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Childhood Revisited

Sun 20th Oct 2002 18:33 BST by Andrew from Bath, U.K.
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[ Repton 1 screenshot ]
Repton c/o MinionSoft
After reading an article on the BBC's news website about the software in mobile phones I noticed that the game Repton has just been released on the Nokia 7650. Wondering if a Win32 clone existed, and having a little trawl around, the best I've found is over at MinionSoft. Download all of the Repton packs and unzip them into the same directory, then run the obviously named .exe file. It was unplayable on Win2K SP3 (flashing white screens every second) but worked fine on Win98. When I was a wee nipper at primary school, I used to play this before classes first thing in the morning and then after classes in the afternoon, pretty much every day. 14 years later it's about to become addictive to a new generation of kids, and not so little kids.
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1. Posted by Rob [ web page link ] [ email link ] from Bath

Mon 21st Oct 2002 21:29 BST
Oh hurrah! Yes, my experience of Reptor is exactly the same as yours - before and after classes.

In Windows XP, you can right click on the executable, select 'compatibility' and drop it down to Windows 98 - that fixes the flashing white screen problem. Don't know if you can do that in Windows 2000? I'm sure there's some compatibility options in there somewhere...

2. Posted by Andrew [ Main Editor ]

23:03 BST
You can run things in compatibility mode in Win2K, but for some reason unbeknown to me I don't get the option for the Repton executable.

P.S. Reptor is a firewall analysis program by Wankwood Associates. Indeed.

3. Posted by Mike

Tue 22nd Oct 2002 08:11 BST
Elite on a mobile phone?

Mike

Ps. It's me, of Fred's Ears. Your textboxes and labels don't line up on this PC, so I can't fill in all the boxes...

4. Posted by Andrew [ Main Editor ]

09:12 BST
Hello Mr Sears. Ah, Elite, don't know if you can get that on a mobile, but the best person to ask would be your old classmate Mr Bainbridge - he works for that company.

As for the form boxes, yes I've just noticed that it was only coincidence that all of the browsers I tried the div-based form layout with worked correctly! If I shrink the font-size with the browser's controls I think I probably get what you're talking about. I'll investigate my floating and clearing CSS when I get in from work tonight. Alternatively I'll reincarnate those pesky tables :o(

5. Posted by Andrew [ Main Editor ]

14:47 BST
Re: 4
Fiddled around with the CSS and it all seems to behave fine for me now. Mike, can you confirm that the form text and inputs align sensibly in your IE6 under Win98 (if that's your set-up)?

6. Posted by REPTON [ web page link ] [ email link ] from In A Hole, Under A Boulder, Beside A Diamond !

Mon 27th Jan 2003 01:14 BST
Hey folks, glad you liked the game ! I did not know about the Y2K flashy white bug, but I`ll look into it now I know !

7. Posted by Andrew from Bath, U.K. [ Main Editor ]

20:24 BST
Hi REPTON! Thanks for the comment, good luck with the bug fixing! The flashing did not have a causal relationship with things going on in the game AFAICR, it was pretty much random but frequent - of the order of every second or so. Thanks again.

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