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F. Pohl's Gateway - 1 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 3:19am PDT
Since I'm now doing a (sponsored) review of the game, as I play it I'll pass along comments. I suspect you're planning to do something like this so you want someone who's fresh to the game to offer their comments.

The following is a re-post of my original item from my forum since it concerns a game. Jonsey, you might, since you're interested in the Genre, consider have one of the "below the line" forums specifically for adventure games / text adventures not otherwise set up with their own forum. This way, if some game of that type which had its own forum also didn't get much in the way of postings, you can move its posts to that forum and thus release a forum for some other use.

I should also add to below that I like that the compass shows what directions you can move.

The remainder of this posting repeats the first posting I did on the subject.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Here is a page with a link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/540 You probably need to use Dosbox to play it.
The file downloads as a zip file. 7Zip says it's not an archive. Macintosh unzip says it's not an archive. Universal Extractor is more forthcoming. It says it's not an archive because it's missing the central directory. (If you know anything about archives you'll know what that means; I'll not insult your intelligence by explaining it unless asked.)

I'll take their words for it.

I needed another link. Quick google search found http://www.myabandonware.com/game/frederik-pohls-gateway-1er#download that provided a zip that would open.

Just for fun, I installed DOSBox on the Mac, then extracted the game to a local directory, then mounted it, and started the game. Was creepy, running a DOS game that was running in the Macintosh window but generating sound out of the Mac speakers while drawing to the window on my PC. I'll run it locally under DOS Box and see how it does. I was quite amazed that it came up just fine running in an emulated MS Dos machine on a PowerPC Mac.

So I installed DOSBox, created a directory and unzipped the game. Ran it and it runs.

Maclin looks an awful lot like Ron Howard's brother, the guy who plays the controller in Apollo 13, the bald guy who realizes they need to scrub the mission because the explosion has - and it's funny because at this moment the game gave me the exact right words, it mentions the fuel cells - ruptured the fuel cells. For a game relatively old - 1983 is literally 20 years ago - the graphics are actually pretty good.



Looks like I'm going to be a Gateway Miner. I like the way they include the commands, objects, description and even a picture, all in what would have been the same screen and is now a window. And despite the fact DOSBox is an emulator, meaning the application is running under a software program and not on real hardware, the music plays at what sounds like normal speed.

More later, I think I need to give the game my full attention...
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F. Pohl's Gateway - 1 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 3:19am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 2 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 3:33am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 3 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 3:55am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 4 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 4:09am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 5 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 8:29am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 6 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 8:45am PDT NEW
        #7 Now that's cute; you break the VR by getting the *barkeep* drunk & by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 9:00am PDT NEW
        Re: F. Pohl's Gateway - 6 by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/06/2013, 12:17pm PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 7 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/07/2013, 10:38am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 8 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 6:44am PDT NEW
        Get him a hint! NT by Matthew Holland 06/14/2013, 9:21am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 9 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 6:49am PDT NEW
    Hey dickhead, I paid you to review this game and the sequel, get to it NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/19/2013, 10:22pm PDT NEW
        I know, and as I said, I'm blocked and I need a hint; I didn't know I had one by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 2:49am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 10 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 2:59am PDT NEW
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        Oh shit - 15a - Messed up image on 15 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 3:46am PDT NEW
    Re: F. Pohl's Gateway - 1 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 3:53am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 17 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 4:09am PDT NEW
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    F. Pohl's Gateway - 18 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 4:45am PDT NEW
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        F. Pohl's Gateway - 18b by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 4:59am PDT NEW
    "Wizard needs food, badl..." I mean, "Tdarcos needs hint, despirately!" by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/26/2013, 4:13pm PDT NEW
        Please start the sequel. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/08/2013, 2:42pm PDT NEW
            Fair enough. Where do I find Gateway II? NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/09/2013, 4:15pm PDT NEW
                Download it here. And get started,g od dammit by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/04/2013, 11:30am PDT NEW
                    Re: Download it here. And get started,g od dammit by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/05/2013, 12:52pm PDT NEW
                    Their "free" download requires a credit card by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/05/2013, 1:19pm PDT NEW
                        It took me literally two clicks to "freely" download their "free" download. by Jerry Whorebach 09/05/2013, 2:05pm PDT NEW
                            There you go, Paul NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/05/2013, 2:50pm PDT NEW
                            Re: It took me literally two clicks to "freely" download their "free" download. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/08/2013, 4:22pm PDT NEW
                                Breathtaking. NT by Fullofkittens 09/08/2013, 4:44pm PDT NEW
                                Betting pool on the "Someone made a fradulent purchase with my card!" novel? NT by The Happiness Engine 09/09/2013, 4:44pm PDT NEW
                                Fascinating by Eurotrash 09/09/2013, 11:15pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: Fascinating by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2013, 9:49am PDT NEW
    Jimmy on Gateway, a fine companion to Tdarcos's work here by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/21/2018, 9:08am PDT NEW
 
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