PLBM games now freeware

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:32 pm

Kurt Dekker stopped supportin' his games and released both DOS and Plamos versions free in 2008. Get 'em here

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:01 pm

Missing some 3 or 4 of those ...... *downloads*

THX for the info 486 player.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:53 am

Yay! Full version Island Hopper!

Post by **emmzee** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:09 am

Nice, thanks, I'll have to update the site to reflect their new free status

Joman3 · Post by **Joman3** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:29 am

I know that the support for IBLM games is gone, and I am wondering, how come the Island hopper download still runs as "evaluation version" even though the site claims to be offering the whole version for free?

Does anyone know how to get the real full version?

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:18 am

So did most apogee-modelled ones. It's real, I tested.

Joman3 · Post by **Joman3** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:51 am

What? was that response to my post? it wasn't very helpful

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:39 pm

Didn't try to run the 2nd episode?

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:31 pm

Who was PLBM?

Post by **dosraider** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 6:08 pm

wardrich wrote:Who was PLBM?

You meant "who is PLMB games"....
http://www.plbm.com/

Joman3 · Post by **Joman3** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:49 pm

No, it says the 2nd episode is unavailable. I did try to run it.

Post by **dosraider** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:16 am

My dear Joman3 I have really no idea what you're rambling about.
All 3 episodes work without any problem.
You must of course select the right episode or play them all in a row.

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See? No problemo.

[Edit]
If you still can't select the second and the third episode do a
dir/w and check if ihopper.reg is in your file listing.
When I delete or rename that file I get a 'episode unavailable' for 2 and 3.
c:\ihopper>dir/w should look like this:

Joman3 · Post by **Joman3** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:58 am

That did it, the dir/w. Thank you very much

My DOSBOX was refusing to run Ihopper, and I believe the reason is because the IHOPPER.reg file and IHOPPER.exe have the same name, DOSBOX tried to run the IHOPPER.reg, which obviously wouldn't work.

To make it work I'd changed the name of IHOPPER.reg.
I changed it back now, and though in DOSBOX I still can't run the game by typing "IHOPPER", i can just grab the exe and drop it on my DOSBOX shortcut. And it's working.

Thank you for the help

Post by **dosraider** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:12 am

Joman3 wrote:Thank you for the help

You're welcome.

However:

Joman3 wrote:My DOSBOX was refusing to run Ihopper, and I believe the reason is because the IHOPPER.reg file and IHOPPER.exe have the same name, DOSBOX tried to run the IHOPPER.reg, which obviously wouldn't work.

That's not 100% normal, indicates that your dosbox and probably game folder aren't installed correctly, means: where dosbox has full-read/write access.
When you input "ihopper" dosbox should run ihopper.exe, not the 'reg' one, that's how dos works.
Most probably an OS restriction.
You should take a look in the GetGamesToWork sub and read how to install dosbox correctly for your OS.
There are OS specific howtos over there for a reason.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:04 am

Just for the record, the games are still available here:
http://plbm.com/oldsite/index2.htm

This is an exact copy of the old "main" PLBM site, so the pages still call the downloads shareware and have obsolete links to online registration. But the downloads themselves are registered versions.

I've not found any contact info to reach Kurt Dekker and ask if these versions may be mirrored at other sites.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:27 pm

Kurt Dekker seems to have a twitter account, still active in 2023: https://twitter.com/kurtdekker
(The person does looks similar to the pics sometimes seen in the PalmOS game images on the PLBM site)
It also matches with the itch.io profile: https://kurtdekker.itch.io/