Stiletto wrote:Yes, GliDOS's customized binaries of DOSBOX based off SVN r3520 and SDL 1.2.13, plus the patches against source SVN r3520 and SDL 1.2.13, are included. It was compiled 2010-02-06 and 2010-02-13 apparently.
Thanks for the info.
DosFreak wrote:You could use install and activate GliDOS in a VM (VirtualBox\Vmware) and then backup the VM.
In your opinion, which virtual machine is the best for running older games? Not just for Tomb Raider, but in general for games that work better under Win9x, etc.
I skimmed through the instructions for VirtualBox and it looks like it only supports 3D graphics acceleration on XP and up.
I also seem to recall that when I read about VMWare, people said you had to jump through some hoops to get the appropriate graphics and sound drivers (I think by downloading some add-on package and extracting them) and that it didn't support older versions of DirectX.
DosFreak wrote:Really if the only game you want to play with GliDOS is the glide version of Tomb Raider then you can do that with yhkwongs DOSBox build but you will not be able to use the high res textures.
Or the PSX movies and sound...
DosFreak wrote:I didn't play HL2 for years after it's release due to the steam requirement but just like any game you can easily make it offline which is what I did for that game and any game I buy off of steam.
But you still need to activate/authorize it online. It seems unlikely now, but what if Valve goes out of business or gets bought by another company? I know the president promised that if that ever happened, they'd release some kind of patch, but what if he's no longer in charge at that point? Plus, there's the changing system requirements. Because you need to run Steam, you need to meet the minimum requirements for it, which can change. It originally ran on Win98, but now it needs XP minimum. A couple years from now, it may need Win7. I could buy a retail, boxed copy of HL2, which states right on the box that it works on 98 and not be able to run it on anything less than a Win7 system.
Then there's the whole automatic update mechanism. Again, call me weird, but I don't really want software force-feeding me patches, which (if I understand correctly) can't be backed up for future re-install, only re-downloaded by Steam.