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	Bug Hunter in Space now freeware
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Ian Richardson	Message #74588, posted by IanR at 22:08, 29/3/2006
Member Posts: 15	A while back I saw this thread http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=7182 ...and Bug Hunter in Space got a few mentions, so it inspired me to get in touch with some of the folks who used to be Minerva software and they have agreed that Bug Hunter in Space can be Freeware from now on. So here it is, the disc image of Bug Hunter in Space, free to download: http://www.koanotic.org/arc/bhis.zip It runs OK for me under the Archie emulator v0.9 with RISC-OS 3, apart from that I havent tested it on any other RISC-OS platforms. If anyone wants to stick it in the Acorn Arcade download section or somewhere like that, that would be great. (If you want to verify its freeware status, email me and I will send you more details) Enjoy!
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Andrew	Message #74589, posted by andrew at 22:20, 29/3/2006, in reply to message #74588
Handbag Boi Posts: 3439	Thanks Ian.
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Phil Mellor	Message #74590, posted by monkeyson2 at 23:05, 29/3/2006, in reply to message #74589
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler monkeyson.info Posts: 12380	Cool!
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Ed Willson	Message #74591, posted by eddyosaysyo at 06:00, 30/3/2006, in reply to message #74590
Posts: 172	That's brilliant! Thanks!
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ninjah	Message #74596, posted by ninj at 15:02, 30/3/2006, in reply to message #74591
Member Posts: 288	Fantastic stuff! I remember playing that for aaages on my old Arc - it's an absolutely genius game, and a complete surprise after the relative simplicity of the original Bug Hunter. Have to say some of the later levels are completely evil though! Never did finish it. If this can be acornarcadeified and SA compatibilised, I'll have to give it another go.
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Tony Haines	Message #74601, posted by Loris at 12:14, 31/3/2006, in reply to message #74596
Ha ha, me mine, mwahahahaha Posts: 1025	I bought this game at a show and if I remember correctly it worked fine on my SA.
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Holger Palmroth	Message #74636, posted by Raeddie at 16:03, 2/4/2006, in reply to message #74596
Member Posts: 58	Just extracted it from the disc image and tested it. Runs happily on Strong ARM with RISC OS 3.70 and ABCLib 4.15. I just tweaked the '!Run' file a bit to stop it from loading its old versions of ABClib and FPE. The only minor quirk I noticed was a slightly disordered system beep after quitting the game.
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Lewis Westbury	Message #74665, posted by instantiator at 12:54, 4/4/2006, in reply to message #74636
Member Posts: 365	Just extracted it from the disc image and tested it. Runs happily on Strong ARM with RISC OS 3.70 and ABCLib 4.15. I just tweaked the '!Run' file a bit to stop it from loading its old versions of ABClib and FPE. The only minor quirk I noticed was a slightly disordered system beep after quitting the game. What do peeps use to extract disc images? dd to fd0 on my linux box gave me trouble when i inserted the disk back into my RPC. could be my acorn kit's broken, could be i did something wrong....
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Phil Mellor	Message #74666, posted by monkeyson2 at 13:07, 4/4/2006, in reply to message #74665
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler monkeyson.info Posts: 12380	I used to use DImager from here: http://www.planetriscos.co.uk/cgi-bin/downloads.pl?command=cd&dir=%2FPrograms/Disk%20Images
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Holger Palmroth	Message #74667, posted by Raeddie at 13:11, 4/4/2006, in reply to message #74665
Member Posts: 58	What do peeps use to extract disc images? Don't know, I've done it the 'hard way' : Fired up the Archimedes emulator, copied the game on the emulator's hard disc, packed it with !SparkFS, copied the archive back on a DOS 'disc' and saved that disc image (a regular DOS image) back on the real computer. There has to be an easier way, but I just haven't found one.
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Ian Richardson	Message #74827, posted by IanR at 12:25, 14/4/2006, in reply to message #74636
Member Posts: 15	Just extracted it from the disc image and tested it. Runs happily on Strong ARM with RISC OS 3.70 and ABCLib 4.15. I just tweaked the '!Run' file a bit to stop it from loading its old versions of ABClib and FPE. Cool. If someone can email me a zip of an extracted/modified StrongARM version then I will host that too. info@koanotic.org Cheers
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Holger Palmroth	Message #74834, posted by Raeddie at 15:55, 15/4/2006, in reply to message #74827
Member Posts: 58	Cool. If someone can email me a zip of an extracted/modified StrongARM version then I will host that too. Send
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Ian Richardson	Message #75017, posted by IanR at 07:51, 27/4/2006, in reply to message #74834
Member Posts: 15	OK, for those of you with those newfangled modern RISC-OS/StrongArm machines, here's the extracted version (ie not a disc image) of BHIS: http://www.koanotic.org/arc/bhis_extracted.zip Holger Palmroth has kindly extracted and tweaked this - notes are in the zip file. Apparently it "Runs happily on Strong ARM with RISC OS 3.70 and ABCLib 4.15" and probably other RISC-OS platforms too, but I'm not able to test it myself. If people can confirm other platforms it works on, that would be very useful. Cheers
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David Jackson	Message #75203, posted by Jacko at 07:51, 5/5/2006, in reply to message #75017
Member Posts: 84	Works well on RiscPC - I'm stuck on level 15 Darn those slippy walls
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Andrew	Message #75589, posted by andrew at 22:05, 21/5/2006, in reply to message #75017
Handbag Boi Posts: 3439	OK, for those of you with those newfangled modern RISC-OS/StrongArm machines, here's the extracted version (ie not a disc image) of BHIS: http://www.koanotic.org/arc/bhis_extracted.zip Holger Palmroth has kindly extracted and tweaked this - notes are in the zip file. Apparently it "Runs happily on Strong ARM with RISC OS 3.70 and ABCLib 4.15" and probably other RISC-OS platforms too, but I'm not able to test it myself. If people can confirm other platforms it works on, that would be very useful. Cheers Also works on RISC OS 4. Now what about Thundermonk and Freddy's Folly if memory serves [Edited by andrew at 23:07, 21/5/2006]
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Ian Richardson	Message #76266, posted by IanR at 23:07, 8/6/2006, in reply to message #75203
Member Posts: 15	Works well on RiscPC - I'm stuck on level 15 Darn those slippy walls I can give you a hint if you want : )
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antom	Message #76269, posted by antom at 23:46, 8/6/2006, in reply to message #76266
Member Posts: 37	I always get stuck around there too... in fact, is there a tool for Risc OS 3 that allows you to save the state of a game (so I can save my Bug Hunter II game next time I play?!) In fact, didn't The Hacker/Desktop Hacker do this?
