Bio Menace released as freeware! - Page 2

TerminX · 12-23-2005, 03:56 PM

Thanks for the Christmas present. Very enjoyable game. It's like Keen with a machine gun, gibs, and a big pile of bodies.

Phait · 12-23-2005, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Joe3DR said:

If you were 3DR, you wouldn't be in business long enough to have titles this old to release as freeware. You'd give away one of your biggest moneymakers for free.

While I like to think 3DR is just bankrupt and lounging around, it's probably not true - and I have a feeling 3DR would do well without DN3D being sold.

Also to whoever suggested I buy DN3D, I already own it. Ain't about what I want - I just think it's an old enough game to be free already.

DOSGuy · 12-23-2005, 05:30 PM

I don't see why they shouldn't sell anything that still works and still sells. They have a right to every penny.

I want games to be available to the public, either for sale or as freeware. The only thing that bothers me is a company that will do neither, depriving everyone of the game. Kudos to 3DR for still selling so many of their old games, and for making so many of their discontinued titles free.

ultra tree 85! · 12-23-2005, 07:25 PM

Just played Bio Menace. I was having a great time with it. It's a lot of fun. Thanks again for the Christmas Presents.

jbailey · 12-23-2005, 08:03 PM

I just ran biomenace with my compiled version of dosbox
(gcc compiler), it ran *perfect*. Here's what I did:

mount r: b:\bio

I then navigated to r: and typed in 'bmenace1.exe', set my
configuration in the game menus, and started playing...

Note: I'm not running the patch version...

Thanks for releasing this joe! It's a great christmas gift!

Drazula · 12-23-2005, 08:05 PM

Thanks to Joe and all of 3DR.

Travis · 12-23-2005, 08:52 PM

Yay.
This is a great game, one of my favourite games ever.
Brings back memories.
I only ever had the 1st episode back 12 or so years ago, though. I was really young back then. But I loved it.
The Apogee/Epic shareware episodes were staples of my childhood.
It's good to see companies doing things like this.

Joe Siegler · 12-23-2005, 09:23 PM

Glad y'all like it. Been wanting to do this for awhile.

As was pointed out, you can make levels with Ted, which is offered as a dl elsewhere on our site. What most of us didn't realize for the longest time is that the registered game comes with the Ted support files for Bio Menace.

All you need to do is drop in the ted exe file and it should work.

Granted, learning Ted can be a bit bizarre. It's not as complicated as today's editing tools, but it has it's own quirks.

jimbob · 12-23-2005, 09:59 PM

as for everyone else, the vanilla game seems to work fine on XP except for the sound, but that might be fixed with VDM sound.

/off to play it some more

Halcyon · 12-24-2005, 07:28 AM

That's cool. Thanks a lot.

Nice Christmas present!

laffer · 12-24-2005, 08:10 AM

Yes, thanks again Joe! 3DR really is a very cool company, few others are that passionate about releasing old games as freeware. I hope you make mountains of money with DNF so you can stay around forever

12-24-2005, 08:52 AM

Wow, that's a nice present...

Thank you 3DRealms!

Phait · 12-24-2005, 09:42 AM

A level editor named Ted...

?

ultra tree 85! · 12-24-2005, 10:47 AM

I love the music in this game.

I've made it through the first episode and I'm in the middle of the second, I also love the levels.

3D Realms rocks!

Gryph · 12-24-2005, 01:47 PM

Oh man, I love this game! Thanks 3DR/Apogee!

Dr.Dude · 12-24-2005, 04:05 PM

Hell yes! I haven't played this game in ages.... time to relive all the old nostalgia.

One of Apogee's best old sidescrollers, which says a lot considering the awesome games they were always coming out with back in the early 90's.

Contra · 12-24-2005, 05:00 PM

Man thank you 3drealms I love this game

, I'll be honest, back when I had a shareware disk with duke I, II, bio menace, and all these games, I thought bio menace was stupid and weird (the game kinda scared me back then tee hee). Once I installed this and learned how to use the patch with dosbox and I finally got my gamepad to work without the game locking up (which took me about 5 minutes

), I was in heaven.

