Prince of Persia help

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Prince of Persia help

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You know that this game has to be a pain in the butt by forcing you to look up letters in the manual to survive the potion rooms. I've never beaten this game and I rediscovered it as abandonware, but of course I don't have that silly manual anymore after about a thousand years. Being forced into fullscreen mode makes it nigh impossible to look at a copy of the manual on the computer screen, and the stupid code has to be different every time -__-

I dont exactly have a working printer (bet I could if I tried really hard, but I'm not feeling that desparate just yet) and I tried taking pictures of the screen with my camera but then the text is illegible. I'm not even sure if what I have is the right thing. It's a CD collection manual of PoPs 1 and 2 instead of just the first one, and this stupid table clearly doesn't contain ALL the codes after I broke my wrist writing it down for a reference.

This copy-protection thing is the exact same reason I'm also frustrated with Lemmings and Keen 6 >:

Can somebody help in some way?

BTW its the macintosh version if that matters.[/url]

PS: Why does using the shortcut buttons for the tags always put an extra closing tag at the end of the post just to annoy you and force you to immediately edit it? :dead2
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Re: Prince of Persia help

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"PS: Why does using the shortcut buttons for the tags always put an extra closing tag at the end of the post just to annoy you and force you to immediately edit it? :dead2"


Because the correct usage of the URL tag is:

[url]http://address.com[/url]
OR
[url=http://address.com]Some title, Click here![/url]
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Post by szevvy »

Run the game in DosBox and then you can alt-tab out?
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szevvy wrote:Run the game in DosBox and then you can alt-tab out?
I can't do that in my Basilisk II emulator :(
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Post by q 90 »

I'm also frustrated with Lemmings
What copy protection was in Lemmings? I don't ever remember there being one.
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The original Lemmings checked the label of the floppy in A:, it had to match a certain set of weird characters before the game loaded. If you had it installed on your hard drive you periodically had to go hunting for the floppy before it would continue to load.

That said I'm pretty sure the old "NeverLock" program fixed it, it was like a giant (shareware) crack library for games of that era to remove all the "annoying" copy protection.
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Post by q 90 »

Ah, I see. I don't think I ever installed it to my hard drive back in the day.
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