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Title: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on March 30, 2006, 11:55:29 am

This game is abandonware (was once featured on Home of the Underdogs), and a very rare game indeed, so I thought I'd pass along this link. It has risen again, at the pirate bay:

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3443933 to download torrent (PC game)

More info:
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/haveyou/typing.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead



mrC

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: RayB on March 30, 2006, 01:14:07 pm

So they consider 5-6 year old software from companies still in business to be "abandonware" now? 

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on March 30, 2006, 01:21:13 pm

That's what they told me.


mrC

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: Vigo on March 30, 2006, 07:17:00 pm

I was givin the game free for the Dreamcast by a friend, bought the DC keyboard just to play it. Now, I am prepared for the zombie invasion with my 30wpm skills....

-I know I type slow, thats why I only have under 15 posts and I have been a member since october...

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: lustreking on April 05, 2006, 09:22:59 pm

I'm sure I'll feel like a complete idiot when someone tells me how, but I can't figure out how to exit the game.

-S

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: melarky on April 06, 2006, 06:43:15 pm

I couldn't figure out how to exit the game either.  I had to go scrounge around on the net until I stumbled upon the trick:

Exit: Alt+F4

I guess it makes sense that they would make it a difficult key combo because it would probably accidentally exit while playing, but that was still a bugger to find.

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: SOAPboy on April 06, 2006, 08:41:59 pm

dope

*downloads

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: walls83 on April 06, 2006, 09:18:52 pm

I own that game.  I threw it on my PC at work and play it so it sounds like Im typing away.  Very fun game.

Title: Re: The Typing of the Dead rises again!!
Post by: shmokes on April 07, 2006, 02:50:50 pm

It's tough, too.  I type 80-90 wpm consistently and the game is very challenging.