I have this working in WinXP right now, no ScummVM needed. Just a sec while I pop in the CD......yep. Just changed ********* so I can get the work order signed.
All I had to do to get the game to run was change the compatibility mode to Win98/ME.
Clarification: I don't think ScummVM is a problem, as I have no evidence that it was made by violating a legally enforceable clause of the software license.
Such a violation might be if (a) anti-reverse-engineering clauses are enforceable, (b) the game's license includes such clauses, and (c) the port was made by doing said reverse engineering.
However, it is not time to breathe a sigh of relief. It is not time to think there's diminished legal risk in making ports and emulators.
That the developers feel this way affects the legality of the situation not at all, since it's extremely rare for the developers of the IP to be the owners of the IP.
Not that I approve of the situation; but it would be foolhardy to attempt to use TFA as a justification for violating IP legal rights.
I need a list of game titles that Thompson's gone after, so I can buy them.
If Thompson hates it, there must be something right with it.
And every little bit helps when it comes to countering Thompson's efforts to destroy mature gaming and shut down the 1st amendment.
Yeah, but do you have to know how to build a car from parts, and make some of the parts yourself, in order to use it?
When getting commonly available hardware (D-Link 802.11b card) to work requires device driver source code changes, and installing a filesystem (capture-ntfs) requires a kernel rebuild, Linux can hardly be said to be "I can't believe it's not Windows!"
On the ntcompatible.com website it says Star Control 3 will run with VDMSound and the appropriate settings. Details provided there. Go to http://www.ntcompatible.com/, go to the games section, go to "S", go forward a page or two, click on the "Show" link on the right side of the page across from "Star Control 3".
Not having tried this, I can't guarantee it will work. If you don't have luck with VDMSound, you might want to try DosBox 0.65 instead.
With sufficient persistence and work, just about any old game can be made to run on WinXP. I have dozens of old DOS games and only one or two that I haven't been able to get running one way or another.
There's almost always some combination of Compatibility Mode, patches, VDMSound, DGVoodoo, and DosBox that'll get an old and cranky program to run.
If you mean better than the VGA graphics of the original DOS and Playstation versions, then... you already can have that.
TR1 + VDMSound + DGVoodoo = high-res Tomb Raider on WinXP. The sound hiccups a bit, and I haven't figured out how to fix that yet, but otherwise it's great.
Wireless networking is hardly the pinnacle of geekdom. It's a convenient way to avoid the ugliness of cables strung everywhere, something that grandmas do care about.
I don't care about compiling. I just want the stuff to work. But in order to get stuff to work, I am required to care about compiling. Grandma's alternative? "This stuff doesn't work."
I don't want to rename '/'. I want to relabel a hard drive. That shouldn't be so hard. In Windows, you just right-click the drive and choose 'rename'. Afterwards, everything still works. In Linux, it doesn't.
The point is, if an experienced professional such as I has problems getting even minor upgrades and changes to work right, how hard is it going to be for grandma? And if she got her machine from Walmart, where is she going to get help? From Walmart's highly trained technical staff?
Much as I like Linux (I bought and installed a second HD in my machine just to run Fedora), I'm going to have to say that it has a long way to go to approach the level of Grandma-readiness that Windows has.
Among the many difficulties I've had getting Fedora to work, the ones that stick in my mind at the moment are:
The lack of out-of-box and auto-configure support for 802.11 lan cards.
Having to not only recompile the wlan drivers I did find and write my own rc.local script to start them, but having to make source code changes, to get them to compile on FC4.
Having to patch and rebuild the kernel in order to get captive-ntfs to work (haven't tackled that one yet). The equivalent on the Windows side (ext2fsd) was a snap to install by comparison.
Being unable to change the label on a hard drive without manually altering a plethora of configuration files; I still don't know all of them, so I'm stuck with '/' until the next time I do a clean install.
The lack of help and other documentation
The lack of fit-and-finish on various included apps (auto-update comes to mind - if you choose to download but not install updates, no option is provided to install later)
As many problems as I've had with Windows and apps that run on it (espeically legacy ones for '98, '95 and DOS), nothing there rises to this level of aggravation.
Maybe now that they don't want to spend any more money improving Outlook Express, they'll open-source it so the community can improve it at no cost to them.
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I have this working in WinXP right now, no ScummVM needed. Just a sec while I pop in the CD... ...yep. Just changed ********* so I can get the work order signed.
All I had to do to get the game to run was change the compatibility mode to Win98/ME.
Two sites that I recall having the popunders were WorldNetDaily and Drudge Report.
I stopped going to those sites because of the pop-x advertising.