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David Jackson	Message #76270, posted by Jacko at 06:43, 9/6/2006, in reply to message #76266
Member Posts: 84	Sussed it - shoot the brick you're about to step on - and fall back to safety - thanks
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Ian Richardson	Message #78893, posted by IanR at 21:29, 19/8/2006, in reply to message #76270
Member Posts: 15	... and here's a disc image of the original 'Bug Hunter', which is also freeware now: http://www.koanotic.org/arc/bug1.zip Its technically a lot simpler than the sequel (when I was 14, I hadn't figured out arm-assembler scrolling yet), but has more levels (32), and some of them I just can't remember how to do anymore : ) It runs OK for me under the Archie emulator v0.9 with RISC-OS 3 - I don't know about other platforms. If someone gets round to extracting it and StrongArm-ing it then email me a copy (info@koanotic.org) and I'll host that as well. Enjoy!
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Holger Palmroth	Message #78902, posted by Raeddie at 09:16, 20/8/2006, in reply to message #78893
Member Posts: 58	If someone gets round to extracting it and StrongArm-ing it then email me a copy (info@koanotic.org) and I'll host that as well. Extracted, tweaked and sent. Praise me. Enjoy! I do.
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Ian Richardson	Message #78903, posted by IanR at 12:09, 20/8/2006, in reply to message #78902
Member Posts: 15	Thanks! Here's the extracted/StrongArm version then: http://www.koanotic.org/arc/bug1_extracted.zip
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Andrew	Message #78906, posted by andrew at 13:04, 20/8/2006, in reply to message #78903
Handbag Boi Posts: 3439	Thanks! Here's the extracted/StrongArm version then: http://www.koanotic.org/arc/bug1_extracted.zip Ah I was wondering about BH1! Was it ever released?
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Sion	Message #78957, posted by blasts of the xtre at 19:05, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78906
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Posts: 326	Yup, It was released according to Eddy Willson on this Acorn Arcade thread: http://www.acornarcade.com/alpha-board/viewthread.php3?forum=general&threadid=1105280637-376
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Mike	Message #78963, posted by MikeCarter at 19:32, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78957
Posts: 401	Yup, It was released according to Eddy Willson on this Acorn Arcade thread: http://www.acornarcade.com/alpha-board/viewthread.php3?forum=general&threadid=1105280637-376 You havent got 100 posts yet. You cant do point less threads like this yet
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Jeffrey Lee	Message #78967, posted by Phlamethrower at 19:51, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78963
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff Posts: 15100	Yup, It was released according to Eddy Willson on this Acorn Arcade thread: http://www.acornarcade.com/alpha-board/viewthread.php3?forum=general&threadid=1105280637-376 You havent got 100 posts yet. You cant do point less threads like this yet Who says?
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Ian Richardson	Message #78969, posted by IanR at 19:57, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78967
Member Posts: 15	yeah, bug hunter was released about 9 months or a year before bug hunter in space, sometime around 1989, 1990. I can't remember exactly ...
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Sion	Message #78972, posted by blasts of the xtre at 20:30, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78969
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Posts: 326	how much was the original price of both games?
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Ian Cook	Message #78973, posted by ilcook at 20:36, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78963
Resident idiot Posts: 1077	You havent got 100 posts yet. You cant do point less threads like this yet Well I've got more than, that.
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Andrew	Message #78987, posted by andrew at 23:11, 21/8/2006, in reply to message #78957
Handbag Boi Posts: 3439	Yup, It was released according to Eddy Willson on this Acorn Arcade thread: http://www.acornarcade.com/alpha-board/viewthread.php3?forum=general&threadid=1105280637-376 I mean was it released commercially?
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Ian Richardson	Message #79000, posted by IanR at 10:01, 22/8/2006, in reply to message #78987
Member Posts: 15	yes it was released commercially. to answer the other question: I think both games were sold for about £8 or £9. Overall the combined sales over the first few years were of the order of about 1000. A small market in those days for archimedes games! I still have a scrapbook somewhere with the reviews from acorn user etc : )
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