, Im running it on xp.

Koss

if there s a setup or install.exe or anything like this and you will find an 'adlib' option in 'music' menu, pick it. i cant realy say since i dont have the game and its esa protected

but like i said, could be just ripped version, depending on where did you download the game

beginner
 

I like this classic game , but how can i download this game ? thank you. :drool:

beinner
 

just read the FAQ , it is a ESA Protected , but anyone can tell me where can I download or buy it online ? such as ebay ??:omg:

If it's ESA protected, we can't tell you where to download it. (it would get us in just as much trouble as offering it for download ourselves)

Unfortunately, the only copies still for sale are of the Playstation version.

okok , thank's for your help The Fifth Horseman ..:thumbs:

Anyone looking for baldies
 

*no*
*read rules*

Hey, I downloaded this like a year ago back when it was still available on the website, and still have it on my computer.

The problem is I could never run it. When the game plays it moves maybe twice as fast as it should. When I switch the in-game resolution, it runs at a normal speed, but my vision is so magnified to the field that its almost unplayable anyway. Properties->Compatibility and CPU slowdown never worked, and I was wondering if you guys had an answer.

Also, oddly enough, the Baldies demo ran fine.

Is this the full game? With Music, Videos and that? I do have the Full Game on CD i brought for £2 whilst this was protected!
So if it isn't the full game, and just a CD-rip, i could make a ISO if possible, and maybe upload that, if Abandonia takes ISOs!

sure! we'd love that iso!

abandonia takes isos and puts them into "iso cellar" accessed for people who drop by once in a while. but you need a registered name so the forum will recognize you. did you register?

Yeah i have, i might need some sorta of software to rip the whole game to a Virtual Disc Image i might!

I can't open houses! I click on them and nothing happens

^ Did you try both mouse 1&2 aka Left'n'Right?!?

yeazzum I did sir

Okay, I checked several pages and saw no solution - how do you make this game stop running so fast? DOS Box doesn't work so I don't know htf that is working for anyone - it says "This program is for Windows 95" or something if I try to launch the setup or exe in DOS Box. Compatability mode in XP won't slow it down either. I tried to use that CPU Killer program but it's useless junk that just locks up when I try to use it and doesn't do anything. The game is unplayable to me because it's just TOO FAST. The character's motions are moving lightning quick. I remember this game as a kid and would love to play it but I can't play it like this. Anyone have a legitimate and helpful answer to fix it?

You can find this by typing "slow computer down for old games -cpukiller" into google:

http://moslo.info/moslo.asp
(as recommended by Apogee)

Get the Windows one. In dosbox you can just change cpu cycles.
It's better than cpukiller, imo, though I've never had that lock up.
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but i don't see the problem with running this in dosbox...

When I try to launch in DOS Box it tells me it's a Windows 95 thing and never opens. That's the problem. Unless there's a way to trick DOS Box into thinking it's not a Win 95 program - it won't launch it. I'll give that a try and hopefully it works.

Humm, well not to double post but the program looks to be DOS based only and uhh, the game won't work in DOS. The game runs fine in Windows it just runs too fast. I need a Windows based slow down method that works, DOS Box will not launch the game. Here is the screen capture of the error it gives when I try to launch it:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/667/baldie.png

So what can I do?

Okay.That's why it doesn't work in Dosbox, then :p
I haven't downloaded the game yet - not my thing, really.

Dude... you need to organise yr games better.
That must be a real pain in the arse to have to type the path in everytime cd progfil~1\baldie~1\baldie~1.

You know, if you put all yr old games directories into one folder (like c:\games) then you can just put a line in dosbox's startup.
> mount c c:\games [or whatever directory you choose. user\desktop\freegames eg)
> c:
> dir/p or /w
and you've got all yr games in one directory change. You could make the folder names shorter, too, as dos doesn't recognise long file names and it's annoying to have to type ~1 all the time.

You could try downloading the windows software from the link I gave you:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/sho...&postcount=176

It'll slow down yr computer to the speed you want it.

