Overseer Challenge
The move from 98 to XP is no doubt a wise choice... for pretty much everything except old school gaming.Bjyman wrote:That's why I'm hesitant to move from Windows 98.
But the old saying goes, if it's not broken, don't fix it. Then again, after using XP I could never go back (I would probably lose 200% productivity, becuase you don't realise how good a new OS is until you try going back to an older version, in this case XP > 98).
-Cub. =o)
lol
"extremely poor..."
apart from that it realy sux we can't play tex murphy games easily under XP it will probably be worst under vista.
Plus i kinda mind access software about oversser cause i, bought all tex murphy games since UAKM because they were really great....
But overseer deceived me in that i could not finish the game because it would keep crashing at the time.
I know it's their whole fault. they had to rush... but still it sucks...
I'd like to rewrite the engine for windows NT with DirectX so we can play them easily under modern OSes. But they would have to release the source code, or that would be both illegal and too much work...
So...
I'd like to hear AC about?
At leat to know, can he, can't he? why? is he willing to or not? why?
"extremely poor..."
apart from that it realy sux we can't play tex murphy games easily under XP it will probably be worst under vista.
Plus i kinda mind access software about oversser cause i, bought all tex murphy games since UAKM because they were really great....
But overseer deceived me in that i could not finish the game because it would keep crashing at the time.
I know it's their whole fault. they had to rush... but still it sucks...
I'd like to rewrite the engine for windows NT with DirectX so we can play them easily under modern OSes. But they would have to release the source code, or that would be both illegal and too much work...
So...
I'd like to hear AC about?
At leat to know, can he, can't he? why? is he willing to or not? why?
Thus spake Zarathustra
I don't have a real problem running the Tex games on XP, but you are 100% about it being worse on Vista!!!!! Well, at least it is on the Vista Beta 2. I attended a Microsoft TechNet Event where I was given a DVD of Windows Vista Beta 2 (evaluation copy). From a business stand point it's great, but as far as running older games, well, forget it. Oh, they will run, but it is going to take a lot of tweaking and lots and lots of patients.zarathoustra wrote: apart from that it realy sux we can't play tex murphy games easily under XP it will probably be worst under vista.
Nilo
I got a kick out of this Vista demo:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fV1kqthZf2g
For the most part, Overseer works just fine for me on XP. FOr Pandora and UAKM I've been able to get them to run under DOSBox (although they run a touch slow).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fV1kqthZf2g
For the most part, Overseer works just fine for me on XP. FOr Pandora and UAKM I've been able to get them to run under DOSBox (although they run a touch slow).
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Mike
Old SanFrancisco
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Mike
Old SanFrancisco
http://www.rrdevelopments.com/tex
http://www.rrdevelopments.com/mike
On the latest version of Dosbox you should set core to "dynamic" and cycles to "auto." It works great. If it weren't for Dosbox I would still be using my old 486 (which I still have lying around).MikeRicksecker wrote: FOr Pandora and UAKM I've been able to get them to run under DOSBox (although they run a touch slow).
David