Unofficial Tex Murphy

Hi guys,

I haven't posted here in quite a while, but I still have a squiz every now and again to keep my finger on the pulse.

Thought I would post today though - I just got an email that Martian Memorandum and Mean Streets ($6US for both) and UAKM ($10US) are up for sale on http://www.gog.com (Good Old Games). Pandora Directive and Overseer are coming soon, and will also be $10.

Great for those of us (ie me) who have lost our old discs/the crazy cat has scratched them.

I also got an e-mail from GOG this morning. I've e-mailed them several times over the past year asking them if they could/would add the Tex Murphy games, as I am sure many of you have. If you didn't get the e-mail from them, you can see it at: http://www.gog.com/en/page/newsletter_011/

As soon as I got the e-mail, I went and spent the $16 and bought all three games that are available to show support, even though I already own multiple copies of each. This is exciting news!

Just in time for the long winter I've never played the original two TM titles (MS & MM), i'm very much looking forward to the experience. I am especially interested to play the Interactive Movie trilogy without disc swapping. I wonder if they'll use the DVD quality videos for Overseer?

Holy freaking goodness!

Joel wrote: I wonder if they'll use the DVD quality videos for Overseer?

Judging by the fact its only 2.4GB I highly doubt it considering the DVD version should be in excess of 4GB. Which is a shame becuase the CD version of Overseer had such poor quality video it was extremely hard to watch. In fact I seem to recall it looking far worse than UAKM's video compression.

-Cub. =o)

As the games are xp & vista playable is it with dos box or have been editing to run on their own

Can I say, finally!

This is as unexpected as it is exciting. I'm getting the first three right away, and cannot wait to replay Pandora when it'll be available. I will also proceed to annoy friends with the shameless promo, now that there are no boundaries or limit to play and enjoy the games!

yeah I'm interested in that too. Are they just running off dosbox to get vista and xp support? Has someone downloaded it yet?

I am going to give them to my friend was a gift. I always went on and on about how she should play the games, and now she can!

-Cub. =o)

Will they have the patches already integrated???

So we just Download and Double Click to run???

Hopefully someone went through Overseer and smoothed out the glitches...



I could spend a fortune on GOG and never leave the house again... So many old, yet very awesome games on there...

this is great news indeed, recall though that I stated if GOG did release a version of UAKM I'd stop attempting to remake it, well it happened. (I only got as far as modeling most of tex's office so its not that bad really). But yeah this is extremely good news.

I just checked the DOSBox website, and look at whats posted in their latest update:

http://www.dosbox.com/

Later.

Dosbox wrote:The first translation of DOSBox 0.73 has been completed! Lex was kind enough to translate it to Portuguese/Brazilian.
(A small note for other translators. Please include a translated configuration file as translating the configuration file is broken in 0.73)

Maximilien has created a new frontend called AmpShell.
Alexander and Ronald have updated their frontends (D-Fend Reloaded and DBGL) to be 0.73 compatible. Get them from our downloads page.

GOG.COM now sells the Tex Murphy serie: Mean Streets, Martians Memorandum and Under a Killing Moon and they all run thanks to DOSBox.

That's pretty kewl... With as good as Dosbox is becoming I may not need that old Win98 machine after all...

I'm so excited about the possibility of playing Overseer in complete form. I hope they can figure it out.

I built an old Win98 computer to run it, and it still doesn't work right.

Hi Guys, i've got a question, what is the sound like on these games? I played UAKM originally on an SB16 and later upgraded to an AWE64 which sounded wonderful in comparisson.

Is the sound going to be more like the SB16 on these versions of the game or has a few tweaks been made to make it sound as good as possible?