If yr running this from windows desktop, you can also right click - properties and choose the Compatibility mode.
Maybe running it in Win95 mode may help.

Never makes a difference for me, tho...
[ed]
FREEgames are the shit ones you get on Facebook.
CLASSIC and OLD games are good. :D

I did, it told me it only works with DOS based programs and not Windows programs. When you open Moslo it just opens a terminal and then says press any key to exit - like you're supposed to run it from DOS. But it says it doesn't work well with NT based emulators in NT, W2k, and XP. So I have no idea how that would work.

*sigh* I need to just build me an old gaming rig for these old games and save the hassle of this stupid emulation crap that doesn't ever work right or the incompatability issues with newer versions of Windows. Been on my to-do list for awhile now. Ironically, it will be far more difficult to build an old gaming machine than a current one...

Mo'slo has a windows interface and slows down both Dos and Windows programmes...
It has *four* ways of slowing the programmes and a choice of slowing everything or just one application/game, leaving the rest of the processes running normally.

So long as you have an intel-based CPU, it should work fine.
Pure NT OS is kinda not relevant. I trained in that and that was ages ago; it's not officially supported any more. Like Dos.

There's no need to slow down yr computer when using an emulator, as any emulator worth its salt will have some kind of mechanism for doing that built-in.
And, as a general rule, if the game needs slowing in windows you'll probably have other bugs to contend with too.
I try to avoid them.

If it's Mo'Slo's price-tag that's putting you off - you don't have to pay for software if you look hard enough in the right places.
Using some software as a trial is okay in my books. So long as, after a suitable trial period, if you continue to use the software: Buy a copy to say "thanks" to the developers.

[ed]
Don't ask for pirate material here - we don't do that kinda thing.
We're not a torrent site.
hint hint.

And dude - I recently built a PC from old parts and it is more hassle to play these games on that machine than it is in Dosbox.

Dosbox is more stable, too.

It's nice for nostalgia's sake, to put together all the old bits and pieces - like they used to fit, in the old days. Maybe explore Dos again, in all it's device driver and 4gw error glory.
Relive screaming when you finally get a game to work and it crashes on the .flv intro because of a sound conflict.

Apart from that, I prefer my normal PC or laptop.
Or Mac.

How in the shit am I supposed to play a game that is WINDOWS based in DOS. They're not compatible! And I installed Moslo basic - I am not stealing any software to make this work. What the hell emulator would I be using? I'm using XP.

God, it's like asking for tech support in a damned Linux forum...god help you if you don't know everything. Not that I'd know first hand but I've seen how they do - I'm strictly a PC person and wouldn't ever change that.

Chill out man.

Am I not being clear enough here..? I thought I was.
let me remove that first line and you can read our chat again.

The Mo'Slo you downloaded, if you didn't get the full version, is for Dos ONLY.
In order to use it for Windows (it is fully compatible with XP and you can set it up so it only slows Baldies down, leaving the rest of windows' functions running normally) you need the full Windows version - that version also works for Dos, but there's no need as Dosbox etc... have ways of slowing yr pc down built-in.

To use it in XP for this game, you'll have to acquire the full version.

I think it's a bit strange that you will download Abandonware (semi-legit piracy) and put them in "Freegames" and then say you don't want to use certain software.
If you really have a problem with using software you haven't paid for that you should pay for, I recommend trying out some equally amazing games from our sister site, Reloaded:

www.reloaded.org

There are loads of games for windows there that surpass Baldies in their supreme rulingness.
And they are ALL freeware, which means you're not stealing them.

[ed]
You would never get this level of communication in a linux forum, about a game, matey :p

Hmm, well bother that then. This website has games that are free gain because no one sells them anymore. It's not piracy if no one is selling it and you're not stealing money from someone who is trying to make money on it. I abhor and detest piracy as it is the bane of PC gaming and hurts our industry and in no way support any such measures. I legitimately own all the copies of my games, in fact some of the games I've downloaded here are games I bought and long lost the disc to entitling me to a right to play the games.

