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The Residents are one of the most fascinating bands ever to appear. Formed in 1969 wearing full tuxes and head-covering eye-ball masks, their anonymity allowed them to cultivate a unique brand of experimental music and freaky art aesthetic in their pioneering videos. With the boom in multimedia technology in the early nineties, they even turned their hand at interactive entertainment with two adventure games; Freak Show and Bad Day on the Midway. Head on after the jump to know more.
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1994 The Cryptic Corporation & Inscape
Windows 3.1
Arcade-Music-Weird
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1995 The Cryptic Corporation & Inscape
Windows 3.1
Adventure-Music-Weird
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This is very nice! I bought both on CDROM ages ago and they are indeed every bit as bizarre as you say. I do greatly appreciate the installers that you provide, as I can use them to continue to enjoy these and others here that I own and haven't been able to use lately.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words. Old games can be a bit of a pain to get working which is why I've tried to make the installers as easy to use as possible. They're fun to make almost as much as their fun to play.
DeleteHi, how did you get the video work? I tried to install the french version of 'Bad Day' in Dosbox + Windows3.11, but only get black zone where the game is supposed to play quicktime files (Quicktime 2.1.2 is installed). Sounds and background works well...
DeleteI believe I installed everything from the CD, including Quicktime which came on the disc. I tend to do this with each game as I know that's the program that the developers know will work with it. In this instance it's Quicktime 2.0.3. Try using my package as a baseline for your French version to see if it works any better.
DeleteI have no problems downloading the game contents and the installer. The trouble starts with the installation. It goes to 97% and then produces this message:
ReplyDeleteThe Residents has not been totally installed because of the following reason:
File corrupt or unreadable
CD\RBD.iso
You will have to run this utility again to completely install The Residents.
Tried running the utility again and it made no difference. Same message. I'm on a 64-bit Win 7 laptop. And would really like to get this to work. Any help would be appreciated.
Nice package and artwork! Are you willing to share some more details on how exactly you got these running? Being a huge Rez-addict I've been trying to get these back on running for years now, from hicky XP results, virtualbox etc. to mostly DosBox + W3.1 lately. My versions turned out incomplete however (e.g. no intro plus walking in BD, or no announcer in FS) However i can watch the performances (but no songs) and go backstage in my FS, which I cannot do in your version.
ReplyDeleteI am using original DosBox & W3.1 plus S3/SB16-drivers plus WinG on a x86-W7. And I also have the original Gingerbread Man cd-rom from The Residents which is the hardest one to get running.
So any help there would be very welcome.
Btw your BDM runs perfect, maybe because FS comes with an earlier version of QT (2.01) on the disc?
Mostly it's trial and error to get these gaes to run. The more I do, the more I learn about the finer points. I first downloaded a pre-installed Windows 3.1 package (from DJOldgames I believe) and went from there. Installations were simply run from the (now virtual) CD similar to how it would've been done originally.
DeletePlaying the games again for this review, I originally had them separated and both worked. I think you may be right about the FS crashes. I'll separate them/improve them when I have time (been a bit absent of late so want to add some new content first).
If you want to try it yourself, you can use this install as a basis, or download the pack from DJOldgames.
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/windows-31/
p.s. have you seen the recent feature documentary, Theory of Obscurity? It's very enlightening for such an enigmatic band.
we watched it again last night, then pulled out the old dvd-roms of Freak Show & Bad Day.I had d/l these 2 packages from here a few years ago & remembered I had no idea how to install & run them. As of this moment I still feel that way. Technically challenged here. I just know I'll be frustrated at least, and/or crash my only working laptop running WIN 10. Any suggestions? Thanks for doing this!
DeleteDo you have a donation thing anywhere? You're a saint, dude.
ReplyDeleteI don't at the moment but you can always help by spreading the word :)
DeleteBoth this and the other Residents game were working on first try but not anymore after that. I reinstalled and happened the same.
ReplyDeleteIt says "Unable to copy the driver file c:\windows\dirdib.drv to your Windows directory. Your disk may be full"
This happens already inside Dosbox before loading the game.
Can you help?
Hello, this is due t admin rights when installing to Program Files. Either run the game as admin or install outside of Program Files.
DeleteOh i missed your reply. Thank you. I figured it out just today.
DeleteI'm getting a lot of crashes after loading up a save for some reason and trying to move around. Worked fine before that.
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