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Posted July 08, 2016
I am bothered by not having the full set on some of these games... but I'm optimistic that they'll be available for sale by the time I finally get through my backlog! :-D
Posted July 08, 2016
Whatever.
Post edited July 09, 2016 by mistermumbles
Posted July 08, 2016
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IronArcturus: Was it ever explained why GOG couldn't get SimCity 3000?
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CARRiON.FLOWERS: It's completely borked on modern OS.
I wouldn't call it completly borked, as I just ran it on 64-bit Windows 10. I wouldn't call it functional, either. But I was able to open the game, have it (oddly slowly) load a city, and then unpause the game for a moment before closing it. Through dialogue boxes do appear to be largely broken.
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Posted July 08, 2016
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Matewis: I'd guess with a little bit of effort it should be possible to get it going on a virtual machine with an older windows installation, like a pre service pack 2 windows xp or something.
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snowkatt: or just go with win 9x to be sure
thats what i usually do
Yes but I wonder if most of the fanmade widescreen fixes for games will work on it? Have you managed to successfully get a game to run on a widescreen resolution with one of those fixes running something like win98?
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Matewis: I'd guess with a little bit of effort it should be possible to get it going on a virtual machine with an older windows installation, like a pre service pack 2 windows xp or something.
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CARRiON.FLOWERS: Well, YMMV, but there are things you can try.

All I know is, I tried it on Win 7 and Win 8 and it wouldn't even launch. If you do get it to launch you'll have massive GUI and framerate issues. Never tried it on Win10.
Thank you, it's a worth a shot. I'll make it a little weekend project sometime to get my old favorite running :)
Post edited July 08, 2016 by Matewis
Posted July 08, 2016
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timppu: I'm a bit annoyed that Demon's Soul (predecessor to Dark Souls?) and Saints Row (1) are console exclusives, while the later games in those series appeared on PC.

Oh well, that sometimes happens, the other way too (like the first Witcher game being PC exclusive, or the first two Thief games).
its worse
saints row 1 is an xbox 360 exclusive

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snowkatt: or just go with win 9x to be sure
thats what i usually do
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Matewis: Yes but I wonder if most of the fanmade widescreen fixes for games will work on it? Have you managed to successfully get a game to run on a widescreen resolution with one of those fixes running something like win98?
can give it a try
are there any fan mods fro midtown madness 1 2 gta vice city colin mcrae rally 04 or ..urgh morrowind ?
Post edited July 08, 2016 by snowkatt
Posted July 08, 2016
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snowkatt: can give it a try
are there any fan mods fro midtown madness 1 2 gta vice city colin mcrae rally 04 or ..urgh morrowind ?
Midtown madness? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember wanting that game real bad in highschool :P

WSGF mentions something about an FPS optimizer for morrowind that I somehow didn't know about
Posted July 08, 2016
fghfgh testing
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snowkatt: can give it a try
are there any fan mods fro midtown madness 1 2 gta vice city colin mcrae rally 04 or ..urgh morrowind ?
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Matewis: Midtown madness? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember wanting that game real bad in highschool :P

WSGF mentions something about an FPS optimizer for morrowind that I somehow didn't know about
guys i nead help with somethink minor - go to games finished in 2016 thread and tell me what i wrote. it doesn't appear in the list of threads i contributed to
Post edited July 08, 2016 by ciomalau
Posted July 08, 2016
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snowkatt: can give it a try
are there any fan mods fro midtown madness 1 2 gta vice city colin mcrae rally 04 or ..urgh morrowind ?
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Matewis: Midtown madness? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember wanting that game real bad in highschool :P

WSGF mentions something about an FPS optimizer for morrowind that I somehow didn't know about
i got all 3 games lying around

i can always give that fps optimizer for morrowind a go i suppose

( you had to pick the one i hate didnt you ? ;p )
Posted July 08, 2016
nah not really i have to admit. If a game from a series is missing i just vote for it on the wishlist and well then either way it arrives or it doesn't. And well if buying games out of a multiple games series i kinda always "check" - Will this work for me as well if part xyz doesn't get released - dunno i'm kinda pragmatic in that regard.
Posted July 08, 2016
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Matewis: Midtown madness? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember wanting that game real bad in highschool :P

WSGF mentions something about an FPS optimizer for morrowind that I somehow didn't know about
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snowkatt: i got all 3 games lying around

i can always give that fps optimizer for morrowind a go i suppose

( you had to pick the one i hate didnt you ? ;p )
No love for morrowind? It's one of the best games ever made! For the first 8 hours at least, then I get bored :P
Posted July 08, 2016
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snowkatt: i got all 3 games lying around

i can always give that fps optimizer for morrowind a go i suppose

( you had to pick the one i hate didnt you ? ;p )
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Matewis: No love for morrowind? It's one of the best games ever made! For the first 8 hours at least, then I get bored :P
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i hate morrowind i prefer oblivion
i think morrowind is ghastly boring and over rated

anyway im installing windows 98 so lets see what will happen
Post edited July 08, 2016 by snowkatt
Posted July 08, 2016
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Matewis: No love for morrowind? It's one of the best games ever made! For the first 8 hours at least, then I get bored :P
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snowkatt: zero
i hate morrowind i prefer oblivion
i think morrowind is ghastly boring and over rated

anyway im installing windows 98 so lets see what will happen
I would enjoy oblivion a lot more if I could freeze time and not have to worry about the dozens of hours steadily slipping away...

Also, thanks for the effort, that's really cool of you :)
Posted July 08, 2016
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Dartpaw86: I want to call it OCD but I'm certain that's wrong. But I can't stand having incomplete game collections, despite of course games like the later Serious Sam, Elder Scrolls and Fallout titles are on Steam.
That's called being a completionist.

Have fun looking for Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies. ;-)
Posted July 08, 2016
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snowkatt: zero
i hate morrowind i prefer oblivion
i think morrowind is ghastly boring and over rated

anyway im installing windows 98 so lets see what will happen
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Matewis: I would enjoy oblivion a lot more if I could freeze time and not have to worry about the dozens of hours steadily slipping away...

Also, thanks for the effort, that's really cool of you :)
installing morrowind on windows 98 under virtual pc 2007
550 mb ram
nothing special

morrowind doesnt start under windows 98
the launcher face plants

morrowind also doesnt work under windows ME

might dig gta vice city up later see what that does

next up virtual box !
Posted July 08, 2016
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Matewis: I would enjoy oblivion a lot more if I could freeze time and not have to worry about the dozens of hours steadily slipping away...

Also, thanks for the effort, that's really cool of you :)
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snowkatt: installing morrowind on windows 98 under virtual pc 2007
550 mb ram
nothing special

morrowind doesnt start under windows 98
the launcher face plants

morrowind also doesnt work under windows ME

might dig gta vice city up later see what that does

next up virtual box !
Stellar! Though I'm a just a teeny bit concerned by how much you seem to be enjoying this ;)
Reminds me of one of the few kind of funny scenes in BBT

By the way, what do you do with display drivers when setting up such a virtual system? Do you seek out older ones?
I imagine there might be some potential incompatibility issues when you pair up old drivers with a new gpu.
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