Should I buy it?

[jetxl]

Its alwais a suprise if a old game work, Windows or Dos. I couldn'd get footstep sounds in AitD 3 but they were there in AitD 1. Some games had memory problems and you had to type in memmaker. Ay, thoose be the days.

I had aÃ,  win95 version of Prisoner of Ice. There was a walktrough in the helpfile written as a story.

>Shameless Cthulhu promotion here<

[Calamity]

Its alwais a suprise if a old game work, Windows or Dos. I couldn'd get footstep sounds in AitD 3 but they were there in AitD 1. Some games had memory problems and you had to type in memmaker. Ay, thoose be the days.

I had aÃ,  win95 version of Prisoner of Ice. There was a walktrough in the helpfile written as a story.

>Shameless Cthulhu promotion here<

I saw this site a few weeks ago when I first heard about the game, damn I'm excited for it! Not only does it involve as I said before my favorite creature mythos but those fear effects sound like they're going to be awesome.

If only I had an Xbox.

[GarageGothic]

That's odd. I wrote an article on getting old games working under XP, and if I remember correctly, Prisoner of Ice worked perfectly using just VDMSound. It even ran straight from the CD (with only the cfg file saved on my HD).
VDMSound also ran SotC perfectly. I even was able to run the H.P. Lovecraft Museum thingie, which I hadn't been able to see before on anything but by 486DX2.

...and frankly, I'm waiting for SCIStudio 4 to export everything in the old SIerra games and remake them with AGS so they can be run in any system, so I'm not too worried.

Wouldn't it be more efficient to write a platform independent SCI interpreter like NAGI is for AGI? Wait a minute, isn't there somebody doing that already? Check out http://freesci.linuxgames.com/. Edit: Sorry, I realise that you meant the later SCIV games. Still, I'd rather see something like SCUMMVM for the Sierra games rather than straight remakes.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Heh, me too. It'd save me a lot of work.

And I always use VDMSound... except when it doesn't work. In PoI, it didn't.

[GarageGothic]

I just tried PoI with VDMSound again (setting the game up to use SBPro/II), and it still runs fine with sound. It crashed when the tentacle grabs the captain though, but I don't know whether this is a related issue.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

My problem is, I can't save the game. Whenever I try, I get an error that translates to "Your hard drive is full", which is so much poppycock.

[GarageGothic]

ah, see that I haven't tried - I only saw that you guys were discussing sound issues.