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Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game

by "M F" <M F@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 20, 2007 at 03:38 AM

If you want to finish the first mission, not the game (there are 65536
levels), you must pass the 2 bugs of the 2 missing code

http://www.snoogans.co.uk/stuff/captive/captive.htm



"Franklin Hummel" <hummel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a écrit dans le message de
news:f2cpsm$spb$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm looking for help with getting the abandonware PC game to work on my
computer (Window
> XP Home).
>
> I have downloaded copies from 2 different sites and have run into the
same
problem with
> each.  The game plays through the intro fine, but when it gets to the
actual game itself,
> the screen becomes just a jumble of random bits of color, squares at the
top and outlines
> of what could be gothic archways on the bottom. with the mouse pointer
showing just as a
> long downward stream of shapeless colors.
>
> I've tried setting the compatibility for it to Windows 95 and 98, just
to
see if that
> would help, but it does nothing to fix the problem.  The same thing
keeps
happening.
>
> Ye gods, I am so tired of watching that opening sequence; I don't think
it
was in the
> original game.
>
> I did and still have a copy of the original game, but that was when I
had
an Amiga
> computer, so I can't play it on my PC.  (I really don't want to try the
emulation route
> for this; I want to just be able to play it on my PC.)
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to fix this, to get it to appear and play
correctly.
>
> This has been a frustration of me for sometime.  I was just about to
play
the last level
> of the game, when something happened -- I don't remember what -- and I
NEVER finished the
> darn game.  It has been like a nagging sore spot since then.
>
> I want to play this game and *finish* it this time, but don't know how
to
get it to work.
>
> I've even tried looking for an actual used copy of the game in various
places, but cannot
> find it.  Also I fear that even if I do find a copy, the same problems I
am having with
> the abandonware version will happen with an original copy of the game.
>
> So -- HELP!!!  Please.
>
>         -- Franklin Hummel in Boston, Massachusetts
>
>
 




 9 Posts in Topic:
HELP: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Franklin Hummel&quo  2007-05-15 13:15:56 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Leo" <leo.k  2007-05-15 19:34:56 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Franklin Hummel&quo  2007-05-16 08:34:35 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Leo" <leo.k  2007-05-16 16:36:34 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Franklin Hummel&quo  2007-05-16 16:47:05 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Leo" <leo.k  2007-05-17 00:33:13 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"M F" <M F@[  2007-05-20 03:38:45 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Franklin Hummel&quo  2007-05-23 10:03:12 
Re: Problems with CAPTIVE Game
"Pat Murphy" &l  2007-06-15 19:14:51 

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