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I found it! The game that spawned the phrase "click here to mate"!

http://www.abandonia.com/games/531/Wolf.htm

That will get you the DOS program. It's abandonware, meaning that its original copyright holders are defunct. It may theoretically be considered pirated, but no one is around to sue, and there's no chance an official re-release will ever happen.

Now, you need a DOS emulator. If you don't already have one, Dosbox works quite well:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

Here's how you do it. (Experienced techies, please forgive the painfully obvious, but this will help even the casual computer user get up and running.)

1. Unzip the entire Wolf game contents into a folder. We'll save some typing by putting it in C:\WOLF.

2. Install and run Dosbox. It will create a DOS window, in the Z directory.

3. Type "mount C C:/WOLF" and press return, to create a virtual C drive containing the contents of the Wolf game folder.

4. Type "C:" and return to go into that drive.

5. Type "WOLF" to run the game, and voila!

command and conquer: wolf wild life,
music starts playing: tunutunutunuttunuty
establishing wild life map, stand by.....

I have that game!

I never really played it, but my sister loved it.

Hrmm... I ought to have the CD somewhere around here...

-- Vilkacis

Vilkacis wrote: I have that game!

I never really played it, but my sister loved it.

Hrmm... I ought to have the CD somewhere around here...

-- Vilkacis

wich one, i have tiberian sun, firestorm, red alert 2, yuris revenge, and renegade, i dont have red alert 1 but i can easily get it.

Shadow Wulf wrote: wich one, i have tiberian sun, firestorm, red alert 2, yuris revenge, and renegade, i dont have red alert 1 but i can easily get it.

Bah, none of those. I was talking about Wolf, of course, Mr. Off-topic.


-- Vilkacis

Wolf came as a stack of seven floppies. I still have mine.

Scott Gardener wrote:Wolf came as a stack of seven floppies. I still have mine.

Hmm..

I'll have to see if I can track it down...

My parents seem to have moved everything around down here (I'm visiting for a while). I'll have to wait until my sister gets home. She'll probably know where all the computer stuff went.

-- Vilkacis

hmmm..interesting. I might check out this game.

grrr, dosbox no work for me.... I had another one VDMsound I think it was called... worked well

So...what exactly is the game about...?

I'm far too lazy to download something and set it up without knowing if its worth my time.

You play a wolf, doing what wolves do--hunting for food and water, and as you get experienced with the game, raising a pack.

Okay, I found it. Here are some scans:





My parents had it in a box out in the shed with a bunch of other computer things they cleared out of the house.


-- Vilkacis

Scott Gardener wrote:You play a wolf, doing what wolves do--hunting for food and water, and as you get experienced with the game, raising a pack.

its like sims only with wolves.

Hmm, I should install this on my laptop.

Scott Gardener wrote:You play a wolf, doing what wolves do--hunting for food and water, and as you get experienced with the game, raising a pack.

Sounds interesting en ough...

Hope it works...

I have the game... I also had it in my really old computer... That comp didn't trouble me as much trying to run this game, of course

Vilkacis wrote:Okay, I found it. Here are some scans:





My parents had it in a box out in the shed with a bunch of other computer things they cleared out of the house.


-- Vilkacis

is that the only version? Is it still availible to buy at the store?

Figarou wrote:is that the only version? Is it still availible to buy at the store?

As Scott Gardener mentioned earlier, he has a version that came on a stack of floppies. I'm sure the game itself is identical between the two versions.

My sister bought it a few years ago for cheap on the bargain shelf at a store. I doubt it can be found at the store anymore. Windows doesn't even come with MS-DOS nowadays, so it can't effectively be sold -- even if it weren't the case that the original copyright holders are no longer around (as was mentioned at the beginning of this thread).

-- Vilkacis

I bought it nine years ago. It's been out of print a long time.

Played it some, kinda fun, even for a Sim.

Theres a certain nostalgia to playing old games like this, even if when the game was actually sold and not abbadonware i was either not born or very young.

Grrrr...so far I haven't been able to bring down anything but a beaver and a rabbit. The deer, caribou, moose, and bison all elude me....

Let no one say wolves have it easy

Excelsia wrote:Grrrr...so far I haven't been able to bring down anything but a beaver and a rabbit. The deer, caribou, moose, and bison all elude me....

Hmmmm...if I recall...it takes more than one wolf to bring down an animal larger than itself. The wolves need to work as a team. I don't think a single wolf can take down a full grown bison by himself.

So I guess they implemented it into that game.

Is it a really big download? I have almost no space on my computer