Mountain Bike Simulator on DSK?

[Gryzor]

Hello!


Anyone knows where I could find ountain Bike Simulator /Mountain Bike 500 (Codemasters, 1991)?

It was released on tape only but I want - nay, NEED to play it on my HxCFDE...
I don't know, maybe given that it was a budget game it's possible to transfer it to disk?
Cheers
Gry

[Gryzor]

Ahhh never mind, found it on ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/cpc/games/sports/mount500.zip . TACGR had the wrong filename... For some reason it's flagged 128k only -so maybe it was released on disk only?

[arnoldemu]

Ahhh never mind, found it on http://ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/cpc/games/sports/mount500.zip . TACGR had the wrong filename... For some reason it's flagged 128k only -so maybe it was released on disk only?

wiki denied you the ftp link.
Feel the anger

[Gryzor]

Hahaha Well, time to follow up on the bug report I submitted...

[Nich]

Ahhh never mind, found it on ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/cpc/games/sports/mount500.zip . TACGR had the wrong filename... For some reason it's flagged 128k only -so maybe it was released on disk only?

TACGR hasn't been updated since the beginning of 2006, so there are a lot of files that have been renamed since then. (Does anyone know what David Wykes is doing nowadays?)

Mountain Bike 500 was only released on cassette as a budget game. The version on NVG is a crack - one of my earliest ones, in fact, and as a result, it's not very efficient, which is why it requires 128K of memory.

Interestingly, if you examine the code with a hex editor, you'll discover the message "(C) Players Premier 1991", which suggests that the game was originally meant to be released by Players before they folded.

[Gryzor]

Your own crack? Tsk! Naughty... Well, I guess that your 'not efficient' crackonly excluded a very few users -464 owners with a drive... (664? what's that?)