Glad to hear the machine is working fine! I started setting everything up in DOSBox, bought a Roland UM-ONE Mk.II and never looked back □ But at some point, I wanted it to be more like how I remembered those games. A little while later, I switched over to one of the first ScummVM releases and kept using and updating it happily for many years. It was a little fiddly but worked OK for the most part. What do you think about that? Does any of this stuff bother you, when running games through ScummVM? I started using VDM Sound when I wasn't able to run all those games on then brand new OS WinXP (without any SP). ScummVM would definitely be faster, but for those nostalgia based reasons I tried to get as close to the real DOS experience as possible (after having to admit that the real DOS experience is not possible on a single machine that should still be able to execute the Win9x based games). And last but not least DOSBox allows to run the original Maniac Mansion on Ed's Computer in DOTT which is not possible via ScummVM if I remember that correctly. And the menu of COMI contained a joke that's lost if you don't have the original menu (that's of course a reason for going with real Win9x instead of using ScummVM on a modern machine). Full Throttle and The Dig have really nice menus with mouse support. Of course, ScummVM replaces them for a good reason (all the additional functionality like savegame screenshots and so on), but I missed those simple, barren, sometimes funny (DOTT's "How may I serve you?" comes to mind) menus. The main reason for that, and you may very well call me crazy on that, is that I always hated how ScummVM replaced the original game's menu. Sam & Max - Hit The Road (CD-ROM/Talkie, English)*Īlso, I've been meaning to ask you: why did you choose DOSBox over ScummVM to run the Scumm games? I mean, you'll be running on top of W98se anyways, wouldn't it be faster to use ScummVM? Day Of The Tentacle (CD-ROM/Talkie, English)* Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (CD-ROM/Talkie, English)* Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge (English)* The Secret Of Monkey Island (CD-ROM, English)* - The Secret Of Monkey Island (EGA, English)*.Windows Installer 2.0 (for DAEMON Tools 3.47) DAEMON Tools 3.47 (for installing the Windows based games) Sound Blaster Live! driver, mixer, AudioHQ etc. The only additional software/drivers needed for Retro 1 (on top of the Windows 98SE installation) were: When I'm playing through those two games I'll capture screenshots to highlight the exceptional quality and superiority of the 3dfx FSAA implementation and the huge difference it makes for such low-res games (640x480). The Voodoo5 is running with 4x RGSSAA for Grim Fandango and Escape From Monkey Island. Played around a little with the desktop icon configuration (horizontal and vertical distance) to have the shortcut names displayed in their entirety and the shortcut icons closer to the right and lower edges of the screen.Īll drivers are installed and working, there are no resource conflicts or whatsoever. My other license will be used on Retro 2. I have found my English version of Windows 98SE and installed that on Retro 1. All that's left for it is testing all the games which means playing through them all. □Īnother update, possibly the last one for Retro 1 for while. After populating this field with the respective game's directory, everything worked.īasically, I'm about done with Retro 1. After double-checking everything I identified that the desktop shortcuts were missing entries in the field where you would specifiy the directory for running the executable. I had minor issues with The Curse Of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango, both complaining about missing files or similar things. The three Windows based adventure games are installed too and running without their CDs. the cycle setting for Full Throttle and The Dig, deactivating emulations not needed for the specific game etc.pp.). For most games, I've already done that and adapted accordingly (e.g. So, I'm basically verifying that the configurations yield the same result on Retro 1. That machine, however, is FAR more powerful than this one here. The games do work flawlessly, I have played them countless times on a separate machine in DOSBox. Filename retro1_desktop.jpg File size 481.83 KiB Views 3334 views File comment Retro 1 Desktop (Windows 98SE) File license Fair use/fair dealing exceptionįor DOSBox, I'll have to test the configurations to check whether everything's still working OK.
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