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[marko river]

Interesting and great, actually.

Games for pre-2000 windows usually don't work in newer windows, so some tweaking is usually required, so those games may yet work (regardless of how good they are ), so we are interested in those games as well.

If I'm correct, the box scan is for the pack release, not for the Math Ace Jr. right?

[BonzaiThePenguin]

Originally Posted by marko river

If I'm correct, the box scan is for the pack release, not for the Math Ace Jr. right?

Yes, the box shot is for the entire Kids' Fun & Learning Pack, which happens to include Math Ace Jr. There are of course original box shots online, but I wasn't sure if there were additional copyrights associated with those that we'd have to worry about.

[marko river]

It is our rule to accept only scans created by our members, not taken from other sites.

If you get to write review as well, that would be awesome

Thx for your contribution.

[BonzaiThePenguin]

Yep, yep, working on it now.

Also, I just noticed this sticky which explains how to submit content. Sorry about that – I was so lost on the front page of Abandonia trying to find the Submit button that by the time I found the Offers section of the forums I went straight to New Topic and breathed a sigh of relief.

[marko river]

No problem... as you can see, you are natural for contributing

[BonzaiThePenguin]

Originally Posted by marko river

No problem... as you can see, you are natural for contributing

Haha, and you are a perfect fit for maintaining this community. Very patient and dedicated.

Anyway, review's up. I think I'm finished submitting this game, so I'll start going through the other games in the pack over the next few days. Perhaps I can use this newfound experience to get the games up and running.

[marko river]

Originally Posted by BonzaiThePenguin

Haha, and you are a perfect fit for maintaining this community. Very patient and dedicated.

Anyway, review's up. I think I'm finished submitting this game, so I'll start going through the other games in the pack over the next few days. Perhaps I can use this newfound experience to get the games up and running.

Music for my ears, as well for ears of all retro gamers. You have support of millions... definitely

[BonzaiThePenguin]

Alright, I was able to get the other games working sorta, but only with the CD-ROM inserted. Copying the files to the hard drive didn't work.

To show how little effort was put into this software "pack", two of the games install different versions of QuickTime which are incompatible with each other. I had to manually delete the DLLs for both versions of QuickTime (as it does not include an uninstaller) and reinstall only one of them.

[BonzaiThePenguin]

I've been going through the various EXE files for Circus! to see if I can get it to point to the DLLs inside its own folder instead of installing it to C:\Windows.

Which brings up an interesting question: are you looking for abandonware that is bit-for-bit equivalent to what was originally sold, or is it okay to make some modifications in the interest of making it playable?

[BonzaiThePenguin]

The EXE has the strings in plaintext, as in I can open the EXE in a text editor and see things like "SHOW\ELDANCE1.DIR". In theory I can change them to anything of the same length and just rename the files to match whatever I change it to. I also have some experience in "decompiling" and reverse-engineering DLL files, and the code for checking for the CD is stored in a separate DLL, so maybe I can come up with something that removes the check and lets me run it off the hard drive.

I'm working on Circus! first because I had never played it before and discovered that the music, graphics, and characters are all fantastic.