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looks like a good bet if you're ok setting up dosbox. Can be a bit of a mission but there are enough guides around. I'd check that it's the latest version of DosBox they're putting in with the download. The newer one (0.70) is stupidly faster than the older ones. I'm going to look for my proper cd copy, otherwise I'll download this. |
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« Reply #91 on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 00:52:00 » |
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cool. I had dosbox recently as i wanted to play FW Dizzy. It took awhile to initially work out and was a bit of a headfuck... i'd rather get cd rip i think. I'll have a look a bit further afield tomorrow
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« Reply #92 on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 00:54:29 » |
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Right. Adventure game wise, I can probably cd image, both simon the sorcerers and discworld II. If you want some instant speech enhanced adventure game action then Beneath a Steal Sky has been released as freeware. You can get it and download stuff which will play it in windows at http://www.scummvm.org/. And to be fair Beneath a Steal Sky is pretty good. I bought it for a tenner back in the day. |
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« Reply #93 on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 00:55:51 » |
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Cool. i'll check it out.
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« Reply #94 on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 00:56:39 » |
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cool. I had dosbox recently as i wanted to play FW Dizzy. It took awhile to initially work out and was a bit of a headfuck... i'd rather get cd rip i think. I'll have a look a bit further afield tomorrow You'll probably need to use dosbox even with a proper cd image. Windows XP is terrible with old Dos Games. |
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« Reply #95 on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 01:02:29 » |
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cool. I had dosbox recently as i wanted to play FW Dizzy. It took awhile to initially work out and was a bit of a headfuck... i'd rather get cd rip i think. I'll have a look a bit further afield tomorrow You'll probably need to use dosbox even with a proper cd image. Windows XP is terrible with old Dos Games. My mate has a really good program to run old games... I'll have to find out what it is. |
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« Reply #96 on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 01:20:30 » |
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it's probably dosbox, it's that or the vdmsound thing which tricks windows into understanding the sound card.
That ScummVM I linked you to is brilliant for playing simon the sorcerer, monkey island , beneath a steal sky (which you can download for free.) Hasn't got Discworls support yet.
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« Reply #97 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 15:49:36 » |
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Simon the Sorcerer was another ace one. Fuck knows who did the speech (for the PC versions), but it was pretty fun. Both 1 and 2.
I think I can definitely find them. I'm still unsure where discworld could be. It might be quicker to find a decent download and share it with you. It was Chris Barrie off of Red Dwarf. anywho, here's mine in no particular order: Civilisation Frontier Elite II UFO: Enemy Unknown - still play this now - i have it on my PPC ( www.freeppcware.com) Harrier Attack The original football manager on the amstrad CPC464 |
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« Reply #98 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 15:52:27 » |
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cool. I had dosbox recently as i wanted to play FW Dizzy. It took awhile to initially work out and was a bit of a headfuck... i'd rather get cd rip i think. I'll have a look a bit further afield tomorrow You'll probably need to use dosbox even with a proper cd image. Windows XP is terrible with old Dos Games. My mate has a really good program to run old games... I'll have to find out what it is. It's Dosbox mate - i'll give you a quick tutorial next time i'm over. BTW Beneath a steel sky is awesome!!!!! I first got in for a tenner on a compilation called power, corruption and lies and it included Dune II and Frontier Elite II BRILLIANT! |
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« Reply #99 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 15:56:34 » |
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Nerd alert!  |
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« Reply #100 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 15:58:03 » |
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sorry mate but this is the greatest thead ever! (volume 4) and i nearly missed it. tuttut, will have to check general discussion more regularly.
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« Reply #101 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 16:00:16 » |
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sorry mate but this is the greatest thead ever! (volume 4) and i nearly missed it. tuttut, will have to check general discussion more regularly. you need the net back fulltime mate... missing this could've ruined your year  i'll be over yours shortly |
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« Reply #102 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 16:39:17 » |
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BTW Beneath a steel sky is awesome!!!!! I first got in for a tenner on a compilation called power, corruption and lies and it included Dune II and Frontier Elite II
BRILLIANT!
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« Reply #103 on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 17:14:35 » |
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super mario - Nintendo NES
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