i found an archive of the creators' website, but strangely it's missing any reference to this particular game?? if anyone could hook me up with a working download link, i'd be very grateful ;, ,;
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I made an attempt at this but really couldn't find anything except for the archived site... though, there is an mailto link on the site's index, and a different one on the oldest archive I can find - it seems Telia's email hosting is free, so there's a chance that these emails still work and are set up to redirect somewhere useful. The string of numbers after the u in the URL might actually be a Swedish phone number, maybe? I'm torn between thinking that it would make perfect sense for that to be the case and that it's completely ridiculous to even consider it, but if it does work it'd be truly incredible.
I pulled up the "official download" link from megagames in archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20020205171922/http://w1.435.telia.com/~u43505134/games/ - and it claims to have captured worm.zip but the download consistently dies after 1mb. I searched Discmaster for "mmind98.zip", which I figured was a much more unique filename than "worm.zip", and there was one hit inside that particular ISO. Searched Discmaster for a "worm.zip" between 1 and 5mb and the only hit was also on that ISO. (The other two games didn't hit.)
I don't actually have a Windows machine handy to test on right now but Discmaster is incredible and is able to decompress the image files from the installer to show them to you in the browser! http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/9309/Windows%206-Pak%20(InfoMagic)%20(Disc%201)%20(1999).ISO/Classic-Games/worm.zip/MainMenu.JP_/MainMenu.JP http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/9309/Windows%206-Pak%20(InfoMagic)%20(Disc%201)%20(1999).ISO/Classic-Games/worm.zip/Info.JP_/Info.JP
I just noticed that the images are OCRed - you can actually just search for "Peter Nordstrom" in Discmaster and the title screen pops up immediately on two other discs! http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?q=peter+nordstrom&qfields=content
HOW??? where'd you get the name mmind98.zip from? =o but this is a fantastic resource to know about, thanks! Having trouble with a singular ASPRITE.OCX dependency that would appear to be 16-bit or otherwise incompatible with 64-bit Windows LMAO, so I'll try it in my XP VM later!
I don't know about the last game (and kinda don't care if it's just mastermind lmao), but Cubemaster Gold is quite available at caiman.us and elsewhere!
Also realizing that previous attempts to find this led me to The Worm v1 on freegame.cz which I downloaded and can now run due to some otvdm stuff I did to get Wine working as a 16-bit layer, but I can't get it to recognize its own levels for some reason. Might move this to the VM as well but my hunch is it'll stay non-functional.
Also the review for v1 says Pros: it can be turned off Cons: appalling gameplay LMAO http://www.freegame.cz/hry-ke-stazeni/zdarma/akcni/the-worm/11156
To answer your question: The megagames.com link you provided links to two download sources - one on mgcdn1.com which just returns a page that says "The requested file could not be found." in white text on a white background, and one on w1.435.telia.com, which has been a dead link since like 2001. I tweaked the second URL to peek into the games folder with the Wayback Machine, which gave me a few more filenames to play with.
Hmm, I tried that (changing the url to /games/) but I didn't get anything :o alas