Duke II will always be my most favorite dos shooter of all time, but it is now safe to say that bio is better than duke 1 in my opinion, AND YOU ARE STILL SELLING THAT GAME WHILE BIO MENACE IS FREE!!!!

I love the mechanics, the music is somewhat catchy, usaully fitting in with the level, the city environments are cool

, and shooting up the enemies is just too fun, although some parts are weird (like skull man lol), and the controls are alittle less stable than the sidescroll dukes, it is amazing how this free game already tops other old titles that aren't free, and I'm not just talking about dos titles

. Thx again 3drealms, happy holidays and have a happy new year everybody!!!

BTW, I made a topic on this, but will Alien Carnage (Halloween Harry if you will) ever see the light of day again? I miss that game, and I can't find any downloads to freeware or shareware links to that game on your site, I know it was discontinued, but I thought it could still be downloaded or something, either way, thx again.

DOSGuy · 12-24-2005, 05:53 PM

John Passfield owns the rights to Alien Carnage. I approached him about a freeware release and he said he was interested in doing that. I recently had an opportunity to interview him and he said that he's trying to get a handheld release of the game before he decides on the fate of the original.

Hudson · 12-24-2005, 06:27 PM

Awesome man, Biomenace rocks

Thanks guys!

Patrick102076 · 12-25-2005, 10:16 AM

Bio menace is one of Apogee's best! I still play the game through every few weeks. It must have more secret levels than any other game

Hudson · 12-25-2005, 02:55 PM

Heh, Keen's in there

Frenkel · 12-25-2005, 03:02 PM

Commander Keen is not the only one you might recognize

12-26-2005, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Joe3DR said:
Continuing in our series of freeware releases from the past, Bio Menace is now available for you to download in a full registered form.

Thankyou, Apogee. You guys are great!

Quote:

Joe3DR said:
Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us here at Apogee / 3D Realms!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you guys as well. Hopefully it will be an exciting year for the both of us.

ShadeEX · 12-26-2005, 11:10 AM

Nice.... thank you for this extra x-mas pressent...

Ive never tried the full version as well...

Only the shareware many years ago i think i was around 6-7 when i played it..

Kalki · 12-26-2005, 12:15 PM

Just saw this on the main page and tried it. Works on xp just fine. Thanks guys! It's quite fun! Seasons greetings right back at'cha!

Funduke · 12-27-2005, 03:33 PM

Thank you for the xmas present!

It works fine with dosbox and the biopatch.

Greetings
Funduke

bittercold · 12-27-2005, 07:10 PM

I loved this game.

Thanks.

Eddy Willson · 12-31-2005, 11:31 AM

Rider · 12-31-2005, 01:00 PM

W00tage for releasing this masterpiece! Works fine on Win2000 native as well!

now to get Ted on the track!

Fernito · 12-31-2005, 03:11 PM

Thank you guys at 3D Realms!!!

I was expecting for that for a long while!

cladinshadows · 12-31-2005, 04:26 PM

Thanks 3DR! I could never get this game to run back when I used Windows 98 - now it runs perfectly fine on xp! I don't have sound, but I'll figure out that old chest nut

.

You guys are so good to us

.

P.S - Where does this guy work now (who wrote the game)?

laffer · 12-31-2005, 05:35 PM

Just use dosbox and it will work perfectly. In fact, use dosbox for all dos games, it's by FAR the best way.