Telling someone to just "play some other game" that is "better" than Baldies is not the same. This is the game I remember playing the demo of as a kid. I don't even remember much about it but I'd like to revisit it now that I could actually understand what's going on about it. Except this time to be stopped with stupid BS just plain up not working correctly.

Is there anyone who just installed this game and had no problems with it playing too fast? I mean maybe someone with a Pentium III running XP could play it but certainly not on any fast gaming PC (I play Crysis near maxed out at a smooth 35 fps so these games running too fast makes sense on this machine).

But anyway, I'm not buying Moslo to use for some old games. I remember when I upgraded my old computer years ago as a kid to an MMX processor and it was so fast I had to run SloMo to play Duke Nukem 3D...oh well.

Try CPU Grabber if you absolutely want to play those games on modern hardware.

BTW: (I play Crysis near maxed out at a smooth 35 fps so ......)
I've seen much better, hardly a real fast PC you have...... :whistling:

Oh right, and these machines I'm sure were also running at 2560 x 1600...my computer is better than 95% of those out there. Just because you can play it at 50 fps on a 1280 x 720 monitor with the settings turned down to low doesn't mean shit. The only option I turned down was AA (The 16x Q kept doing something stupid ever so often so I put it on regular 16x AA) and I never dip BELOW 35 FPS (It hovers around 45-55 FPS). But I'm sure the fact you play DOS games has nothing to do with your computer's inadequacy to play the latest games at a reasonable resolution or speed...LOL. But don't worry you can always play WoW...my laptop with an integrated Intel video card could play that so I'm sure your computer can.

Either I am missing something or you are being unnecessary rude in your lasts posts. Calm down, there is no need for that attitude here. The people here are all volunteering to help you and they are not being a jerk about that.

Also, have you read the whole thread? In the first couple of pages there are a couple of users with your same problem. Have you tried these solutions?

Solution #1
Solution #2

Also, abandonware is a grey area. It's not as easy as "it's abandoned, so it's not piracy", if it were like that, we wouldn't have all these "ESA Protected" games around here... so before going all self-righteous on someone else, try to learn the facts.

Ans about the suggestion of our sister site Abandonia Reloaded wasn't proposed as a solution, but as a suggestion about a site that has games that are free, so you have another site where you can download games without violating the law and "attacking our industry".

And please, we don't know everything nor we are forced to. So if a suggestion wasn't useful to you, thank the intention and do not attack the other user: they went out of their way to help you without asking nothing in return, so please at least respect that.

Not to throw some flame bait out here, but in fact Shintsu's last post made me laugh out loud, he's kinda funny. LOL

stuck on lvl 10
 

you know, that one that looks like england at the top? i keep getting steamrollered by all the hairys :(

:wall:

Anyone know how to get past that one? ty :3:

You mean the map what look like Europe? That is actually the 16's map, not including the bonus map.
To win build first nothing, but a red house, as big as possible (with each and every baldies inside).
After that on the left there is an island: build there a barrack. Then north from your big red house (level 4 house) build a scientist lab (invent rabbits mostly). Then build a new red house beyond the little stone-arch.

This is what worked me. And yes, that level was the first what made me think too.



Oh, and if anyone knows how to solve the map that looks like a pharao-mask (last-but-one map of the 4th world) please help me out. I'm still stucked.:sos:

"I NEVER dip below 35FPS!"

lulz.
Try running a dedicated server for Left 4 Dead 1 and playing Left 4 Dead 2 on the same machine and see if that's still true.

I think they would've been less offended if you'd've said they had an ugly baby, Dos :/

Not bad, but it didn't hold my attention for long.
Music is quite nice and baldies are cute.
Game mechanics need a little familiarizing, but than its ok.
This is similar to Settlers, and I'm not playing that because it would take presious time from playing my beloved Cultures when I feel like playing this kind of games so there will be no "mercy" for Baldies either.
^_^

Is anyone here still playing baldies?

