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OT running bubbels as a standalone
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jhill - 18 Nov 2004 23:00 GMT I have figured out how to run bubbels on my Windows XP machine as a standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The process is somewhat long, but I will post it if enough are interested.
Victor Martinez - 18 Nov 2004 23:20 GMT > standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The > process is somewhat long, but I will post it if enough are interested. Yes, please! :)
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Yowie - 19 Nov 2004 01:23 GMT > > standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The > > process is somewhat long, but I will post it if enough are interested. > > Yes, please! :) yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!
(no, not an addict, of course not, not me)
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Jo Firey - 19 Nov 2004 02:48 GMT >> > standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The >> > process is somewhat long, but I will post it if enough are interested. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Yowie As if having the shortcut on my desktop and a DSL connection isn't causing me enough problems.
Cleared the screen for a total of 83,000 plus points this afternoon.
I need a screen saver for my retinas. Starting to get dark blue and green burn in.
Jo
jhill - 19 Nov 2004 01:24 GMT Instructions on how to make 'bubbels' a standalone game.
The procedure has 3 steps:
1. Copy the bubbels.swf from the temporary internet folder to another folder where it will be permanent. (I call my folder 'games').
2. Make the computer automatically launch Internet Explorer (Hereafter refered to as IE) when you double-click a file with extension .swf.
3. Make an icon on the desktop to click on to launch bubbels.
Step 1: You will have to make sure the file bubbels.swf is actually in the temporary internet folder. It disappears from day to day depending on what options were set. To be sure it is there, use the IE browser to start bubbels from the web. You don't have to play it, just call it up once the old way. Then you can close down IE and log off the web. Locate the temporary interent folder: to do this click start and then search. Next click 'all files and folders'. next click 'advanced search'. In that window type in bubbels as what to search on in the 'all or part of a file name' box. Next click the small box in front of 'search hidden files and folders' to turn on that option. Then click the 'search' button. It should eventually give you a long path to bubbels.swf. Mine was C:/documents and settings/jhill/ local settings/Temporary Internet files/. Write this path down carefully on a scrap paper.
Now use 'my computer' or 'windows explorer' to copy the bubbels.swf file from that path to new permanent folder. In my computer I copied it to folder 'games'. There are normally lots of files in the temporary internet folder, so it takes some patience to find it.
Step 2: Using 'my computer' or 'windows explorer' go to the new folder(games) and get a listing of the files there. If you did step 1 correctly, bubbels.swf will be in the list. Right click on the bubbels.swf file name. On the submenu, click properties. You should get another submenu that says in part, 'type of file: shockwave flash object' the next line should say 'opens with'. If it says opens with internet explorer, then you are done. If not click the browse button and select internet explorer from the list. Now as a test bring up the list of files again, double (left) click on the bubbels.swf file name and the game should start, without being connected to the web. Exit IE for step 3.
Step 3: Bring up the list of files in the permanent folder(games). Be sure this window is sized so that some of the desktop is visable. Right click on the bubbels.swf filename and this time select 'create shortcut'. Now a new filename titled 'shortcut to bubbels.swf' should appear in the list. Drag that shortcut over to the desktop. A new icon should appear on the desktop with the words shortcut to bubbels.swf under it. You are done; clicking on that new icon should launch bubbels. You can usually drag that icon to whereever you want it on the desktop, once you get the other program windows closed.
Seanette Blaylock - 19 Nov 2004 10:55 GMT "jhill" <jhillxyz@tarleton.edu> had some very interesting things to say about OT running bubbels as a standalone:
>I have figured out how to run bubbels on my Windows XP machine as a >standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The >process is somewhat long, but I will post it if enough are interested. I've found that once it's loaded in Netscape, I can play offline. DH says he's going to figure out how to save the file to my system. :-) [I'm on Windows 2000, so I'm not sure an XP process would work for me.]
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:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL lewe - 19 Nov 2004 13:58 GMT > I have figured out how to run bubbels on my Windows XP machine as a > standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The > process is somewhat long, but I will post it if enough are interested. No, no, no - last night after working late I was too tired to do anything else and tried out the bubbles and I did manage to kill them all! What a relief that was!! =)
Don't bring them back!! ;P (after all the bubbles was cleared there was some message that I guess was if I wanted to move up one level so clicked and had to try agian of course, the bubbles are now advancing somewhat faster ...)
