Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Moderation! As everyone undoubtedly knows, posting of hacks or commercial games without paying is absolutely and totally forbidden on the forum. The status of semi abandoned games that are no longer available though is a rather problematic one, since on the one hand it's completely true that nobody would be harmed if the games were posted, and with the lack of accessible games it's definitely really sad when something just plane drops off the map without a trace simply because the developers can't be bothered with it anymore. On the other, the problem is the game's owners do still own the right to the games and could start selling them tomorrow. This is why games like Bsc's, Bavisoft's or Code Factory's can't be hosted or have download links in the database without the owner's permission. This is not really a boundry I'd want to push on the forum I'm afraid, particularly with the fact that we do know people in the community who freely take the "supporting developers by buying their games" as something of an optional extra.So, The answer is no, we can't officially have links to download the malinch games on the forum. That being said, what happens off! the forum via people's email isn't our business, and while if a person was found to own a hacked copy of a commercial game like say manamon they'd likely be in trouble, if someone who had the malinch games were to make a kind present of them to their friends via email but happened to be unable to pay malinch for said presents, well that wouldn't really be an affair for the forum would it? . @Madgamer, welcome to the forum. Interactive stories can come in various types. The Malinch games are traditional intteractive fiction where you type commands like "get box" "go north " or "open box with key" A great many of these games exist through a long running hobby community and can be extremely experimental. I confess I don't play as much traditional interactive fiction of this type myself since I found getting stuck on guess the verb type of situations or illogical puzzles frustrating, but there are some good examples kicking around such as andrew plotkin's dreamhold, the exceptional Worlds appart, Babel, Paul Obrians Lash or earth and sky series, or Pytho's mask. These are available as Guiatarman said on the If archive, though you'll need an interactive fiction interpreter such as winfrotz, or wintads to play them depending upon the game.Traditional If has it's moments, but other than some if role playing games which include combat and more rpg like tactics such as Kerkerkruip and Eamon deluxe, I tend to prefer gamebooks. Like guitarman I am a huge fan of gamebooks, stories that move via m aking choices instead of typing commands. As wel as the sites Guitarman mentioned you could also try the fighting fantasy project, project aon and chronicles of arborell (these have pages in the database, as do several interactive fiction interpreters like filfre or winfrotz). Any further questions please ask.Hth. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=276253#p276253 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-25
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? yeah that sounds really good. I'll check out them websites for i look forward to at least using my imagination a bit more than on various things that don't like that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275990#p275990 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-24
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi Staindaddict.Well if you can post them that would be great! Just let me know if dark says no so I'll know one way or the other. Of course I want them for myself but I think it would be nice for everyone else to give them a try too! I don't know how to post links but go to ifarchive/games/zcode and you will find baltimore24 in the b section there. That one never really caught my interest like the rest of the games did.Hth. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275988#p275988 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-24
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi there,I have all the mallenge games. Except the Baltimore one, can someone give me a link to that? I would be glad to post all the games that I have, but I want to run it by Dark first. I don't want to get in trouble for posting things I'm not supposed to, so if Dark gives me the OK, I'll post them.Hope this helps. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275987#p275987 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-24
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi Madgamer.Well first of all welcome to the forum I think you will have a great time on here! No there are not any audio reviews of text adventures as far as I know. I don't think that would be much fun but if somebody made a text adventure audio review I would be willing to check it out. If you want to check out text adventures go to ifarchive.org. I'll be honest though your not missing much if you don't play text adventures. Personally I'm not a big fan of text adventures mostly what I don't like is the stupid puzzle solving you have to do. I believe you can tell a good story without all the nasty puzzle solving. If you really want some good text games try choice of games, choose your story, and DelightGames. Their great text adventures without puzzle solving. That said I was drawn to malinche games because of the amazing descriptions in the audiogames database. They are: a pinch in St. petersburg, grand damned, endgame, saints in sin city, azteca , the first mile, greystone, and the pentari games. Reading the descriptions of these games is fun and it's about all you can do since they're no longer available.Hth. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275973#p275973 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? @guitarman No, I don't have any. Besides, we don't really have an official status of the games other than the fact that Howard has pretty much left the scene. What I know is that security is a weak area as far as z-based text adventures are concerned, possibly because about 98% of all IF games not only can be found off of ifarchive, but are completely free. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275968#p275968 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-24
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? hi. I've not tried text bass games themselves but i've only been on online games. Are there any audio reviews of any text bass games? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275963#p275963 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-24
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hello Jack.Well that's very interesting I didn't know that. I don't like it but I'll admit it's a good way to make sure you get paidd for your games. You seem to know about malinche games do you have the full versions? Would you share them if you do? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275953#p275953 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Guitarman, the demos are completely independent of the full versions. Security is not one of the components of inform, at least not that I'm aware of. Infocom games were on diskettes sold before the internet was used, so either you had them or you didn't, no security involved. If you remember World of Darkness from Dreamtech, when you registered the game, it asked you to create a save file before the registration machine disappeared. This is because it was not a hardcoded registration system, all it was was an interactable object that allowed complete access to the game. Malinch games, however, don't have some registration machine in the first room, so no registration system of any sort is built in. It's either you have the demo, or you have the full version. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275945#p275945 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-24
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi.Blindncool, thank you for the demos! I'm glad they weren't lost forever. Listen if you happen to run across a pinch in St. Petersburg, saints in sin city, and grand damned, will you post those here also?Moderators, I know I'm out of line so I'm sorry in advance. I'm wondering if there is a way to hack the malinche games to play the full versions. I would get some kind of crack or something but I'm to afraid to get viruses. But since he's not selling them anymore and there not available at all what does he expect us to do? Anyway, I'm glad to get a chance to try the demos. I tried the first mile and it seems very well written. Actually I like the writing more on the first mile than I did on pentari. Thanks again blindncool! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275935#p275935 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-23
