Times have changed...

[DarkThinker]

Well today I though what the heck, I feel like playing some ole Heroes of Might And Magic III (in WINE if anyone is curious) so I whipped out of the CD and ran setup and then...pic
LOL just caught me off guard

 

[CraKaJaX]

LOL.

I get into that mood sometimes. Brings you back to the good old days.

 

[funboy6942]

You can hit the cd drive the game is in, then right click on it and explore. In there find the setup exe and right click again and select Compatibility, and them make it think its running on a 95-98 machine. That sometimes works for the older games to get them to install when you get that, or this game will not install on a NT system. And then after a install to get one to run propery that may not if left alone.

 

[videogames101]

LOL

funniest pic i've seen in awhile, thats awesome!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Last time I tried to install Simcity 2000, the setup complained that I had -2GB of memory. Windows reported that it could make a 4GB page file and the program interpreted a 32 bit integer as a signed integer. I had 1GB of RAM at the time.

 

[slag]

Interesting. I didn't know wine had compatibility mode settings like windows xp does.

good info.

 

[AmpedSilence]

the installer thinks that 32MB > 2 GB?

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: funboy42
You can hit the cd drive the game is in, then right click on it and explore. In there find the setup exe and right click again and select Compatibility, and them make it think its running on a 95-98 machine. That sometimes works for the older games to get them to install when you get that, or this game will not install on a NT system. And then after a install to get one to run propery that may not if left alone.

The game installed and everything runs great, plus this is on my main machine which is a Fedora 8 Linux system not Windows

 

[meltdown75]

man, sweet. i definitely need to get a couple old games running. i did end up getting Duke 3D to run perfectly, and even made a sweet control scheme for WASD and Half-Life type controls. it rocks!

 

[CrackRabbit]

I remember having one of the old Wing Commander games (3 I think) complain to me that my cd rom drive was to fast once.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
the installer thinks that 32MB > 2 GB?

Well 32 is bigger than 2.

 

[James Bond]

LOL.
That's hilarious.

 

[jjones]

Yeah, I've seen that before, and not too long ago. Maybe I was reinstalling Baldur's Gate when that poped up.

 

[Agentbolt]

You think that's rough, try getting PT-109 to run on a modern system. I had to mess with DOS for like an hour to get it to run with extended memory in XP.

 

[JTsyo]

What's also fun is old RTS games that have the game speed linked to the CPU speed.

 

[Xavier434]

Hehe good one

 

[IEC]

Or running Monkey Island games and other LucasArts games in ScummVM

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
the installer thinks that 32MB > 2 GB?

darn the computer programmers of the 1990's for not anticipating people would have whole gigs of ram in 2007 What next, Terabytes of harddrive space? gigahertz of processor speeds? whole processing units devoted to video? BAH!

 

[Casawi]

they just forgot to do a lil conversion

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: JTsyo
What's also fun is old RTS games that have the game speed linked to the CPU speed.

Like the original Command & Conquer? heh

 

[MaxDepth]

What is your video card in the system?

I ask because my onboard ATI driver sucks ass in any Linux distro.

 

[DarkThinker]

Integrated Intel 950 on my T60, which is supported out of the box on any Linux distro (drivers in Kernel). Good enough for FlightGear(Not bad at all), Tremulous(A++ Game BTW), OpenArena (Good quickie FPS)and yours truly TuxRacer :laughing;
Heck it even runs Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 & Unreal Tournament 2003 almost at max settings on Windows which is not bad because I had no intention for gaming when I got this laptop a year and a half back, but when ever my index finger itches you know

BTW, what drivers and what ATI Chipset are you using? There are some drivers out there that can get you some decent 3D

 

[SlowSpyder]

That's funny, I have HOMM 3 installed on the laptop next to me, my coworker and I are playing it right now.

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
That's funny, I have HOMM 3 installed on the laptop next to me, my coworker and I are playing it right now.

Heh, I recently bought Shadow of Death and now have the complete HOMM3 collection installed in my notebook. This is OT, but another classic game I loved was X-Com, so I bought UFO: Extraterrestrials for some retro-goodness.

 

[Squisher]

32>2 Well, duh,