Gabriel Knight 1 on XP! Windows mode!

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Sat 11/12/2004 18:41:56

I just found out about this, do people know about it? A way to play Gabe Knight 1 on XP WINDOWS, not DOSBox or VDMSound or some emulator!

http://www.gabrielknight2k.tk

I tested it, and it works great!

Vel · Sat 11/12/2004 19:34:13

The floppt version of GK1 works just fine without anything.

However, the non-interlacing patch for GK2 is worth downloading.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Sun 12/12/2004 00:21:24

Heh. Who would play the floppy version of Gabe Knight? I couldn't play it without the voices!

Vel · Sun 12/12/2004 14:10:50

Whoever cannot find it, for example.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Sun 12/12/2004 14:30:01

Find it? But isn't it easier to either EMule, KaZaa or EBay for the CD-ROM version than the floppy?

GarageGothic · Mon 13/12/2004 14:09:40

Well I have both versions, and frankly I prefer the floppy version. For the first playthrough, voices might help the atmosphere, but the game is so talky that I'd fall asleep if I'd have to listen to all the lines being read out loud (especially in Michael Dorn's droning voice). It isn't TLJ, but it's damn close - and this is coming from a guy who loves the GK games enough to rip them off for his own game.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Mon 13/12/2004 14:13:30

Heh. Matter of opinion, I guess. I love all that talking, because it's so finely written and so finely acted.

Vel · Mon 13/12/2004 15:39:29

And the music rocks by all means. Pity it's MIDI, though - would have sounded so well in digital audio.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Mon 13/12/2004 23:14:31

Look for WinGroove. You can use that to play MIDI with digital quality, and can install it as a driver.

Vel · Tue 14/12/2004 16:41:40

Well that's surely better than general midi, but still not quite what the soundtrack of Gabriel Knight - sins of the Fathers can be.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Tue 14/12/2004 16:43:19

Agreed... <sigh> The GK1 soundtrack with the quality of GK2's sound would indeed be a wonder.

Vel · Tue 14/12/2004 18:02:50

The third one, rather. The bitrate of GK2's soundtrack was 64Kbps as far as I remember.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Tue 14/12/2004 18:18:38

I wouldn't know that, but I do know that the soundtrack CD I had had pretty good quality.