- Export saves: export the savegame files from your browser, so you can switch to another browser or computer. You can also use them in an emulator installed on your computer.
- Import saves: import savegames that you exported before with the Export saves button.
- Download disk: export the whole game from your browser, with all your savegames. Useful to switch to an emulator installed on your computer.
- Reset game files: if you somehow messed up the game files, you can reset them to an exact copy of the original.
- Reset saves: delete all savegames from your browser. We recommend that you export them first: there is no turning back!
Below The Root - Play Online
PC Booter - 1984
Also available on: Apple II - Commodore 64
For small DOS games like Below The Root, you can play online immediately with your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera...). This feature is experimental, the game may not work properly.
Warning: game save should work, but you should try it early! Also, be careful to select the right game executable in the list above.
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Comments and reviews
I was 10 years old. My parents bought a Commodore 64. We played it with a joystick still couldn’t get far. Now I want to play it because I just saw the game ZORK on an episode of the Big Bang Theory. Which brought back memories of the Root
Unplayable with a keyboard? Try being 8 years old in 1984!
Does anyone know a way to make the game work in the browser with a joystick? It's pretty unplayable using only the keyboard.
For those struggling to make the in-browser game work, here are some tips.
1) It worked for me in Chrome, but not Iexplorer or Edge.
2) After selecting to play in browser, from the Game Executable pull-down menu under Emulator configuration, select LOADER.COM
A fantastic game I remember playing with my family during childhood. The controls haven't aged well: the one joystick button was reserved for menu, which made jumping difficult (in a game where you are often precariously navigating branches and gaps high above the ground).
If you give it a try, be sure to pick up all of the equipment in your starting house, especially the Shuba! Shubas let you glide when you jump of ledges and are quite necessary to get around without killing yourself all the time. It will eventually get torn in a stupid way so try to buy a backup. Talk to people and they'll either let you take things, or tell you to get lost. But don't sleep in strange beds (even if offered to you) or you'll probably get kidnapped: I forget how to unlock the door in the kidnapper's house, but a trencher beak won't do it.
Anyway I definitely suggest giving it a try, it's quite an exploration game and unlike anything I've played since.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.