Wacky_Baccy Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 Hehe, too bloody right, RAVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 Hmm, depends on the things you wanna do with your pc and your hardware.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan12R Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 RAVE, you've got a point. I was running on 98 and loved it. But I got fireWire and had 98FE (for those who don't know fireWire doesn't work on FE) so I had to upgrade. I'm on ME and hate it. But at least I've got fireWire. But yeah. I have no idea on how they'll handle DF. It will be interesting to see. Also I would be surprised to see them not include MOTS. I've got it and while I don't think much of the single player levels, I love the multi-player levels. It's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_FinnSon Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 The LucasArts Archives Vol. IV - Star Wars Collection II included full version of Dark Forces which had brand new laucher for Windows, but it was only shortcut to Dos. Might be cool, if LEC programmed their older games to use DirectX, like they did with Collertor's CD-Rom editions of both X-Wing and Tie-Fighter(think about all those classics like Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Fate of Atlantis etc. which cannot be played without support for Dos). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graphicsgod Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 Last I heard, WinXP was setup to play older dos based games. My WinXP runs Duke3d, Doom and Wolf just fine. Actually thats not totally true, it runs them at 70000 frames per sec. lol. But some people have made fixes for these games to run at the correct speeds for higher end systems (which is anything past Pentium and graphics in software mode ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa Tahu Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 I already have JK,and I's sure DF won't start on XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 As already mentioned, it is possible.... A few months ago I played Pool of Radiance I (from 1989) on a t-bird system... Fast as hell, but worked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graphicsgod Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Oh DF does run under WinXP, you just have to give it a looooooooong time to load (since windows no longer uses those old DOS drivers) and theres no sound. And for best performance emulating it under 95/98 doesn't hurt. Just got done playing the demo, it's oldschool as hell (and I thought the graphics way back when kicked ass, lol), you could probably emulate this game on a color Palm nowadays . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 I sure hope they upgrade Dark Forces to run on newer PC's, which more than likely they have done if they are including it in this special editions pack. I used to be able to get it to run on Windows 98 but the sound was all screwed up, I kept getting these awful reverb noises (voices would echo in cutscenes etc.) and I couldn't remedy the problem unfortunately. I would also like to see updates for Day of the Tenticle, Fate of Atlantis, and various other LEC classics. Heck I'd buy these games yet again if they updated them to run on my current PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Dark Forces runs fine on my windows 98..........I suppose im just lucky. It is also one of the main reasons I dont want to upgrade to newer windows software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkpanther718 Posted February 4, 2002 Author Share Posted February 4, 2002 Folks, I have the answer to your OS problems. Run 2 OS, run 98 on one partition and XP or 2000 on the other. I am preparing to do this as we speak, and will probably do it sometime this week. I am sick of not being able to play my older games on XP, yet I can't give up the new XP features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Thats not such a bad idea........didnt think of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graphicsgod Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 True..... But WinXP can EMULATE Win95, Win98, WINNT4.0, WIN2000, and WinXP. You just have to tell Windows to run that program under that type of OS. The sound is a little distorted and it takes a lot of memory, but other than that, it runs just fine . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/marajadeskywalker/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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