Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / MVC & Wipeout 2097/DD2

Author
Message
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 10:16
MVC are selling some really old games (3 for £10), two of which are Wipeout 2097 & Destruction Derby 2

Whilst I would love to buy these, according to the back there are for W95 only.

So, the question is : Has anyone got these working on XP (or even 98) ?
Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 15:36
they only say Win95 only because if you remember when they first came out there was only 3.1 and 95 out
for some reason companies don't update game boxes or specs much - silly really ... for a tenner i'd get them and if they don't work ya know either take them back or use them as frisbes

probably will work in 95compatibility mode thou

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 17:02
Haven't tried it though, have you ?

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 17:03
Dont really want to waste £10 on games I cant use.

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
Arrow
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Jan 2003
Location: United States
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:04
Right click on ant program you got and got to properties. Ya see that tab that sayes conbatibility?

Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man?
Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of samishi?
Never assume that what you see or feel is real.
Speedhorn
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Feb 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:28
The Windows XP conpatibility option doesn't always work. Infact, i tried Worms Armegeddeon (sp?) earlier and it wouldn't run, so i tried the Compatibility options and it still didn't work.

Ralph, Jesus didn't have wheels.
Speedhorn
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Feb 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:30
Compatibility* but you know what i meant

Ralph, Jesus didn't have wheels.
Arrow
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 1st Jan 2003
Location: United States
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:35
Well, I've noticed DOS baced game have trouble, my friend said he could fix this but he's not around much.

Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man?
Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of samishi?
Never assume that what you see or feel is real.
rapscaLLion
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Aug 2002
Location: Canada
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:36
You never can tell... I'd say for ten bucks you can't go wrong, but I live in Canada, and ten bucks isn't a large sum oh money...

Alex Wanuch
aka rapscaLLion
Kousen Dev Progress >> Currently Working On Editors
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:57
Yes, compatability mode is pretty useless...

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 20:59
I might just get Wipeout 2097 for £3.99, I think it is and see if that works first. Dont mind if I have to use in '98 too much either.

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 16th Feb 2003 22:51
well anything that works in 95 ... is MORE likely to work in 98 - especially SE
but i mean the OS is essentially the same, just had 2years of bug worming done on it.

i've never had a problem with compatibility mode, even Day of the Tenticle now works properly - and that never even worked in Win95 very well, required an exclusive DOS box.
Same goes for Elite2 my fav game ever

if for any particular reason they don't work, on bootup press F8 as the Floppy seeks - then choose Step-By-Step
load everything except SmartDrive ... it should then run, because 9/10 its because of the First 640kb that can be acessed

remember don't always try just Win95 mode, try the others too - sometimes is a hit and miss affair which one it prefers.
as far as i'm conserned a tenner isn't much, and as i said - if they don't work most places have money back gaurentees within like 10-15days so no biggie just take it back and swap.

i used to do it all the time with N64 games a good few years back - complete a game and take it back, just like renting it think i played the entire collection of games available that way ... especially as the new ones cost like £50, and really 2 or 3 games would've killed me at £50 a pop

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
Speedhorn
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Feb 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 00:12
@Raven

Day of The Tentacle is awesome, i loved the Original Maniac Mansion, used to play it on the C64

Monkey Island is also amazing.

Ralph, Jesus didn't have wheels.
Kentaree
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Oct 2002
Location: Clonmel, Ireland
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 00:21
My suggestion is, use a dual boot system. I have WinXP and Win98 on on HDD, and it works perfectly. I've encountered a few games that didnt work in XP and when I reboot and go to 98 it works like a charm!

Whatever I did I didn't do it!
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 01:38
yup... pitty most games based on the SCUDD Engine don't like anything over Dos much

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
Speedhorn
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Feb 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 01:54
SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion)

Ron Gilbert was the man.

If you don't know what i'm talking about, just ignore me like everyone else does

Ralph, Jesus didn't have wheels.
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 02:36
lmao ... i think the Ralph piccy is quite adept here

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
rapscaLLion
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Aug 2002
Location: Canada
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 04:13
The updated SCUMM they used for "Curse of monkey island" works fine on windows... That's a great game

Alex Wanuch
aka rapscaLLion
Kousen Dev Progress >> Currently Working On Editors
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 15:58
thats only because the SCUMM2 engine was designed to use DirectX - woulda been very annoying if it didn't use windows

even so it wasn't exactly greatly compatible

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 19:02
Good news - Wipeout 2097 works in XP. The installer has to be made to run in 95 mode. The game doesn't need to but its way to fast otherwise...

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
David T
Retired Moderator
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 17th Feb 2003 20:47
It really annoys me when I install old progams in 2K and the installer informs me that "this will not work on NT machines - please reinstall on a windows 95 machine", when the program clearly will and does!

Visit [url]www.lightning-systems.co.uk[/url]
You are the th person to view this signature.
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 18th Feb 2003 00:45
i think one of the funnier installer bugs was when Maya4 was first released someone cocked up the installer for it.

So it wouldn't start the installation on anything except Win9x machines ... however when i got to Maya's self system check it wouldn't allowed you to start the actual installation because it requires an NT based system

alot of apologies and replacements Discs were sent out after that (^_^) was amusing to me thou

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 18th Feb 2003 11:00
Programmers never used to check the Windows version properly...

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 18th Feb 2003 18:40
they still don't they rely alot more on InstallShield to do it

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 24th Feb 2003 16:03
Got DD2 working, but only on my '98 (and in low resolution).

With XP, you get a nice corrupted screen, which I suspect is to do with a resolution that DD2 uses and which XP (or the grpahics card) doesn't support.

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
Shadow Robert
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 25th Feb 2003 11:35
run it in Win95 256-colour mode, i had that same problem with some other games like Carmageddon.

Rather than using the paletted 256 colours it uses the 16bit Standard 256 Colour Table (so looks all freaky)

Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 25th Feb 2003 12:45
I think I tried that (and still got the same result).

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
MrTAToad
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 25th Feb 2003 21:59
No, certainly doesn't work - obviously some other timing problem that (sort of) doesn't occur with '98.

Shame really...

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
Killer Sponge
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Nov 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 26th Feb 2003 16:19
"Day of The Tentacle is awesome, i loved the Original Maniac Mansion"


Isint it just

Current Project: Lode Runner Db (Working Name)

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-22 13:28:15
Your offset time is: 2024-11-22 13:28:15