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Hover
Sept 6, 2012 22:32:09 GMT -5
Post by Discoalucard on Sept 6, 2012 22:32:09 GMT -5
Another early 3D game, this one came bundled with Windows 95, presumably to show off that it wasn't total garbage at running games: www.hardcoregaming101.net/hover/hover.htmI don't recall ever playing this back in the day, though!
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Sept 7, 2012 0:57:57 GMT -5
Post by Gilder on Sept 7, 2012 0:57:57 GMT -5
"Hover! not runs not only in Win95, though, but also in any other version that followed after it, and it is freely available for download."
Sentence does not make sense with the first 'not' in there. Also, download link is 404.
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Sept 7, 2012 1:22:09 GMT -5
Post by roushimsx on Sept 7, 2012 1:22:09 GMT -5
I don't recall ever playing this back in the day, though! Holy crap, you missed out on both Hover and the Weezer video on that disc?
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Sept 7, 2012 1:48:54 GMT -5
Post by derboo on Sept 7, 2012 1:48:54 GMT -5
"Hover! not runs not only in Win95, though, but also in any other version that followed after it, and it is freely available for download." Sentence does not make sense with the first 'not' in there. Also, download link is 404. Both should be fixed now.
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Sept 7, 2012 10:26:24 GMT -5
Post by jorpho on Sept 7, 2012 10:26:24 GMT -5
"Freely available for download" ? If there was actually an official link on the Microsoft website, or maybe from the developer, that might be fair, but I find the use of the word "freely" to be highly objectionable in this case. It's more like it "can be downloaded". (I really can't stand it when someone posts a link to an old piece of copyrighted software and says, "Hey look, it's FREE!", even if no one involved with said old piece of software likely cares at all about it anymore.) Also, the game most certainly did not come preinstalled with Windows 95. It was on the Windows 95 CD and, as Mr. Discoalucard suggests, it was fairly easy to miss if you didn't go digging for it. I sort of wonder if it might have been a response to Spectre, which was fairly big on the Macintosh back in the day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_%28video_game%29
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Sept 7, 2012 10:52:42 GMT -5
Post by nickz on Sept 7, 2012 10:52:42 GMT -5
"Freely available for download" ? If there was actually an official link on the Microsoft website, or maybe from the developer, that might be fair, but I find the use of the word "freely" to be highly objectionable in this case. It's more like it "can be downloaded". (I really can't stand it when someone posts a link to an old piece of copyrighted software and says, "Hey look, it's FREE!", even if no one involved with said old piece of software likely cares at all about it anymore.) Also, the game most certainly did not come preinstalled with Windows 95. It was on the Windows 95 CD and, as Mr. Discoalucard suggests, it was fairly easy to miss if you didn't go digging for it. I sort of wonder if it might have been a response to Spectre, which was fairly big on the Macintosh back in the day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_%28video_game%29Sorry, I should have used a different link. Hover is also hosted on Microsofts FTP server and is available for download there too. It's on this page with a few other games on Microsoft's FTP server. ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS
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Sept 7, 2012 11:49:47 GMT -5
Post by jorpho on Sept 7, 2012 11:49:47 GMT -5
Nifty! The author of the site you linked to ought to mention that. It is surprising to see Microsoft not keeping a tighter rein. Any idea what AAS stands for?
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Sept 7, 2012 15:34:17 GMT -5
Post by derboo on Sept 7, 2012 15:34:17 GMT -5
"Freely available for download" ? If there was actually an official link on the Microsoft website, or maybe from the developer, that might be fair, but I find the use of the word "freely" to be highly objectionable in this case. It's more like it "can be downloaded" Crap, I edited that article, and figured the site was by the programmer (since it says "By Mathew Campbell" right on the top, and the site is run by Mathew Campbell) Also, the game most certainly did not come preinstalled with Windows 95. It was on the Windows 95 CD and, as Mr. Discoalucard suggests, it was fairly easy to miss if you didn't go digging for it. With my version, it definitely did. It was there when I bought the PC, and it was there whenever I reinstalled. It is surprising to see Microsoft not keeping a tighter rein. I really wouldn't expect them to care at all...
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Sept 7, 2012 23:02:49 GMT -5
Post by TΛPETRVE on Sept 7, 2012 23:02:49 GMT -5
Aaah, good ol' crappy 90s CGI. It looked horrible back then and it looks hilarious today.
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Sept 8, 2012 1:03:35 GMT -5
Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Sept 8, 2012 1:03:35 GMT -5
I remember finding this and a few other interesting things on the win 95 CD when I went exploring on it. It was never a good game, but hey, it was free (and I too recall with fondness the Weezer Video )
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Sept 8, 2012 1:15:31 GMT -5
Post by jorpho on Sept 8, 2012 1:15:31 GMT -5
Crap, I edited that article, and figured the site was by the programmer (since it says "By Mathew Campbell" right on the top, and the site is run by Mathew Campbell) I might have assumed so as well, but the stuff under the "Disclaimer" section is pretty telling. By "reinstalled", do you mean restoring from some OEM system image? The CD I have here has the game uncompressed in the "Funstuff" directory (with the Weezer video), completely separate from the main OS files.
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Sept 8, 2012 2:19:19 GMT -5
Post by derboo on Sept 8, 2012 2:19:19 GMT -5
Hmm, I had my share of formattings back then, so I installed it from scratch several times. Could it have been an European or even German version change? Anyway, I've changed the wording, it's not like the text gains anything from making it explicit in either case, nowadays.
Also changed the link directly to Microsoft's FTP version.
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Hover
Sept 8, 2012 18:58:19 GMT -5
Post by mrcrispy83 on Sept 8, 2012 18:58:19 GMT -5
"Hover! consists of 16 rounds, but they’re really the same stages three repeated over and over again with different numbers of flags to collect and drones to avoid."
I assume you mean "same three stages repeated over and over again"
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Sept 8, 2012 23:28:10 GMT -5
Post by aganar on Sept 8, 2012 23:28:10 GMT -5
Oh, so that's what that was. I remember it being installed on a few school computers and wondering why they installed such a lousy game on there.
Nice to see a write-up, although with a scant six paragraphs I wonder if it really needed its own article.
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Sept 9, 2012 18:20:03 GMT -5
Post by jjc14 on Sept 9, 2012 18:20:03 GMT -5
I remember finding Hover! about a year after discovering HoverRace. Microsoft's game was a nice diversion, but couldn't hold my attention compared to GrokkSoft's shareware online combat racer...
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