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David Stevenson - 19 Nov 2004 18:05 GMT >"jhill" <jhillxyz@tarleton.edu> wrote in message >news:cnj9hp$f0s$1@news.tamu.edu... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >if I wanted to move up one level so clicked and had to try agian of course, >the bubbles are now advancing somewhat faster ...) What's a good score? I got a couple of 32K scores.
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Karen - 19 Nov 2004 21:12 GMT > >"jhill" <jhillxyz@tarleton.edu> wrote in message > >news:cnj9hp$f0s$1@news.tamu.edu... [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > What's a good score? I got a couple of 32K scores. I think that is good. I had only one above that (79K) but most are pretty low and then about half of the rest are around 29K. I canNOT get all the bubbles cleared which really irks me! I know it has been done so it can BE done. I must go on until it happens.
lewe - 19 Nov 2004 23:51 GMT Karen <kchuplis@nospamalltel.net> skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:UKWdnVY_aMUP_QPcRVn-gQ@giganews.com...
| I think that is good. I had only one above that (79K) but most are pretty | low and then about half of the rest are around 29K. I canNOT get all the | bubbles cleared which really irks me! I know it has been done so it can BE | done. I must go on until it happens. It does, it does ... It will, it will ... =)
somewhere after 100K the refilling of Bubbles gave up, and then it counted up whatever so the end figure was some 217K
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Jo Firey - 20 Nov 2004 02:18 GMT > Karen <kchuplis@nospamalltel.net> skrev i > diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:UKWdnVY_aMUP_QPcRVn-gQ@giganews.com... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > -- Yep. If you clear them all, it doubles your score so you get twice what you were working on.
Still say that every once in a while the one you are getting set to shoot changes color on you just to mess with your mind.
Jo
Karen Chuplis - 20 Nov 2004 03:07 GMT >> Karen <kchuplis@nospamalltel.net> skrev i >> diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:UKWdnVY_aMUP_QPcRVn-gQ@giganews.com... [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Jo I swear that happens too!! I actually think I look at the one coming up in the wings and my brain says it's the one I'm shooting but it sure seems like it changes.
Christina Websell - 20 Nov 2004 03:44 GMT >>> Karen <kchuplis@nospamalltel.net> skrev i >>> diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:UKWdnVY_aMUP_QPcRVn-gQ@giganews.com... [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > like > it changes. I definitely agree. Green changes to yellow or vice versa.
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Seanette Blaylock - 20 Nov 2004 09:20 GMT "Jo Firey" <JAfirey@NETZERO.NET> had some very interesting things to say about Re: OT running bubbels as a standalone:
>Still say that every once in a while the one you are getting set to shoot >changes color on you just to mess with your mind. That or the layout rearranges itself specifically to take away that terrific spot to send the bubble you *just* fired.
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:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL Yowie - 20 Nov 2004 00:05 GMT > >"jhill" <jhillxyz@tarleton.edu> wrote in message > >news:cnj9hp$f0s$1@news.tamu.edu... [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > What's a good score? I got a couple of 32K scores. Thats debatable. If you are aiming to get the highest score, I think in the 100k region is pretty good. However, if you are aiming to finish the game, one would argue that the lowest score possible is desirable. I don't think you could finish a game with a score lower than 50k though (I could be wrong on that)
Yowie
Jo Firey - 20 Nov 2004 02:19 GMT >> >"jhill" <jhillxyz@tarleton.edu> wrote in message >> >news:cnj9hp$f0s$1@news.tamu.edu... [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Yowie It would be hard because you rack up points pretty fast when you get down to three or two colors.
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Marina - 20 Nov 2004 04:21 GMT >>>>I have figured out how to run bubbels on my Windows XP machine as a >>>>standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > you could finish a game with a score lower than 50k though (I could be wrong > on that) I cleared them with a final score of 33k+, but I must have been really lucky, with huge clumps of same-colour bubbles. In the last screen, all the bubbles were light blue, and I just had to shoot one and sit back and watch them pop.
