Color a Dinosaur

Color a Dinosaur
Developer: FarSight Studios Publisher: Virgin Games Platform: NES Released in US: July 1993 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unusual dummy files. This game has a prototype article

Following this game's release, every single other developer realized they couldn't compete and immediately shut down. And can you blame them?

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Prototype Info

Norton Utilities

For whatever reason, this game appears to contain a big honking chunk of Norton Utilities 7 starting at 0x078C8.

SET<bh:00>UNINSTALL<bh:00>SAVE<bh:00>DUMP<bh:00>
You specified option DOS=$d2K. 
There is only $u3K of$s01DOS memory available.
Omit option DOS or try DOS=$u4K.
<bh:00>You specified option EXT=$d2K. 
There is only $u3K of$s01EXTENDED memory available. 
Omit option EXT or try EXT=$u4K.<bh:00>
You specified option EXP=$d2K. 
There is only $u3K of$s01EXPANDED memory available. 
Omit option EXP or try EXP=$u4K.<bh:00>You specified option DOS=$u2K. 
There is only $u3K of$s01Conventional DOS memory available.  
Specify DOS to use it all.
<bh:00>You specified option DOS=$u2K,$u3K.
Norton Cache cannot$s01dynamically free DOS memory for Windows.
Omit the MINIMUM$s01cache size specification (eg. DOS=$u2K).
<bh:00>You specified option EXT=$u2K. 
There is only $u3K$s01of EXTENDED memory available.  
Specify EXT to use it all.<bh:00>
You specified option EXP=$u2K. 
There is only $u3K$s01of EXPANDED memory available.  
Specify EXP to use it all.<bh:00>
You specified option EXP=$u2K,$u3K. 
Due to the design of$s01the Microsoft Windows Virtual Memory Manager, a disk cache$s01cannot use expanded memory while Windows is running. 
Omit the$s01MINIMUM cache size specification (eg. EXP=$u2K), 
or use$s01extended memory for the cache (eg. EXT=$u2K,$u3K).
<bh:00>You specified option EXT=$d2K.  
There is NO extended$s01memory available on your system.  
Omit option EXT.<bh:00>
You specified option EXT.  
There is NO extended$s01memory available on your system.  
Omit option EXT.<bh:00>
You specified option EXP=$d2K.  
There is NO expanded$s01memory available on your system.  
Omit option EXP.<bh:00>You specified option EXP.  
There is NO expanded$s01memory available on your system.  
Omit option EXP.<bh:00>There was a previous error accessing Expanded Memory.
$s01Reboot your computer and try again, or omit option EXP.<bh:00>Norton Cache requires a LIM EMS 4.0 expanded memory manager$s01to use expanded memory.  
Omit option EXP or upgrade your Expanded$s01Memory Manager.
<bh:00>Norton Cache canno

More appears at 0xCDD8. We could include more than this excerpt, which begins at 0xE87E, but much like this game, there's really no point.

NDOS Revision A 7.0 NDOS, Norton Utilities version 7.0, Copyright 1993 by Symantec Corporation %s=%c:\%s %s version %u.%u %s DOS OS/2 DR-DOS DOS Revision %c OS/2 Revision %u DOS is in %s HMA ROM low memory PROMPT COMSPEC _cdpath unlabeled Volume in drive %c is %-12s Serial number is %04x:%04x No PATH %12Lu bytes free %12Lu bytes total DOS RAM %12Lu bytes total EMS memory %12Lu bytes total EXTENDED memory %12Lu bytes free XMS memory (HMA free) (HMA in use) %12Lu bytes total environment %12Lu bytes total alias %12Lu bytes total history %12Lu bytes total disk space %12Lu bytes used chars ³ � or � Selects ³ + Marks - Unmarks ³ ENTER to run ³ Page %2u of %2u Marked: %4u files %6luK %s is %s %s (%s) is %s ANSI=%d COMPOUND=%c ESCAPE=%c INPUT=%u MODE=%u NOCLOBBER=%u PARAMETERS=%c ROWS=%u CURSOR OVERSTRIKE=%u CURSOR INSERT=%u UPPER CASE=%u VERBOSE=%u SWITCH=%c GLOBAL: %s Timer %d on: %s off: %s Elapsed: %u%c%02u%c%02u.%02u %2u%c%02u%c%02u%c %u%*1s%u%*1s%u New date (%s): New time (hh:mm:ss): Active code page: %u Prepared code pages: Confirm system reboot CON No UMB regions defined, switches ignored Invalid region number or size "%s", ignored