Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 Retrogamingtastic... you can now play Lemmings on your Pocket PC (pictured here running on my Touch HD) courtesy of a Windows Mobile Lemmings engine port by Johannes Zeppenfeld! :( Available for download in CAB form from Johannes' website, the engine requires a copy of the original DOS MAIN.DAT to use, but recreates the experience faithfully - including the catchy little ditties that you'll be humming all day :P A full readme file is also available, an excerpt from which i've included below! B) P PS It's available for Windows XP too...This is a beta version of Pocket Lemmings. As such, please do not mirror it so that I can easily make changes in the future without having to worry about updating multiple distributions spread across the net. Feel free however to link to the most recent Pocket Lemmings version athttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zeppenfe/files/PocketLemmings.cab or, for the desktop versionhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zeppenfe/files/PocketLemmings.zip If you downloaded (rather than linked to) this file from anywhere else, shame on the person who mirrored it... The usual legal giberish applies, I am not responsible for these files damaging your computer, PDA, pet lemming, etc., so use this release at your own risk! ------------------------- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS -------------------------- Windows CE Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device Touchscreen with 16-bit color (May have issues on non-QVGA devices) Windows XP Should run on all modern versions of Windows with 32-bit color ----------------------------- INSTALLATION ----------------------------- Unfortunately due to copyright issues, this Pocket Lemmings distribution cannot include the main data file containing the core Lemmings graphics. You must provide this file yourself to prove that you own an official copy of Lemmings. After installing PocketLemmings, simply copy the MAIN.DAT file from your official DOS Lemmings installation directory into the My Documents folder on your PDA. When you start PocketLemmings for the first time, select this file in the dialog that pops up and get ready to play! ------------------------------ GAME PLAY ------------------------------- This should be pretty self-explanatory to anyone familiar with Lemmings. I'll add more information for the final version. -------------------------- CONFIGURATION MENU -------------------------- Pocket Lemmings boasts a large variety of configuration options, available through the configuration option on the main menu. === Hotkeys === Nav. U/D/L/R For use in various menus, down can also mean center Scroll L/R Scroll the game screen in the corresponding direction Select Choose the selection tool Climber Select the corresponding skill ... ... Nuke Press twice quickly to nuke level Assign Hold down and click skill to assign it to selected lemming Release +/- Increase or decrease the release rate Select L/R Skills will be assigned only to left/right facing lemmings Pause Pause the game Fast Fwd Set the game to ludicrous speed Turbo Temporarily increase game speed while key is held Crawl Temporarily reduce game speed while key is held Store Store current level state Reload Reload most recently stored level state Exit Exit to the next menu (or quit the game) === Sliders === Sound/Music Sound and music volume Game Speed Speed at which the game will run Scroll Speed Scroll speed when using hotkeys in the game Mouse Sensit. Area around each lemming that will cause it to be selected Max Fall Maximum number of pixels lemmings can safely drop, use 63 === Options === Left Hand Rotate screen 180 degrees (PocketPC only) Show All Lvls Show all levels in the main menu Enforce Prog. Enforce level progression Paused Assign Allow assignment of skills while paused Selected Asgn Allow double-clicking skill to assign it to selected lemming Keep Selected Keep lemming selected until manually deselected Smart Select Pick out most likely nearby lemming for a certain skill
Guest deadphill Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 uh oh Berrrwwwip! Oh the memories! Nice one Paul. Cheers Phill
Guest penguin Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 awesome i'll have a play tonight when im home from work :(
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 The MAIN.DAT from the DOS Lemmings game... P
Guest triran Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 The MAIN.DAT from the DOS Lemmings game... P for the PC?
Guest andymaw Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 Doesn't work on my Touch HD. Very briefly showed a distorted image of something then screen went black and locked up, forcing a soft reset.
