http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Poing a freeware arkanoid en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:19:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-17228 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:49:00 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 17228@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>lol </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-17177 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:40:03 +0000 goodgotd 17177@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>ah, but there is, since I posted that in the "Freeware Games - A replacement thread until Freeware Fan returns" thread awhile back. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-17170 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:05:22 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 17170@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Brilliant goodgotd, that makes sense. I hope it fixes the problem for both of you - copmom + lwbjag. And goodgotd, there's no need to apologise. :)</p> <p>WR </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-17152 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:38:35 +0000 goodgotd 17152@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Known Bugs<br /> IMPORTANT: Poing cannot be run in a limited account of Windows XP! (you’ll encounter an access violation error if you try). Because of the way the game writes hiscores and levels in the level editor, Poing must be run in an unrestricted user or administrator account</p> <p>sorry I didn't put this in this thread too earlier. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-17129 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:17:53 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 17129@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi copmom + lwbjag, I'm looking into the problem and will get back to you on this thread sometime soon. </p> <p>What are your computers spec's? - cpu, RAM, Graphics memory etc. </p> <p>Sorry it took so long to reply, I've been busy this past week, so apart from posting some very brief reviews until early this morning, when I posted the second of my freeware posts - Games with wheels - I'd been rather quiet on the forums. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16519 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:28:57 +0000 Boondoggle53 16519@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>WhiteRabbit:<br /> Thanks for the link to the game.Just tried it out and it works great on my Vista machine.I am new to these forums so I won't say much but thanks for all your great reviews and game suggestions. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16516 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:57:03 +0000 graylox 16516@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sorry, perhaps your system doesn't like this nice game. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16508 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:20 +0000 lwbjag 16508@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>"grayfox" - Game un-zipped ok. It had game setup, level editor.etf &#38; read me etf.<br /> I can view the "read me" ok. When I try to unzip the set-up, the screen goes blank (black) then the message "Memory Access Violation" appears. Click that &#38; the screen disappears... It has been unziped to my games folder. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16467 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:59:49 +0000 graylox 16467@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>copmom + lwbjag</strong><br /> will try to help, but it's more a guess.<br /> How do you unzip ? WinZip? Did you try to install with WinZip? Please unzip <strong>only</strong> directly into your games\poing-folder. There is no setup and no installation-routine.<br /> Good luck ! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16466 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:31:12 +0000 lwbjag 16466@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I am having the same problem as "CopMom".<br /> "Memory Access Violation"<br /> I am the only one using this PC &#38; am the Administrator.<br /> I'm not logged-in as "Adm". Would that help? I really don't want to exit current windows.<br /> Thanks in advance for any help provided. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16437 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:11:11 +0000 funkymom 16437@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>thanks bunnyman! (is it o.k. to call you bunnyman?)<br /> i'm going to check it out.</p> <p>i, too, was starting to go through withdrawal. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16429 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:50:48 +0000 graylox 16429@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>YEAH, 1. place with <strong>490</strong> points !<br /> Whiterabbit this is really a nice game for me.<br /> ---------<br /> copmom, sorry can't help you<br /> -------------------------------------- </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16417 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:28:21 +0000 copmom 16417@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is a duplicate post from me .. but when I extracted it, got "Memory access violation"?? Any suggestions? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525#post-16411 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:49:38 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 16411@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Poing:</strong></p> <p>Today’s freeware game can be downloaded from Firestone, the developers site by following the link below:</p> <p><a href="http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/poing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/poing/</a></p> <p>You will find several screenshots on the home page.</p> <blockquote><p>Features<br /> • 80 colorful levels split across 10 level sets<br /> • 16 different brick types to hinder your progress<br /> • 20 weird and wonderful power-ups, good and bad<br /> • Detailed lifetime stats to track your achievements<br /> • High scores for each level set and an overall hall of fame<br /> • Integrated level editor to create your own levels with<br /> • Crisp 800 x 600 graphics with scalable detail<br /> • Funky chip-style music from Alexander “zalza” Bulér </p></blockquote> <p>Poing! PC is the award-winning freeware game that puts an innovative twist on the tried and tested style of Breakout. Destroying bricks will not necessarily help since they will keep coming back… instead, the aim is to break a path to the back wall of each level and smash the wall until it fades away, allowing you to progress through to the next level.</p> <p>As an added twist, if you lose the ball after progressing through several levels, you won’t lose a life immediately. The ball will plummet back through the levels you’ve beaten until you either catch it or it goes past the first level of the set.<br /> Fortunately there’s a wide variety of power-ups to help you along the way, including the Bat Autopilot, Force field and Promote. Poing! PC also keeps track of your games and compiles a whole list of lifetime statistics along with the per-level set and all-time hi-score tables - and if you get tired of the included levels, you can make your own with the included level editor!</p> <p>This is one of my favorite freeware arkanoid’s and probably one of my favorite freeware games full stop. The game play is actually better than a lot of arkanoid’s I’ve bought. I love the ball physics and the slightly different take on the breakout style of game, which is mentioned above, where the bricks keep coming back. The replay value is good and the 80 levels you get are plenty especially as each level is quite long. </p> <p>Give the game a trial for a few levels to get used to it. </p> <p>Tip:</p> <p>Try spinning the ball by slicing the bat and watch the excellent ball physics in action. </p>