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Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

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It might be possible to imgmount a blank floppy disk image as drive B to solve that problem.

Sounds like a good idea. I'll try to do it and let everybody else know. Thanks for the suggestion (regular B: mounting doesn't help any).

You can use WinImage to create one.

The trial version of the program works for 30 days (not since installation, but rather 30 days in which it has actually been used) and is fully functional.

It's been very handy for myself when I was experimenting to get Wibarm onto a single bootable disk image (which I managed, BTW - works like a charm). :)

Is there anything wrong with the review of the game? I just can load the blank page of the game's site...

Works fine for me !

Now, yes. (appendix to have more than nine characters...)

Instead of all the hassles to play this in 4 colours, get it for the Commodore 64, you can easily search for a .D64 file and WinVice to play it on your PC without too much difficulty! It's the same game with better sound and in the equivalent of EGA rather than CGA! While your at it, if you like this game by Telaruim/Trillium, get the others that this great unknown publisher released. All are brilliant and all came out on C64 then 16 bit then PC. I have all the originals still for my Commodore 64, which I still own (!). The text parser is as good as Infocom's and in some ways better and because all are based on books by great authors, like Arthur C. Clarke, all the stories are really great and original!

I would heartily recommend all these titles for either a C64 emulator or DOSBox:

Fahrenheit 451 (the famous book now an adventure that takes you further!)

Perry Mason and the Case of the Mandarin Murderer (Yes, Perry Mason!)

Nine Princes in Amber (have you ever played an adventure based on family rivalry, where more than half of the 140-odd verbs in the game are to do with communication, so you have DISAGREE, NOD, LAUGH, EXPLAIN, SNARL, PLACATE and many, many more to use when it comes to confrontations.

Rendezvous With RAMA - Yes, the book by Arthur C. Clarke, turned into a fantastic adventure!

Dragonworld - Ostensibly for teenagers, but I find it a rollicking Saturday morning adventure fantasy of the highest order!

Telaruim didn't release dozens of titles, but the above games, along with Amazon, are the greatest graphic adventures ever released. The quality of the artistry, the story-telling, the programming, the parser quality, the packaging quality - all outstanding. Rather than be unknown, this publisher should be as famous as Infocom!

Look up the above titles on Google, or go to Lemon64.com and check out these games and this publisher - they all deserve to be better known!

Some of the titles you've mentioned are about to find their way to Abandonia soon anyway.

I agree that C64 had more eye-catching graphics and that the games were/are better enjoyed on it. I also still own many original games and (more the one) C64 and use it every now and again to stroll down the memory lane.

Still, Abandonia is dedicated to great old PC games (which these are), so if it's not a game for a PC it would not find its way to the site. But that's why the comparison links are here (to Lemon64 and LemonAmiga - sites dedicated to C64 and Amiga games).

I bet you don't need such low-level support, simply mounting a folder will likely work. Problem is that you'd need to specify the real Windows folder, not the virtual DOSBox one, and that could be different for every person.

From what Sebatianos wrote, he already tried that and failed.

Plus, some of those old games run better from the floppy than from HDD. Try running Wibarm from a mounted HDD... then from a floppy image mounted in a virtual FDD. From the floppy it starts up alomst instantly, from HDD you wait... and wait... and wait.

Yup, couldn't make it work by just assigning a folder on my HDD.

I tried imagemounting something an image of an empty floppy, but got no luck. The problem is, the game doesn't give any error reports, it just won't let you save and it freezes, so I don't know if it didn't recognize the mounted image as a B: drive, or there was something it didn't like about the disk or something. It was strange.

I'll see what can be done.

Simply put the extracted attachment in the archive.

SAVED = save file
AMZ.EXE -> four changed hex digits to locate the save file (instead of FDD)

Hey!!! Thanks a lot Luchsen. I'm gonna try it out now.

Yes SIR, that did the trick - thanks a million. Is it OK if I place the zip file you provided as an extra to the main site?

I´m at the amazonas now and my computer (the one in the game) is beeping all the time. I can´t stop it and the communication codes I found do not work. Can someone help me?:confused:

stuck in office
 

hi, i got all the stuff from the office, paco says let's go, but i can't figure out what to type to get out of there? hint please!

thanks!

just say "leave", i had the same problem as you before...
:laugh:
but now i'm stuck in the amazon, i'm lost...
i drop several things, but just can't make map out of it...i just don't get it...

can someone help me please?
:wacko:

Well, you can always try the solutions... :amused:

http://www.retrosite.de/adventure/amazon/amaz_sol.txt

I've tried it but can't connect to the site...
it says server problem...
Any other site that i shoud try?
Btw, Thank's for the reply...
:amused:

Bah, the site works fine for me, so I just C/P the whole thing (I'll add it as an extra tot he game later on).

Wow, thx a lot...
:)
Now i can finish the game...
thank you friend, i really appreciate it...

Hey, it's a great game and it wasn't placed on the site just for a number, but to be played and enjoyed :amused:

Map and coordinates needed
 

Even with the solution, I have a problem. After escaping from the corrupt government troops, I attempted to use the computer for emergency help, but am lacking the map and coordinates. Did I miss something, or was the map and coordinate table included in the original package but not in the download?
I have searched the internet to find these items but with no success.
This is a great game, and I hope to be able to finish it after I get this information.

@Luchsen some work for you. you know, Extra-Bugs and so...

I'm having the same problem as the other poster with my computer codes. Once I used the patch they no longer worked. I am at the part where you enter the Amazon and Paco gives directions. Originally the computer would beep then I would turn it on and enter 969. Neither that or the 072 code work any longer after using Lucshen's patch.

Has anyone other than the two of us had this problem? Or have the solution.