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? I managed to download the demos from the wayback machine. I've packaged them into a zip file, which you can download here. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275835#p275835 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-23
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? 50 bucks for text adventures?[[wow]] URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=275770#p275770 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-18
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hithanks all for the informationi want this Malinche games.greetings. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274959#p274959 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? There was an article on the malinch blog in 2014 where Howard Sherman essentially threw a great big strop, saying that while he made games nobody wanted to pay for interactive fiction and blind players all needed too much tech support and how the world hated him. Of course the fact that he was charging 49 usd per game for something which is mostly available for free and that his games, while undoubtedly good weren't actually too much out of the ordinary even as far as if goes as compared to something like Hadian lands (which still retails as a tenth of the price), wasn't a matter he considered. At that point he still did say the games would be on sale and the demos available even if he wasn't making any more, but that obviously changed. As I recall,his stuff wasn't bad, but wasn't exceptional either, indeed if you've played the pentori prequal you've probably got an idea of the type of thing he writes. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274916#p274916 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-17
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hello Phil.Yeah I saw your post after I posted earlier so we must have posted at about the same time. I misspoke I do have bofh, baltimore 24, and pentari already so I didn't need to download them but I guess I forgot to mention that.I don't know much about malinche but from what I've heard about howard sherman he sounds like a bit of a jerk. Although I did used to read his blog which was pretty interesting. The wikipedia article says malinche is gone but there is nothing about why or what happened. I'd like to know why malinche went under, just for the sake of knowing I guess. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274877#p274877 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Guitarman,Like I wrote in my last post, there are three games in the list that you can download,Baltimore24,BOFH, or BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL, and Pentari.I can't find any place where you can purchase Howard's other games and he hasn't put them up for free. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274871#p274871 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi Guitarman. Yes indeed I'm very lucky, something that literally amazes me each morning when I wake up. I believe I kept the malinche demos, but as I said unfortunately I'll not be able to check for a couple of weeks so if anyone else has them feel free to share, assuming that Howard sherman isn't still hosting or selling the games somewhere. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274856#p274856 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-17
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hello Dark.I forgot about you getting married congradulations that's wonderful! Your very lucky!Anyway if you happen to come across the demos I'd love to see them if not that's cool too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274852#p274852 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? I did at one time pick up the demos for the malinche games and played through the pentori prequal and azteca, I'll have to see what I can find when I get back to my flat and my desktop which has my main textgames archive on it. Unfortunately I've been in the states for the last two months getting married, and even now my lady and I are back in he Uk I won't be back at my flat and my desktop for a couple of weeks, since I'm at aims international music school next week. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274849#p274849 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-17
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hello.@Phil, thank you for the link but ifdb doesn't have download links just listings for the games. But thanks anyway.@Dark, yes there are two other games listed on the db. You'd think if sherman wanted th stop developing he would at least give people the games as freeware. I've never played them I was interested to see if commercial if differs from everyday free if. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274822#p274822 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Dark,Unfortunately, most of the games in the IFDB don't have downloads.I originally got Azteca by sending Howard my email address.The only ones you can download are,Baltimore24,BOFH, or BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL, and Pentari.I did read that Howard A. Sherman converted some of his games to e-books.But I can't find links to them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274821#p274821 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Are the games like pentori and greystone the full versions or the demos? Also, I thought there were a few others like saints in sin city and the game set in st. petersberg. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274806#p274806 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? I found them on IFDB:The Interactive Fiction Database http://ifdb.tads.org/search?searchbar=H … archGo.y=0`I downloaded the Azteca: and Baltimore24 zipsYou will need a Z interpreter to play them.Azteca: A Timeless Adventure,by Howard A. Sherman (2005)Baltimore:24,by Howard A. Sherman (1997)BOFH,by Howard A. Sherman (2002)Endgameby Howard Sherman2004The First Mileby Howard Sherman2005Greystoneby Howard Sherman2003Pentari,by Howard A. Sherman (1998)Pentari: First Lightby Howard Sherman2004Pentari: Second Dawnby Howard Sherman2008Pentari: The Apprenticeby Howard Sherman2007 URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274790#p274790 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-16
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? I wish. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274702#p274702 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-16
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : Guitarman via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi.Well I understand malinche is gone. Does somebody have the games? Or at least the demos to try? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274698#p274698 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-16
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : blindncool via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? See this thread for the whole story. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274686#p274686 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? I'm not sure what happened. I have a feeling the company is gone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274666#p274666 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-15
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? I feel like this company has been gone for quite a long time. As for the games, there are probably forum members who own them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274634#p274634 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-15
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? They were text adventures but I've never played them before. You can get some information from the malinche entertainment wikipedia article but it doesn't say much about anything. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274630#p274630 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-15
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Re: What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hmm... what games did this company make again, might I ask? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274626#p274626 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
What Happened To Malinche Entertainment?
2016-08-15
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What Happened To Malinche Entertainment? Hi.Well the other day I found mention on the database of malinche games and they sounded interesting. I went to the website which was a bunch of nonsense then I read the wikipedia article and it says malinche is gone. I'm wondering is there still a way to get the games? Has he made them available somewhere else? If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=274624#p274624 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
