84 Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: bowlby4 en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:29:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-67927 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:15:53 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 67927@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the heads up Dragonlair. :)</p> <p>W.R. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-67880 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:31:20 +0000 Maud 67880@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the heads-up, Dragonlair. This is a fun game although, at level 47, I may be getting to the point where the wolves are too fast for me. They seem to be young wolves, with better reflexes than mine! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-67761 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:43:41 +0000 Dragonlair 67761@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The new Alawar Gamebox monthly freebie is out! It&#39;s &quot;Tiny Worlds&quot;. It&#39;s a cute little maze game. Surprisingly, it downloaded and unlocked in one try for me this time and it even shows as a full game within Gamebox.</p> <p>It reports 250 levels and FREE upgrades for future versions. That last is something I haven&#39;t seen before!</p> <p>I got mine! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64185 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:04:54 +0000 Dragonlair 64185@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just a few notes about Strike Ball 2 Deluxe - </p> <p>I&#39;m not sure about the 6 kinds of enemies but 29 bonuses sounds about right.</p> <p>The description says 200 3D levels. If you look at the installed files, there are 400 leveld! You can even get a quick look at the ones that are closed if you look at the jpg of the 5 pages (for each of 4 groups) of 20 images. You can&#39;t play them until you get past the levels before, but you at least know they&#39;re there.</p> <p>The display gets very busy with balls, exploding blocks, power-ups, dropping bombs, dropping bonuses and weapons firing which makes it rather challenging. It&#39;s a lot like the series of Magic Ball (also from Alawar).</p> <p>The one thing I don&#39;t agree with is &quot;Full Technical Support&quot;. From Alawar? That&#39;s a pathetic joke! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64148 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:41:53 +0000 StevieD 64148@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks all, that worked the charm for Strike Ball, now does anyone know how to get their Mini Golf Championship to run as that just &#39;stops working&#39; and none of the above makes any difference. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64138 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:07:23 +0000 Oztazdevil 64138@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Firebride and Dragonlair! I reset the compatibility mode to XP SP2 as I have Vista also and now it works perfectly! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64135 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:19:22 +0000 Dragonlair 64135@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Firebride,</p> <p>Thanks for the linke. I&#39;ve got 32 bit rather than 64 bit but the basic instructions worked. Simply set the compatibility mode to XP SP2 and it worked like a charm! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64131 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:29:29 +0000 FireBride 64131@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m sorry to hear that the problem did not resolve on your PC and OS, Dragonlair. I can sense your frustration. I don&#39;t have the answer but in an attempt to be helpful<br /> perhaps you may or may not find a solution at the following link, which expresses the exact problem with Strike Ball 2. </p> <p><a href="http://www.vistax64.com/vista-games/124241-parental-control-problem-games.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vistax64.com/vista-games/124241-parental-control-problem-games.html</a></p> <p>I hope you can get it resolved and that you would hear from Alawar.</p> <p>Best Regards </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64130 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:01:49 +0000 Dragonlair 64130@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Firebride, that procedure may work for Vista Basic Home SP2 but it does <strong>NOT</strong> work for Vista Premium SP2! I followed your instructions to the letter and that message remains. It clearly states that the Vista Parental Controls do not allow me to run this game and I don&#39;t have Parental Controls even turned on! The only people who access this PC is my husband and myself. Why would we need Parental Controls?</p> <p>You indicated that you tested it while the UAC was off. I got the message while it was off, while it was on, when in admin mode, any way! I just cannot run this game. </p> <p>The only thing this trick did was get it to be recognized as a &quot;full&quot; game instead of a demo. Big deal - it&#39;s registered but it won&#39;t allow me to play!</p> <p>I did file a support problem on it for all the good that will do!</p> <p>I am rather fed up with Alawar! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64119 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:07 +0000 FireBride 64119@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is a solution for Vista Users getting error message with STRIKE BALL 2.<br /> To launch game, you need administrator rights or reset parental controls to run it under Vista.&quot;</p> <p>1. Go into C: My Games.Alawar<br /> a. Under Downloads, delete the Strike Ball 2 exe program<br /> b. Under MyGames/Alawar, delete the 1564 files (pertains to Strike Ball 2)</p> <p>2. Now go into the Control Panel Search Bar, type in &quot;UAC&quot; (User Account Control)<br /> a. Go into &quot;UAC&quot;<br /> b. Uncheck the box to temporarily disable the UAC function.<br /> c. Restart your computer (Must do this for change to take effect)</p> <p>3. With UAC turned off, redownload the game. I did so and it now loads/launches<br /> Strike Ball 2 just fine. The error message is gone.