Rider · 01-01-2006, 06:46 AM

I have a few questions regarding the Ted5 editor:

* How can you play your custom levels?
* How can you make doors 'openable'?
* Where do you define where you exit the level, and what level to load next?

it looks awfully complicated, but it's a lot of fun

avatar_58 · 01-03-2006, 03:04 AM

Is this a mapping problem or did I discover some random bug? It happened to me in Episode 3

moron · 01-03-2006, 12:31 PM

I dont remember seeing that must be a bug with your system

Frenkel · 01-03-2006, 04:14 PM

I don't see it here:
http://www.3drealms.com/menace/maps/...orgtrouble.png

avatar_58 · 01-03-2006, 04:34 PM

When I first walked there it was fine, I think something must have happened when I kept killing those flying robots or something.

Justin · 01-04-2006, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Patrick102076 said:
Bio menace is one of Apogee's best! I still play the game through every few weeks. It must have more secret levels than any other game

Hmm, I don't remember any secret levels back when I played the shareware episode, I guess I should look harder

In any case it would be a tough job to beat Tyrian for number of secret levels. (ducks rotten tomatoes for mentioning an Epic game)

Rorie · 02-08-2006, 08:24 PM

i love this game, thank u 3drealms 4 releasing it, now all we need 2 do now is watch 4 alien carnage/halloween harry 2 b released

btw: any news on any other freeware releases?

laffer · 02-08-2006, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Rorie said:
i love this game, thank u 3drealms 4 releasing it, now all we need 2 do now is watch 4 alien carnage/halloween harry 2 b released

btw: any news on any other freeware releases?

Argh stop it

You know, writing like that only makes people get a bad impression of you, you really should try to write normally instead

12-23-2005, 09:23 PM	#48
Joe Siegler 3D Realms Staff	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Glad y'all like it. Been wanting to do this for awhile. As was pointed out, you can make levels with Ted, which is offered as a dl elsewhere on our site. What most of us didn't realize for the longest time is that the registered game comes with the Ted support files for Bio Menace. All you need to do is drop in the ted exe file and it should work. Granted, learning Ted can be a bit bizarre. It's not as complicated as today's editing tools, but it has it's own quirks. __________________ Apogee / 3D Realms Employee: Dec 14, 1992 - May 22, 2009, Oct 23, 2014 - current "Lifting up the Cross to the waiting lost" - Petra \| John 3:16

12-24-2005, 08:52 AM	#52
fritzchen1 Guest	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Wow, that's a nice present... Thank you 3DRealms!

12-23-2005, 03:56 PM	#41
TerminX	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Thanks for the Christmas present. Very enjoyable game. It's like Keen with a machine gun, gibs, and a big pile of bodies. __________________ EDuke32 \| Duke4.net forums, the largest Duke Nukem 3D community on the Internet Visit #eduke32 on irc.freenode.net!

12-23-2005, 05:30 PM	#43
DOSGuy	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! I don't see why they shouldn't sell anything that still works and still sells. They have a right to every penny. I want games to be available to the public, either for sale or as freeware. The only thing that bothers me is a company that will do neither, depriving everyone of the game. Kudos to 3DR for still selling so many of their old games, and for making so many of their discontinued titles free. __________________ "Today entirely the maniac there is no excuse with the article." Get free DOS games at www.classicdosgames.com

12-23-2005, 07:25 PM	#44
ultra tree 85!	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Just played Bio Menace. I was having a great time with it. It's a lot of fun. Thanks again for the Christmas Presents. __________________ Duke Nukem Forever will be released in 2010. The community will realize its dream of playing the greatest game of all time. :)

12-23-2005, 08:03 PM	#45
jbailey	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! I just ran biomenace with my compiled version of dosbox (gcc compiler), it ran perfect. Here's what I did: mount r: b:\bio I then navigated to r: and typed in 'bmenace1.exe', set my configuration in the game menus, and started playing... Note: I'm not running the patch version... Thanks for releasing this joe! It's a great christmas gift! __________________ Download Winrott here: http://www.riseofthetriad.dk/DL_GlROTT.htm jbailey

12-23-2005, 08:05 PM	#46
Drazula	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Thanks to Joe and all of 3DR. __________________ "I've been trying to change the world for years, but they just won't give me the source code." - Drazula

12-23-2005, 08:52 PM	#47
Travis	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Yay. This is a great game, one of my favourite games ever. Brings back memories. I only ever had the 1st episode back 12 or so years ago, though. I was really young back then. But I loved it. The Apogee/Epic shareware episodes were staples of my childhood. It's good to see companies doing things like this. __________________ collarbones.

