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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: September 12, 2002
- Total Downloads: 52,983
- Downloads last week: 37
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- Average user rating: stars out of 66 votes
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Publisher's description
From Digital Labs :A classic trading game set in 19th century China. Go from port to port to trade goods, while avoiding pirates. Move up the ranks quickly by dealing in the expensive goods, like Silk and Opium. Be sure to use the bank often to increase wealth and avoid being robbed.
New in version 1.11: Installer now registers support file COMCTL32.OCX and Taipan now unloads all forms on exit.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 66 votes
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Version: Taipan for Windows 1.11
Pros: Pretty good for a 2 1\2 mb game. Fun and challenging. Gives a twist that makes it different than most games like it.
Cons: Could use some more work. Maybe some sound or something. Other that that it's good.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Taipan for Windows 1.11
Cons: No graphics, no sound, no action, no adventure, it's nothing but a boring text game, if you don't like text games, and you like games with graphics, sound.....ect, this is not for you.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Taipan for Windows 1.11
Pros: Very nice game, ideal if you need to relax. Can be quite addictive though ;D
Tip: (Since I found no EULA nor TOU for Taipan, I decided to post this. This tip lets you edit a whole game, so don't use it if you don't like cheats).
Try opening a saved game with a text editor. You will find a number of lines with numbers and data there:
line 1: Your game's date.
line 2: Your game's name.
line 3: The port you are currently anchored.
line 4: The number of cannons your ship has.
line 7: Your ship's hold.
lines 8-11: The goods you have on your ship. (8 Opium, 9 Silk, 10 Arms, 11 General)
lines 12-15: The goods you have on your warehouse. (12 Opium, 13 Silk etc...)
line 16-19: The goods price at your current port. (16 Opium, 17 Silk etc...)
line 20: The money you have deposited in the Bank.
line 21: Your debt? (I'm not sure but I think that is)
line 22: The money you have on your ship.
That's all. I hope it was helpful.
Have fun :D
Cons: No sound at all...
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Version: Taipan for Windows 1.11
Summary: Really cool and fun. I was playing for about a year before I got tired of it.
Once you beat it a few times (beat it as in you get maximum number of cannons so that you just blow away all the pirates) then it gets tiring.
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Version: Taipan for Windows 1.11
Summary: Lacks modern gaming action. Don't let that put you off!! The more you play, the less you want to stop. Made me feel all nostalgic, thinking of my teenage days playing ELITE on my Amiga!!
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