It doesn't appear this has been touched upon in a while, but that's what Abandonia is supposed to be about, keeping the games alive!
There was an earlier
post mentioning a game crash in level four. This confused me because the game crashes during Level 2, Stage 1. Then it dawned on me. Each Level has three stages so if you count each new session / section, this would be four.
The download on the Zool 2 page
does lock up as was indicated. The CloneCD in the ISO Cellar does not. I really think this game is worth playing, especially with the additional animated scenes that are available with the CloneCD version. The copy protection bypass is also very well done; no copy protection screen is displayed requiring a keypress or other pass-code entry. If you didn't know the protection scheme was supposed to be there, you would never know that it isn't.
To get Zool 2 up and running, download the compressed file, unpack the contents to a hard drive directory of your choice and imgmount the directory. NOTE: DOSBox must be configured for vgaonly and set to a number cycles no greater than 2600 (approx.). The number cycles in excess of this setting messes up animation display, although the gameplay still functions 100%.
I like this game quite a bit and I have just become acquainted with it. It may seem boring to some, but I consider easy games to be boring. It may be too hard for others, but I consider the difficulty a challenge. It may also be considered too quickly paced, but I love to hone multi-tasking data tracking skills. When you're watching the clock, the percentage of the goal you have achieved, the direction of the exit and trying to keep your speed demon character from making a wrong move or getting clobbered by a multitude of enemies? Sounds like fun to me!!
Back to the little heroes. I haven't decided if I like Zool or Zooz better yet.
Ohne