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Stop that.

ehmjay wrote:

P3 at 730mhz

Don't bother. I mean it.

You need at least a P4 @ 1.5GHz, unless you can stand some serious frameskipping.

im confused...i need a p4 to play a game meant to be played on windows 3.1?

interesting.

so is there anyway to play this stupid game? 🤣

Booting into real ms-dos will probably do the trick.

Another option is to try VDMSound + NTVDM combination, but I haven't tested it.

GK1 never worked for me with NTVDM. For that machine either Microsoft Virtual PC or dual-boot with DOS will have to do.

Okay

1) You are confusing the hell out of everyone, are you attempting to play the windows version or the dos one? There are two different version included. Dosbox can only play the dos one.

2) Is this the CD version? If so then click the link in my sig to copy the correct files to your HD and play without the CD since it helps alot with skipping audio.

3) What cycles are you playing at? For the disk version mine runs fine with 12000 cycles, but for the CD you might want to add more until the audio stops skipping...and seeing as you don't have a modern CPU you are going to have a hard time getting cycles that high....

I'd like to help you get the windows version running...however I never play my sierra games in windows so I'm not familiar with fixing their problems. I would recommend trying VDMsound on the dos version in windows and see if it runs that way.

Manually set your display to 256 colors and then play the game that was installed with Hendroz's installer.

okay i have the cd version which includes both the windows and dos (am i correct?)

either way i was using dos box to try and play the dos version...

however i also tried the windows version with the new installer and had no success...perhaps changing colours manually will help.

Compatibility mode does not always work to change your display. After I had to replace my monitor, compatibility mode will no longer drop my resolution down to 640x480. I have heard of others that compatibility mode will not drop their color depth down to 256 colors.

collector wrote:

Compatibility mode does not always work to change your display. After I had to replace my monitor, compatibility mode will no longer drop my resolution down to 640x480. I have heard of others that compatibility mode will not drop their color depth down to 256 colors.

That happened to me with Myst. I eventually bought the Masterpiece version so it didn't matter. I'm not sure why the heck this is...

I wish that Hendroz would release his patches for the DOS version, too. DOSBox or VPC and the like will be the only way to play it on 64 bit Windows.

just a quick question...
i have the CD Version (with speech) so does that mean it includes both the dos and windows versions?

both the install and the setup files are on the cd which i take it means yes.

Yes

collector wrote:

I wish that Hendroz would release his patches for the DOS version, too. DOSBox or VPC and the like will be the only way to play it on 64 bit Windows.

Didn't Sierra ever release a 32bit SCI interpreter? If they did, perhaps this could be used against GK1 data - with the GK2K patches - for a solution? Compatability between the versions of interpreters from Sierra never seemed part of the design spec mind you 😀

There are nearly no two SCI games that the interpreter is interchangable. The only ones that I have heard of was, I believe, one of the Space Quests and its demo.

collector wrote:

There are nearly no two SCI games that the interpreter is interchangable. The only ones that I have heard of was, I believe, one of the Space Quests and its demo.

It is possible with AGI games...but for SCI it is more than just an intepreter. Each game has its own custom version. There are a few games which are dead similar but I doubt it would work.

Now if there were any progress being made on Free SCI...

I wish there were a project like SCUMMVM only for Sierra games (AGI, SCI, etc.). And by "like SCUMMVM" I mean actively developed...