Cholo
- Original details
- Ovine game details
- Game downloads and links
The surface of Cholo smolders and glows, no oceans, no trees, no life… only post nuclear fallout and instant sun tan. The days pass slowly in the confines of the bunkers and shelters beneath Cholos ravaged surface.
About
You pass away your pointless life, working at a terminal and listening to the committee reports from Cholo topside. One piece of software is very popular : “RAT” a computer game guiding robots and roving eyes in and around a shattered city, a city similar to the ones that scatter the surface – maybe too similar.
Could you really be in contact with topside? and if so where is the lethal radiation which is reported in the official committee bulletins?
The original
The original game had stark wireframe which by today’s standards is very poor. However the game sucked you in and at the time this was the cutting edge of 3D games. There were versions for the BBC, Amstrad, C64 and Spectrum and all were almost identical with only speed and colour differentiating them.
The remake
In remaking CHOLO we have decided to make a number of improvements. The original has a very simple 3D wireframe view, this will be improved immensely for starters (see screenshots of our early 3D view). But also the gameplay, with more hacks, programs and the ability to enter more or less every building.
The visual design is very specific. We are trying to create the view through the eyes of a robot, hence the colours, textures and TRON-like style. Even video feedback and distortion! So far our trials are giving good results. The screenshots to the right on my lowly Radeon 8500 are giving an average of 80 frames per second updates, and we now have a fair few triangles in the 3D world.
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I’d like to download Cholo but cannot (ID error). Your FAQ tells me to make sure cookies are enabled, which they are. Is it still available? Don’t leave me hanging with the old BBC B version – it used to give me nightmares as a kid!
Hi ben – grab it here: http://download.ovinebydesign.com/
Thankyou
Andy and Stu, I just wanted to say Thank You for the great work on Cholo and Driller. I’ve enjoyed them both so much I thought they deserved a place on my list of Favorite Freeware Games.
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The whole thing is set up like a blog, with featured games having to meet pretty strict criteria. Being an avid gamer I always enjoy coming across something new or an undiscovered classic. Both of these games qualified. Thanks for bringing them back to life.
Unfortunately my monitor says “resolution not supported”. Pity, because I was looking forward to playing this again after all this time.
It uses a standard screen resolution, perhaps check you’ve got the latest drivers for your 3D card?
NVIDIA 185.85 3rd June 09. What resolution is it trying to be?
Works now – didn’t do anything, just one of those things….
can someone give me a overview on how to play? (or a link). all i know what to do is shoot anything that moves.
in advance, thanks
Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but none of the passwords in the 1st password file seem to work with Flying Eye – am I doing something wrong when entering them? Is it not like the original in this sense, I have to find a 2nd password file or something? Feel embrassed to ask but I can’t figure how to do it – and yes, I had the original on the beeb
reliving my youth! Thanks Ovine!
Yes, there is a file called pword2.txt that contains the second set of password to unlock robots and like.
Funny, I played it eariler and found the pword2.txt now I forgot to save my game and now I can’t remember which building I got it from.
grrr!!
Sounds like you have the wrong password list
– You’ll find this was the same in the original too.
Aha, sorted, yes – found pass2txt eventually… just completed it. Loved playing it again; thanks very much
love the ending!
Wow that was quick. Personally I still love the game, although we did it quite a while ago.
Cholo or any of the other games cannot be downloaded.
All the links from here :
http://download.ovinebydesign.com/
.. are broken.
Our webmaster will have a look ( ANDY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
All fixed – thanks for the heads up.
Upgrade put a rogue file in the root. Thanks for letting us know.
Hey guys, I was quite keen to play… but I keep getting “memory access violation” everytime I try a new game
I’m running vista and I’ve tried all the compatibility modes in all sorts of combinations… do I need a patch?
Its most certainly a driver issue. Ive just tried it on my windows7 rig and it even works. I did make a few changes for it to work on vista quite a while ago (when I had a vista laptop)
Just make sure you have the file from this site – I cant guarantee if the file leechers sites have the latest version (but then it was quite a while ago when it was updated)
i ve played the game 20 years ago with a commodore 64 but now with vista something is missing to achieve the game must leave …
Hey guys, I came across something this morning and thought you should be aware of it. After running a full scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware the results showed CHOLO.exe as having an infection.
Files Infected:
D:\downloads\freeware games\CHOLO 1.2.exe (Adware.EShoper) -> No action taken.
This led me to upload the file to two separate file scanning services (Jotti and VirusTotal), both of which also came up with infection alerts. I’m not sure if this is a false positive or not but thought you would want to know. Direct URLS for the scan results are below.
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/791503686329aa75bf6ad0b6b5a0da2dae57984e
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/eb94007f0a4dd4cd307f706e92fc1fabd718a65663a58373178d83bca978e716-1234358408
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Thanks for the heads up, but it is a false positive. We use a tool that packs the game content into the EXE and this is sometimes picked up as suspicious activity. I’ve never encountered reports directly with Norton or NOD AV.
Norton antivirus is showing that the installer has trojan.dropper (no other downloads on your site do). Definitions 11/09/2009 in NAV 2003 v9.05.15.
If it is going to keep getting false-positives, maybe you could re-pack it with another tool?
It unfortunately happens from time to time but odd if you are finding it’s the only file, it is a false positive. Perhaps it is seeing a combination of features it doesn’t see elsewhere. Tested again on Eset antivirus and it is showing clean.
Has there been a solution to the missing text in the interface? I’m currently running an ATI 4670 card and while the game itself is fine, the text in the hacking interface and status screens is missing. I know previous blame was on the Intel graphics chipset.
I havent looked at the Cholo code in quite a while but I’d say its still a driver issue.
We arent doing anything especially clever with the text on screen and indeed displaying it in a very standard way.
XP, Vista, or Windows 7 (RC), same issue. I would hope drivers would not be the problem as I keep them up to date. Thankfully I’ve completed it once already when I had an NVidia chipset but was feeling like seeing how well I could do again. I’ve yet to find the little house out in the radiation field and would like to see it.
I loved the original version of this game!
Was so looking forward to a bit of nostalgia but unable to D/L Cholo; all D/L links redirect to a blue Ovine Download page then nothing happens !!!!
Looks like our server update by the host has borked something up
please bear with us.
Fixed (file was missing!)
Hi. I downloaded this interesting game sometime back… I enjoyed playing it, though I didn’t get far. It’s been quite some time and after formating my PC I lost it… I decided I’d download it again today. There seems to be a problem though… It’s suffering some severe lag when I’m outside. Mainly when moving or firing. I don’t understand why… My PC is well within the system requirements and even past recommended. Not that hard these days I imagine
! Anyways, I definitely don’t recall it doing this to me before. Thanks, and good job on these games. 
Hey guys, loved the game, always remember Cholo as being one of the ’spooky fun’ games from childhood.
I suffered the ‘missing interface text’ bug as well with Vista + up to date graphics driver (ATI Radeon HD 4800) – but the good news is that it’s perfectly possible to complete the game without the text. (I did!)
The forum seems to have gone, any idea where hints and tips are? I’m not sure I saw everything there was to see in my playthough.