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Banzai Bug doesn't work on neither Windows 98 nor XP

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First post, by Elia1995

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Hi, I have this game called "Banzai Bug" which I played a lot as a kid back when I had my very first Windows 98 PC.

I tried installing it on my Windows 98 PC ( My finally working "Project 98" computer !!! ) on which now I also have a second 200GB hardisk with XP (yay, dual boot 98/XP) and I tried on XP aswell, but without success.

I keep getting this error:

RId6KPx.png (yeah... don't mind the time on the screenshot, probably the CMOS battery is dead, since every day I have to set manually the boot priorities in the BIOS and the time in Windows 98 and XP)

I get it on both 98 and XP, I thought it was an issue with the drivers of my X300SE on 98, but it happens on XP aswell, where the drivers are actually "native", so I dunno what might cause it...

I can't even play it on vmware, I tried it on emulated 95, 98 and XP itself on vmware, but it doesn't even install the most of cases.

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 2 of 10, by Elia1995

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Nope, even in 16-bit color depth mode it still does that and DxWnd doesn't seem to help neither 😐

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 3 of 10, by Jorpho

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According to Re: Direct3D Retained Mode games , it's a Direct3D "retained mode" game, dating back to DirectX 3.0.

Perhaps strategies that get Lego Island working in XP will be useful here?

Reply 4 of 10, by Elia1995

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And what are those strategies about ?

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 6 of 10, by Elia1995

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Still nothing 😢

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 8 of 10, by Elia1995

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I could make an ISO off the CD, but I dunno if this game is abandonware yet...

I just tried with DxWnd again, it starts, but it lags a lot !!! Even the audio is choppy, it has got the "farting audio" especially when he talks and the game runs at like 5 - 10 FPS.

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 9 of 10, by collector

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Elia1995 wrote:

I could make an ISO off the CD, but I dunno if this game is abandonware yet...

No such thing as "abandonware" in any legal sense.

The Sierra Help Pages -- New Sierra Game Installers -- Sierra Game Patches -- New Non-Sierra Game Installers

Reply 10 of 10, by gdjacobs

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It's either commercial or available under a permissive license (public domain, CC-SA-*, GPL, etc).

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