Guest SilentBob Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 (edited) I too tried this on my Touch HD. It work briefly on the 1st level, but the screen then went black. The game was still running as the music was playing & I could hear it responding to touch. But I couldn't get the screen back. I too had to soft reset. Needs some work methinks. Edit: Just gave it another try, and the screen went before I could even select anything from the main menu. I am now uninstalling it until a later, more stable version. Good effort though. Looking forward to a working version. :( Edited March 4, 2009 by SilentBob
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 4, 2009 Report Posted March 4, 2009 How odd, working absolutely fine (played a good few levels now) on my Touch HD. Dutty 2.0 ROM :( P
Guest timeline Posted March 5, 2009 Report Posted March 5, 2009 you actually still have your DOS games on you? from 20yrs ago?
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 5, 2009 Report Posted March 5, 2009 I'd never bin my copy of Lemmings (that's the box in the picture, hehe)! :( P
Guest DarkWanderer Posted March 5, 2009 Report Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) I'd never bin my copy of Lemmings (that's the box in the picture, hehe)! :( P I only have an old Windows version but it doesn't have a main.dat file, it uses seperate folders for sounds etc. Very annoying I can't try this out! EDIT: You can download the DOS game here : http://www.oldschooldos.com/lemmings.php Edited March 5, 2009 by DarkWanderer
Guest mattbeale Posted March 5, 2009 Report Posted March 5, 2009 Occasionally stutters on my Omnia (DXIA5). Also get the screen blacking (with soft-reset required) if I accidentally trigger the auto-rotate, but if I turn the g-sensor off it works fine. Thumbs up from me :(
Guest John Ericson Posted March 5, 2009 Report Posted March 5, 2009 Thanks for your great work! I had the same problems as mattbeale and SilentBob and can confirm that the problem is caused by software that rotates the screen when gyro is triggered. To solve this I added an "Disable (Pocket Lemmings) event in my Gyro rotate program Gyrator 2. I programmed Gyrator to identify the program on the Windows Title: Lemmings and now it works perfectly.
Guest triran Posted March 6, 2009 Report Posted March 6, 2009 Thanks for the DOS link - it works perfect when installed on the device on TytnII
Guest DarkWanderer Posted March 6, 2009 Report Posted March 6, 2009 Thanks for the DOS link - it works perfect when installed on the device on TytnII Once I found the DOS download it works perfectly on my aging Wizard!
Guest deBruineBeren Posted March 7, 2009 Report Posted March 7, 2009 Very nice, I still go a Lemmings T-shirt (does not fit anymore :( )
Guest ferryrich Posted March 9, 2009 Report Posted March 9, 2009 Works for me on Touch HD, with one caveat. I get a black screen problem whenever I save changes to settings, requiring a battery pop. Once restarted everything is hunky dory.
Guest Mr.Clark Posted March 10, 2009 Report Posted March 10, 2009 Only had a quick play, but it's brilliant! I've installed it on the memory card and put the .dat file in the install folder and it didn't promt me for it and hopefully that'll survive a hard reset too... Awesome. It's things like this that make me remember why I stick by Windows Mobile in the face of iPhone and Android :(
Guest penguin Posted March 11, 2009 Report Posted March 11, 2009 put this on my X1 & had a quick play, stutters abit but is great :( oh Paul after listening to the podcast it's nice to know i'm not the only Atari ST veteran B)
Guest thereaperman Posted March 11, 2009 Report Posted March 11, 2009 put this on my X1 & had a quick play, stutters abit but is great :( oh Paul after listening to the podcast it's nice to know i'm not the only Atari ST veteran B) oh no Atari ST. Give me the amiga 500 any day :P (lets not start a flame war, that happend over 10 years go , hehe)
Guest penguin Posted March 12, 2009 Report Posted March 12, 2009 oh no Atari ST. Give me the amiga 500 any day :( (lets not start a flame war, that happend over 10 years go , hehe) lol good old days, still have my STe sitting around at home despite the girlfriend trying to get rid of it on numerous occasions B)
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