Nanosaur + Nanosaur Extreme
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Brian Greenstone |
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Pangea Software |
| Engine: | QuickDraw 3D |
nanosaur-1x.sit (25.11 MB)
MD5: d1506c706407325b4a617f8525cf5c4d For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
nanosaur134.bin (13.57 MB)
MD5: dca2e25a5132204c3dd2473f1e13f80c For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
nanosaurextreme134.bin (12.71 MB)
MD5: 5a54e9b53d5b2bf3e0050682d76bb36e For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
nanosource.bin (709.25 KB)
MD5: cce36e60da29082b84cb3e35927d3315 For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
Nanosaur_1.3.4_Update.dmg (1.61 MB)
MD5: ad01d2e9e0f934c5eee4fcef2633872a For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
Nanosaur.dmg (13.71 MB)
MD5: 2292dfa73866b6353950bc721e26b506 For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
nanoextreme.dmg (12.83 MB)
MD5: 2cac9a1f6824d8780bc16534e80d60b5 For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS X
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.
- DL #1: Includes v1.0, v1.0.6 & v1.1.6, for those who would like to try the original. Plays reasonably well on a 603e or better CPU.
- DL #2: Nanosaur v1.3.4 shareware version.
- DL #3: Nanosaur Extreme v1.3.4 - like the above only more difficult.
- DL #4: Source code for Nanosaur.
- DL #5: Update to Nanosaur. Mount update in Mac OS X. Remove update from dmg. Then take update to Mac OS 9.
- DL #6: Nanosaur, free game from Pangea Software. Put game in Mac OS X and mount it. Then take game to Mac OS 9.
- DL #7: Nanosaur Extreme, free game from Pangea Software. Put game in Mac OS X and mount it. Then take game to Mac OS 9.
Nanosaur is now Freeware from Pangea
Serial for Nanosaur 1.3.4: APAPGNDKBQBQ
For the final version of Nanosaur and updaters, visit Pangea Software.
Download Nanosaur from this GitHub page
A video showing the game is available in Cornica.
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.
Comments
Nanosaur Extreme now available for MAC OS X (https://github.com/jorio/Nanosaur/releases)
Coincidentally, I'd been playing with Nanosaur source code in SheepShaver before seeing Jorio's port, testing some minor changes to support QuesaLib in place of QuickDraw3D.
Nanosaur actually runs very well in current SheepShaver builds using the QD3D interactive renderer, but it doesn't support transparent objects in software mode, while Quesa does. However, Quesa's 3DMF file support is weak, necessitating some changes to Nanosaur's error handling, and even then, despite having transparencies, the lighting and lack of fog effects make QD3D the better option.
Some blend of QuickDraw's and Quesa's software renderers would be optimal for games like Bugdom and Nanosaur, but given Jorio's modern port, there's not much need! Although I will plan to upload SheepShaver-compatible builds of Quesa; all the prebuilt versions from their site are built with post-9.1 APIs which don't run in SheepShaver.
Great to see a modern port of this game! Brian Greenstone released the source code many years ago but had a very strict policy prohibiting non-Pangea releases. I suspect his decision to make Pangea games free is what inspired the author of this port, and the fact that Brian posted a link on Pangea's website suggests he both allows and supports it! I wonder if he'll be open to releasing source code for some other old games...
Thanks for the hint, Scott, I dug into it and saw the following hints:
Pangea Software: Nanosaur Files
This blockquote links to GitHub, including source code:
Releases/Jorio/Nanosaur
Version 1.4.0, made in the year 2020.
The download nauosaur 1.4.0 dmg for intel mac. It will not work on ppc mac.
MAC OS X port added! nanosaur-1.4.0-mac.dmg
Ah, I can see that. All along, I was thinking "why not just SIT that and put it in the target hard disk, with an added bonus of having an archive that also works with System 6 and earlier?", but transfering stuff to the HD directly is sometimes more of a pain via emulators than setting up an image to mount side-by-side with the HD. Plus having to unSIT the archive in an already-limited disk size, and the extra time it takes to decompress.
Thanks for the answer, @fogWraith & @MTT!
@Jatoba: Of course. A classic Mac OS can mount Disk Copy images in native Systems 7.0 and above. They can also be added to an emulators GUI to mount as additional disks, or in the case of Mini vMac, drag and dropped into a Mini vMac window and mount that way.
The only point to be aware of when needing Disk Copy images to mount in Mac emulators, either dropped into Mini vMac or added to a list of drives in B2/Sheep's GUI, is they need to be in a raw uncompressed format. But this is true of any disk image type, not just Disk Copy's.
.iso's/.cdr's are the way to go for distributed CD/DVD, as long as they can mount on their intended systems. But for items that don't fit as CD rips or are 800K or less, floppy images, then Disk Copy 6 img's are the most compatible format for classic Mac OS's 7.0 - 9.2.2.
I could see how it would benefit both emulation and real hardware if the media is dumped properly, most emulators can mount dsk images & iso's as "real" disks, the real hardware has utilities to either mount or write the data back onto media
I know this is an ancient comment by now, but is there any benefit to doing this? Be it for real hardware, emulation or otherwise.
This author also made Apple's QD3D Demo in 1995: "Gerbils!"
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.
Thanks for doing that. The .dmg for Nanosaur 1.3.4 on the Pangea site also appears to be corrupted.
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)
That's fine. I'd wish all of our d/ls would be wrapped into a Disk Copy image.
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!
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.
@Bolkonskij, way way back on January 24, 2010, asks:
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.
I get an error when trying to unpack it...something about wrong header or so. Can anyone else confirm that?
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 :'(
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.