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In an earlier post, John postulated:
> I found my old copy of "In The First Degree"
>
> Now this game was out ages ago back in 1995/96 and now I have
> a Windows XP based system. Would this game even work on my
> current machine or would the clunky setup with the old fashioned
> version of Quicktime and all still work or create problems?
>
> Anyone on here know if old windows games that are pre XP
> might cause any hiccups?
>
> TIA for any help
>

Loads of pre XP games work fine.

Since you have the copy try it. If you have problems use google.

> Anyone on here know if old windows games that are pre XP
> might cause any hiccups?
>
> TIA for any help
> --
> John

Hi John, I have just finished "Phantasmagoria 1" and its a pre Xp old game
that wont play at its best without an emulator called DosBox, its for all
the old and difficult to get playing games on Win Xp, 2000 and the like. its
free to download but there can be at times some extra typing to get it going
but once you know what to do you will not forget. This is the link

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/faq.php

I find it to be a slice of heaven for what it can do for the old games but
there is also a couple other workarounds to play old games im talking about
VdmSound, it is an emulator ( I think ) for soundcards for Win Xp, 2000 etc.
at this link :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

Have you tried the compatability mode within win Xp its self? I mention it
but I dont reccomend it as whenever I try it I get no progress.........

Also you might want to look into another emulator called "Abandon Loader"
try a search for it.


So if you get any hiccups while playing games on Xp try the above.

Regards
Shaun B.

Shaun Bell wrote:

> > Anyone on here know if old windows games that are pre XP
> > might cause any hiccups?
> >
> > TIA for any help
> > --
> > John
>
> Hi John, I have just finished "Phantasmagoria 1" and its a pre Xp old game
> that wont play at its best without an emulator called DosBox, its for all
> the old and difficult to get playing games on Win Xp, 2000 and the like. its
> free to download but there can be at times some extra typing to get it going
> but once you know what to do you will not forget. This is the link
>
> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/faq.php
>
> I find it to be a slice of heaven for what it can do for the old games but
> there is also a couple other workarounds to play old games im talking about
> VdmSound, it is an emulator ( I think ) for soundcards for Win Xp, 2000 etc.
> at this link :
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/
>
> Have you tried the compatability mode within win Xp its self? I mention it
> but I dont reccomend it as whenever I try it I get no progress.........
>
> Also you might want to look into another emulator called "Abandon Loader"
> try a search for it.
>
> So if you get any hiccups while playing games on Xp try the above.
>
> Regards
> Shaun B.



Ta thanks I may just give this a go sounds cool

Walter Mitty wrote:

> In an earlier post, John postulated:
> > I found my old copy of "In The First Degree"
> >
> > Now this game was out ages ago back in 1995/96 and now I have
> > a Windows XP based system. Would this game even work on my
> > current machine or would the clunky setup with the old fashioned
> > version of Quicktime and all still work or create problems?
> >
> > Anyone on here know if old windows games that are pre XP
> > might cause any hiccups?
> >
> > TIA for any help
> >
>
> Loads of pre XP games work fine.
>
> Since you have the copy try it. If you have problems use google.





And trying is believing......

I tried it and with some fiddling did manage
to get it working. However there is a but.......

The game works but some of the highlights for
icons you can click on came out as black on
black, not really a useful colour scheme..

So while the program itself does work there's
now this nagging problem of not being able to
see what you are clicking on.

So in essence yes it works but it's not worth the hassle to keep
it on my system.

Now all I need to do is find a way to safely remove Quicktime 32
as it has no uninstall routine......

 
"Shaun Bell" wrote in
news:e%zqf.85041$V7.6638@news-server.bigpond.net.au: 

[snip]

> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/faq.php
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

DosBox and VDMSound are great, but won't do anything for Windows 
games, only DOS.

> Have you tried the compatability mode within win Xp its self? I
> mention it but I dont reccomend it as whenever I try it I get no
> progress......... 

It's worth a try, since it's easy to do.

Rikard