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Karen Chuplis - 20 Nov 2004 05:50 GMT >>>>> I have figured out how to run bubbels on my Windows XP machine as a >>>>> standalone, so I don't have to be connected to the web to play it. The [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > the bubbles were light blue, and I just had to shoot one and sit back > and watch them pop. /bubble rant/At 33 K??? Man, I got to 79K and was finally down to 2 colors. 2 d*mn colors!! And I screwed it up!! I could not believe it!! Grrrrrrrr./end bubble rant.
Marina - 20 Nov 2004 06:06 GMT > /bubble rant/At 33 K??? Man, I got to 79K and was finally down to 2 colors. > 2 d*mn colors!! And I screwed it up!! I could not believe it!! > Grrrrrrrr./end bubble rant. Oh, that's happened to me, too. I don't think I'll ever break that 33k record. I hope I can stop trying some time soon, though. ;o)
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Karen Chuplis - 20 Nov 2004 06:06 GMT >> /bubble rant/At 33 K??? Man, I got to 79K and was finally down to 2 colors. >> 2 d*mn colors!! And I screwed it up!! I could not believe it!! >> Grrrrrrrr./end bubble rant. > > Oh, that's happened to me, too. I don't think I'll ever break that 33k > record. I hope I can stop trying some time soon, though. ;o) I just want to clear the damn things once.
Yowie - 20 Nov 2004 09:37 GMT > >> /bubble rant/At 33 K??? Man, I got to 79K and was finally down to 2 colors. > >> 2 d*mn colors!! And I screwed it up!! I could not believe it!! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I just want to clear the damn things once. Oh god, me too. Just once and the addiction may well be broken....
Yowie
Marina - 20 Nov 2004 09:47 GMT > "Karen Chuplis" <kchuplis@alltel.net> wrote
>>I just want to clear the damn things once. > > Oh god, me too. Just once and the addiction may well be broken.... <hysterical laughter>
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Seanette Blaylock - 20 Nov 2004 09:52 GMT "Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@yahoo.com.au> had some very interesting things to say about Re: OT running bubbels as a standalone:
>> I just want to clear the damn things once. >Oh god, me too. Just once and the addiction may well be broken.... Sorry, that didn't do it for me. :-)
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:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 20 Nov 2004 10:35 GMT >> I just want to clear the damn things once.
> Oh god, me too. Just once and the addiction may well be broken.... Don't count on it. I've cleared it twice, and now I just want to play even more!
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Yowie - 20 Nov 2004 09:37 GMT Ran the instructions through a translator and this is what it came up with:
The aim of with game is all remove bubbels of the baffle. Press on the mousebutton to launch the field bubbel in. If 3 or more bubbels to each other borders, these are solved. As some bubbels 10x as many points come loose such as normally of the rest, solve these also and verdian you. The 5 candle ends at the right-hand side give to how well you play. If you shot has failed (no bubbels have been played), then comes a red candle end. If there no green candle ends more fires come, to the upper part a new file with bubbels. Just on that the bubbels too far down do not come, differently it is game concerning! Your score doubles if you have played all bubbels of the field!
Doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know by now, does it?
Yowie
Marina - 20 Nov 2004 09:47 GMT > Ran the instructions through a translator and this is what it came up > with: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know by now, does > it? And so happy to see they can't quite dispense with us human translators yet. ;o)
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Kreisleriana - 20 Nov 2004 15:00 GMT >Ran the instructions through a translator and this is what it came up with: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Yowie That Babelfish for sure I am loving. :P
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Stormin Mormon - 22 Nov 2004 05:59 GMT Sounds like something. Might be a babel bubbel? Wasn't in the old tesament, when the Lord confounded the lanaguages to help keep them from fighting amongst themselves?
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Ran the instructions through a translator and this is what it came up with:
The aim of with game is all remove bubbels of the baffle. Press on the mousebutton to launch the field bubbel in. If 3 or more bubbels to each other borders, these are solved. As some bubbels 10x as many points come loose such as normally of the rest, solve these also and verdian you. The 5 candle ends at the right-hand side give to how well you play. If you shot has failed (no bubbels have been played), then comes a red candle end. If there no green candle ends more fires come, to the upper part a new file with bubbels. Just on that the bubbels too far down do not come, differently it is game concerning! Your score doubles if you have played all bubbels of the field!
Doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know by now, does it?
Yowie
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