PlayDOSGames.com wrote:I would like to get in contact with "HVB Barneveld" or "HVB Software", who developed and published Dutch DOS games from 1990-1992. After trying for a couple of years without success, let's see the power of Twitter: please contact us!
I once saw on the Internet a resume from someone else than Henk van Beek who created games for HVB and it said the games had to work on every PC. This means only they could only use text mode based graphics and PC speaker sound effects.
Thanks for sharing the info! Never really could get confirmed the owner was Henk van Beek, until now. At the Dutch Chamber of Commerce I could find there were multiple HVB companies over the years, unfortunately all are gone now and contact data is no longer valid...
I found over 40 games of them on my dad's old floppies and would like to add them to playdosgames.com, but only if I have permission from the author.
You brought me one small step further in my search for the owner, thanks
Joris wrote:I found over 40 games of them on my dad's old floppies and would like to add them to playdosgames.com, but only if I have permission from the author.
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Boggle (a.k.a. Woordenslag)
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Covering
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Dobbel
Driester
Duits
Euro-stad
Galgje
Gokkast
Hoofdrekenen
Kruiswoord
Master Mind
Memory
Mens Erger Je Niet
Nederland
Othello
Pac
PC-Tennis
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Rondgang
Schieten
Scrabble
Stuiter
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Hi, I just registered because I was searching for a game I used to play back in 1991 or so. I *think* it's the HVB game called 'Hunter' what I'm searching for. I remember it to be an ASCII-game on which you can move some kind of vehicle to left and right to avoid hitting objects. The longer you last, the faster the game starts to move.
It seems that HVB software is no longer active. The site hvb dot nl is now owned by a construction company. The Dutch commercial register states that the registration is no longer active (I cannot post a link as I'm a new user, but on kvk dot nl you can search for 'Handelsnaam' HVB, Straat 'Churchillstraat', 'Huisnummer' 75 and 'Plaats' Barneveld).
I would love to get my hands on the 10 years anniversary CD mentioned above, but if anyone can tell me how to obtain the game 'Hunter' I'd be very happy.
Oh, same here! I've got three games of HVB, named Crusher, Jumpjet! and CD-MAN. I copied them form an old Tulip 286SX PC from the late 80s (with was not mine) to a floppy disk (the whole PC was full of HVB software but due the lack of space I only copied my three most played games). The PC booted to a dedicated HVB menu, called 'Point & Shoot' (if I remembered it well, cause this was back in 2002 or so).
I hope I can also get this CD-ROM, and that this is all on it...
By the way, - off topic - there was another Dutch distributor of shareware, called Rob van Lin. He runned LinSoft. Pretty looks like the same concept. He also sold shareware on floppies and CD's. Does anyone maybe have some of these?
Whoah! I used to have the point & shoot menu system on our pc at home for quite some years. Simply so all members of the family could use it. Loved it! I deployed it on pc's of neighbors and friends as well. Don't think I have that anymore either. I put away all of my old diskette's quite some years ago.
Hi, I have been trying to collect HVB games for a while. Here is some info that may be useful for those doing the same:
That Usenet post above is the first clue I have seen as to who was behind HVB. I also found an obituary for a Henk van Beek from Barneveld [ivn nl \ afdeling \ barneveld \ nieuws \ overlijdensbericht-ivn-lid] though this is of course a very common name.
I think the company went through three phases:
'90-'92: Sold games as a subscription. You would receive two games per month [hvb nl \ nl \ bestbon txt @ archive org]. HVB also produced some more serious software [hvb nl \ nl \ serieusp html @ archive org].
'96-'98: Sold game floppies through retail stores. These usually contained one HVB game and three shareware games. Unlike LinSoft floppies which were sold at retail chains (Intertoys and Primera IIRC) I only ever saw these at the local computer shop and I only ever owned one or two of them. There were 36 floppies in total [hvb nl \ nl \ speldisk html @ archive org]. It would be interesting to get a hold of these as I do not recognize all the titles. These may contain HVB or other Dutch-language games that are not widely known. It is also possible these are just shareware games under a different / Dutch name to increase marketability.
'98-'00: Sold shovelware CD-ROMs through local computer shops and I may also have seen them at retail chains like Dixons [hvb nl \ jewel htm @ archive org]. I never bought one of those. I would be surprised if all the software on the 'En toen was er .. {Amiga,Atari,Commodore,MSX}' series was properly licensed. I would also like to get my hands on the '10 Jaar HVB' CD. I doubt all 800 programs supposedly on it are by HVB. More likely this also includes the shareware titles from the floppies.
This is the list of games I know about (games marked with an asterisk I currently do not have but should be archived in TDC#18):
