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Title: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Gnome on May 31, 2008, 08:23:32 PM
I heard great thing about it, and the screenshot I saw was great, does anyone know where to find it?
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: jeremymaharg on June 01, 2008, 12:02:02 AM
I've been looking all over for it, but no luck so far...

I used to have it on my old iMac G3 a long time ago, but limited disk space and no CD burner at the time forced me to delete it...  :-[

I asked Al about it (he has a copy), and maybe it'll be available again soon, but getting it hosted somewhere might be difficult...

Here's a link to archives of some of his other games:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.secretagentbob.com/downloads/files/*
It's not complete (Anaphobia isn't there) and some of the files are unavailable even if listed; try multiple dates. Also, avoid downloading "The Box", which may be infected with Sevendust.

The Alpha Code is a particularly good one out of the ones available.
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Gnome on June 01, 2008, 12:09:42 PM
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avoid downloading "The Box", which may be infected with Sevendust.


Is that a type of Malware?
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: jeremymaharg on June 01, 2008, 12:25:58 PM
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Is that a type of Malware?
It was a virus that caused trouble on pre-OS X Macs. OS X should be unaffected, but make sure to use an antivirus program like Agax on the game before letting it open in Classic. (Most of the SecretAgentBob games are not OS X native.)
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: EqwanoX on June 01, 2008, 07:13:21 PM
what game are you looking for? im pretty sure all his old game are downloadable on his site, but i dont think theres a link to the page, if you post on his forums he'll tell you
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: jeremymaharg on June 01, 2008, 08:20:55 PM
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what game are you looking for? im pretty sure all his old game are downloadable on his site, but i dont think theres a link to the page, if you post on his forums he'll tell you
The file is Anaphobian Planet, the "Largest GM game file ever".

On the link from Al's Game Downloads page, the link goes to a page with a list of files, but if you attempt to download one, a 404 page appears mentioning that he removed them from his servers...

EDIT:Fixed some inaccurate info above...
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Al Staffieri on June 02, 2008, 04:53:19 AM
It's 130Mb compressed, so I don't think I can upload it anywhere. StuffIt has the ability to create several parts, so I may try that.

Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: GMG Tim on June 02, 2008, 03:06:04 PM
You could upload it via FTP to the GMG servers...

Ghost
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: EqwanoX on June 02, 2008, 04:05:08 PM
i  used to have that game, its 300megs
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Mystor on June 02, 2008, 04:42:00 PM
You should upload it to GMG!

Mist
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: WarHampster on June 02, 2008, 07:28:21 PM
What exactly is this game?
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: alias on June 02, 2008, 08:51:23 PM
A game created by an old member of GM. It was back in the "golden days". Of GM where people actually made games from time to time. Yes i was a lurker back then aswell.
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: jeremymaharg on June 02, 2008, 09:58:46 PM
I found a description on an archive of an old page from his site:
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Yeah, you read that file size right. One hundred and thirty-two megabytes. This is the LONGEST and LARGEST GameMaker game ever made. I spent a LOOONG time on this, and actually sold it on CD (to which a few people actually bought). This was supposedly the introduction to professional GameMaker games, although at the time I wasn't really up-to-par with scripting or graphics design, so this game was kind of a flop. BUT, now for the first time ever (thanks to recent server upgrades) you have a chance to play this infamous game IN IT'S ENTIRETY! I'm sure a few of you have always wondered what the heck this game was like. Well, here ya go!
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: EqwanoX on June 03, 2008, 08:55:11 AM
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What exactly is this game?
its a massive game with 10 levels of gameplay rendered in 3d. i thought the gameplay was kinda boring (gm was very limited at the time) and 3d graphics kind of plain and basic, like a bunch of empty rooms with wierd flashy textures, if your lucky you would see a table or some random object. i didnt play through the whole thing though so i could be wrong.

if your looking for old games i highly recomend chronicle of ekan, it was made in hypercard or something but it doesnt do anything that cant be done in gm or sc, that game is unbeleivable. i was so inspired by it i drew my interpretation of some of the characters

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/Ekan.gif


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Yes i was a lurker back then aswell.
you were a lurker back then? that was like 8 years ago, wow you lurked for a long time
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Silverwind on June 03, 2008, 09:28:33 AM
I heard GM fighting was one of the best games in its day. Can anyone upload a copy of that?

Also, who made it?
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: jeremymaharg on June 03, 2008, 01:53:45 PM
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I heard GM fighting was one of the best games in its day. Can anyone upload a copy of that?

Also, who made it?
Try this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021127105048/http://www.secretagentbob.com/downloads/files/GMFighting!.sea.bin
If the download fails try replacing the "20021127..." part of the URL with "*" and try other available links there.

This one was also a SecretAgentBob game, I think.

EDIT: Sorry, I just tried downloading, and on each one I end up only getting a small amount of it before it quits working.
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Gan on June 03, 2008, 04:27:56 PM
It downloaded for me.

Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mvhtayfybjm

-Gandolf
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: Silverwind on June 04, 2008, 02:32:36 AM
Me too, and I finally found a way send files over to my old iMac without them turning into text files. Now I've going through some of the old OS 9 GM games I never got to play before. :) I liked Greece, but I thought Triumviry and GM Fighter weren't all they were hyped up to be. Clever coding though, and GM fighter had great music.
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: EqwanoX on June 04, 2008, 10:04:14 AM
   gm fighting wasnt really a game it was meant to be a joke, theres another one like that where you have to find out which gm character killed sab, its incomplete but its fun just reading the descriptions of the characters. theres some games that i never even heard of and are impossable to find, this one caught my attention because it has good graphics
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/unknown.jpg)
Title: Re: Secret Agent Bob's Game
Post by: jeremymaharg on June 10, 2008, 03:19:30 PM
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It's 130Mb compressed, so I don't think I can upload it anywhere. StuffIt has the ability to create several parts, so I may try that.

Any luck uploading it yet?