Microprose's Pirates by The Firm
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MD5 checksum 41d4b98c3b0e6ff3184de6685baea082
Mime type Zip archive data
Download PIRATES.ZIP
Size 17 kB
1989 August 18
- Zip - DOS / Cracktro or intro
- Demozoo
- The Software Surgeon, writer credits
- The Software Surgeon, program credits
4 items in the archive
- $README.DOC
- FIRM.SCR
- PIRATES.COM
- PIRATES.FRM
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Microprose's PIRATES -- 'BUSTED' 08/18/1989 by THE FiRM
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PIRATES has been out for a while in it's floppy-only form, but it seems
everyone has had a lot of trouble getting it converted to a hard-disk version,
so it was suggested that The FiRM have a go at it...
The copy-protection scheme in this game did prove to be quite a challenge,
but even with it removed there remained the problem of saving games, so we also
created the PIRATES.SAV file to handle this as well... Anytime you want to
save a game, just ignore the references to floppy-drives and it will be saved
inside this file for you automatically...
In addition to converting the game to a file-type system so it could be
located on any hard/ram/floppy disk large enough to handle it, we also modified
the doc-check so ANY month/early/late combination-answer is now accepted as a
correct response... (In the 'start a new career' mode you may still have to
do a little swordplay related to an 'unprofitable' voyage, but this matches
100% with the original (unmodified) version of the game even when a correct
answer was given. If you don't wish to engage to enemy captain, you can simply
retreat by moving off the screen to the right at this point, but it's good
practice for later (more dificult) challenges...)
We also added a 'drop-to-dos' feature, so the key combination <CTRL>-<Q>
will immediately return you to DOS at any time during play, as will the normal
'divide the plunder' exit routine...
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* -------------------- S P E C I A L N O T E --------------------- *
* Over the past few months there have been a few harsh words floating *
* around between cracker groups, and I wish to apologize to all the *
* users-at-large for our part in it... Hopefully it's over and all *
* groups will now co-exist in harmony and fellowship... Best wishes *
* to all and a special thanks to Lord Ironwolfe and all those who *
* submitted designs for FiRMLOADER startup-screens... While the one *
* included in this release is of my own design, look for others in *
* upcomming FiRM releases... *
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I hope you enjoy this and all cracks released by The FiRM, as we always do
*our* best to bring you *the* best...
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│ The Software Surgeon │
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-=≡│ THE FiRM │≡=-
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