Bump?

i guess not anyone who checks this topic

i actually tried demo on some old cd full of shareware, but it was all weird and i quit

I do check this thread occasionally, but I'm still stucked in the level I last played, so I only play on the extra maps.

can anybody help me? i load baldies up, and it just crashes straight to the desktop i get to see a loading screen for about a second, some bald dude sat in a chair. then it goes off

ive tryed to run it in different compatability modes and other various things but nothing seems to work anybody got a solution?

running windows 7 so might be that ><

Thanks any help is appreciated x

Compatibility to Windows 95, run at 640x480 and run in 256 colors. Either that combination does the trick, or you need to use a virtual machine.

still nothing, it works on my mates XP laptop yet its not working on mine.

mabye this virtual machine might work not sure how to do that like but thanks for pointing me in a direction :) x

Get a copy of Microsoft Virtual PC. Not very spectuacular, but easy to use and beginner-friendly. You'll also need a Windows 95 (or 98) install disc to set up an operating system on the VM.

I thought that Baldies was a DOS game?

I'd try DOSBox. It does work in Windows 7, right?

That's the odd thing. According to our entry and this thread, the copy we have is for Windows?

There is a dosversion and a windows version of Baldies.
If I remember swell:
-Dosversion is dos only.
-Windows version is Windows with dosversion included. (Same as Rayman Gold)

However, most rips of the winversion don't include the dosversion, contrary to the original.

going to try the dosbox again i will let you know if it works, im pretty sure it should work. but if i find any problems il let you know

thanks again =]

The version of this is not compatible with the version of windows you're running.
Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or a x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher

that comes up when i try to use the DOSbox and then run the game? it is a different game i have tryed but its a old game still il try it on baldies but whether it works im not sure.

If that shows up, you're not running it in DOSBox. It sounds like you're starting DOSBox and then trying to start the game from Windows?

now 100% how to work DOSbox, i go back into the folder and try and open it with DOSbox running in background?

or do i have to set up dosbox so that actually opens the file?

Definitively not a dosbox error message.
Means you're on Win7 64.
To set up dosbox correctly in win7 read and apply:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=22241
Put your baldies folder in \oldgames\ , run dosbox and do a
cd baldies
work from there.

If you get the typical dosbox error 'this is a windows executable' VPC/W9x will be your solution. ( I know for a fact that baldies win version runs fine in VPC2007/W98SE).

You could try WinXP mode for Win7, but I doubt it will run as WinXP mode doesn't like lower screen res, and if I remember swell baldies needs 640x480.

i have done all the DOSbox stuff and now after ive used cd baldies

i has come up with C:\BALDIES>

and thats all it says do i have to do something else now?

i have no idea how to use DOSbox so if theres something i have to do to enable it to work,

got this far ;) lets go all the way x

Type in:
dir *.exe
dir *.com
dir *.bat
See the filenames they return. Try running some of them.

You do. That's how it works. :)

I'd definitely try Baldies.bat or baldies.exe...

If you don't know which file to use, you can also surf in your Windows workstation and look at the file names there. (That's if you have file extention options turned on, of course. Why they even removed that is beyond stupid...)

Yes the version hosted here is indeed the windows 95 one. The DOS parts have either been removed from the .zip or the game didn't come with it. DOSbox won't run it unfortunately and windows 7 won't run it no matter what kind of compatability options you turn on. Your best bet if your running windows 7 (I don't know about 32 bit i only have 64 bit) is to try and find the DOS version elsewhere and get dosbox to run it. That's what i'm currently doing

Ok yeah i see what the ripper did. After reading the readme txt it looks like the game cd comes with the DOS version but for some reason whoever ripped the image removed that part before zipping it. Sooo unless someone else has done the same thing for some ridiculous reason another download should have it

in my baldies folder i have 3-4 files

"baldies.exe"
"baldiesnet.exe"
"baldies.bal"
"DDERR.OUT"

are these the ones that work with dosbox?

tryed using baldie.exe in dosbox and it says

"this is a windows NT windowed executable"

What am i doing wrong?

You are right, I have just downloaded the archive and it is the Windows version. I find strange that we don't have the DOS version on site since I clearly remember playing Baldies on my DOS 386 when I was young.

