Since this is an Abandonware site you should ask them.

This forum only supports legitimate sources of classic games purchases like GoG for instance.

Well I did pay £5 for it. Is this not a legitimate site? Do you know how to help or are you just refusing to?

Well again, anything that says "Abandonware" in the site information I do not consider legitimate, maybe they do have the owners permission to sell them but if so then why do they use the term above ??

Again, since you purchased from that site you should check out their support/forums for more assistance.

Their forum seems to be dormant, hasn't been a new post there since 2009. But could you/anyone here help me at all? Or will you not help on principle?

Discworld II is supported by ScummVM, and it would probably be a much better idea to use that rather than DOSBox.

However, there are some fishy, incomplete rips of Discworld II out there and you may very well have downloaded something that will never work as well as a full, legitimate copy.

Well, that's comforting. I did download Discworld 1 from that site a year ago and it worked fine. I actually decided to buy it from that site instead of finding a free download because I didn't want the hassle of downloading something that might have ended up not working properly.

Bascially, the only problem I'm having is that colours are fine when in a 640x480 window, but when you go to fullscreen, some things become multicoloured. What do you think the problem here is? The sound still works.

I tried download ScummVm but it didn't recognise it as a game.

If I can't get any help, maybe I should just lower my resolution to 800x600 and viewing it through the window will be more bearable.

Besides the legal issues with "abandonware" there are potential technical issues, too. Most so called abandonware is ripped, hacked, cracked or altered in some way that can make it behave unpredictably. Problems that you encounter often are unique your copy and may not be reproducible by those here with legitimate copies. Try emailing the people you got it from. They should be a lot more familiar with it.

G Man wrote:

Well, that's comforting. I did download Discworld 1 from that site a year ago and it worked fine. I actually decided to buy it from that site instead of finding a free download because I didn't want the hassle of downloading something that might have ended up not working properly.

These things that you "bought" are just as illegitimate and just as likely to not be working properly as any "free" download!

G Man wrote:

I tried download ScummVm but it didn't recognise it as a game.

Either you've configured ScummVM incorrectly, or this thing you've "bought" is so mucked up in comparison to the sort of legitimate version ScummVM expects that ScummVM cannot recognize it.

By the way:

G Man wrote:

I downloaded this from Classic Gaming Presents. I click on the game's startup icon, it opens up in DOSbox 0.74 (which I have on my computer), fullscreen, but the colours aren't all right.

If you didn't make that startup icon yourself, the game was probably packaged with its own independent copy of DOSBox 0.74 and is disregarding any other copy of DOSBox 0.74 installed on your computer.

So Classic Gaming Presents is definitely not a legitimate site?

ScummVm did recognise Discworld 1 and I got it to play it.

G Man wrote:

So Classic Gaming Presents is definitely not a legitimate site?

Definitely not. The rights to much of the Legend Entertainment catalog, for instance, are in legal limbo and no one will probably ever be able to distribute them legally ever again. (That is not to say anyone will necessarily particularly care if anyone tries to redistribute them, but that's not the issue here.)

Pretty much the only legal sites of this nature at the moment are GoG and DotEmu.

@G Man, also note how you found their FORUMS in a state of limbo as well 😉

Managed to get a refund from them (£4.99) by filing a Paypal dispute (I used my paypal balance rather than a credit card) Happened very quickly 😀

There is of course the other £4.99 I gave them when I downloaded Discworld 1 from there last year, but I'll let that go, at least I was able to the play the whole game through without any trouble.

I also talked to some people on the Abandonia forum, who called it a scam site, saying they'd heard about people being conned into paying to download a game 3 or 4 times over because it wouldn't work.

I wonder why the site is still going though, if many people have been ripped off by them?

This is why you have to be careful about old/classic games and software like the one you purchased.

You never know if you are buying into Pork Belly Futures or Frozen Concetrated Orange Juice Futures 😉

I still have an extensive collection from my C64/128, Amiga and DOS days both on Floppy Diskette and CD/DVD media.

I don't know how many of those old DOS Font Collections I have lying about either, too many to count as I'm such a packrat 😜

The money he paid for was for a premium account for that website. When trying to get legitimate copies of games always go through ebay or Amazon. You might try your local thrift store too. Dosbox is for legitimate copies of games. If their forum is not being used in over 2 yrs sounds like the site is about to go belly up. That is what happens with a lot of abandonware sites. Either get a legal copy of the game or if you must use abandonware sites go to ones with active forums. This forum here can not help you with pirated software.

Unfortunately Discworld II is one of those rare games that fetches insanely high prices, if I'm not mistaken.

(There was some talk on the ScummVM forums about how it might potentially be officially released as freeware, but I don't think anything ever came of it.)

Looks like around $25 to a little over $30 US
like http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Discworld … 6.c0.m270.l1313

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