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[StR4t0]

im new to abandonia and still just getting used to the whole DOS thing, i really just need help getting the game started. after i download the game and extract, i get a bunch of .cga files and unknown files. can someone please help me out? thanks

[dosraider]

Here begins your journey with old games, read and apply:
>A beginner's guide to DosBox<

About the amazing spider-man:
Unzip the game archive, the whole folder, called spider, run the game with spidey.exe, in the opening screen choose option
1-VGA

The game is ready to run in dosbox.

[welldone]

Hello everybody.

I'm new to this forum, I got inscripted because I loved this game as hell when I was younger. I used to play it almost everyday but I never could get past "Roaring Flames" room.

Now I managed to arrive to "Mysterio's End" without using the glitch. It was a real pain to get there.

I noticed that after the first 3 steps towards the left side of the final room you involountarily activate a press that kills Mary Jane in a few seconds. If you get in this room by using the glitch you don't experience this because you arrive from above, so you can destroy Mysterio without problems.

I tried several times, but it seems to be impossible to reach the other side of the screen without causing MJ's death. Somebody managed to beat the final screen in the "politically correct" manner, without the glitch?

Thanks to anyone who'll answer me, I'd like to realize my childhood old dream!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Thing is... you cannot. In this game, you can't fight enemies at all, actually. All you can do is shooting web to immobilize them.

[twillight]

I played this game on C64, I found it now here for PC, and as I never got through the whole of it, I give it a try.

I have no idea how scoring works, seems you get points when you enter into new rooms, and I tested that certain puzzles surely do not net you points. Also every time you die and "load", your score is nulled.

I've found a design-flaw: you don't have to solve the "under the soil" and "very grave yard" levels at all.

Also, I don't know if it was a ubg, or what, but when coming to "Lift" from "Shaft" I accidently let the R2D2 in the middle fall down. It went out of screen to "Take 1", and at that point it disappeared from the game.

[twillight]

Darn, after all these years I'm still stuck at the same place.

I've reached "Roaring Flames", but it is bloody hard.
But a tip for "Head Lion": First go to the edge of the platform on the left. Jump to the left. You'll fall on a fire-pillar on the screen below. Immediately you arrive make a step to the right. Then jump up, shoot a web up, climb as close to the top as you can. Then press up+right and keep it pressing while you press shift to make your web disappear, then hit shift again to shoot another web. Releasing the web at the farthest point will let you fall at least on the back of the lion, from where you can reach the exit.

Another glitch: if you make a map, "Lion Low" is at the same position as "Under the Soil".

How t solve the "Yours" + "Behind bars" levels? I was not able to reach the cowboys whose head needs to be pushed. I realised that in "Yours" there are fake-walls. I would like a combination with what both exits to "Behind Bars" will be open. (It is darn frustrating when you have to push things in an exact order, but things can not be reversed, and things can be done in a nondetermined order...)

[twillight]

Darn, I did it. I've reached Mysterio's End via the supposed way. Anyone have questions, ask me.

Thx for all who posted in this thread, it was a big help, especially in the endgame. Too bad they forgot to mention for "Behind bars" you have to enter first form the left, then from the right, then from the left again (to open that door you have to puch the top right TNT, what only works once, to the hell with it). Also pushing the last switch in "Behind Bars" the posters here overcompicated. You just have to stand on the wall right before the plank, jump streight up, shoot web on the switch - and voilá, you end up without failure in the room with the required cowboys.

Score: I currently have 9234 points, and if there is no bonus for saving Mary Jane, I don't know how to reach above 10K.
It is clear, that the score not just depends on the visited screens, but also on some random element, what I have no idea about.

I also confess, I can not save Mary Jane. I could not figure out yet the glitch-method, and the regular way is damn annoying (after the first steps walls kill Mary Jane, and the passage to Mysterio's End from Take 6 is darn timeconsuming). Any hint will be welcome

[morbeo]

Congratulations on completing the game! Probably you are the very first person to complete it.

The biggest issue I've had in this game is the save game bug and I was thinking of creating a virtual machine just so I can save it's state. For now I'm just not turning the game off so I don't lose progress

For the cowboys puzzle I've traveled a lot, but I managed to check how all the hats switch, I wrote it down and figured it out.

I'm plotting a map of all the screens I've visited, but apparently I missed the 4th Leo's Maze (the one just before Roaring Flames). Also as some of the screens overlap (Timeless Void and Shaft for example) and others loop to themselves (Paper Plates), I haven't figured quite yet how to display that.

And I'm stuck at the darned Puzzle Room, the third one from Take 5. Cool name.

[morbeo]

Originally Posted by twilight

I also confess, I can not save Mary Jane. I could not figure out yet the glitch-method, and the regular way is damn annoying (after the first steps walls kill Mary Jane, and the passage to Mysterio's End from Take 6 is darn timeconsuming). Any hint will be welcome

Here's how, kudos to revertebrae

[morbeo]

Ok, Puzzle Room wasn't so bad after I wrote it down. Machine Room on the other hand is a nightmare.

And this is the map so far

It is a work in progress. Protips and such will be helpful.
the map on imageshack