You won't be able to run this game on DOSBox. You need to use an emulator... Or send steam toward Micro$oft for stripping down compatibility for their new products...

what sort of emulator will i need? i also had a game called diggles rekon that will work on DOSbox?

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DOSBox is a DOS emulator. It will work for any old game which wasn't specifically made to run under Windows. I.e.: DOS. :p

If you need help running DOS games under DOSBox then don't be afraid to post in Troubleshooting. I'm there for that.

Edit: I did some tests and the game work very well on my 98 machine. For those who have a speed problem, strangely reducing the resolution to the lowest setting slow down the game. You can find that option under the podium icon in the options.

I'll look into the possibility of replacing this archive with one that contains the DOS executables.

i have tryed 2 old games, my baldies clearly is the windows version or something so it appears it wont work on DOS, but the other one called "diggles"
keeps saying "this program cannot be run in DOS mode" and the baldies says something about a NT windowed

il keep poking about with it see if i can get it too work :)

64 bits versions of Windows (Vista 64 and Windows 7 64) simply cannot run 16 bits applications and programs with a vanilla install. No downward compatibility. That's why you keep having the NT error or whatever...

Pls, if you reach the Pharao's mask, send a sign to me! I'm still stuck there.

Still need help with that level. I simply have too little baldies, while the computer starts with too many, and the warping seems not to work anywhere.

And there is nowhere a hintbook :( Darn, I'd might go for an official one if it exist!

I've finally got this game working on win7 via vmware winXP guest. I had tried pretty much every other option before this combination (except building retro-pc for gaming).

But now I've got this same problem as the few others in this thread; I can't click on my own structures. Have anyone yet find the solution to this problem?
I've tried to re-install the game several times and download it again from this site and some other site too in that hope that it would be some other version of Baldies, because the dir-file size was a bit different, but I can't be sure on that. Would be nice to play the game instead of just watching the baldies run around.

Here are some problems I discovered when I was struggling to get this game to work:

This version of the Baldies avaible to download in this site is the Windows version of the game, which was mentioned in some earlier posts, so don't bother to try run it in Dosbox. And the DOS version is rather impossible to find anywhere.

Virtual PC and Virtualbox didn't work for me of the following reasons:

Windows 95 and 98 are not supported by either one of those programs, at least not fully, which meant that I couldn't install the guest additions, so the option to create shared folder between the guest and host OS was disabled and so were the other ways to transfer the game files in to the guest system.
WinXP in Virtualbox worked fine until I started the game. Virtualbox has this feature that it won't allow any program to change the screen resolution, so when I started the game error message appears and the game screen just went black. Adjusting the screen resolution before launching the game didn't help, same thing no matter what.
WinXP in Virtual PC I did finally succeed to get the game running fine, except the game was running way too fast and the mouse was acting really strange apart from the fast running. And again, adjusting the computer settings and trying those system/program slowing down softwares (SpeedGear, Mo'Slo) didn't help.
I tried the Windows2000 in these both, VPC and Vbox, but I can't remember what the problem there was... But I can assure you, there was one.

So, now I have working combo with the MVware Workstation and guest XP. It slows my PC much more than those other ones, but hey, Baldies is working. Except that clicking issue, which I hope you can help me with.

Virtualbox indeed doesn't support 9x.
But W9x (pref:W98SE) is fully supported in W7 (32-64) VPC2007 and baldies runs fine in this combination.

[Edit] As said ....
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9770/baldies01.th.png
http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/2...ldies02.th.png

I just noticed that I might mixed up Vbox and VPC in my previous post... Anyhow, I have tried that combo what you suggest and the outcome is that error message about resolution changing when starting Baldies:

"Virtual PC has disabled live resolution switching.
The guest operating system has changed the resolution. Some programs require specific resolutions to run properly. In order to maintain compatibility, Virtual PC has disabled live resizing of the virtual machine window until the virtual machine restarts."

And after that error message my win89se displays black screen and frozes completely.

