Hi Guy's I found an old game my kids used to play & can't get it to run on my 3.2 ghz P4 ,XP Pro service pack 3 ,1gb Ram NVIDIA 8400 GS . Game is Atlantis [The lost tales ] Sys req listed on pack Windows 95/NT4 or Dos ,Pent 133 ,16 MB ,Svga Graph supporting 65,000 colors ,2Mb video ram ect All very low specs . Any way to get it to work ? Cheers Ozi
Thanks man . I did not know of this tool & Goggled it & tried it , but still no go . Thanks anyway Ozi
Sometimes you have to experiment.. not just the main .exe but the dll's as well... you could try running win95 in the dosbox emulator then loading the game from that virtual os.. or even from dos. though usually if they say win95 they need it. I had fun with C+C a few years back with the same problem.. but after changing the properties on quite a few game files I got it to run.. you might have to add dos4gw into the game directory as well to get anywhere (learned from Kings Quest 3). http://www.subgamers.com/atlantis-the-lost-tales-on-windows-xp-4425016.html Those guys don't seem to be having any problems.. I used to install old games like this on a small fat32 partition.. for some reason a few didn't like running from ntfs. now looking in my notes from ages ago I came across.. probably from helping somebody out maybe 5 years ago.. Put CD 1 in, Cancel the installation. Explore your disc, change the program compatibility mode of the setup file to windows 95. Also click on these boxes Disable Visual Themes. Turn off advanced text services. get the game patches here http://www.dcegames.com/support/int/support_patch.php3?id=6#0 and follow the directions on dreamcatcher's site. The only flaw i have seen is characters can seem jittery. But this can be fixed by fiddling with your hardware and audio acceleration.
