Author Topic: Freddy Pharkas (Read 4432 times)

Grover · « **on:** September 06, 2002, 04:25:50 PM »

Or i think that's what his name was...Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist.

I didn't look to long or hard, but this seems to be a forgotten game among the SCI community. Personally, I loved it probably more than any other SCI series I've played, but the only thing I really remember is he only had one ear and there was a good theme song. That and he's a pharmacist.

Does anyone except me remember this game, and if so, do you know where i can get a copy?

Oh, and also, I can't get any old SCI games to work on my computer because they don't recognize my sound card...anyone know a solution to this?

Thank you,
Grover

Brian Provinciano · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2002, 05:50:05 PM »

You can get a copy from eBay (http://www.ebay.com).

You can run the windows version to get sound, or download one of Ravi's sound drivers.

juncmodule · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2002, 09:44:18 PM »

http://www.allowe.com/fp-main.htm

Another Al Lowe creation. Just for some more info.

Cosmic R · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2002, 02:33:50 AM »

No, we haven't forgotten it. It was a great game. Other less 'talked-about' games were some of the dynamix ones: Rise of the Dragon and Heart of China. They used SCI and were great games also.

OmerMor · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2002, 02:57:22 AM »

Of course we know old Freddy.
About Heart of China and Rise of the Dragon - I'm pretty sure they're not SCI.

lskovlun · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2002, 03:57:41 AM »

Quote from: Cosmic R on September 07, 2002, 02:33:50 AM

They used SCI and were great games also.

Don't judge them by the file names... yes, there are RESOURCE.00? files in there, but
they are in an entirely different format, and the executable is definitely not SCI.
I'm not even sure if they are script-based, like SCI.

Grover · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2002, 02:35:54 PM »

Ah cool...Glad to see I'm not the only SCI fan who remembers good ol' freddy.

I actually snooped around a bit on the net, found the al lowe website, and from his site I found a link to this ftp site: ftp.freddypharkas.com where Freddy Pharkas can be downloaded, with Al Lowe's blessings, in winRAR format. Unfortunately, it takes about 15 hours, but the guy says he'll burn you a copy of it through the mail for two dollars. (to cover shipping)

Al Lowe has the manual, which is needed to play the game, printed on his website.

Thanks guys

Grover

Cosmic R · « **Reply #7 on:** September 08, 2002, 12:49:49 AM »

Quote from: Lars Skovlund on September 07, 2002, 03:57:41 AM

Quote from: Cosmic R on September 07, 2002, 02:33:50 AM

They used SCI and were great games also.

Don't judge them by the file names... yes, there are RESOURCE.00? files in there, but
they are in an entirely different format, and the executable is definitely not SCI.
I'm not even sure if they are script-based, like SCI.

Are you sure??? I always thought they used the same format as sq5, qfg3, lb2 and a couple others...

HWM · « **Reply #8 on:** September 08, 2002, 08:25:27 AM »

The games you were talking about (Heart of China, Rise of the Dragon & Willy Beamish) are not SCI, but use the Dynamix interpreter. These games also do not use RESOURCE files, but VOLUME files... The Incredible Machine series et al, do use RESOURCE files, but are in no way related to the Sierra interpreter, just like some Sierra action games (which also use RESOURCE files, but aren't SCI). However Dynamix did develop SQ5, some SQ5DEMO uses the Dynamix interpreter.

Allen · « **Reply #9 on:** September 09, 2002, 09:08:11 AM »

Freddy Pharkas? That was a cool game, I remember Larry Laffer in the outhouse making some 'rude' sounds.

BTW you can get the MP3 intro with vocals by Al Lowe. Get it at www.allowe.com

Allen · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2002, 09:20:32 AM »

That game rocks! I got it from www.freddypharkas.com The rights for the game belong to Al Lowe, and he has personally said that he would rather people download it for free than have the game be forgotten, so it technically isnt pirating!

Nick Sonneveld · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2002, 07:15:43 PM »

hey, I would rather it be free too but it doesn't mean it's legal. If Al Lowe really didn't mind he would have it on his site.. as far as I know he's only got games like Donald Duck's playground.

- Nick

MusicallyInspired · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2002, 08:36:09 PM »

well, Black Cauldron and whatever else was on there were small games too. FPFP is like 9 megs. and then theres the CD version. if Al wanted to release it on his site he probly would have wanted to the latest version for download (which would be the CD version) but that would be too big maybe.....i dno tho. maybe i have no idea what im talkn about (which would be quite possible)

juncmodule · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2002, 10:11:48 PM »

Hey guys:

"Although I don't tend to support piracy, especially when it comes to great games like this, there comes a time in every game's life when it becomes harder and harder to find"

-quote from www.freddypharkas.com

Downloading the game from this site (according to the sites owner) IS software piracy.

Not trying to be a party pooper....just letting everyone know what your doing before you do it...

Te Rangi · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2002, 11:00:04 PM »

Who cares about piracy? (from big companies, anyway)
What I mean is, I would have no qualms "obtaining" maybe one of the new Sierra games or something (they really suck now.) but I would feel quite bad stealing from Croteam (the developers of Serious Sam) as they are a small company who piracy would hurt.

As a member of a famous band once said (regarding bootlegs) : "They hurt us when we were small, but now I really don't care."

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