I'm using Windows10 Pro. 15.6 inch Dell laptop. This particular game was part of an Alien Breed Trilogy giveaway. I installed using GOG Galaxy client. Press Play, button grays for a few seconds, then comes back as purple Play again. Restart laptop. Try again. Same thing. This is the craps! Ok, lets try Offline installers instead. Installation seems OK, but just after it finishes, Windows Defender comes up with a notification saying Controlled Folder Access blocked for "icacls.exe". Although I go and allow access, still nothing happens. I get absolutely no change in screen graphics whether launching through GOG Galaxy client or the Start Menu offline launcher. No lockups, no crashes, no error messages, just plain can't play it. CRAP! I have 32GB of DDR4 RAM. Will definitely be uninstalling this title and I won't even bother trying the installation of the other two successive titles. Older games and newer hardware are often at impassible odds with one another.
I acquired and own a boxed copy of this very same game title within the last 5 years. Before that purchase I had only acquired and played Might & Magic II on an Intel 386SX processor back in the mid-1980s. Although my copy puts all six titles on an optical disc, it is the very same as what GOG is offering here for download. If you want to experience M&M from its very inception this is the one to get! I bought mine for just that reason because I had missed so much of the series from too busy at jobs. These are classics worthy of perpetual ownership. Prepare for some hand mapping with graph paper with a few of the earlier ones. They start with 4-colour CGA graphics and watch the progressive improvement to EGA/VGA and Super VGA modes. Be patient and get your party developed. Many of these are original MS-DOS titles that GOG has running under a DOS-BOX emulator. These ARE NOT REMASTERED versions spruced up for a purely Windows OS environment. If your CPU is too fast proper code timing becomes an issue with some of the earlier ones. In that case I recommend you select an 80386-25MHz motherboard with CPU and all ISA slots from off of eBay and put together an MS-DOS build for best compatibility. Some of the earlier M&M titles were designed for processor speeds of 4.77 MHz and 8088 CPUs. So even 25MHz might be a bit too fast when the original game title is not running under DOS-BOX. In that case you should run "moslo.com" which is a utility to further slow down games running in MS-DOS environments. I got my copy of "moslo.com" from off a Space Quest 6 CD-ROM disc. You likely can find it on the web. Just be sure to have it virus checked by right-clicking the downloaded file and selecting Scan. After you play these six titles move on to the next titles until you reach: Heroes of Might & Magic which I have purchased from GOG. This is the next major saga of conquest, glory, and fame!
