Posted August 14, 2009
Sssooo - I've just bought the game, and looked exactly how GOG Team approached it.
In the original game set, there were 2 versions: the DOS one, and the Windows one.
With all the respect to Enlight, it was clear that they actually did the DOS version, and included some kind of Windows port, probably only so the Windows version is there.
So while the DOS version was a "full-worth" one, the Windows one had a series of bugs, including the gameplay ones - for example the map it did was stripped off the "fertility peaks", thus making it practically impossible to have the 100-quality crops, requiring a rainfall other than plentiful.
It was also crashing for me badly (freezing whole OS) on any later platform than Win95.
The only advantage it had over a DOS version, was the CD-played audio music, which in fact were mostly apparently the MIDI tunes of the first (non-Plus) game, played back on some good card.
So anyway - what Guys here did, was making an install of the ready-to-play DOS game version set, integrating it with DOSBox the way it all runs just too fine.
They did just the right thing, there's nothing better I reckon could be done with this game to resurrect it under WinXP / Vista, and even their work alone is worth the 5,99$.
And as for the tunes - yep, playing them in the background is funnn, and I used to do that when I was playing the game under DOS by the time! :)
In the original game set, there were 2 versions: the DOS one, and the Windows one.
With all the respect to Enlight, it was clear that they actually did the DOS version, and included some kind of Windows port, probably only so the Windows version is there.
So while the DOS version was a "full-worth" one, the Windows one had a series of bugs, including the gameplay ones - for example the map it did was stripped off the "fertility peaks", thus making it practically impossible to have the 100-quality crops, requiring a rainfall other than plentiful.
It was also crashing for me badly (freezing whole OS) on any later platform than Win95.
The only advantage it had over a DOS version, was the CD-played audio music, which in fact were mostly apparently the MIDI tunes of the first (non-Plus) game, played back on some good card.
So anyway - what Guys here did, was making an install of the ready-to-play DOS game version set, integrating it with DOSBox the way it all runs just too fine.
They did just the right thing, there's nothing better I reckon could be done with this game to resurrect it under WinXP / Vista, and even their work alone is worth the 5,99$.
And as for the tunes - yep, playing them in the background is funnn, and I used to do that when I was playing the game under DOS by the time! :)
