HPS Games

[Rayfer]

Haven't seen or heard much from/about them in quite awhile...I was thinking about them in regard to the Matrix weekly sale and what a great idea it was.  I wonder if HPS would consider doing something along the same lines?

[GibbyG]

You can get HPS games at the NWS online store for a lot cheaper than the HPS site every day

[Rayfer]

You can get HPS games at the NWS online store for a lot cheaper than the HPS site every day

Thanks for the tip but that's where I've bought all my HPS games so far.  I was hoping HPS would go the route of Matrix and maybe do weekly sales more in the $9.99-$19.99 range...many of their games are very, very old. 

[spelk]

Some of John Tiller Software's more recent stuff has been turning up on tablets... more conversion than anything brand new..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.johntillersoftware.pzc

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.johntillersoftware.map

I suppose HPS Sims are just trying to keep selling what they have the rights to, updating what they can. Are they getting new stuff now Tiller has his own outlet?

[vyshka]

I'm pretty sure Tiller is still providing support for the titles that were sold through hps and they have been updating them to be downloadable titles.

[Bison]

The Tiller crew still supports the titles at HPS and they are slowly migrating them to digital download.

[Mad Russian]

Depends on what you consider support. I bought North German  Plain and Fulda Gap recently, go figure, and the manuals are unusable.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Bison]

They are supporting games that are over 10 years old with patches and upgrades.  I'd call that support.

[Mad Russian]

I'm glad it works for you. I bought games at full price that don't have working manuals. Their answer is they aren't that hard to learn without them. No intention of upgrading them.

It depends on  your POV as to what supporting a game means. To me, if you are selling it a full price it should have a working manual.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Bison]

Download this http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=91 or the variant for your MS version.  If you have an OS Vista or later, ms stop putting .hlp in the new OS.  So you have to do a simple download and install to get the manuals to work.  I suspect this is your issue.

[Pinetree]

I'm glad it works for you. I bought games at full price that don't have working manuals. Their answer is they aren't that hard to learn without them. No intention of upgrading them.

It depends on  your POV as to what supporting a game means. To me, if you are selling it a full price it should have a working manual.

Good Hunting.

MR

Have you installed the latest patches? They now use pdfs for documentation.

[vyshka]

I'm glad it works for you. I bought games at full price that don't have working manuals. Their answer is they aren't that hard to learn without them. No intention of upgrading them.

It depends on  your POV as to what supporting a game means. To me, if you are selling it a full price it should have a working manual.

Good Hunting.

MR

It is windows help file issue? I ran into that at some point with an old title of theirs, and there is a program that will let you open them on windows 7.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=91

I'm surprised they didn't update to pdfs when they made the downloadable versions of the '85 games.

[Al]

I looked at my copies of Fulda85 and NGP85 and both have PDF files of the manuals.  Just make sure you have the latest updates installed.  Also, always check at NWS for cheaper copies of HPS games.

[Staggerwing]

IIRC all the updated manuals are available as downloads at the HPS web site.

MR, go here and see if you can get what you want:

http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/Updates/up_Modern/up_Modern.ASP

Most recent patches are there too.

[Tuna]

Tiller's games may be old and ugly, but they continue to support them many years later!