Hover

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 7:40 am

Hey anyone remember this game?
http://www.duke.edu/~mfc5/HOVER.htm

Came with the windows 95 disk.
Old raycasted 3D game I used to play a lot when I was a little kid. Back when windows 95 was new and 3d games were like O_O .

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 10:31 am

Damn, that's a pretty cool game

I don't remember it coming with Win95 though...

Stickmanofdoom · Post by **Stickmanofdoom** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 11:51 am

Wow. That brings back memories!

Post by **benryves** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 11:55 am

I have the MSDN CD with every release of Windows 95 on it, and have not seen this game - maybe it came with a common addon-package (Plus! maybe?)

EDIT: "Hover! is a video game that came bundled with Windows 95.", according to Wikipedia. Very strange.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 12:16 pm

I have an original-release Windows 95 CD (OEM). It's sitting in a folder... Not really mentioned anywhere nor installed by default. Actually, I think you might be able to get to it from the menu... It's been so long since I've used it I dont remember... But it's a kick-butt game.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 2:01 pm

I got this game with Win95 ... that and the Weezer 'Buddy Holly' video clip

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kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 7:01 pm

, I played it last night and it was fun! Spengo thinks someone should port it to calcs, he said maybe z80 or 68k. He also thought it would be possible to use the gemini engine for this? Idk but it would be cool!

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 7:12 pm

This would be great for calcs. I remember playing that on my old Dell computer like 10 years ago. I think that you could find it on the Win 95 cd in the folder called games or something. Gemeni doesn't have any jumping abilities, like this game had. Maybe a engine modification could fix that. If you need more speed, you could take out the wall textures.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 9:46 pm

@Everyone who hasn't found it: It's kind of hidden. :/ You have to go look for it on your cd. It's on the actual windows 95 CD I think.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 10:37 pm

Well, without the jumping and the textures, it would be kinda possible, perhaps even with the gemini engine (with textures)... Would look horrible though in black and white; you wouldn't even be able to see the difference between red and blue flags...

necro · Post by **necro** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 10:50 pm

make a black flag and a white flag...any ways, I have this game on my comp too, very neat but its certanly no quake

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 7:07 am

Spengo wrote:@Everyone who hasn't found it: It's kind of hidden. :/ You have to go look for it on your cd. It's on the actual windows 95 CD I think.

Yes, it comes on an 'official' version of Win95.

I would have thought that everyone would have a look around on the disk. I still know my Win95 serial number

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CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 12:35 pm

Timendus wrote:Well, without the jumping and the textures, it would be kinda possible, perhaps even with the gemini engine (with textures)... Would look horrible though in black and white; you wouldn't even be able to see the difference between red and blue flags...

If you took out the textures, would you be able to add in jumping? And the flags could have patterns on them, like an x on one and an o on the other.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 4:04 pm

Taking out textures would make it alot faster, this is why zdoom is so fast.

Post by **Patori** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 4:58 pm

Didn't that Windows 95 CD come with Hover AND a Weezer music video? ^^ Good times.