During my hunt on older games on auctions services I've found cheap platform game Crazy Drake (platform game inspired by Earthworm Jim). Sadly, it's not the primal DOS version, but some "newer" version published by eGames (no longer exists, their former address is now used by different company, which aside from name has nothing to do with them).

Unfortunately, game refuses to work. When I was trying to launch it via eGames menu, it threw me an error to "insert CD Which I had in my PC). When I went directly to folder "game", I've found file egames.exe and list of files Episode1.res, Episode 2.res etc.

Unfortunately, launching this file is giving me this generic Windows message (the one on purple screen), that "This application won't work on your computer. To find version for this computer, contact with with software publisher".

So it's the error which shows sometimes for games adjusted initially for wind 95/98/xp. Of course compatibility mode, dgvoodoo and other stuff doesn't work.

If someone had any contact with those eGames stuff and know how to deal with it on modern systems, I would be very grateful for sharing this knowledge.

Yoooooooooooooo, Crazy Drake! Loved that game as a kid, and was introduced to Speedy Eggbert by eGames too. (sorry I can't help, other than suggesting finding the DOS version online)

I googled "crazy drake dos" and one of the first links was a way to play the DOS version online using DOSBox. It seems to run okay although maybe a little too slow, I assume there's a way to adjust cycles in a web browser though.

Yeah, I really wish that mine copy would be just DOS version wrapped in some eGames apps, but it doesn't seem in this way (at least from what I see in game's folder).

Pretty sure there was a Windows version which is all the eGames versions and the version I played. I'd suggest just playing the DOS version, or getting yourself an old computer (if you have various other old games you'd want to play). One version has Drake wearing a facemask and the other doesn't. (and the DOS version has Neurotech logo and I think another at the start, whereas the Windows/eGames version doesn't have those logos at the start)

Install it in a Windows XP (or older) Virtual Machine.

I think GOG fixed up some 16 bit Windows games to run on recent machines, but I have no idea how they did that.