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| 29 JUN 2003 at 9:15pm |
DasJanIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Anastasia_Romanov (29 JUN 2003 9:11pm)
I'm pretty sure it's perfectly legal to download it from an abandonware site.
It is not. The author still sells the games here and even if he wasn't you can't say Abandonwarez are legal. Cause they are not. The author even stopped an amateur VGA remake of HHH.
Das Jan
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| 29 JUN 2003 at 9:27pm |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 28 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Sorry... idn't know... And I'm supposed to be against downloading games... Hey, I bought Ultima 3 1983 for $89 when I could have download it in 3 seconds for free....
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| 29 JUN 2003 at 11:13pm |
| Deleted User | Sorry... idn't know... And I'm supposed to be against downloading games...
Don't feel too guilty about it. I'm sure most of us do it once in a while, but DasJan is right, as long as it is not freeware it is illegal.
Abandonware is a term coined for software in which their makers/copyright-holders supposedly are no longer interested. But, as long as they haven't explicately stated so, it is not freeware. I don't think a lot of abandonware-sites do a lot of research, in most cases they just put their stuff up there and wait for someone to complain.
In the case of the Hugo games, with the site mentioned by DasJan it is perfectly clear that it is not freeware. I do seem to remember that the first episode (dos-version) was released as shareware.
Hey, I bought Ultima 3 1983 for $89 when I could have download it in 3 seconds for free....
It could be worse. I spent more than $1000 on an 286 fifteen years ago, and now I can download free software to make my P700 behave like one
Mus
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| 29 JUN 2003 at 11:46pm |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Mus (29 JUN 2003 11:12pm)
Don't feel too guilty about it.
It could be worse. I spent more than $1000 on an 286 fifteen years ago, and now I can download free software to make my P700 behave like one
Mus
Thanks, But I didn't download the games.
Thanks for the comfort! :-*
What do you mean 286 (I'm not good with version's numbers, if that's some kind of version number of something...
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| 29 JUN 2003 at 11:51pm |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | OK, back on topic! God, don't let this become one of those 50+pages-tend-to-another-topic threads...
Only Mus is allowed to break the law, something I almost had you do!
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 12:01am |
sennebecGuild Master
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Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | looks cool... i just ordered it
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 12:06am |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By sennebec (30 JUN 2003 12:01am)
looks cool... i just ordered it
You're FAST!!!
All three of them?? Play them by order!!!
And YES, it's cool. Way cool. Especially #2, as said.
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 12:21am |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | By the way, sennebec , did you order the disk or download?
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 12:22am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | There was a HHH remake once. It was stopped by the original author.
I love the games, played them as shareware a long time ago. Recently I played through HHH and got stuck in the sequel.
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 12:25am |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Friday the 14th (30 JUN 2003 12:21am)
Recently I played through HHH and got stuck in the sequel.
Hard, isn't it??
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 1:07am |
sennebecGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Anastasia_Romanov (30 JUN 2003 12:20am)
By the way, sennebec , did you order the disk or download?
all three on cdrom...
only $4 more to have the disk in hand
thanks for the heads-up on this one
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 1:09am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Anastasia_Romanov (30 JUN 2003 12:25am)
Hard, isn't it??
Harder than HHH atleast. I didn't want to use a walkthrough since it's such a short game.
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 1:14am |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Friday the 14th (30 JUN 2003 1:09am)
Harder than HHH atleast. I didn't want to use a walkthrough since it's such a short game.
HHH2 isn't so short....
I'd say 35+!
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 1:49am |
AndromusGuild Master
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They were among the first adventures that I played. I liked them a lot at first, but then I discovered a couple of dead ends in the second game with little or no feedback which turned me off on playing the rest of the second and the third game all together.
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 3:43am |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
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Status : Online | The Hugo Trilogy is quite interesting... where else could I find elephants in Brazil???
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 10:15am |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | The games came with a shareware collection CD I once bought. And all of them were freeware...
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 30 JUN 2003 at 5:55pm |
| Deleted User | What do you mean 286 (I'm not good with version's numbers, if that's some kind of version number of something...
Only Mus is allowed to break the law, something I almost had you do!
Thank you
I 'll break the "You shall not go off topic" law, just to tell you I meant the IBM PC 286 (I didn't have a 'real' IBM, but what they called 'an IBM clone'), which at the time was called an AT to distinguish it from the XT which came before. I think they started calling it a 286 when they introduced the next one: the 386.
I remember playing Hugo's House of Horrors at one time (the first episode) but I think I gave up after I succesfully passed a swarm of bees, and forgot to save, after which I was eaten by dogs (or some other creatures, anyway it was some horrible death). Maybe I should try it again.
Mus
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| 9 JUL 2003 at 2:57am |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | HHH was the only game I played on the 386 as I was a Commodoor Amiga fan at the time but I really enjoyed it.
Jim
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| 10 JUL 2003 at 4:02am |
VesperIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Being kinda late to getting a computer, Hugo's House of Horrors was one of my first adventure games in 1994, 4 years after it was created. I played it alongside Goblins, switching between the 2 when I would get stuck. Hey I didn't know about WT's or hints then and had to do it myself. I always look fondly back on playing HHH, it was a fun game and reminicent of the first King's Quest games.
I also have partily played Hugo2: Whodunnit and got stuck somewhere in the middle of the game and couldn't finish it. Someday I'll have to try and finish it.
I played Hugo3: Jungle of Doom and finished it, but never did find the skull. I enjoyed all of the Hugo's and always hoped him and Penelope would get it on......... and get married or something.
So if you haven't played the Hugo series, I highly recommend it for a classic piece of nostalgia.
I have a copy of Jungle of Doom as a 3 1\2" floppy in a cute little cardboard sleeve case from someone called "The 5$ Computer Software Store", with nice pictures all over it..... unopened and I doubt if I will ever open it up and ruin it's value. I also have Nitemare 3d(an action game that Gray created in 1994) in the same kinda cardbord sleeeve unopened.
BTW......The Goblin's series are way cool too. Goblin's 3 still to this day is in my top 20 faves.
Vesper
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