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I have a problem. The game says to hold shift down and press a cursor key to walk slowly, but that doesn't work. I can't unlock doors or get inside robots. HAYULP!

It only works when you walk with the numpad cursors, not the normal ones.

Boy can I pick them. Within the first 24 hours this game is on the board there have been 2 posts. The first for something that could have been answered if the Tech Notes at the bottom of the review had been glanced at, and the second a reply to that.

Maybe it's this international crowd. In America at least every school had an Apple IIe lab in 1984 (Apple was hoping it would make them last, and it did) and this game, while not as popular as Rocky's Boots (Comming Soon!) sales wise, was much cooler as far as I was concerned. I played them both in the same lab. I thought that others did too.

In America at least every school had an Apple IIe lab in 1984 (Apple was hoping it would make them last, and it did) and this game, while not as popular as Rocky's Boots (Comming Soon!) sales wise, was much cooler as far as I was concerned. I played them both in the same lab. I thought that others did too.
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An Apple IIe lab in 1984? Man.... we still had TRS-80 (pronounced "TRaSh-80") Model II's (yep, the 4kb!!! RAM variant) well up until the late 1980's in my American public school. I think by that time their value as historical artifacts was considered too valuable, so the Smithsonian finally bought them from us and was nice enough to replace them with a few used and alread outdated Macintosh's.

Amazing game. In fact it's a small logic designer including circuit simulator. And it supports hierarchy, too.
I degree in electrical engineering comes in handy here, that's for sure.
Too bad it's so damn cumbersome to play.
Picking up one item at a time, having to store everything inside robots, and then the soldering using the keyboard. It takes an ethernety to wire up a complicated circuit.

First of all, tell me what you mean my "heirchy?"

I'm a sucker for games with this sort of untapped potential. I love to play them then plan what I would if I were to make a sequel.

For RO, I always thought speeding up the circuit design would be manditory. Mouse control minimum. Also, a bigger inventory and better access to everything.

Then, I'd add some sort of action based side quests not necessary to the main game but that if you completed you would earn an auto wiring chip that if plugged into the robot would solve the puzzles for you. That way if you were less mechanically enclined you could still have hope of beating the game.

Character based conversations would be a must and a storyline. Infact, I actually thought one up a while back that would justify the game and make the whole thing work. However, posting it here would probably cross the line of obsessed wierdo.

It's a game of logic. Actually it's the purest form of logic, boolean logic. There's no room for action in this game. It's your brain against the world. If you need action, play an FPS. It just amazes me that this is in fact a small schematic capture program with circuit simulator. That's the same kind of software you use to design modern micro chips (I agree, they are a bit more powerful). This game is a gem. I'd love a sequel, just for the fact that the control is such a pain.

By the way, what's your c program doing in the signature line? Is it worthwhile to compile it? Is it a good game?

Maybe i should start a thread explaining this. If you have a c complier installed there should be no reason not to drop this program in. It's a game. Try to get the left 3x3 board to look like the right 3x3 board. You can only push the number buttons that are visible (not '.'). Pushing different buttons yields different results. Learn to predict what happens to win.

I have others. When I have time (maybe in a week) I'll start a thread for all my programs, including the bigger version of this game.

I always played with the joystick on my Apple II, which is at least 4x better than wiring circuits with the keyboard. I actually beat the game when I was only 8 years old, and it's always been one of my favorites ^_^

help please:)
 

I just found this game and I love it. I used to play this for hours and hours and I never got past the subway. Now that I'm 29 I think maybe I'm going to beat this game finally?

However - for some reason I cannot solder in the innovation lab. I seem to remember this being a bug even when I was playing from the disks on my tandy. How do I get that to work? I really need to be able to practice stuff in the lab.

Thanks for any help and thanks to abandonia!!!

can't wire the bots!
 

I was so thrilled to find this game after having played it over 20 years ago!

However, when I got to my first wiring job in the subway, to get the token, I found to my dismay that my soldering pen wouldn't work! I couldn't wire a thing.

Curiously, I could wire just fine in the tutorials. Any idea why I wouldn't be able to wire in the main game? I couldn't wire in the sewer either, though of course you don't need to til the subway.

I am having same issue
 

I can't solder in the real game either. Does anyone have an answer?

started with tandy colorcomputer version, Leaning co got me a pc up grade, also said that the game will not run, as orginally published on a cpu higher than a 86286

there is a similar game called droidbot or something close, that is a java clone

solution
 

There is a protection. I tried this script - it works fine.
http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/python...sey_patcher.py
I instaled nasm and active python in order to execute the script.
You need to patch GAME.EXE, LAB.EXE and TUT.EXE.
See the comments in the code of the script for details.
(I chose command line options -k -r 20 -f and it works fine on DOSBox)

Mr.Smith
Thanks a lot! But your patch has one side effect. Under DosBox emulator graphics rendering have interlacing after your patch applied. :( So, IMHO, it is better not to fix rendering at all.
Moreover, I think not everyone can apply this patch easily. I prefer to play this type of games under DOSBOX emulator. Based on your patch I made simple one, which removes just copy protection and leave all other parts of game:

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Enjoy. :)

The name of java clone is Droidquest. But this game is not 100% finished. Some bugs present and graphics absent.

There is a patcher here to do this fix for you - it may work for you:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/sho...45&postcount=6

if not:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/trg...exes.zip?hl=en
these exe's should work if you overwrite the ones you have with them and use PLAY.EXE to start the game, as usual.

I don't know why they're any different to the ones here, but the crack above seemed to screw something up.
These are patched exe's from another copy of this game.
:dunno:

A spiritual successor if not really a remake: http://www.quinndunki.com/OGOL/GATE.html

Robot Odyssey original user guide in pdf format available
 

I don't know if the original user guide for Robot Odyssey exists anywhere else, but I have it in pdf format if anyone wants a copy. Leave a reply if you need it.