[jeld]

I´m enjoying the flashback friday reviews. Even though I consider myself something of an old adventure gamer there are still a lot of classic games I have yet to try. It would be helpfull if some advice could be given about how, or even if, the reviewer got the game up and running on a newer system. Some games I want to run apear to be imposible to get to work under XP.

[Garyos]

Use ScummVM for most Lucasarts game (and several Revolution games). I don't know about others, but something called DOSbox gets mentioned a lot.

[jeld]

ScummVM is great and works like a charm for the games it´s designed for. Theres also a similar program for the older Sierra games. Haven´t played around enough with DOSbox to be a total expert, but it tends to turn my machine in to an older computer, a 386 I quess. So there are still games that sort of fall outside of these categories. Like newer "classic" Sierra games, the little big adventure games or even the feeble files, wich I´m having trouble getting up and running.

[D.C.]

Don't forget compatability mode. Quandary has a small section on getting old games to work in XP.

[Stinger]

I've had a lot of thoughts about implementing a really good, comprehensive technical help database into our site. It would take a lot of help and contribution from our forumers...and I'm not about to think about it during tax season. But I think this is a project we'll pursue in greater depth this summer.

- Evan