I tried them again just now and didn't get any pops, so apparently they've stopped doing it. Maybe they got enough complaints to quit.
Who cares who they partner with or what technologies they're pioneering?
They use pop-under ads that get past Firefox's popup blocker.
I'll never be one of their customers.
Clarification: I don't think ScummVM is a problem, as I have no evidence that it was made by violating a legally enforceable clause of the software license.
Such a violation might be if (a) anti-reverse-engineering clauses are enforceable, (b) the game's license includes such clauses, and (c) the port was made by doing said reverse engineering.
That's the kind of legal risk I'm talking about.
However, it is not time to breathe a sigh of relief. It is not time to think there's diminished legal risk in making ports and emulators.
That the developers feel this way affects the legality of the situation not at all, since it's extremely rare for the developers of the IP to be the owners of the IP.
Not that I approve of the situation; but it would be foolhardy to attempt to use TFA as a justification for violating IP legal rights.
Boy's sharp as a, I say, boy's sharp as a bowlin' ball.
It was a joke, son! Yer supposed to laugh.</leghorn>
I don't think this will be worth picking up.
After all, how can the authors be truly 1337 if they can't even spell pwn?
No really, I'm serious. Does anyone know where I can find a list of games that Thompson's gone after?
I need a list of game titles that Thompson's gone after, so I can buy them. If Thompson hates it, there must be something right with it. And every little bit helps when it comes to countering Thompson's efforts to destroy mature gaming and shut down the 1st amendment.
I think when Jack Thompson's around, a dick and an exposed ass are both visible anyway.
When getting commonly available hardware (D-Link 802.11b card) to work requires device driver source code changes, and installing a filesystem (capture-ntfs) requires a kernel rebuild, Linux can hardly be said to be "I can't believe it's not Windows!"
On the ntcompatible.com website it says Star Control 3 will run with VDMSound and the appropriate settings. Details provided there. Go to http://www.ntcompatible.com/, go to the games section, go to "S", go forward a page or two, click on the "Show" link on the right side of the page across from "Star Control 3".
Not having tried this, I can't guarantee it will work. If you don't have luck with VDMSound, you might want to try DosBox 0.65 instead.
With sufficient persistence and work, just about any old game can be made to run on WinXP. I have dozens of old DOS games and only one or two that I haven't been able to get running one way or another.
There's almost always some combination of Compatibility Mode, patches, VDMSound, DGVoodoo, and DosBox that'll get an old and cranky program to run.
If you mean better than the VGA graphics of the original DOS and Playstation versions, then... you already can have that.
TR1 + VDMSound + DGVoodoo = high-res Tomb Raider on WinXP. The sound hiccups a bit, and I haven't figured out how to fix that yet, but otherwise it's great.
Wireless networking is hardly the pinnacle of geekdom. It's a convenient way to avoid the ugliness of cables strung everywhere, something that grandmas do care about.
I don't care about compiling. I just want the stuff to work. But in order to get stuff to work, I am required to care about compiling. Grandma's alternative? "This stuff doesn't work."
I don't want to rename '/'. I want to relabel a hard drive. That shouldn't be so hard. In Windows, you just right-click the drive and choose 'rename'. Afterwards, everything still works. In Linux, it doesn't.
The point is, if an experienced professional such as I has problems getting even minor upgrades and changes to work right, how hard is it going to be for grandma? And if she got her machine from Walmart, where is she going to get help? From Walmart's highly trained technical staff?
Much as I like Linux (I bought and installed a second HD in my machine just to run Fedora), I'm going to have to say that it has a long way to go to approach the level of Grandma-readiness that Windows has.
Among the many difficulties I've had getting Fedora to work, the ones that stick in my mind at the moment are:
- The lack of out-of-box and auto-configure support for 802.11 lan cards.
- Having to not only recompile the wlan drivers I did find and write my own rc.local script to start them, but having to make source code changes, to get them to compile on FC4.
- Having to patch and rebuild the kernel in order to get captive-ntfs to work (haven't tackled that one yet). The equivalent on the Windows side (ext2fsd) was a snap to install by comparison.
- Being unable to change the label on a hard drive without manually altering a plethora of configuration files; I still don't know all of them, so I'm stuck with '/' until the next time I do a clean install.
- The lack of help and other documentation
- The lack of fit-and-finish on various included apps (auto-update comes to mind - if you choose to download but not install updates, no option is provided to install later)
As many problems as I've had with Windows and apps that run on it (espeically legacy ones for '98, '95 and DOS), nothing there rises to this level of aggravation.Maybe now that they don't want to spend any more money improving Outlook Express, they'll open-source it so the community can improve it at no cost to them.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Sometimes I crack myself up!