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And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
install and play the old games under XP.
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Eek! Polychromic wrote:
> And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
> install and play the old games under XP.

Well..., aren't you going to share with us where are the installers?

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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:32:26 GMT, Ashikaga <citizenashi@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Eek! Polychromic wrote:
>> And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
>> install and play the old games under XP.
>
>Well..., aren't you going to share with us where are the installers?

http://www.gabrielknight2k.tk/



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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:46:15 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@comcast.net>
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>And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
>install and play the old games under XP.

Replay? I just now finally bought the 3rd one to complete my series,
and have yet to start any of them.

And funny you should mention this as my brother and I were just
tonight discussing XP and Sierra install's hatred of one another. We
started out discussing plumbing but somehow it always gets back to
games...


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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:32:26 GMT, Ashikaga <citizenashi@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Eek! Polychromic wrote:
>> And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
>> install and play the old games under XP.
>
>Well..., aren't you going to share with us where are the installers?

You didn't know about them already? I thought you were subscribed to
those dirty little .adventure newsgroups?

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches is the direct link unless you want
some stupid advertising.
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:46:14 -0400, erimess wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:46:15 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
>>install and play the old games under XP.
>
>Replay? I just now finally bought the 3rd one to complete my series,
>and have yet to start any of them.
>
>And funny you should mention this as my brother and I were just
>tonight discussing XP and Sierra install's hatred of one another. We
>started out discussing plumbing but somehow it always gets back to
>games...

Well, I hardly think Sierra hated XP since the last game came out 2 years
before XP was released. It's more like they are all really DOS games with
only the barest nod towards Windows even existing. One of the reasons
they went out of business, I think, is the way they tried to do Windows
their own way instead of adhering to the standards. Of course, this
doesn't explain Valve.
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Eek! erimess wrote:
> Ashikaga wrote:
>
>>Eek! Polychromic wrote:
>>> And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
>>> install and play the old games under XP.
>>
>>Well..., aren't you going to share with us where are the installers?
>
> http://www.gabrielknight2k.tk/

Thanks.

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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:56:03 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@comcast.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:46:14 -0400, erimess wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:46:15 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@comcast.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>And to make matters easier, there are now installers making it easy to
>>>install and play the old games under XP.
>>
>>Replay? I just now finally bought the 3rd one to complete my series,
>>and have yet to start any of them.
>>
>>And funny you should mention this as my brother and I were just
>>tonight discussing XP and Sierra install's hatred of one another. We
>>started out discussing plumbing but somehow it always gets back to
>>games...
>
>Well, I hardly think Sierra hated XP since the last game came out 2 years
>before XP was released. It's more like they are all really DOS games with
>only the barest nod towards Windows even existing.

Well, I did say Sierra's *install* -- don't know how Sierra itself
would've felt about it. I can't get any of their stuff to even
install - just dumps me back to the desktop and whimps out. Ah well,
that's what second computers are for.

> One of the reasons
>they went out of business, I think, is the way they tried to do Windows
>their own way instead of adhering to the standards. Of course, this
>doesn't explain Valve.

Valve?



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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:35:51 -0400, erimess wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:56:03 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@comcast.net>
>wrote:

>> One of the reasons
>>they went out of business, I think, is the way they tried to do Windows
>>their own way instead of adhering to the standards. Of course, this
>>doesn't explain Valve.
>
>Valve?

Creating the whole Steam debacle instead of just going with
straight-forward retail boxed games.
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"Polychromic" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:35:51 -0400, erimess wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:56:03 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@comcast.net>
>>wrote:
>
>>> One of the reasons
>>>they went out of business, I think, is the way they tried to do Windows
>>>their own way instead of adhering to the standards. Of course, this
>>>doesn't explain Valve.
>>
>>Valve?
>
> Creating the whole Steam debacle instead of just going with
> straight-forward retail boxed games.

One supports the alternate methods of publishing. The exact
implementation... well, especially at first, there were quite a few
problems that they really should have made more of an effort to avoid.

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