Baldies is a fun action/puzzle game featuring follically-challenged "Baldies." Baldies offers an extended gameplay experience that fuses the elements of Dune 2, Populous, and Lemmings, with over 80 levels, 15 special weapons, and five 3D worlds.
Each world has its own special graphics and environmental theme, including ice, grass, desert, and volcano . Hidden areas make the worlds more interesting. Each level starts with some strucutures and a few of the bald ones. Baldies reproduce into more baldies and they can be divided by the player into proportions of four categories: scientists, workers, builders and soldiers. Like most strategy games following in Dune 2's sand prints (pardon the pun), the baldies build structures, mine resources, research upgrades, and fight battles. Like Populous, the little baldies congregate around the shield icon which is placed upon the map.
Unlike Populous, the shield icon has a very small sphere of influence requiring much time and patience to move numbers of baldies to the shield location. Another problem is the inability to control individual soldiers which has not been balanced, like populous, to work with the system. Characters can be picked up and moved one at a time, but even when moved to the enemy stronghold they refuse to attack structures or enemy characters. The Baldies simply wander around being cute. This is the most frustrating part of the game--- times when you think the level will never finish.
Still, the high "cute" factor and many imaginative levels (and technologies you can research) makes Baldies one of the best Lemmings clones on the market. Thumbs up!
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Can can one please show me how to set up this game I am for some reason not able to load it when Ross can just set it up and I can't find a guide for the windows version at all. And can you also show me how to set my frame rate at dxwnd?
Can anyone provide a guide on how to set up this?
Haruna remembers watching Ross play this a long time ago...
Disregard my previous comment, it's available here :D https://www.myabandonware.com/game/skullcaps-hj3
Apparently there's a sequel to this game called Skull Caps, but I can't find a download of it anywhere! I hope MyAbandonware makes it available on their site.
Hi all,
here is how to run DOS ver. in DOSBox. I use DOSBox on Android phone so don't ask me how to mount game on a computer. Please refer to DOSBox help/website for more info.
1. unzip game
2. go to game folder and sub-folder called GAME (example: ..\Baldies\GAME\ )
3. open file BALDIES.BAL with any text or hex editor and change whatever is there to C: and save file (this file contain path to folder BALS that was on a CD, e.g. E: but is on your hard drive now, e.g. C:\Baldies)
4. mount game in DOSBox using game folder as drive C:
5. start game using file BALDIES.BAT
BTW, after you start game and create player(s) new file PLAYERS.BAL and GLIx.BAL are created in GAME folder. File PLAYERS.BAL contain name of each player (12 bits) and file name with their game progress (e.g. GLI1, GLI2, etc.).
To access other levels in game you can edit GLIx.BAL file for your player profile. Use any hex editor to edit this file. If you didn't finish any level yet, then first bit in this file is 28 (hex) and every 46 bits 0a (hex) can be found. Here is what it means.
28 - selected level (yellow dot in game)
0a - level not available (red dot in game)
1e - finished/available level (green dot in game)
At the moment I din't check how to access bonus levels.
Have fun, Amy
Does anyone, body, or soul know how to boot baldies?
I used to have a PS1 copy of this game, Played it on the PS2.
Seriously loved this game, I emulated it on PS1 emulator then came to the realisation that this was a port of an original PC game, hahah I can imagine it being so much easier with mouse than a digital 8 directional Dpad!
such a classic game.
I had a CD with about 100 games (including Hocus Pocus) and it had jazzy music on the menu (I think the entertainer and one other)
Have anyone else had this game CD collection?
Such a strange game
BALDIES BASICS IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I had this game in its original run and would like to point some inaccuracies: first of all, there is an option to efficiently move your bald followers by giving them wings temporarily and pointing them toward a specific place. This does cost resources though and as far as I remember requires development of your buildings (but I am not sure on that detail).
As for attacking structures or enemy units, your people will always wander randomly, but the soldiers (brown uniforms) will actually attack on their own, when they find an enemy or happend to stumble upon a building entrance. With enough military resource they will also shoot enemies from a distance and throw some grenades before entering a buliding.
Still, one of the biggest appeals of the game is the inherent stupidity of the little folks and the wicked and often unusual traps you can make then fall onto. Pressurised gas tanks that make people literally blow up? Rain of stones (actually mostly used to stunt building upgrades)? Skunks thrown into buildings to force everyone out (preferably toward a gigantic mine blowing up the whole structure)? I still have no idea, if the rain of fishes had any useful function.
let me play
the game says do u want to allow unknown publishers downloads and i click yes but nothing runs and the game wont start
How do I install this?
i need this game!!
This game is broke. Level 2 the research function quits working and at level 3 the mouse quits working. It is absolutely impossible to play this game. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!
any fix for level 3 please help
Cannot play level 3. mouse does not click :(
mouse can not click in level 3, is it a bug ?
How can I play this on windows 7?
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