Say, didn't Bad Day on the Midway and The Residents: Freak Show have similar compatibility problems due to their use of Director? (Maybe if they can actually be made to work under XP/Vista, the owner of the rights could be persuaded to rerelease them.) If they are based on an old version of …

The frame sequence problem is related to the "Best" transition mode. Using "None" or "Better" will avoid the frame sequence problem. Nick

Hi guys, There a few quirks to work through. New update - fixes the missing animation in some places (such as the writing on the bathroom mirror): http://www.squirtthecat.com/games/amber/index.html Nick

Try setting the Transitions to "Better" rather than "Best". "Better" = software. should work well. "Best" uses Windows GDI and doesn't work too well with Direct3D. Nick

It looks like there are still a few video glitches and I have seen a crash (twice) in the ice/water part. Will continue to poke. Not sure about running without the CD. Nick

Ok, first test release is out... http://www.squirtthecat.com/games/amber/index.html Feedback welcome. Nick

Hi C, Been distracted recently... the last weekend was the first chance to get back into things. KQ6 is a Win3.1 game which complicates matters. I will take another look after Amber.

Status update - Got it loading on Vista! I put together a new xobglu32.dll file that publishes the functions that would normally be thunked to the 16-bit DLLs on Win9x. The game now loads and seems to work (can walk around). The new DLL logs any attempt to use one of the old 16-bit functions... will …

Hi jafa, this is about the game "Stay Tooned", not LSL7. The installer is for all Sierra games that with a hidden setup under XP. There are several games that have this bug. The author of the installer wrote it for LSL7, but it works for all of the games with this problem. It is not really an …

Hi guys, Please excuse the bump of an old thread... I have just started poking at this game. What I have figured out so far... "Minimum 3MB Memory required" - this is a bug in the game. It incorrectly adds the pagefile avail and virtual avail numbers together causing a DWORD overflow. Fixed. " …

Hi, I have been updating the Sierra SCI3 games to work under XP/Vista: http://www.squirtthecat.com/index.html LSL7 for XP/Vista: http://www.squirtthecat.com/games/leisure_suit_larry_7/index.html Features: * XP/Vista installer. * XP/Vista windows executable. * Scales to use entire screen (Direct3D …