Talk:Hover!

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hover! article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find video game sources: "Hover!" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · WPVG/Talk

Computing: Software Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Software.

Microsoft Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microsoft, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles relating to Microsoft on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MicrosoftWikipedia:WikiProject MicrosoftTemplate:WikiProject MicrosoftMicrosoft articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Microsoft Windows: Computing Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microsoft Windows, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Microsoft Windows on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Microsoft WindowsWikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft WindowsTemplate:WikiProject Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

Video games Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Video games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of video games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Video gamesWikipedia:WikiProject Video gamesTemplate:WikiProject Video gamesvideo game articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

Kelly Metzger (2 participants)
David McGarry (1 participant)
Stumble Guys (8 participants)
Do You Like Horny Bunnies? (8 participants)
Carlos Pesina (1 participant)
Atlus USA (4 participants)
Danny Mastrogiorgio (2 participants)
Super Mutant (12 participants)
Police Trainer (2 participants; relisted)
Beam Invader (5 participants; relisted)
Sephiroth (20 participants; relisted)
The Boss (Metal Gear) (4 participants; relisted)
Silfade (2 participants; relisted)
List of Fate/Grand Order characters (12 participants; relisted)
Balloon Brothers (3 participants; relisted)
Enigma Engine (4 participants; relisted)
ClanLib (7 participants; relisted)

Merge discussions

Other discussions

No major discussions

Link Edits[edit]

I've removed the link to ""Hover Game" - Online resource for hover games and hovercraft". Which does not appear to be related to the actual game Hover! As far as linking to a downloadable copy of Hover! I find somewhat questionable but I will not remove it myself, Thoughts? Xaios 09:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the external direct link to download a Hover ZIP file. If we are to link to this file, please provide information about where Microsoft has allowed people to freely distribute this component of Windows 95. - Mark 05:11, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Score (music)[edit]

Does anyone know who composed the music score?... I'd be interested to know this little trivia. ;-) Klow 18:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh....[edit]

I Found Some More 'easter eggs' To Add To the Wiki... The String Table, and Dialog Boxed Found In Hover.exe, Have Refrences To A 'Game Editor' That Was Origionaly Included In The Game, But May have Been Taken Out, Last Miniute... The Tech Geek 08:35, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making it better![edit]

When I first put this article up, it was a rough, poorly written entry. But thanks to the user "No Parking" (and I'm sure there were many more), this has become a fairly decent article. Just want to thank everyone for remembering this game and for making it a good article.

Oh, by the way, who thinks they should make an XBox 360 remake? You could have a story mode, more weapons, more levels, more music, more enemies, and more AWESOMENESS!

--bobbo king 01:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do you activate the egg?[edit]

So, I wanted to know how to activate the developer head easter egg/hack.

The answer is now in the article Jseghers (talk) 00:11, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--MyMii 21:46, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Is it on other versions of Windows?

No. It was shipped on the Win95 CD-ROM. It does, however, run on later versions of Windows. Jseghers (talk) 00:11, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Landmark?[edit]

I beg to differ. Remark removed until someone can come up with something convincing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.166.160 (talk) 21:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hover! and What Wikipedia is not.[edit]

Long story short - Wikipedia is not a game guide, manual, or how to. (Wikipedia:NOTGUIDE) Furthermore, much of the content of this article is already available in the Hover! help file, and thus available to anyone with access to the game. (note that this article contains download links for the game, so the material is accessible by anyone anyway.) For the above reasons, I will be rewriting the article to better meet Wikipedia standards and policy. Mostly, this will be carried out in the form of removing text that is found in the help file, (with the possible exclusion of the Introduction). Comments anyone?--Yottabyte27 (talk) 20:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The help file isn't availible to people running Windows Vista or Windows 7, as support for the .hlp file type has been removed. ~ Wikipedian19265478 (talk) 19:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fullscreen?[edit]

This is only a little question, does this game launch (and play) in fullscreen? 86.217.221.222 (talk) 16:50, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~I do not believe that is possible, The game only launches in a window, however it may be possible by using shortcut settings, not 100% sure, but its a hunch.~~ The Tech Geek (talk) 02:21, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is possible Press F4... The Tech Geek (talk) 02:44, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you press Shift + F4, the game plays in fullscreen, with higher quality. ~ Wikipedian19265478 (talk) 19:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link?[edit]

The link at the bottom of the page will not work for me. Someone outside a retarded university network please confirm this. Buffered Input Output 11:39, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed - it does not work, at least on my Linux machine. However, this might be a problem with my OS, because Microsoft's entire public FTP server does not allow me to connect - it could be that they're only limiting their FTP to Windows machines. Either that, or the public FTP server just no longer exists. Compynerd255 (talk) 05:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft doesn't have any FTP server amore! So yes the link is dead, very dead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.64.183.77 (talk) 11:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me. — ACupOfCoffee @ 21:52, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I can also verify that the link hasn't worked for me in Windows or Linux for years. Also, these two diffs here and here show that the link has a history of being reported as dead or being removed for not working that goes all the way back to March 12, 2011. However, I think it's important that the Microsoft link stays in the article even though it's not working for so many people because it establishes that Microsoft does in fact offer it for free to the public. I have included a new download link from the Internet Archive (per WP:VG/EL) along with a short message that the FTP link has been reported as not working by some users in the "External links" section. Huggums537 (talk) 18:09, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]