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Posted October 16, 2008
As this place has me thinking about the topic, I found a link yesterday to a site that has downloadable patches for certain Win 95 games that permit them to run on XP/Vista.
[url=]www.squirtthecat.com/index.html[/url]
Specifically, there are patches for AMBER: Journeys Beyond, Lighthouse, and Betrayal at Antara, all of which are on the GOG wishlist, as well as a few other games. I installed the AMBER patch last night and so far the game is working correctly. Of course, if you don't have the CDs, this won't help you any, so let's hope GOG can get access to the original games so others can enjoy these old gems. :)
Post edited October 16, 2008 by Luned
Posted October 16, 2008
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Luned: As this place has me thinking about the topic, I found a link yesterday to a site that has downloadable patches for certain Win 95 games that permit them to run on XP/Vista.
[url=]www.squirtthecat.com/index.html[/url]
Specifically, there are patches for AMBER: Journeys Beyond, Lighthouse, and Betrayal at Antara, all of which are on the GOG wishlist, as well as a few other games. I installed the AMBER patch last night and so far the game is working correctly. Of course, if you don't have the CDs, this won't help you any, so let's hope GOG can get access to the original games so others can enjoy these old gems. :)

Oddly enough, I just finished Amber. It worked perfectly out of the box under Wine for Linux, and not at all on my Windows box. Go figure.
Posted October 16, 2008
There's also a windows binary download of wine.
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=112520)
It sounds useless, but I've found (as you noted) that win95 programs seem to run better on it then they do under "Compatibility mode" on windows XP.
Posted October 21, 2008
Dammit, I just want to run my Tie Fighter: Collector's Edition CD-ROM without hiccups... of course, I haven't actually TRIED to do so since I got Vista. Hmm...
Posted October 22, 2008
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johnseeking: Dammit, I just want to run my Tie Fighter: Collector's Edition CD-ROM without hiccups... of course, I haven't actually TRIED to do so since I got Vista. Hmm...

Dosbox doesn't do the job?
Posted October 23, 2008
Yes, if you have the CD for TIE-Fighter, DOSBox can use it fine.
After mounting your C drive ("mount c: c:games" or wherever) just do;
mount d D: -t cdrom
(assuming your optical drive is D, obviously you can change it) and there you go.
Posted October 24, 2008
Yeah, after much fiddling yesterday, I got it up and working.
For others trying to do the same thing, these pages offered some valuable info:
[url=]http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=176[/url]
[url=]http://boards.theforce.net/games_videogames/b10005/28140192/p1/?13[/url]
[url=]http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=15318&sid=c7ddfeddecbb3836ab312fe049e3873b[/url]
A couple of "wasted" conference periods and a missed lunch hour later, I'm playing Tie Fighter on my Vista laptop through DOSBox, with sound, and using my usb-adapted gamecube controller... and it's totally 1994 again.
Post edited October 24, 2008 by johnseeking
Posted October 26, 2008
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johnseeking: Yeah, after much fiddling yesterday, I got it up and working.
For others trying to do the same thing, these pages offered some valuable info:
[url=]http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=176[/url]
[url=]http://boards.theforce.net/games_videogames/b10005/28140192/p1/?13[/url]
[url=]http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=15318&sid=c7ddfeddecbb3836ab312fe049e3873b[/url]
A couple of "wasted" conference periods and a missed lunch hour later, I'm playing Tie Fighter on my Vista laptop through DOSBox, with sound, and using my usb-adapted gamecube controller... and it's totally 1994 again.

Good times :-)
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