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I wanted to reinstall The Quivering (1998) this morning, but got the message that some essential file was missing. How is that possible when I played it on the same machine in the nineties…? I tried to solve the problem and failed. Same thing happened with Ripper. I got stuck on the very first puzzle and decide I would save this lovely FMV adventure for a rainy day. And now it has major problems, in DOSbox as well!

Anyway, so I got a screenshot from The Legacy. The Quivering is a humorous, cartoony 1st-person adventure, much better than its predecessor Spud with the same protagonist, who shows his silly face in cut scenes. Meet your favorite horror characters from classic movies and try to stay alive. I died a lot, which was fun.

wohoo, you still have a machine from the nineties? wanna sell it? lol

Sefir - 07 May 2015 10:27 AM

Seems fun!!! Put in my to-play list. If I ever find it of course.

You can find it on Steam.

First-person humorous adventures from the 90s were the best!!

I liked it, but I liked most of those other 1st-person humorous adventures better: Zork GI, The Spacebar, GAG, Starship Titanic.

Have you tried to play it in some other kind of emulated environment Karlok (like Virtual PC for instance?)

I had Virtual PC installed on my XP, used it a couple of times, and then the problems started. No more Virtual PC for me!

Advie - 07 May 2015 10:45 PM

you still have a machine from the nineties?

Who doesn’t?

I have a 2006 Acer laptop that I downgraded to Windows XP (preinstalled with Vista, ugh!) and most of the older games will work without a hitch! BUT, there are some games that just refuse to work! So I installed Virtual PC 2007 on it and then installed Windows 98, 95, and 3.11 in Virtual PC. That was 8 yrs ago and I haven’t really had any problems since

All in all it just depends on hardware/software compatibility

I don’t bother to play anything old that doesn’t work with ScummVM. So many great games do, in fact I still haven’t played 1/10 of them.

zobraks - 08 May 2015 03:14 AM

I don’t bother to play anything old that doesn’t work with ScummVM. So many great games do, in fact I still haven’t played 1/10 of them.

ScummVM, Dosbox, Virtual PC, all great ways to be able to play the old goodies on a modern PC! Just gotta deal with the learning curb! Then there are the options of Steam, GoG and such that are patched to work on newer systems but they don’t always work so well!

Sir Beardalot - 08 May 2015 03:39 AM

ScummVM, Dosbox, Virtual PC, all great ways to be able to play the old goodies on a modern PC! Just gotta deal with the learning curb!

That‘s why I LOVE ScummVM: you (almost) don’t have to know anything to use it. Unlike DOSBox (haven’t tried VirtualPC).

P.S. Stupid ZMK2!
wink-wink

zobraks - 08 May 2015 03:10 AM

Advie - 07 May 2015 10:45 PM

you still have a machine from the nineties?

Who doesn’t?

then you could call me ‘who’