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[Temporary Joe]

Hi! I recently got a PC and there's an old game I want to play, WingNuts: Temporal Navigator. It's an old game (2001) and while the Mac version is easy to find and was released as freeware (it's non-Universal, but a system update at some point broke the music changing between levels, and with Rosetta, even running it is a little iffy), there was a PC version too (98/Me/2000/XP). I checked the "Is it abandonware" checklist, it's not being supported anymore and even Freeverse doesn't exist anymore (it was bought up by a series of companies, and the current holder, DeNA, holds no trace to Freeverse's original products). In fact, I remember that when Freeverse was still extant, I wrote their support a letter about the problems, but it was already officially discontinued at that point.

The PC version I've tried to find on other sources, even a demo (sadly the PC version's demo was hosted on Freeverse's now-defunct FTP). And no, if your suggestion was "get an emulator and play it", it uses OpenGL, which SheepShaver does not support.

Thanks and I appreciate any feedback!

[Smiling Spectre]

File Planet have the demo of it.

[Temporary Joe]

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

File Planet have the demo of it.

Neither Chrome nor Firefox seem to like FilePlanet, probably because of all sorts of dubious mods hanging out there. The demo's fine, right?

[Smiling Spectre]

Well, I didn't install it. But I downloaded it, if it matters. And just started - it seems legitimate (I didn't install game though, I am at work).

[Temporary Joe]

Good news is it does work, better news is that it is the full version locked behind a shareware prompt, so if I find the code then good times, bad news is there's only so many launches I can do before it presumably stops working, worse news is I have yet to come up with a solution to make it work. Windowed, compatibility modes...they all crash on the loading screen in 7. Crap!