OK Lets talk some computer GAMING!!!!!

Didn't get you there

 

Getting back to DOS games for a moment (sorry, crew) ...

I did lose one thing (sometimes major) with games that otherwise ran fine with Dos-under-Win98 -- sound and music. Just about any sound card (or integral audio controller, as on my current system) available in the last 5-plus years never heard of AdLib, and for the vast majority of good DOS games that was just about the standard format for audio. Sure, if you hunt like crazy you might still find Ad-Lib drivers -- but of course they're useless if the card doesn't know what to do with them.

 

Yes...that's a huge problem. Some soundcards cannot even run the Sound Blaster mode and most have to get General MIDI for music. Not good

 

I've been playing old school games right now.

Full Throttle
Grim Fandango
Redneck Rampage
Duke Nukem 3D

Hey Mike & FireCat, have you tried dosbox & vdmsound? Both programs work pretty well & I can play old dos games on my XP box.

DosBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Latest version of vdmsound (vdmsound home page has an older version) http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=2071


ScummVM works pretty good for certain games: http://www.scummvm.org/

 

I tried DOSBox and it worked fine most of the time except for one game where I had a save problem.

VDMSound didnt seem to work for me.

 

I did take a look at (and tried) DosBox about a year ago -- admittedly they might have made more changes since then, but back then it was a royal pain setting up its command line properly, especially getting the virtual drives set up right. And you had to remember to include all folders that the game would use/need.

And naturally the command line would be totally different for each game. What would have made a great addition to it would have been some kind of GUI to simplify doing that for each game, sorta the way you'd set up the "advanced" options for PIF's under 98, in effect setting up config and autoexec files used only by that game.

It really looked like it had great potential, though, judging by their front-page chart of what ran how well under XP systems.

 

I don't normally ahve time to play games but when I do I usually get well and truely beaten at Command And Conquer Generals/Zero Hour by a friend of mine.

Dave

 

Hey there. There is a front end out named D-Fend. It definitely makes setting up & running games a bit easier.


http://members.home.nl/mabus/dfend.htm

 

Boxer is worth checking out as a front-end to DOSBox also. The only downside for DOSBox in my view is performance, all that emulation means a serious hit so later games may require a multi-Ghz machine to run properly.

As for current games, I'm having a rerun at Haegemonia (marketed as "Hegemonia" in the US for some reason) - a great blend of empire-building and 3D space combat and going through Icewind Dale II (a little bit of role-playing, a helluva lot of combat).

Past greats I would heartily recommend include the Baldur's Gate series (Baldur's Gate, Tales of the Sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal - role-playing adventures with an epic plot) and Planescape (hard to get into but one of the deepest computer role-playing experiences available featuring a highly-detailed and deeply tragic plotline).

 

All of them are great! I wish there was another Planescape game.

Don't trust the skull.

 

Why is Planescape hard to get?