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[NILL]

It's a really old game for Mac OS 7 or 8. It played a lot like mario, but you were a pig. You had to go from room to room collecting keys and weapons upgrades. It was 2D and was made by company from California. Google came up with nothing but stuff for Warcarft.

[MacProject]

NILL, on February 8th 2005, 09:28 PM, said:

It's a really old game for Mac OS 7 or 8. It played a lot like mario, but you were a pig. You had to go from room to room collecting keys and weapons upgrades. It was 2D and was made by company from California. Google came up with nothing but stuff for Warcarft.

Can't say I've ever heard of it, but it does sound like my type of game so I'll be interested to see if anyone knows the answer.

[the Battle Cat]

Are you thinking of Gruntz?

[monsquaz]

the Battle Cat, on February 9th 2005, 10:49 AM, said:

Are you thinking of Gruntz?

No, he's not.

I know which game NILL speaks of. I remember playing it many, many years ago on my Performa 250. I had obtained it from a Software of the Month Club volume, which I've still got the floppies for, too. As of two years ago, these floppies still work perfectly, and I believe I already still have it installed on that same Performa 250. I can probably upload it somewhere when I get the chance to copy it.

[NILL]

monsquaz, on February 9th 2005, 05:46 PM, said:

No, he's not.

I know which game NILL speaks of. I remember playing it many, many years ago on my Performa 250. I had obtained it from a Software of the Month Club volume, which I've still got the floppies for, too. As of two years ago, these floppies still work perfectly, and I believe I already still have it installed on that same Performa 250. I can probably upload it somewhere when I get the chance to copy it.

I dont know if it would fit on a floppy. It was a Club that sent you cds every month, but I played it at school. The teacher was the one that would install that stuff.

[monsquaz]

NILL, on February 9th 2005, 06:30 PM, said:

I dont know if it would fit on a floppy. It was a Club that sent you cds every month, but I played it at school. The teacher was the one that would install that stuff.

I don't remember receiving CDs. Of course, that's probably because we dropped out of our SMC subscription in the mid-90s. They must have changed their format after we left.

Yarr! You kids got it easy. Back in my day, SMC really did send floppies!

OK, I'll cut it out now. But seriously...

How did they do this, you ask?
Multiple floppies.
As time went on, it would no longer become odd for a volume to have 12 disks total. Everything would be segmented into different installation files on the different disks- when it was done with one, you had to insert another disk upon another disk until it was done.

That's the way it was, and we liked it!
Gwa-ha.

[NILL]

monsquaz, on February 9th 2005, 07:06 PM, said:

I don't remember receiving CDs. Of course, that's probably because we dropped out of our SMC subscription in the mid-90s. They must have changed their format after we left.

Yarr! You kids got it easy. Back in my day, SMC really did send floppies!

OK, I'll cut it out now. But seriously...

How did they do this, you ask?
Multiple floppies.
As time went on, it would no longer become odd for a volume to have 12 disks total. Everything would be segmented into different installation files on the different disks- when it was done with one, you had to insert another disk upon another disk until it was done.

That's the way it was, and we liked it!
Gwa-ha.

I knew it was done like that. I just didnt think a magizine would do that. And what are you talking about, game makers are puting games on to upto 6 cds now and not going dvd because of about 10% of people dont have them. At least on the PC side . Is this to off topics yet?

[the Battle Cat]

Have you tried contacting some of the people you played the game with?

[NILL]

the Battle Cat, on February 10th 2005, 11:24 AM, said:

Have you tried contacting some of the people you played the game with?

I was the techie in class, I dont think anybody would remember it anybetter them me. And they were all windows users so I dont think they would have cared to keep it.

[LEPER]

I remember this game! Childhood favorite! With the blu pig thing and the green one right? And the dogs and... sorry i dont know where to get it... i dont have it anymore... I just had to bleed out my nostalgia.

