GreenBanana - Jeff Kintz's Library of Games (Darkest Night, Elkinloor, etc.)
 

I've been graciously provided with Jeff Kintz's library of old DOS games that myself and others on this forum have searched for to no avail. I'm still in the process of examining each of them (and it would take me considerable more time to play through them all in their entirety), and I'm not very technologically-minded, but here's my attempt to offer them to this site for digital posterity.

These games have been Approved:
The games I have are:

• Blood Feast of the Vampyr
• Borderworld Part I: The Arrival
• Cursed Land, the
• Dark Convergence, the
• Dark Convergence II: The Hideous Trigoli
• Darkest Night, the: Part I
• Days of the Rabbit
• Dismal Passages (Labeled as "ORGDIS" and appears to be quite older than the later Dismal Passages.)
• Dismal Passages Part I: The Wicked Curse
• Elkinloor: The Quest for the Forest Princess
• Gateway of Evil
• Lost Infinity Part I
• Lost Infinity Part II: The Reality Machine
• Martian Death Machine Reported malware by Archive.org.
• Savage Future
• Shape Shifter
• Star Commander Part I: The Ancient Challenge
• Vor Terra: The Search for the Rainbow Egg

I provided links to Moby Games for those titles above mentioned there, as a swathe of information is already available. Also included were games labeled Robot, Zombie10, and ZombieGrave, but I couldn't get them to run, even with d3drm.dll.

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I got this games from Shadow_Stalker recently too. This Win games are strange, indeed. I was able to run Robot. Once. After that it crashed each time with the error. *shrugs* Seems, it doesn't like Win8 x64.

ORGDIS is named "Dismal Passages (Original version)" on author's site.

Funny thing is that while first part is slightly differs by name (original is simply "Dismal Passages", remake is "Dismal Passages Part I: The Wicked Curse"), Dismal Passages 2, mentioned in the original and remake, have totally different sub-names.

Also, Original and Remake are totally different in gameplay (original is flat, remake is two-dimensional), so we need both, I think.

Also, notice: it seems, Dark Convergence 2 is not complete game. It honestly says "Act I" in the start of the game, and whole game, actually (I checked walkthru on Youtube to be sure). Also, main exe named dc2pt1.exe. Meanwhile, readme.txt says about both acts of game. So it need to be renamed accordingly, I suppose... and part 2 is still missing. :/

Side note: I was surprised how similar all Jeff Knitz games to each other, so now I have no much desire to seek remaining ones, actually... :)

When I apply the missing d3drm.dll, the .exe games Gate, Mars, Rabbit and Vampyr run, but Robot, Zombie10 and ZombieGrave always crash with Error 136, so I'm unable to get any information on them other than their executable names.

It's... unstable, at best. I bet, speed problems, because I seen the very similar symptoms lo-ong ago, when tried to start some DOS-games on my Win98. :)

In that case virtual machine must easily solve this issue. :) WinXP, preferrably. :)

Smiling_Spectre, if you have the games as well provided by Shadow_Stalker, have you been offered an attempt to upload them to this site? I was provided with information by a moderator on accessing the FTP server, but it didn't work. I contacted them about this the same day that they contacted me, but I've yet to receive a reply. I was wondering if anyone in a similar position has had any luck yet.

UPDATE:
I have had to remove Martian Death Machine because Archive.org reported malware in it.

Same here, actually. Seems like FTP is broken for now. Try to report to admin? I... cannot remember, who is responsible enough, sorry. :(

Thanks to Japo, I was able to upload everything on FTP into my folder. Set of D3DRM.DLL files included - from DirectX2 to 8, I believe. No one worked for me though on Win 8.1. :/

How did the upload go? It's been about a month and I still can't find any of the games on Abandonia with a search. I even navigated manually. Elkinloor, for example, is nowhere to be seen.

They need to be reviewed and screenshotted first.

Unless we upload them all at the same time and ask for reviews from the internetting public.

About those malware-tagged/suspect windows files: Days of the Rabbit, Martian Death Machine, Blood-feast of the Vampyr, Gateway of Evil;

what I can see is that they are compressed executables made by the 'Clickteam' development system used, which mean they will be unpacking themselves and running from memory, which is a method used by some malware to hide itself. So this method in itself is seen as suspicious behaviour by scanners, regardless of content.

The developer needs to untick compression when making the executable for this not to happen. Of course we cannot do so, since we have no source.

And no, the games don't like 64bit environment, nor XP 32bit, even if they are 32bit executables.
Possibly they could work (more than once) in a Win9x environment, but I haven't tried yet.

I think you should try to remove D3drm.dll and paste, new, or you can try to fix it. Perhaps it is simply didn't work properly, and must be fixed. And to do that I recommend next fixing tool: http://fix4dll.com/d3drm_dll.

I'm trying to get a copy of these games for eXoDOS and TDC, however no one who has posted here that they have the games has been able to get back to me.

Would someone who has access to the games on the FTP or elsewhere please contact me.

I'd like to test the windows games for my Win3Xo collection and get the rest into exoDOS. I also suspect there is no malware, and it is simply a false positive.

I have full pack, eXo. I'll contact you when I'll be at home. Unfortunately, most (if not all) of this games are "first parts" of seemingly bigger series. You'll see.
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Done. See PM.