It just seems odd to me that they'd release 2, then 3, and completely skip over the first game, which wasn't a Mac only game, so I don't see any problems with compatibility. And it's not like it's one of those games where the second in the series is universally recognized, but nobody knows anything about the first (in fact, important plot points in Buried in Time reference the first game, though Presto does a pretty good job of keeping it close-ended, so you don't have to go to the Wikipedia article every time it mentions Dr. Sinclair or the Symbiotry).

I think the most plausible explanation is that The Journeyman Project 1 is a Windows 3.1 game (with no DOS or Win 95 versions available). This probably makes it very hard or impossible to run the game on modern systems.

It's basically what spindown said, it's a 16-bit windows game. You can't run it in DOSBox, nor can you run it natively on a 64-bit OS. I don't see the original version of the first game coming until we have a reliable Win16 emulator.


There's ScummVM support for the remake incoming though. It's basically done, but since it's a source port they're waiting for the OK to release it. I imagine if that happens, GOG will be able to release the first game. If the rightsholders are open to allowing a source port, I imagine they'd be open to the idea of making money from said port.

I've heard of people running Windows 3.1 inside of DOSBox. I know that requires a copy of Windows 3.1 and GOG doesn't have the rights to distribute that, but if I gamer were to have a copy of 3.1 - it seems they could use that to run the game, yes? Probably unnecessary for this game if it has a source port coming out and it seems like a PITA in general, but just curious.

Yes, I think that would work. I've also heard of people doing this to run some pretty obscure Win 3.1 games.

I think it probably would work, but it not exactly something GOG can sell, that's the problem. Oh and it doesn't have a source port coming out (the source for this game is gone gone gone), the remake has a source port coming out. That's sort of ok though, the original was fairly clunky and I believe the remake plays more like JP2.

I've always wanted to play Pegasus Prime. Hopefully the ScummVM support means that we'll see this released on GOG soon. I'd rather not have to track down an expensive physical copy on eBay.

I'm wondering that too.

Exactly the same for me.

Win 3.X does not work incredibly well in DOSbox, in my experience. It gets rather crash-prone, which might be due to how DOSbox handles emulation of different hardware (it seemed to think that I had a very strange computer when I tried to find out what was wrong).

Vote for The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime on the community wishlist!

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/the_journeyman_project_pegasus_prime

I wonder if it's old enough that I can run it on Basilisk II...

Yeah, those early Windows (but no DOS version) games are always the worst, compatibility wise.

Though it would be pretty cool if some company decided out of the goodness of their heart, to give GOG the source code to their game, so GOG could make a version which is perfectly compatible with modern OS.

I don't think GOG have the resources to devote to source ports... also the source to JP1 is lost. =(
All our hopes for a GOG release rest on Pegasus Prime!