Set VPC desktop res 640x480 256 colores, after all it's a friggin'W95 game .....
Won't run in anything else.

[Edit]
Also: let the game installer install needed the 3D files.

Ok, I got the game working, but it's running really slow and when I quit the game and try to start it again there comes this error message:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/837/15461799.jpg/

And here is the error log, if that tells anything to somebody:

"BALDIES caused an invalid page fault in
module BALDIES.EXE at 0167:0040c368.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=0040c368 EFLGS=00010297
EBX=00000cac SS=016f ESP=0064f9c4 EBP=0064fa70
ECX=80006bb0 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=392f
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=004065b5 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 10 68 fc 14 46 00 e8 1f 4d ff ff 83 c4 04 e8
Stack dump:
00000cac 004068d9 bff7186d 89dc3927 00000000
30b789dc 00000000 00000202 00028a3a 00023caa
000016d7 01572737 30b70000 01572737 3d768a40 000416f7"

"BALDIES caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff9da1a.
Registers:
EAX=0064011c CS=0167 EIP=bff9da1a EFLGS=00090206
EBX=bff87fe9 SS=016f ESP=00640000 EBP=00640120
ECX=006400cc DS=016f ESI=00640228 FS=392f
EDX=00640140 ES=016f EDI=00640140 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
50 51 ff 75 08 8d 85 e0 fe ff ff 50 ff 75 0c e8
Stack dump:
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000"

But the problem with the clicking structures was gone. At least some improvement, though the game is still unplayable. And the problem I had with my mouse acting strange was fixed by taking off the pointer integration.

If you find the game too slow, then turn off the CPU-slowing programs, and turn up the speed on the ingame slider. Maybe that'll help.

I have no CPU-slowing programs on and the ingame slider is at it's highest. And it's rather laggy than slow and it's just the game that is lagging, all the other programs work lightning fast.

Try switching screen resolution in the in-game options.

It works on that smaller resolution, but it's like 300x300 or something, a bit too small if you ask me. Any ideas how to get it work on that normal resolution?

dosraider, you have that win98 running on your VPC? What kind of settings you have?

This game behave strangely with resolutions. On my machine, when I go from the higher to the lower resolution it actually slow the game down to a playable speed level.

This is an old DOS game made runnable in Windows. I remember playing the shareware DOS version a loooong time ago... Then the Windows version popped up and it was probably for Win 3.11 too. The game is probably using strange video settings for SVGA and VGA... Nothing much you can do about that I think.

At the very least you can get comfort in knowing that the lower resolution is the original native game resolution.

[Echo]
[/Echo].

I didn't mean the win98 settings, but the VPC setting for win98 (memory etc.). Probably they won't even matter. Guess I give up and start building that Pentium II.

Installing Win98 as backup operation system wouldn't work?

The memory barely matters. Just give it however much you can spare for VPC.

I have the DOS Version, all set and ready to go. I will upload it onto the FTP, where it will be available.

Setup notes: This one requires a little tinkering in dosbox, you'll probably want to create a directory to mount as C:, and then two directories in that, one with the data files (the "Disk") and one as an install directory. They have to be different directories.

EDIT: It appears the logon for uploading to FTP is changed since my last review... so PM me with those details too, if you want it. XD

Hey guys! Could someone tell me if the download link still works?

It asks me for donation. I am afraid after my donation, it gives me an invalid link...

For me the download starts BEFORE reaching the donation page.

I say finish the donation (Anabdonia thanks you), then click the "get it" button at the review again.

If you can't make it, you can ask a mod and downloaded it from the FTP, or ask me and I download and sen to you via email (if the attachmentsize is fit of course).

Donations don't help with download. They help with the site.

I agree that the donation page after the download link is misleading. Especially if the download fail to engage somehow.

Long time I think what Baldies released to PC in 1996, and first version was for Atary Jaguar.