12-23-2005, 09:59 PM	#49
jimbob	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! as for everyone else, the vanilla game seems to work fine on XP except for the sound, but that might be fixed with VDM sound. /off to play it some more __________________ "Check out the polygons on jimbob's girlfriend!" killerbyte "Jimbob, you're a god-damned genius" rollingbrass "You are a god among men" Water12356

12-24-2005, 07:28 AM	#50
Halcyon	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! That's cool. Thanks a lot. Nice Christmas present!

12-24-2005, 08:10 AM	#51
laffer	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Yes, thanks again Joe! 3DR really is a very cool company, few others are that passionate about releasing old games as freeware. I hope you make mountains of money with DNF so you can stay around forever

12-24-2005, 09:42 AM	#53
Phait	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! A level editor named Ted... ? __________________ Music: http://www.oquilluksound.com Album: http://machinefaultred.blogspot.com Album Calendar Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/oquilluksound "but I promise you this, I'll always look out for you, that's what I do" -Coldplay

12-24-2005, 10:47 AM	#54
ultra tree 85!	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! I love the music in this game. I've made it through the first episode and I'm in the middle of the second, I also love the levels. 3D Realms rocks! __________________ Duke Nukem Forever will be released in 2010. The community will realize its dream of playing the greatest game of all time. :)

12-24-2005, 01:47 PM	#55
Gryph	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Oh man, I love this game! Thanks 3DR/Apogee! __________________ 1Emulation: The Peoples' Emulation Site I pity the fool! - Mr. T

12-24-2005, 04:05 PM	#56
Dr.Dude	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Hell yes! I haven't played this game in ages.... time to relive all the old nostalgia. One of Apogee's best old sidescrollers, which says a lot considering the awesome games they were always coming out with back in the early 90's. __________________ "The wise dude only quotes himself." -Dr.Dude

12-24-2005, 05:00 PM	#57
Contra	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Man thank you 3drealms I love this game , I'll be honest, back when I had a shareware disk with duke I, II, bio menace, and all these games, I thought bio menace was stupid and weird (the game kinda scared me back then tee hee). Once I installed this and learned how to use the patch with dosbox and I finally got my gamepad to work without the game locking up (which took me about 5 minutes ), I was in heaven. Duke II will always be my most favorite dos shooter of all time, but it is now safe to say that bio is better than duke 1 in my opinion, AND YOU ARE STILL SELLING THAT GAME WHILE BIO MENACE IS FREE!!!! I love the mechanics, the music is somewhat catchy, usaully fitting in with the level, the city environments are cool , and shooting up the enemies is just too fun, although some parts are weird (like skull man lol), and the controls are alittle less stable than the sidescroll dukes, it is amazing how this free game already tops other old titles that aren't free, and I'm not just talking about dos titles . Thx again 3drealms, happy holidays and have a happy new year everybody!!! BTW, I made a topic on this, but will Alien Carnage (Halloween Harry if you will) ever see the light of day again? I miss that game, and I can't find any downloads to freeware or shareware links to that game on your site, I know it was discontinued, but I thought it could still be downloaded or something, either way, thx again. __________________ "It's time to kick-ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum"- Duke

12-24-2005, 05:53 PM	#58
DOSGuy	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! John Passfield owns the rights to Alien Carnage. I approached him about a freeware release and he said he was interested in doing that. I recently had an opportunity to interview him and he said that he's trying to get a handheld release of the game before he decides on the fate of the original. __________________ "Today entirely the maniac there is no excuse with the article." Get free DOS games at www.classicdosgames.com

