Apologies if this isn't the best place to submit. I have fond memories of playing Binman before school started on the Windows XP computers in the classroom, installed by a very kind teacher of mine in 2006ish. I was even allowed to take the disc home to install it on the family computer, I don't think there's any DRM. I was never able to beat the game, so I wanted to relive it, I bought a disc on eBay some time ago and installed it on my Windows 10 machine, but when launching the game, it loads something in fullscreen briefly, then I get an "illegal memory address" error.
The disc I remember was only Binman, but looking online it appears it was often bundled by another game by idigicon, Removal Man, I assume it's very similar, unsure if there are any differences in the game version on the two types of disc. I'm not sure if the game is available to download online, but I'm sure I can dig the disc I bought out if you're interested.
Looks like the game was made in Doncaster, I don't think the game was particularly educational for school use, but it was fun and had that early 3D game charm/jank. Let me know if you'd like any more info.
#Binman (2002) Obscure British PC Game, won't load on modern Windows.
agile hornet
stray quarry
Apologies if this isn't the best place to submit. I have fond memories of playin...
hi, what was the MSR for this game? you could be able to launch the game using something like DGvoDoo
also, what's your screen resolution? i found that some games if you have a very high resolution monitor (like above 1080p) they will fail to launch because they try to run on 640x480 by default and some newer monitors don't support that resolution resulting in the game crashing
prisma kestrel
it crashes because of a buffer overflow, running it under a debugger made it "work" on win11 for me.
prisma kestrel
@agile hornet works fine w/ DxWnd on win11
might still be interesting for a video, first time seeing a BlitzBasic game in the wild
agile hornet
Interesting, too technical for me, not sure what an MSR is either, sorry. Glad you found a way to get it to work though
leaden grove