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crabapple - 03 July 2016 04:36 PM

I vote for Black Dahlia.
I have no problem with wilco leading the CPT.
My memory of Black Dahlia is that it was very linear, and it went from CD1 to CD2 to CD3 etc. without a lot of swapping back and forth between CD’s. So unless I’m misremembering, it’s probably not as difficult to direct a playthrough of Black Dahlia as a more non-linear game.

That’s right. Glad you mentioned it. No annoying diskswapping. 

wilco - 03 July 2016 04:52 PM

rtrooney - 03 July 2016 04:04 PM

wilco - 03 July 2016 03:52 PM

I’m using this Dosbox with Windows install but it takes a bit of time to set it up.

Have you already tested it?

Yes. Works great

I’m hoping it works equally as well for Win7-64. I’m also hoping that you made notes of the changes you made, will post them for the rest of us to try.

crabapple - 03 July 2016 04:36 PM

I vote for Black Dahlia.
I have no problem with wilco leading the CPT.
My memory of Black Dahlia is that it was very linear, and it went from CD1 to CD2 to CD3 etc. without a lot of swapping back and forth between CD’s. So unless I’m misremembering, it’s probably not as difficult to direct a playthrough of Black Dahlia as a more non-linear game.

Don’t get me wrong crabapple, I have absolutely no problem with Wilco leading the CPT of BD. I was actually thinking of him and how his enjoyment of the game could well be lessened because, whilst it is fairly linear and only the places you have things to do are shown, it isn’t the easiest game in the world. It is one of the very few games that I know of that you really do have to think like an investigator. Whilst the clues are there you really have to find them and work out their relevance and how to use them. For a first time player, as Wilco will be, I think they’d lose a lot from the game if they were having to take charge of the play-through as well.
If Wilco feels otherwise then fair play and I most assuredly wouldn’t have any worries, complaints, paranoid delusions about that.

My old WIN95 PC has died
Booted it up to be told that their was no disc controller. On the good side though I discovered my Noctropolis CD in the optical drive
Mind you, the PC was a Compaq DeskPro 4000 which makes it about 20 years old so I can’t complain.

I’ve got it running though on an old XP machine but a hint for anyone else going to take this route.

You have to run the installation file with WIN95 compatibility set (right click file, choose properties, choose the compatibility tab and set Windows 95) and it installs fine apart from failing to install DirectX 5. Just go to the DirectX folder on the CD and do as per installation file. Once installed make sure you run the patch(which can be found here: http://mysterymanor.net/Atticsaves/index.php?act=view&id=35 ), which also has to be run under compatibility mode, otherwise you’ll have sound problems and you’ll not be able to solve the rune puzzle unless you get it right the very first time I thought this patch was just to allow it to run under XP but my memory was obviously playing me up. Finally change the run BD file to compatibility mode otherwise the game will crash the moment you get into Jim Pearson’s office. After that you’re in business

No sign of Iznogood, so I’m taking over the tallying. If Iznogood objects, he is welcome to continue doing the job.

Nominees and Votes:

7: Dreamfall Chapters
- Iznogood (leader), Oscar, Chrissie, Noddy, Advie, Sefir, giom

5: Black Dahlia
- wilco (leader), Karlok, diego, crabapple, Sefir (tentative votes not included)

3: Spycraft
- Diego (leader), Oscar, Karlok

3: Goetia
- Chrissie, Karlok, Sefir

2: Kathy Rain
- Mikekelly (leader), Chrissie

2: Fran Bow
- Mikekelly (leader), Iznogood

2: Hotel Dusk
- Mikekelly (leader), Karlok

1: Zero Effect 3
- Mikekelly (leader)

1: Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick
- Oscar

Anybody is free to nominate or vote for whatever game they would like to play as the next community playthrough, just post the name of the game in this thread.

The voting will run until 11 July. If there is a tie at the end, a new vote will start between the tied games as agree upon in this thread.

EDIT: Updated

A TIE!! AHA! WHAT NOW, KARLOFF?!!

edit: no, it’s not

I am NOT voting for Dreamfall Chapters. Period.

diego - 04 July 2016 04:31 PM

A TIE!! AHA! WHAT NOW, KARLOFF?!!

edit: no, it’s not

LOL! I’d love to see you appointed as the Official Tiebreaker, diego. You’d be perfect for the job. But unfortunately that’s against the rules.

Noddy - 05 July 2016 05:37 AM

Jabod - 03 July 2016 11:27 AM

Noddy - 03 July 2016 07:09 AM

If there’s a patch for XP then what about installing in XP Mode for Win7? Need to have Pro or above to get though.

I tried that about 3 years ago Noddy. Installed ok and would start but wouldn’t play the video properly (black box) and I couldn’t get sound at all. The game itself worked fine, i.e. I could investigate, look, pick up, etc. This doesn’t mean to say that others couldn’t get it working of course
I’m assuming the patch is still out there but I know I’ve still got a copy (and no doubt Tim (rtrooney version) and Karlok do as well) which I’ll cheerfully send out to anyone that wishes it.

Thanks Jabod. Just want to check which version of Win7 you tried this under, 32 or 64bit?

As SoccerDude points out there can be issues relating to 64bit, and XP Mode will be the same version as the parent Win7.

Interesting question Noddy but, I’m afraid, I can’t answer it definitively as I don’t remember. I suspect it would have been 64 bit though.
What I also need to add now is that, following setting up BD on an XP machine (see post above) I was obviously mistaken saying that the patch was to allow the game to run under XP. It wasn’t it was a general, and much needed, fix patch. But going through that exercise it makes me wonder if I didn’t set the game’s exe file to WIN95 compatibility. The PC I’ve got currently running Windows 7 is on Home Premium. On checking my various spare licences I find I do have a copy of 64 bit 7 Pro available so I think I’ll wipe that PC and rebuild it accordingly and we’ll see what happens. Be an interesting exercise whatever the outcome