Spaceward Ho
 

In 1987 I remember playing Spaceward HO! Now I know there are new versions available but, where is the old one? Yes, I know it is a MAC game but, there was a PC version as well. I have the game files in a zip but, the copy protection will only allow limited game time before it quits. How about a manual for the old one? Anyone know?

You can buy the game from http://www.joedelta.com/paypal.html

Expencive for a '87 old game. You would be crazy if you buy that.

It's still one of the best 4X games out there. Very funny too. :)

No if you're a collector... anyway, I've never heard of the series but I can see there are like 5 games of Space Ho!

any of them is abandonware???

I have the Windows version of Spaceward Ho! 2.0, but it crashes a few turns in when running on Windows XP. It is the full version, but since it was written back for Windows 95 (maybe even win 3.1) - this version - it doesn't like XP.

Anway, you can buy v5, but I agree the price is a bit steep for it compared to other available games. However, I also agree that it is a really good explore the galaxy game.

:D

I played the new version at a friends once not worth it.

Hmm, the name of this game sounds familiar, I can't place it....

Edit: Ah, I remember, I had a promo collection which included a promo this game and other Mac games. I remember I used to look at the picture and want to play it....

it says versions 4 and 5, he is talking about first version1.



anyway have you ever thought about searching a crack for it? or copy protection codes on the net?

Hello there!

I'm a newbie so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong here... Look, I've been browsing this site for almost a week and I really think you people are doing a fabulous thing... I'm really into oldies, I just got many of the games that I loved so much playing in my childhood. Thanks a lot, guys !

But I have a big problem: :sos: As a small kid, my first contact with a computer was established through my dad's B&W Macintosh laptop and I remember in 1993 or so playing a game that I just found amazing: I think it was called "THE HO!" or something like that, I simply don't remember who created it (when the game started, there always appeared an annoying window telling the names of the 2 authors...) ; the game was about conquering a universe, you started off with a mother-planet and you had to invest resources into technological research, you had to build ships (there were mainly 4 types of them: explorer ships, battle ships, coloniser ships and sattelites for defending a planet) and it kind of lacked animation but I found it, as I said, really addictive. At the very beginning, the only planet you knew was your mother-planet and all the other planets were just some kind of discs with a question mark on them; as you explored them, the planets turned out to be either good for terraformation, not suitable for terraformation or -- as a voice said -- "Yuck!" :D

Well enough of it, I just wanted to know if any of you abw-gamers out there might happen to know what I'm talking about and I was wondering if you could tell me if somehow I might get this game - OR SOMETHING SIMILAR - and magically get it to work on WinXP :unsure:

Thanks!

LLRNR

Is it Spaceward Ho? - http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/spac...ows/screenshots


You can order it from here - http://www.joedelta.com/paypal.html

:ok:

Gee, thank you very much, Frodo !! That's it !!! :brain: That's the game I used to play... in B&W. Honestly, I didn't know there was a Win version for it... shame on me.

Can't help you with this game. But a similar, though obviously more advanced game I would recommend is Star Trek - Birth Of The Federation. I'd call it Civilization in space. And it definitely works under Windows XP.

The name of the game is badly chosen, as you can play Federation, Klingon, Ferengi, Romulan or Cardassian. You start with a home system, the surrounding star systems will only have a question mark, and the rest of the map is hidden. You need to explore the galaxy, terraform and colonize planets, micro-manage your systems, research better technology, deal with the other major races and a large variety of minor races (Vulcans, Bajorans, Bolians, Acamarians, ...) through diplomacy, combat and trade, and use your intelligence (internal security, espionage and sabotage) against the other majors.

The major powers have different themes, different music and different strategies. The Klingons conquer the universe through battle, the Federation use mainly diplomacy to befriend the minors and eventually have them join as members, the Ferengi make lots of money to buy everything they want and bribe the minors, the Cardassian mainly use espionage and sabotage, and the Romulans balance all these methods of conquest.

For such an old game, there is still a large following of die hard fans, as is proven by the development of several fan made sequels.

Errr... sorry guys but I got 2 problems.

1. I have found Spaceward Ho! v. 2.0 for Windows, it seems to be for Win 3.x but the first time i hit "End Turn" it gives me a General Protection Fault error and crashes. I suppose I couldn't make it run in compatibility with Win 3.x, could I ?!

2. I have found the 1993 version for DOS, it runs well under DOSBox but at a certain moment I have to look in the game's manual for a certain word... DOES ANYONE KNOW how can I bypass this copy protection code issue?! :wallbash:

I hope I'm not disturbing anyone with the content of my post here... :whistling:

BY THE WAY, are the DOS and 2.0 versions protected or not ?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(LLRNR @ Sep 30 2006, 03:30 AM) [snapback]258280[/snapback]</div>Uhm... since the games are Sold, as Frodo pointed out - Yes!

Not sold anymore. [APPROVED]

Spaceward Ho! (1992) (The first one) by New World Computing, Inc.
Abandonware :ok:

It is abandonware now? This is really new. Great! :)

Sweet, anyone able to upload this game then? I have a 5.25" floppy here, but no drive and NO idea where my manual got off to.
I'd bet this game would run great in DosBox, as the disk I have is MS-DOS.

Wonder if I could scrounge up a drive and use an external IDE drive bay...hrmmm

I have Spaceward Ho! 2.0 along with the copy protection codes. I've recently set it up to run in my Win3xO collection. For those familiar with eXoDOS, it is the same concept - but focused on collecting all possible Windows 3.x games.

I'd be happy to upload it here before my collection releases however.