http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums User Favorites: NolafromNZ en Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:05:08 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3540#post-41084 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:50:22 +0000 huntressfl 41084@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have completed the entire game twice - second time was much easier. First time around had to do some games on the third difficulty level multiple times to get through them. Would surely like to get the Saq Packs when they come out. Will keep in touch with this thread so I will know when they are available. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2607/page/3#post-40812 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:44:47 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40812@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The following are some simple arkanoids I found earlier. They are not up to the standard of your Ricochet Infinity or Magic Ball 3, nor the freebies from Gametop, but they do offer some light relief, especially if you enjoy playing breakout/arkanoid games. </p> <p><strong>New Arkanoid</strong>:</p> <blockquote><p>In one of your long journeys, you found an ancient treasure map. The map showed that to find the treasure, you must collect 7 ancient stones. Your mission is to start looking for these 7 stones. You will find them during your journey to get the treasure.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/aseldawy/arkanoid.html#download" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/aseldawy/arkanoid.html#download</a> (less than 1Mb)</p> <p><strong>Starz</strong>:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ayretek.com/downloads/freeware/Starz_License_Freeware.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ayretek.com/downloads/freeware/Starz_License_Freeware.htm</a> (less than 1Mb) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40750 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:26:10 +0000 Trekker.JJC 40750@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you so very much for the trouble you went to to provide me with links to the Rise of Atlantis. I have tried them both ( not wanting to play online,SusanIam, Thank you, anyway) and the strangest thing happens. I open Rise, hit "play now" on the page presented and the page blanks and turns into the "I quit" page as the Atlantis people thank me for playing. Needless to say, this does not help my addiction and I cannot figure out what is going wrong, so I guess I shall suffer, but probably not in silence.<br /> Jetta J </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40666 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:01:36 +0000 SusanIAm 40666@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The Rise of Atlantis is available for free online play at Reflexive here:<br /> <a href="http://www.reflexive.com/index.php?PAGE=WebGameDetail&#38;WGID=105&#38;SORT=Age" rel="nofollow">http://www.reflexive.com/index.php?PAGE=WebGameDetail&#38;WGID=105&#38;SORT=Age</a></p> <p>Not the same as having the game, but still, it's free :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40649 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:12:27 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40649@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nice one samm</p> <p>Here's a link to the Rise of Atlantis:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gamehouse.com/gamedetails/?game=riseofatla&#38;navpage=downloadgames" rel="nofollow">http://www.gamehouse.com/gamedetails/?game=riseofatla&#38;navpage=downloadgames</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40608 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:16:47 +0000 samm 40608@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Trekker,<br /> I found it in an email I got this morning, you may have to watch a short commercial between levels but you get the game. Have Fun.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gamehouse.com/downloadgames/?navnum=7&#38;AID=?utm_source=gamehouse-house&#38;utm_medium=email&#38;utm_content=recapture4_link1&#38;utm_campaign=recapture4" rel="nofollow">http://www.gamehouse.com/downloadgames/?navnum=7&#38;AID=?utm_source=gamehouse-house&#38;utm_medium=email&#38;utm_content=recapture4_link1&#38;utm_campaign=recapture4</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40605 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:21:35 +0000 Trekker.JJC 40605@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Dear Stephen,<br /> I should have known you would be the one to come to my aid. Dead electronic bits are the only way i can describe what happened. The game started to falter, become jerky, freeze and one day just stopped running. nothing i,or my son, has done has caused it to reappear.<br /> I shall follow your advice and try the above mentioned games but i doubt they will match the excitement of Atlantis. Just the sight of the billowing sail in the Phoenicia section was all i needed to fill me with anticipation.<br /> Thank you again, JJC </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40329 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:19:54 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40329@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don’t understand what you mean by the electronics have died??? The game is purely scripted code. The following may help to appease your withdrawals, but if you feel that bad about it; you could always write to the developer of the game and explain that you can’t afford to buy the game, but are hooked, so would they give you a reg code. It’s always worth a try. (Seriously) </p> <p>You can get some games that are similar to The Rise of Atlantis for free from both Gametop and FreeGamePick:</p> <p>Matching Gems:</p> <p><a href="http://www.freegamepick.com/en/screenshots_matchinggems.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.freegamepick.com/en/screenshots_matchinggems.html</a></p> <p>Pharaoh Puzzle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/pharaoh-puzzle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/pharaoh-puzzle/</a> </p> <p>Fairly Puzzle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/fairy-puzzle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/fairy-puzzle/</a></p> <p>Eldorado Puzzle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/eldorado-puzzle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/eldorado-puzzle/</a></p> <p>When closing all these games down your browser will be opened to the home page, but all you have to do is click on the X and it closes with no repercussions. I’ve tested all the games and they are clean of viri and other malware, though some games from these distributors will ask to change your browser settings. If you miss the check box and find you browser has been diverted, just right click on the internet icon and right click, select internet properties and click on default page from the home page section. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3747#post-40328 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:57:06 +0000 Trekker.JJC 40328@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The electronic bits which made up my Rise of Atlantis game have died. i did not know that playing it for hours a day, every day, would prove fatal. I have passed severe withdrawal and am entering despair which will land me in a rubber room. Is there any chance that the game will be re-offered soon, soon, soon??!! I am begging you!<br /> jjc </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672/page/2#post-40319 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:38:17 +0000 copmom 40319@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>OK.. so that kinda answers that question. Guess I'll just bite the bullet and/or switch my c: and F: drives so the smaller one is the ghost.<br /> After yesterday I'm more paranoid about this. Hubby's computer went bonkers! Tried to 'fix' it, changed HD's.. more errors, spent lot of time looking up error fixes on here and then trying on his machine. Other older machine isn't working great either. Time to replace computers and donate older ones to Goodwill or somewhere (MINUS the hard drives!) Maybe they can make use of the bits and pieces. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533#post-40293 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:01:30 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40293@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm sure all the developers and distributors who give away games or generous discounts are hoping you'll buy their games. I'm now trying to move away from big distributors (even though I've just paid for a year’s subscription to BFG games) as I think the small developers whose original games are usually found on most of the big sites like Reflexive, Gamehouse, Big Fish Games and Alawar deserve to get a bigger slice of the profits from the games they worked on so hard. The big developers then seem to rip off the ideas by releasing umpteen clones of the originals. I’ll happily search out the developer of most games, but it’s not always possible to find them. </p> <p>I recently purchased Darkside a game developed by Pie Eyed Games late last year. I received an Email from the developer after I’d received the unlock codes, saying that I could choose another game from a selection, because he had a promotion on at the time. I then wrote back to the developer telling him my thoughts about the game and how I’d decided to purchase directly from developers because I thought that it would help to create more original games. He replied by sending me unlock codes for two of his older games (Arklight and Scavenger) as well as the unlock code for a new game he was intending to release soon called System Mania. I replied thanking him, though I told him I’d already purchased the two games he’d given me. Guess what; he offered me even more, which I declined because the initial purchase had been well worth it in the first place. </p> <p>As for Alawar’s repeat of a game they were giving away a couple of months ago. Okay, for those of us who have been downloading these free games for some time it’s a little disappointing, but I’m sure there are many who have since discovered the game box. So far there has only been one game given away free via the game box that I hadn’t already purchased (one of the snowy games) and that wouldn’t download for some reason. </p> <p>With respect to Alawar’s game box, I do think it’s the best one of all the game managers out there (of the ones that I know of at any rate); partly because you don’t actually have to use it if you choose not to and you can also add all your games to the manager, even if they weren’t purchased from Alawar.</p> <p>I do agree with you Suki about it not having been updated for a long time (well, not that I can see; although the ability to add non Alawar games was an addition that wasn’t part of the original release.</p> <p>Roll on next month. I do hope I finally get a game I don’t already have, but that’s odds against because I have most of Alawar’s games already.</p> <p>regards Stephen </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533#post-40265 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:41:19 +0000 robm 40265@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Suki,</p> <p>Thanks for responding. At least it is not just us (I am sure there will be others). I agree, it may be a ruse to get you to purchase more games.</p> <p>Rob </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533#post-40262 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:25:28 +0000 sukibabe 40262@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>robm</p> <p>The last game I got was Sky Bubbles Deluxe, now I see they have Crusaders of Space "AGAIN", I think they are messed up!!!!!<br /> Have taken none of my suggestions,like an update button, thing looks the same as the day I downloaded it,which was March 23rd.......It is now August and I have only received 4 games,lmao.....I am beginning to believe it's a hoax to get you to buy games!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533#post-40261 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:53:43 +0000 robm 40261@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi folks, </p> <p>I am curious what new game has been provided to everyone this month from the Alawar Gamebox? I received Crusaders of Space, which I already had (and was offered previously via Gamebox) but was not installed at the time (but I had unlocked this game). I am wondering whether the games need to be installed at the time for the Gamebox Manager to recognise that you already have them. Has anyone experienced anything similar? Thanks.</p> <p>Rob </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672/page/2#post-40226 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:08:25 +0000 goodgotd 40226@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>if you're setting it up as a change-drive-boot-system disc image, it may require (check the docs) moving that stuff off, imaging, then adding a partition and moving it back, or you might be able to partition, move your stuff to the extended (second) partition and tell Paragon not to mess with it. </p> <p>I dunno, ghost 2001 has always nuked the entire drive. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2603/page/10#post-40219 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:18:59 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40219@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank's Sarahbeth </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672/page/2#post-40207 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:32:28 +0000 copmom 40207@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Question! No one has ever answered my one big question! I want to ghost my C drive to my 2nd HD, I do have several things on that spare HD, and wondered if I ghost my C drive to that, will it overwrite what I already have on it, or should I partition it (it's 300GB), put what I have on there in a separate partition, so that when I ghost my C it can then run as an independent main C drive should the need arise?? