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Hoyle Volume III

Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3: Great Board Games

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

2023-04-10

Stats

3,345

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 4, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on disk 1.

- Complete and small install options are provided.

- Small install option installs the startup disk only, with other disks being prompted for during HD gameplay.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1992
Hoyle Volume III
AKA Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3: Great Board Games
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
English
2
Rare

Notes

[1] Licensed game based on the Hoyle® series of playing cards and rulebooks published for various card games by Edmond Hoyle, a 17th century British writer best known for his lifelong works on the rules and play of card games.

[2] Game design by Marti & Bridget McKenna.
Game development system by Jeff Stephenson, Dan Foy, Larry Scott, J. Mark Hood, Mark Wilden, Chris Smith and Ken Koch; Amiga conversion by Phyllis Cucchiara, Steve Coallier, Jerry Shaw and Aubrey Hodges.
Graphics by Jay Friedmann and Maurice Morgan; animation by Nathan Larsen, Marc Hudgins, Terrence Falls, Michael Hutchinson and Richard Powell.
Music composition & sound FX by Rob Atesalp; music coding by Mark Seibert.

[3] Original game contents include a Sierra games catalogue.

[4] Game autoboots from floppy or can be launched from WB.

[5] Game supports full multitasking (memory permitting), mouse/keyboard/joystick support, savegames and a quit back to WB option.


Last known release:
V1.000 (25-Mar-92)

Conversion Notes

Based on 1992 Sierra PC/Tandy release.
PC versions: Tandy, EGA, MCGA/VGA

N.B. Despite loading instructions appearing in the game manual, Atari ST and Apple Macintosh conversions were never released.

Screen info

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Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

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Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual Cover

ECS no. 2

Sierra Games Catalogue Cover

Manual info

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No manuals found.

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Conversion info

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
No conversion screens found.

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

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