BIG TOP

blondeinside · Post by **blondeinside** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:10 am

hi, I'm desperately looking for "BIGTOP" a dos game that i used ti play several years ago, I think it was from '83 or 84, location of the game was a circus, very minimal graphic..
please help!!!

greencosmos · Post by **greencosmos** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:46 am

It is simplicity itself, dear Watson.

blondeinside · Post by **blondeinside** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:41 am

WOW!!thank you so much

sarosaripeta · Post by **sarosaripeta** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:46 pm

I've been looking for that game for years too!!!

But I have just one problem... My computer hasn't 3.5'' disk drive... blondeinside, was you able to run it?

thanks...

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:40 am

You don't need a floppy drive.
Inside the archive you'll find 2 zipfiles.
BIGTOP-IMG.ZIP -> bootable game image for floppy.
FLOPPER.ZIP -> a flopdrive emulator.
Don't use the flopper emulator.

Extract bigtop.img to c:\games
Run dosbox.
Input:
boot c:\games\bigtop.img
That will boot the image.
Keep your cycles low.
Select difficulty with 1-9.
Use the numpad keys to play.

sarosaripeta · Post by **sarosaripeta** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:52 am

Thanks dosraider, but it didn't work... DOS doesn't recognize the word "boot"...

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:59 am

Ahem! Not DOS[or XP's Command Prompt], but DOSBox

That's a totally different thing

*Edit
Edited URL, was typo in it ~dosraider

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:00 am

Oh my .... n00bs.....

Disregard that 'n00bs' ... my fault, I wasn't specific enough.

Of course dos don't recognise that, this isn't a MSDos command, the 'boot' command is a specific DOSBOX command.

As you can see it's used here in DOSBOX 0.72, my imgfile is on E:\.
Works flawless.

Bottom line:
Install dosbox 0.72, unzip bigtop.img in c:\games\
run dosbox
input at dosboxprompt
boot c:\games\bigtop.img

and there you go.

Whilst I'm on it ......
Lower the CPU cycles or your game will be unplayable.
To lower the CPU cycles:
hit CTRL+F11
To rise them:
hit CTRL+F12
In dosbox of course, that won't work in a MSDos command window.

Capiche?

*Edit
Kicking Larry's arse right now. How dare you post whilst I'm typing?

sarosaripeta · Post by **sarosaripeta** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:36 am

Great!!! It worked!!!

Thanks everybody...

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:27 am

You're welcome, sarosaripeta.

Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate this.