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672/page/2#post-40189 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:15:06 +0000 copmom 40189@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>No idea rabbit. I just buy it at the regular grocery store in the ice cream section. They come in small containers. A bit more expensive than the regular full size ice cream containers, but sometimes the store has buy 1/get 1 free. That's when I buy it. </p> <p>Wait: here you go... <a href="http://www.benjerry.co.uk/wheretobuy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.benjerry.co.uk/wheretobuy/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2603/page/10#post-40160 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:05:50 +0000 Sarahbeth 40160@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, I just noticed version 1.026 is available. <a href="http://forum.magicfarmgame.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&#38;t=214" rel="nofollow">http://forum.magicfarmgame.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&#38;t=214</a></p> <p>Have fun! :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-40140 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:54:50 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40140@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Can I get those in the UK copmom? :) Sounds yummy. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-40066 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:46:46 +0000 copmom 40066@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Good point rezidue! Now that you're mentioning chocolate chip cookies.. found a really yummy ice cream to satisfy a sweet tooth. Ben &#38; Jerry's "Coffee Heath Bar Crunch". Boy is it good! Also, their mint chocolate chip! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2607/page/3#post-40058 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:15:58 +0000 copmom 40058@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the update rabbit!! {{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}} ~ Lauri </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2607/page/3#post-40051 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:36:10 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 40051@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Good news for arkanoid lovers, Gametop appear to have increased their stock of free good quality arkanoids recently. You can check them out; there's ten free downloadable arkanoids (Sawnoid, A-Ball (aka Nuclear Ball}, Geometry Ball {aka Twinxoid}, Cosmoball, Brixout, Starball, Turboball, Scaraball, Aztec Bricks and Egyptian Ball plus another online one called Maya Ball</p> <p><a href="http://www.gametop.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.gametop.com</a></p> <p>There are nearly 90 full version arcade games available from Gametop now plus nearly as many online games and all for free. As mentioned countless times there is a small price to be paid for getting these games for free. Whenever you've finished playing the game and close it down, your browser is opened to the Gametop page. Personally I don't mind this as it's a small price to pay for a perfectly good arcade game that normally retails for nearly $20. I've checked every game and none have been infected with viri or other malware. I have noticed that the more recent games also have a tick box that you need to uncheck when installing otherwise your browser will be diverted to the gametop page.</p> <blockquote><p>If you do forget and then find your browser does open up to the Gametop page you can easily change it back to whatever you use by right clicking on your internet browser and select internet properties. In the home page address window ensure the browser address you wish to use is typed in for example </p> <p>Google: <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.co.uk/</a></p> <p>or you can click on use default to return it to it's original for example if you are using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser it will probably be MSN: </p> <p>MSN: <a href="http://uk.msn.com/?ocid=iefvrt" rel="nofollow">http://uk.msn.com/?ocid=iefvrt</a></p></blockquote> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-40033 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:16:48 +0000 rezidue 40033@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>In the end it's all subjective. What works for some might not be for others (preference wise). Just because I like chocolate chip cookies doesn't mean someone else should (although chocolate chip cookie haters should probably have their heads checked by a psychiatrist and be put on medication to get the area of the brain that is creating said disdain for chocolate chip cookies to function normally...). Joking of course... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-40024 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:13:57 +0000 copmom 40024@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Already ordered Paragon Drive Copy.. should be here any day now. I think it was around $19.99 as I recall. Got notice it was shipped on 8/5. I can always return within 30 days if not happy.. ordered through Serif. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-40022 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:25:50 +0000 rezidue 40022@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Copmom! Definitely Acronis - it's fast - excellent compression of archive size and seems to work flawlessly (IMHO) :-) - Regards </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-39837 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:36:14 +0000 copmom 39837@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nope.. all my HD's seem to be Western Digital, and they don't offer anything like that! Rats! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3672#post-39836 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:27:20 +0000 hotdoge3 39836@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If it seagate Harddisk DiscWizardSetup.en.exe is free it to setup new harddisk </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3659#post-39745 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:32:29 +0000 copmom 39745@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Found 2 on there that I've downloaded!! Thanks again! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3659#post-39744 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:14:23 +0000 Bigun 39744@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>maizeydaze, copmom</p> <p>I should have acknowledged the fact that I appreciate your return comments. I did check. I am late - but, thank you ladies for letting me know that someone did benefit from my posts.</p> <p>For those that went looking for Download Junkies (direct)I apologize for no saying that the URL is under Vnunet.</p> <p>Got the "Freeware List Home". </p>