</p> <p>4. Go back into the Control Panel Search bar. Type in &quot;UAC&quot; once again<br /> and access it.<br /> a. Recheck the UAC box to re-enable it. Restart your computer.</p> <p>You should now be good to go.</p> <p>Enjoy! I have Vista Basic Home Sp2 and it solved the problem. Hope this helps.<br /> God Bless Y&#39;all. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64093 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:41:43 +0000 StevieD 64093@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Exactly the same here with Strike Ball under Vista </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-64089 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:53:25 +0000 Dragonlair 64089@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Alawar&#39;s new game is available. This month it&#39;s &quot;Strike Ball 2 Deluxe&quot;. However, there are 2 problems. <strong>AGAIN</strong> it tags as &quot;demo&quot; within Gamebox even after unlocking but that&#39;s not why I can&#39;t play it. It insists that I either have to have administrator rights or reset parental controls to run it under Vista.</p> <p>I don&#39;t have parental controls turned on and I&#39;m using the admin user. I even set to run as administrator and I get that message. I uninstalled it!</p> <p>Alawar has got to get it&#39;s act together. I have been trying for over 6 months for them to answer a simple email about the Gamebox/demo version problem from at least 5 directions and still no response. I can&#39;t see trying to ask them about this problem will get me any better results.</p> <p>How are they supposed to keep customers if they ignore them???? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-62538 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:16:26 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 62538@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The gamebox is still in Beta. Sorry about my slowness in getting a link for you Dragonlair. When I'm next in my Email account I'll try and remember to find the link to one of the alawar Staff. I know one of them never replies to my queries, but another one does. I just need to find the Email address. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-62527 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:26:55 +0000 Dragonlair 62527@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The latest version of the GameBox doesn't include the "Free Game" tab. How do you get to the freebie using GameBox now. My version has a 3rd tab (Free Game).</p> <p>Edit - My friend who I've been trying to walk through the download of the Gamebox AND Froggy's Adventure had trouble seeing the "Free Game" tab. Apparently it is still there.</p> <p>The bug I've been squawking about is still there, too. As in my case, Froggy's Adventures shows as a Demo, even though it says "Thank your for your Registration" and is a full game. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-62516 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19:36 +0000 FireBride 62516@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The latest free game from Alawar using their gamebox is called "Froggy's Adventures."</p> <p>Here is the description from Alawar's website:</p> <p>"Froggy's Adventures"</p> <p> "Froggy is no ordinary amphibian. Unlike his friends, who are content to lounge on lilly pads snagging the occasional fly, he has ambition! So when hungry monsters invade the forest in which he lives and start gobbling up the greenery, he sets out to save the day. Fortunately, Froggy can walk upright, do somersaults and blow enormous bubbles that can trap his enemies and send them sailing above the treetops. </p> <p>Froggy's Adventures is a charming platform game for the whole family. You'll guide Froggy as he collects all of the plants on each level, pops balloons to reveal bonuses surprises and does his best to either avoid or eliminate the creatures ransacking his home. If you like simple run-and-jump games with colorful graphics and lots of goodies to grab, Froggy's Adventures is for you!"</p> <p>Here is the link to the download page if you do not already installed gamebox:</p> <p><a href="http://www.alawar.com/game/froggys-adventures/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alawar.com/game/froggys-adventures/</a></p> <p>If you do not yet have the required Alawar gamebox tool, you can get it here:</p> <p><a href="http://company.alawar.com/technologies/a_player.php" rel="nofollow">http://company.alawar.com/technologies/a_player.php</a></p> <p>Enjoy all.</p> <p>FireBride </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-62502 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:00:55 +0000 Dragonlair 62502@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Alawar changed the game today. This month's freebie is Froggy's Adventures. It's a silly little platform game. I got it as much to check out Alawar as anything else. Again - It says I have the full version ("Thank you for Registration") but the list in the Gamebox shows it as a demo - not the full version.</p> <p>What do I have to do to get Alawar to recognize that ALL of my games from them are full games (from GOTD as well as Gamebox)? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-61199 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:06:46 +0000 RosnSC 61199@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I just checked to see if I have it; I do. Thanks for the reminder, Stephen. :)</p> <p>Sue </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-61185 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:51:58 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 61185@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Firebride has already posted about the latest alawar game in a seperate thread, but I thought I'd bring back the original thread. The game is Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2. It will probably be changing over soon. :)</p> <p>regards</p> <p>whiterabit. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60171 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:53:10 +0000 Dragonlair 60171@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Did you "unlock" it after you downloaded it? I haven't played that many levels yet but from what I see, It looks like about 37 Kids levels and about 70 "regular" levels. I still get a preview-page that says "thanks for Registration" so I'm guessing the "unlock" worked. It used to be if you had the full version, you didn't get that page, you went right into the game. Only the last 2 I've downloaded during their freebies have done this (I think).</p> <p>However, this game does NOT show as a full game in the list of "my games". </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60160 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:37:35 +0000 Buckleysmom 60160@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I downloaded the game but I only got 10 levels....what's up? That's not a game....that's not even a 60 minute demo.<br /> BK </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60158 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:29 +0000 GMMan 60158@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This month's game isn't really my cup of tea, but I've saved the registration key for it anyways. It always baffles me how the Game Box figures out how to generate a key for each game. Maybe it's distributed in a config file? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60138 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:21:05 +0000 sukibabe 60138@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is the link to where this should have been posted, which was started by Whabbit over a year ago!</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533</a></p> <p>Thanks, Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60112 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:40:18 +0000 Dragonlair 60112@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You don't have to use Gamebox to access the game. However, the shortcut makes it look like you do and even like you don't even have the full game! They just started that a few months ago.</p> <p>GameBox's list of "full" games is far from accurate. ALL my Alawar games are free, either from them or from here. Very few of them show as full, just demo, INCLUDING Snowy Treasure Hunter 2 that I just downloaded, installed AND Unlocked!</p> <p>They won't answer emails so I can't figure out why. Stephen (Whiterabbit) said he would check into the email answering problem for me when he get some time.</p> <p>You only need Gamebox to download and install the games. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60108 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:43:26 +0000 midori 60108@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, FireBride... always nice to have a reminder of what the present free game is. It turns out I already have this one, but just realized I can only access it via the Game Box. It used to be that I could make shortcuts of the games and access them that way. IOW, the game was actually downloaded into my Alawar folder. I'm guessing they stopped doing that, and you can only play them "online" through the Game Box? Strange, but I just noticed that. I had forgotten I had so many free games from them, because I only have icons for the "older" giveaways. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5746#post-60101 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:19:50 +0000 FireBride 60101@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi All:</p> <p>Alawar is offering SNOWY TREASURE HUNTER 2 for free via the Alawar Game Box.<br /> To get this game, just download and install the Alawar gamebox at the following link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.alawar.com/game/alawar-game-box/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alawar.com/game/alawar-game-box/</a></p> <p>If you already have the gamebox installed, you can access the free game via the desktop icon.</p> <p>As many of you are aware, Alawar usually offers a new free game via the gamebox every 30 days or so.</p> <p>Enjoy! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/3#post-55009 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:24:59 +0000 midori 55009@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Suki... thanks, but what I meant was that that's not the game that's available under my Game Box FREE tab. The Box I keep in my Alawar folder still had Crystalix as the offer; so I downloaded a fresh Game Box from the Net and it's some kind of space shooter. Ah, well... I'm sure I can live w/out Pyramid Runner. Just thought I wasn't doing something right, which I probably am. *~&#38;:-B </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/2#post-55007 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:16:29 +0000 sukibabe 55007@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>midori</p> <p>I just linked the page for information, and if you wanted a desktop shortcut after you installed from the box...<br /> Give it a day, that happened to me before, lol</p> <p>Hey, Whabbit...yes they seem to be going with the 17th, knock on wood, rofl </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/2#post-54978 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:02:37 +0000 midori 54978@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Suki! Hope you had happy holidays also. Strange, but when I click on the FREE tab in Alawar's Game Box, it says Crystlix (sp?), and your link leads to the "pay for" version. Wonder if my Game Box is stuck. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/2#post-54977 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:00:43 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 54977@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Suki, they seem to be changing thm more regularily now. :)</p> <p>regards</p> <p>Stephen </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3533/page/2#post-54952 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:12:52 +0000 sukibabe 54952@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The latest free game is:</p> <p>Pyramid Runner</p> <p><a href="http://www.alawar.com/game/pyramid-runner/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alawar.com/game/pyramid-runner/</a></p> <p>Hope you all had a Happy Easter!</p> <p>Suki </p>