But then I look more accurate to the archives downloaded from different sites I see next interesting thing:
1) Most files dated 1996(latest date - 10 October), but some files in ANIMS folder dated 08.06.1995.
2) One archives has DOS version only, another has Windows and DOS versions. Differences is noWin version.
3) The game has two demo-versions for DOS, which dated march and april 1995.

For checking, I looking Computer Gaming World and found next:
- First in price list in issue 129(April 1995) on page 76\78 as floppy I think - http://imageshack.us/a/img14/7488/ghv5.jpg

- In issue 130(May 1995) PC cd version in price list on page 86\88, and on page 121\123 no jaguar cd version of the game:
http://imageshack.us/a/img812/9387/q3pn.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img32/6875/r0l2.jpg

- In issue 131(June 1995) the game has first advertisment(page 53\55), and also no jaguar cd version(page 73\75):
http://imageshack.us/a/img23/774/kl8z.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img849/8098/dhb4.jpg

In General, bases on the information from up, I can say conclusion - Baldies is PC game, which released presumably in June 1995 for DOS in floppy and CD/ MAC and 3DO may release few later before the end of 1995. Over 1.5 years later the game was re-released as DOS and Windows 95 versions compilation, which was goes to the internet on many sites.

I dont sure, but I will very glad for providing this information - photos, scans, dumps of box, floppy(ies), cd and other stuff.

I have somehow played through many levels and now I am stucked in the penultimate level(map that looks like a mammoth or sth...) of the final world.

There are two teams of Hairies and each has two houses in the beginning (blue one even has a barrack of lv2!)

We only have about 20 baldies and no house...what worse, both of them start to attack you in one minute from the beginning of this map and I haven't seen a posibility that they attack each other!

Baldies help
 

When I click on the house nothing opens, right click left click.

This is only with the windows version. The dos version works great but it's such low quality I want to beat the game with the higher quality windows version.

I've tried multiple versions of the baldies windows game, re-installed it many times, and have tried it on different operating systems. I used virtual pc and virtual box.

I feel because this hasn't been answered, it either means it's an incredibly easy fix or it hasn't happened to enough people for it to really matter. either way if anyone can help I would appreciate it thanks.

Fix please
 

I have the DOS version... can only play levels 1 and 2... when I play level 3 I cant grab or select ANYTHING with the mouse... I play using DOSBOX 0.74... any help, tip, or fix please?

I have tried the windows version using VMware and windows 98 but it runs extremely fast and slow at the same time(unresponsive I guess).

Im more interested now on the DOS version since it works perfectly until I get to level 3..

please help

Just had the same troubles from the guy in the previous reply... I have to be honest with you, just made a huge searching through internet and the conclusions I got were the next:

1) This is first old game I have got so many problems trying to make it work perfectly... I have played other old games through DOSBOX and they don't really give almost any problem at all.

2) Making tests with DOSBOX, the game gets bugged in level 3 , you can't click anything, nothing to do, nothing to fix it through the few people who keep playing it on internet.

3) Windows 95 version isn't really playable through Virtual machine (specially windows XP) because you have to decrease resolution of the game itself making it really hard to see in monitor, game speed problems in menu, etc.

4) The best solution I got it was playing it on Play Station 1 emulator (I'm using ePSXe), you can search the emulator + rom through internet without any trouble.

I hope this can help anyone who tried to play this funny and pretty memorable game from his childrenhood. My e-mail is pasildany gmail.com if you needs extra information in case I forgot to say anything about possible fixes.

I just recently beat this game on PC, it wasn't easy especially the 2nd to last level of the game. I think that was the hardest level in the game itself. They should have switched the last level with that one because I beat the last level on my first try, while I was stuck on the 2nd to last level for days.

Some detailed report please?
Especially about the Pharao Head level?

Could you actually post the game you used to finish up the game? I would appreciate it, and could you let me know how did you make it work? Around forums I can't find a way to make the game working either DOS or Windows version

I got it working
 

Hi i got it working using bes a programs to slow down the game, olny de game not the computer and a dll hack

-Bes - http://mion.faireal.net/BES/#download

-ddraw hack http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html

You will need to work around the config even in bes and ddraw to fit the game to your pc. Take a ready on bes configuration.

