Download the program DOS Box. I use it to play 1830 and Bard's Tale on my
Vista PC. I think the site is dosbox.soulforge.net, but I'm not sure.
You
can look it up on Google.
"Franklin Hummel" <hummel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:f2cpsm$spb$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm looking for help with getting the abandonware PC game to work on my
> computer (Window XP Home).
>
> I have downloaded copies from 2 different sites and have run into the
same
> problem with each. The game plays through the intro fine, but when it
> gets to the actual game itself, the screen becomes just a jumble of
random
> bits of color, squares at the top and outlines of what could be gothic
> archways on the bottom. with the mouse pointer showing just as a long
> downward stream of shapeless colors.
>
> I've tried setting the compatibility for it to Windows 95 and 98, just
to
> see if that would help, but it does nothing to fix the problem. The
same
> thing keeps happening.
>
> Ye gods, I am so tired of watching that opening sequence; I don't think
it
> was in the original game.
>
> I did and still have a copy of the original game, but that was when I
had
> an Amiga computer, so I can't play it on my PC. (I really don't want to
> try the emulation route for this; I want to just be able to play it on
my
> PC.)
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to fix this, to get it to appear and play
> correctly.
>
> This has been a frustration of me for sometime. I was just about to
play
> the last level of the game, when something happened -- I don't remember
> what -- and I NEVER finished the darn game. It has been like a nagging
> sore spot since then.
>
> I want to play this game and *finish* it this time, but don't know how
to
> get it to work.
>
> I've even tried looking for an actual used copy of the game in various
> places, but cannot find it. Also I fear that even if I do find a copy,
> the same problems I am having with the abandonware version will happen
> with an original copy of the game.
>
> So -- HELP!!! Please.
>
> -- Franklin Hummel in Boston, Massachusetts
>
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