12-24-2005, 06:27 PM	#59
Hudson	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Awesome man, Biomenace rocks Thanks guys! __________________ Staying Frosty Since 09/06/07 - I love you Katie <3 “Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.” - Linus Torvalds “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin & Hobbes [INSERT SYSTEM SPECS THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HERE]

12-25-2005, 10:16 AM	#60
Patrick102076	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Bio menace is one of Apogee's best! I still play the game through every few weeks. It must have more secret levels than any other game

12-25-2005, 02:55 PM	#61
Hudson	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Heh, Keen's in there __________________ Staying Frosty Since 09/06/07 - I love you Katie <3 “Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.” - Linus Torvalds “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin & Hobbes [INSERT SYSTEM SPECS THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HERE]

12-25-2005, 03:02 PM	#62
Frenkel	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Commander Keen is not the only one you might recognize __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage

12-26-2005, 11:10 AM	#64
ShadeEX	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Nice.... thank you for this extra x-mas pressent... Ive never tried the full version as well... Only the shareware many years ago i think i was around 6-7 when i played it.. __________________ Quote: "In an infinite universe where reality is interpreted through our continuously fluxuating perception, providing absolute definitive proof of anything becomes a little more than speculation based on random data." My Youtube Page-My Website(Not updated yet)-My Other Blog

12-26-2005, 12:15 PM	#65
Kalki	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Just saw this on the main page and tried it. Works on xp just fine. Thanks guys! It's quite fun! Seasons greetings right back at'cha! __________________ "Gentlemen, generations to follow will see us as the first pioneers of the internet. They will look upon our days as those of brave spirits and free ideals - where men were men, women were men and children were the FBI." Free Speech

12-27-2005, 03:33 PM	#66
Funduke	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Thank you for the xmas present! It works fine with dosbox and the biopatch. Greetings Funduke __________________ http://www.geocities.com/southparkduke/

12-27-2005, 07:10 PM	#67
bittercold	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! I loved this game. Thanks. __________________ Honesty may cause deep wounds, but they are always clean.

12-31-2005, 11:31 AM	#68
Eddy Willson	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! __________________ YOU.HAVE.GOT.TO.BE.KISSING.ME - Ivan If i was a preteen id probably love you too - Fat John AcornArcade --------------- The Icon Bar

12-31-2005, 01:00 PM	#69
Rider	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! W00tage for releasing this masterpiece! Works fine on Win2000 native as well! now to get Ted on the track! __________________ Duke4.net - Duke's OTHER home. HeadbangersFM - The station that keeps your head banging! ------------- She's pretty, not "damn-she's-making-my-noodle-dance-samba"-pretty, but still very pretty... - Micki!

12-31-2005, 03:11 PM	#70
Fernito	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Thank you guys at 3D Realms!!! I was expecting for that for a long while!

12-31-2005, 04:26 PM	#71
cladinshadows	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Thanks 3DR! I could never get this game to run back when I used Windows 98 - now it runs perfectly fine on xp! I don't have sound, but I'll figure out that old chest nut . You guys are so good to us . P.S - Where does this guy work now (who wrote the game)? __________________ I can't wait until the DNF forum is full of people discussing how the game was instead of discussing what they want it to be.

12-31-2005, 05:35 PM	#72
laffer	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! Just use dosbox and it will work perfectly. In fact, use dosbox for all dos games, it's by FAR the best way.

01-01-2006, 06:46 AM	#73
Rider	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! I have a few questions regarding the Ted5 editor: * How can you play your custom levels? * How can you make doors 'openable'? * Where do you define where you exit the level, and what level to load next? it looks awfully complicated, but it's a lot of fun __________________ Duke4.net - Duke's OTHER home. HeadbangersFM - The station that keeps your head banging! ------------- She's pretty, not "damn-she's-making-my-noodle-dance-samba"-pretty, but still very pretty... - Micki!

01-03-2006, 12:31 PM	#75
moron	Re: Bio Menace released as freeware! I dont remember seeing that must be a bug with your system