[greenmojo]

Seriously hoping someone sees this at some point, I know this thread is a couple years old.

Anyone who has this game, is there anyway you can upload it to somewhere? I've been searching for this one forever for my uncle

[Richard G]

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It's a really old game for Mac OS 7 or 8. It played a lot like mario, but you were a pig. You had to go from room to room collecting keys and weapons upgrades. It was 2D and was made by company from California.

On the MacOS platform, some years ago, there was a platform-based game called "GRUNT" that involved a pig. The game's story involved retrieving the fragments of a magic jewel that had been scattered throughout a castle. (For that matter, the game also had a pretty good music track...) Among other places, the game was included on a CD-ROM disc that came with the book "Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus." This book was published by Hayden Books in 1995. The game was authored by Farhad Akhmetov and Mark Chetverikov, and the specified e-mail contact information for Farhad Akhmetov was FarhadA104 at aol dot com. (I do not know if this e-mail address is still valid.) The documentation for the game also specified an entity called "FORMAC SOFTWARE" that had an address in Los Angeles, California.

[Tesseract]

It just so happens that I have that book and its CD. The docs are in the form of a classic app so I can't read them, but I think it's safe to assume that the game is ShareWare or FreeWare and thus redistributable. Enjoy.
 Grunt.zip   1.85MB   22 downloads

[grunt]

Hi, I'm trying to download that attachment, Grunt.zip, but there seems to be an error with registration not allowing me to activate my account.

[Frost]

grunt, on 09 May 2011 - 10:01 PM, said:

Hi, I'm trying to download that attachment, Grunt.zip, but there seems to be an error with registration not allowing me to activate my account.

It could be because your first post has to be approved by moderators (we do this to improve the effectiveness of catching spammers to 99%). I just approved you so you should be good to go. Give it another try.

[discovolante]

Frost, on 10 May 2011 - 12:41 AM, said:

It could be because your first post has to be approved by moderators (we do this to improve the effectiveness of catching spammers to 99%). I just approved you so you should be good to go. Give it another try.

Hey guys, downloaded that Grunt zip and also got a copy of SheepShaver (the OS 9 emulator) so I can actually play the game on my OS X. Got Sheepshaver up and running and Grunt is in the shared folder between my OS 9 and OS X partitions, however whenever I try to open Grunt I'm told that it "Couldn't allocate a sound channel. Try to restart (hold Shift down) with extentions off."
I am dying to play this game as I haven't in about 10 years, me and my siblings have been hunting it down for that entire time (yes, a decade), but it refuses to open unless I allocate a sound channel and I am struggling to find out how to do so my audio preferences on SheepShaver are as follows:

Output Device - /dev/dsp

Mixer Device - /dev/mixer

This is all the audio information or preferences SheepShaver is offering me and the only sound-related options in the OS 9 window at all is the volume bar. Hopefully this can be sorted. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

[beavis]

discovolante, on 27 May 2011 - 08:39 AM, said:

Hey guys, downloaded that Grunt zip and also got a copy of SheepShaver (the OS 9 emulator) so I can actually play the game on my OS X. Got Sheepshaver up and running and Grunt is in the shared folder between my OS 9 and OS X partitions, however whenever I try to open Grunt I'm told that it "Couldn't allocate a sound channel. Try to restart (hold Shift down) with extentions off."
I am dying to play this game as I haven't in about 10 years, me and my siblings have been hunting it down for that entire time (yes, a decade), but it refuses to open unless I allocate a sound channel and I am struggling to find out how to do so my audio preferences on SheepShaver are as follows:

Output Device - /dev/dsp

Mixer Device - /dev/mixer

This is all the audio information or preferences SheepShaver is offering me and the only sound-related options in the OS 9 window at all is the volume bar. Hopefully this can be sorted. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Hey man, I had the same problem. You have to go under the apple to control panel, then to sound and choose "built in" under output. I too have been searching for this game forever, hope this helps.