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Nanosaur + Nanosaur Extreme

Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4.3 (18 votes)
Category:	Action
Perspective:	3rd Person
Year released:	1998
Author:	Brian Greenstone
Publisher:	Pangea Software
Engine:	QuickDraw 3D

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nanosaur-1x.sit (25.11 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

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nanosaur134.bin (13.57 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

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nanosaurextreme134.bin (12.71 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

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nanosource.bin (709.25 KB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

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Nanosaur_1.3.4_Update.dmg (1.61 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

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Nanosaur.dmg (13.71 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

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nanoextreme.dmg (12.83 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9

Download (external link)

Purchase
This game is still available from its publisher

Emulation
This game works with: QEMU

Nanosaur + Nanosaur Extreme.

Pangea Software, the company that brought us Bugdom, developed and published Nanosaur in 1998. In Nanosaur, dinosaurs have been reproduced by scientists. Shortly afterwards, the human race died out from a plague of some sort. You play as a dinosaur sent sixty-five million years back in time to collect dinosaur eggs before the asteroid hits Earth, wiping out all the dinosaurs.

Top DL: includes v1.0, v1.0.6 & v1.1.6. In this archive the original Nanosaur version 1.0 with a 1.0.6 updater & v1.1.6 for those who would like to try the original - Plays reasonably well on a 603e or better CPU.
MD5 checksum: d1506c706407325b4a617f8525cf5c4d *nanosaur-1x.sit
Nanosaur v1.3.4 shareware version
Nanosaur Extreme v1.3.4 - like the above only harder
Source code for Nanosaur.
Update to nanosaur. Put update in os x and mount it. Then take update out of dmg. Then put in os 9.
NanoSaur, free game from pangea software. Put game in os x and mount it. Then take game to os 9
NanoSaur Extreme, free game from pangea software. Put game in os x and mount it. Then take game to os 9.

Video Available
A video showing the game is available in Cornica.

The serial at bottom of this screen

nanosaur 1 serial

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Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

Version 1.1.6 plays very nicely on a G3 iMac (Mac OS 9.2.1).

This game will run under emulation using Qemu with Mac OS 9; however, the FPS might be a little low depending on your processor, since all the graphics will be handled in software.

For the newest sharerware version of Nanosaur and updaters, vist Pangea Software.

Comments

by SkyCapt - 2017, January 12 - 1:14am

This author also made Apple's QD3D Demo in 1995: "Gerbils!"

by SkyCapt - 2017, January 12 - 1:11am

Super. Hang on to the v1.1.6 as it can run on less than QuickDraw 3D v1.6, whereas v1.3.4/X require QD3D v1.6. The two versions have identical Data folders except for one of the charity addresses on splash page: only one data folder can drive both app versions. This is one of the best 3D FPS games that can run without a supported graphics card and yet no slow down on good hardware. Cheat codes exist in the "Game Doctor", my non-Apple keybd can't do the cheats in OSX Classic mode, but there is a way to cheat without keybd. Climb to the highest hills and then jump, double jump, as high as you can. You then get a full supply of everything.

by MikeTomTom - 2016, November 11 - 1:21am

I uploaded the latest version released on MAC OS 9 since they are only in DMG

Thanks for doing that. The .dmg for Nanosaur 1.3.4 on the Pangea site also appears to be corrupted.

by Catar4x - 2016, November 11 - 12:35am

The game is no more mentionned in Pangea software homepage: http://www.pangeasoft.net/macGames.html

I uploaded the latest version released on MAC OS 9 since they are only in DMG on the site.
Also added the public source code (no idea if this is allowed)

by IIGS_User - 2010, November 2 - 4:31pm

Now it is a compressed ".sit" Stuffit 5.5 archive enclosing a locked Disk Copy 6.3 image file.

That's fine. I'd wish all of our d/ls would be wrapped into a Disk Copy image.

by SwedeBear - 2010, November 1 - 9:02am

Try to DL directly via Pangea's site. Both versions available and for Mac and PC.
http://www.pangeasoft.net/nano/files.html#anchor162134

Downloads a BIN-file which un-encodes to a SEA-archive; self-extracting or un-archiving w Expander.
HTH!

by IIGS_User - 2010, November 1 - 8:30am

Yep, please do.
To create compatibility with the future, please make sure to wrap the content into a Disk Copy .img file before to sit it.

by MikeTomTom - 2010, November 1 - 6:27am

@Bolkonskij, way way back on January 24, 2010, asks:

I get an error when trying to unpack it...something about wrong header or so. Can anyone else confirm that?

Hard to believe no-one has chipped in on this before now, but - Confirmed: on Mac OS 9.2.2 or earlier this file is fubar. But on OS X it extracts OK.

Whoever put this up made the archive on OS X and it is useless on OS 9.2.2 or earlier. To make matters even worse. The archive is actually a Mac OS X zip file that has simply been renamed as a ".sit" before uploading. Tsk.

This archive should be re-done properly and re-uploaded. I can do this if no-one else cares to volunteer. I have a version of this on a Mac Format CD that isn't Mac specific (not bundled with a particular Mac).

[Edit]: Now it is a compressed ".sit" Stuffit 5.5 archive enclosing a locked Disk Copy 6.3 image file.

by Bolkonskij - 2010, January 23 - 11:20pm

I get an error when trying to unpack it...something about wrong header or so. Can anyone else confirm that?

by Arkanis - 2009, July 26 - 8:37pm

O i remember playing this game on our old imac g3 then we upgraded to OSX and it was lost in the sand of time :'(

by IIGS_User - 2009, May 17 - 5:04am

Before switching to iPhone software programming, Pangea Software did Macintosh games like this one, Bugdom, Cro-Mag Rallye, ...

I even know the first games they made has been created for Apple ][gs, where comes my nickname from.