First post, by notindeed
Hi, i was wondering whether anyone knew anything about the different versions of this game.
The original DOS disc version of the game appeared to have static screens in between certain areas, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICukEMx3ucw&fe … etailpage#t=140
However, i read that the Deluxe, cd version had cutscenes between content and extra rooms etc.
The only place i can find what i assume are these extra things are in videos of the CD-i version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO5jUlp00fE
See particularly the intro at 1:00, end game animation at 14:23 and also various "room change" cutscenes at 2:23, 4:23 and 6:55. (The 4:23 one corresponds to the static image seen above in the disc version).
I also read that the CD version wasn't that much bigger than the disc version and so i would assume that the animated cutscenes for the intro and outro probably were not included (unless they were in some weird video format that was streamed off the disc and not viewed as "data" ?).
That said, I would have imagined the inbetween rooms cutscenes would have been included in the later PC CD-Rom version.
The thing is, all videos that I can find of the PC version don't appear to have these cutscenes.
They mainly seem to be of the re-release on GOG / Steam. I'm not sure which version this is.
In videos of these versions, the game just seems to skip between rooms without even showing the static images of the disc version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d … eqGmycr70Q#t=69
So, what i'm wondering is, is there a problem with the Dosbox emulation for cd drives where the CD version is not being played correctly and the cutscenes between rooms / levels are "skipped"?
Or is the GOG / Steam version actually the disc version and not the CD version (if so why is the static image graphic absent).
It's all a bit confusing as I can't find much information about this game.
At the moment it is looking like the CD-i version is superior but from my assumptions i would have imagined that the later CD version for DOS would have also included these extras, since both were later than the Amiga CD32 and PC Dos disc versions.
If this isn't the case, then i am really confused as the disc and cd versions i have seen so far look practically identical.
I guess it would be interesting if someone had a normal "hard" cd copy of this game and and old dos pc or someone that remembers it from "back in the day" could let me know.
(TLDR: What's the difference between the disc and cd dos versions of this game and does the cd version have the same "extras" the CD-i version has that it is reported to have?
Also, which versions allow you to turn the camera around?
Thanks!