Vindicarrion: That's good to hear the physical copies still work, ...
DeMignon: With "out-of-the-box" I meant the GOG version ;-)
The game is indeed modified to run on modern systems. GOG uses a separate launcher to start it and it comes with a file called qthook.dll and quicktime.qts, which seem to handle the movie playback. I don't know if they rely on the systems capability to decode the movies, but if so, you might need Quicktime or something similar.
As I've posted before, I don't have Quicktime installed right now (but VLC media player) and the in-game movies are playing.
Anyway, before trying something complicated, I'd just install the QT version that comes with the game and see if it works.
Selecting the
Install Quicktime option did the trick. Been playing for about thirty minutes and all videos and gameplay seems to be displaying as it should. Some of options were quite amusing, especially antennae movement, but guess that was limitations of consumer PCs and high-end ones at the time.
Little disappointed another program has to be "
maintained" to minimize security exploits, but the game seems worthwhile enough to keep it around. So far this is the only game (to my knowledge) in my GoG collection that requires it. But, have a strange
suspicion the
TEX Murphy games will need it as well.