[Floppertalk] Re: MS-DOS MODE?

floppertalk@oldskool.org floppertalk@oldskool.org
Tue, 31 May 2005 09:48:13 -0500


Free-game-downloads charges for downloads?
That site needs to be shut down purely for false advertising.
You gave money to a crook.


You can get bigtop and many other disk images here, for free.
http://retrograde.trustno1.org/index.html

The disk image found on that page (click on the funtastic link on the
left side) works just fine in MESS.
I was running MESSGUI 0.86   If there are newer versions, they should
work the same.

My BIOS files are in the BIOS folder.  I have IBMPC.ZIP, PC.ZIP and
XTVGA.ZIP there.  You probably only need PC.ZIP

In the SOFTWARE folder, I have a subfolder called PC.
In the PC folder, I have BIGTOP.IMG 

Double click on MESSGUI.EXE, go to "open other software", and browse to
mess\software\pc and click on BIGTOP.IMG.

>From there, for me, MESS then "boots" an old IBM computer and loads
bigtop.  

After you exit the game, bigtop.img should appear on the right side of
the screen, so you won't have to "open other software" every time you
want to play.

I figured you'd want my working copy of everything, so I've zipped it up
and placed it here:
http://www.geocities.com/ph8fuct/mess.zip


-jeff!


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Jeff,
 
Answer to your paragraph #2:
I downloaded the game from this site:
 http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/
Follow these steps please:  After going to this website click on "PC",
then clikc on "Arcade Action", then click on "Games Bb-Bl",
then click on BigTop. There it asks you for your $ !!!
 
Do you know of a website where you can download BigTop for free?
I'm not sure, may be I have a corrupt file.  But may be not.
I look forward to your findings.  I hope it works.  Thanks.
-Joe.