Recently i did some tests with a ddraw.dll from dgvodoo 2.4 it make the game runs near perfectly the only issue that remais is the giga fast menu that making selecting worlds and lvls impossible, by the way if u only want to go straight in the lvls chain u can visit dgvodoo site and download de the emulator, inside the folder ms u will find a ddraw.dll copy it to the game folder.

Hope it helps,
Regards

The issue of cant click on building happens when u runs the baldiesorg.exe, this file runs very well except by this annoying bug, if u run de baldies.exe u will can click on building but the game will run too fast and will need a lot of workarounds as i told early.

Regards.

I noticed reading on the thread that the game Baldies seems to be complex and / or difficult. :wall:

And mostly twillight that looks a bit discouraged and hungary for hints, guides, maps.

I think I’ve already passed the stage where the difficulty of the game was challenging. After adult, with all the challenges at work, university, life, etc., what to have more complication when you want to have fun and relax? :sunning:

And for me, fun should be with cheat, codes, trainers, savegame editors. What is the fun in you staying without knowing what to do or the strategy to be adopted to overcome the obstacles and keep advancing in the game? Trying several times at the same point is monotonous, stressful and waste of time.

Well, that is my humble opinion.

Baldies is not complex at all. It is very repetitive and simple. You only can use a number of units and a few strategies.

Unfortunately the simplicity of the game happens to be its downfall as with enough advantage on one side (namely on the computer enemy) the game becomes undefeatable. And thathappens on the Pharao Mask level.

Otherwise when you realise 90% of the inventions worth nothing, you end up with:
- build red houses to outpopulate the enemy
- build green houses to bomb the heck out of them. You'll still need a solid population
- prevent enemy houses from expanding. This can only be achieved by building a house right next to them. Only works because the AI never let houses collapse. Costs a lo of resources this strategy.
- if you're ready to work hard to be lazy, try abusing the game with success: drop skunk in the water for piranhas, and feed the enemy to them. This requires some reflexes and likely a restart of the level (every position is fixed, there's no fog of war), but you can spare hours of your life this way
- you need free space not blocked by unmovable objects to start building (later less of an issue with enough population)

And probably that's it. Through 85 levels. Unfortunately no cheat code to advance through levels, the only cheat does not work, neither the "warp population" feature.

I say give it a try, the first two worlds are nice enough,just don't expect to finish the game There's likely no ending anway, jut the generic "you win" screen.

OK. Thanks for the clarification.

Well, I decided to search and found some cheat codes on portals known as IGN, GameFAQs and GameSpot.

It looks like if you hold down the F8 key, you can create more Baldies units.

Now, talking about the review, no wonder the reviewer says the Hairys are “mean”. You can check here.

The F8 cheat as I said does not work. At least not in the CD windows version.

Ummm... :umm: Well, with all this discussed, I can only come to one conclusion:

The main goal of the game is not to annihilate the Hairrys, but rather to make all the game players well-stressed, pulling their hair, hitting their heads against the wall. :hairpull: :wall: In short, all game players will literally get baldies... :hairpull: :tease:

Who would have thought the developers had such a sadistic mindset... :sneakrete: :whops:

Thanks to the collaborations of Miss Lulu_Jane Marple :lulu: and Air-cule Parrot. :braindead:

:facts: :closed:

Q.E.D.

I can't load the game from this site in Win10 anymore
 

Just like the title says, I can't play the game even though it had serious speed problems in stage select menu, at least the game was capable of running properly for being Windows 10, I don't know if it was a Windows patch in 2016-2017 years but the game no longer works in this operative system. Does anybody know some way to make this working again? Please! Would appreciate any information.

P.D: windows 10 64 bits, april 2018

new edit: nevermind just made it working in windows 10 64 bits with some tweaks, works wonderfully.

Thanks good sir, in my case doesn't even need some extra software to fix the speed issue in main menu. Can't believe how well the game runs for windows 10 64 bits, looks like even a native game in this OS. Really appreciate your reference.