Fledgling Fyora JDonte Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Had sent in an email a while back about the game called "Homeland: the Stone of Night" and was told they don't hold it anymore. So was wondering if anyone knows a site that still offers the download after it became Freeware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Homeland was never particularly popular and it's been years since it was discontinued, so it's possible there's nobody still posting here who still has a copy or knows where to find one. A little Googling didn't find anything either. Good luck to you, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Mistah Q Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I have a copy of Homeland v. 1.03 demo file. But I am not certain I will allowed to give it to you through this site? I thought Spiderweb had stopped that partnership a while ago. I am not aware of freeware version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Dragonlore, the makers of Homeland, did contact a poster on these forums letting him know they were no longer in business and giving permission to distribute the full version of the game, but unfortunately that was back in 2010 and it's been taken down since then. You could try sending a PM to Tyranicus to see if he can help you, although he's not around much any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Mistah Q Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Thanks. Although that link was long gone, I was able to do some Web Archive voodoo with the link Tyranicus posted, and indeed extract the full version of Homeland just now. 311MB download. Since there's already explicit permission from the game publisher for it to be free, the only lingering question is whether Jeff would allow me to provide a link now that SW is no longer distributing it. But I'm a little too busy to upload it somewhere at the moment anyways: if you (or anyone really) wants it send me a PM and I'll shoot you a link via PM sometime tomorrow... unless a mod explicitly forbids me from doing so, between now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I'll make a post on the mod forums just to double-check that it's okay; there have been miscommunications about this sort of thing in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Mistah Q Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 lol I found SubTerra and OceanBound demos too but I imagine those are very explicitly not allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Crystal Shard, developer of SubTerra, is still around and actively making games, and you can get SubTerra from them if you want it. As for Ocean Bound... well, Richard White disappeared off the face of the earth a long time ago and nobody really knows what happened, but as far as I'm aware he never gave permission for any of his games to be freely distributed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Mistah Q Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Aha yeah I just found an active link to subterra by digging around the spiderweb faqs site. http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/faqs/subterra_faq.html http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/subterra/index.html I have to stop playing with these archives though, that's enough nostalgia for one day. The OceanBound I found is just a mac version demo anyways but eh. Windows isn't too hard to get old stuff working; I don't have the experience to finagle with old Mac stuff though. I started with a Tandy and went the IBM to Windows direction. Remember when PCs used to be called IBM Compatibles... how'd I get this old anyways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Richard White disappeared off the face of the earth a long time ago Not exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Huh, how about that. Well, if he's still trying to make money off one of his games as of a year ago, that's further reason to believe he wouldn't be happy about full versions of them being distributed by others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Unbelievable. But the iOS version of Galactic Core appears to have nothing in common with the old turn-based strategy game except the name. It seems like a randomly generated choose-your-own adventure story, with pictures, where you try to get home in your spaceship, through a series of random encounters and explorations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Dragonlore, the makers of Homeland, did contact a poster on these forums letting him know they were no longer in business and giving permission to distribute the full version of the game, but unfortunately that was back in 2010 and it's been taken down since then. You could try sending a PM to Tyranicus to see if he can help you, although he's not around much any more. The link I posted in that thread doesn't work anymore, but the game is still hosted on my site here. Also, I'm here all the time; I just rarely have anything to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora JDonte Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Ah thanks guys. You're all awesome~ One more question though: Is there a way to stick the game in window mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 shortcut properties----->run---> you have tried? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora JDonte Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Yes, there was no window mode option. Only normal window, minimized & maximized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt BMA Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 You could try adapting the Geneforge Dxwnd tutorial to run in a window. Google Suggest autocompleted "Homeland the sto" into "Homeland the stone of night". Not bad eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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