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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Old games
So yesterday the wife and daughter went to some American Girl bs up 400 leaving me alone in the house for 2+ hours with minimal chores to do. I caught up on my Game of Thrones and decided to clean out some old boxes (felt the hour would just get my appetite started on Civ without satisfying). I found my old Might and Magic 7 discs and though about how much I loved those games. I think I started with the M&M2 and played everything from World of Xeen to the newer ones (stopping at 8 I believe). I don't have the discs from the old ones, but I found a site where you can download these as a big file (for $9.99 or so). Anyone ever have any luck playing these old games on their newer PCs/laptops (like XP or Win7)? Any games you wish you could resurrect on your current PC? I spent most of college playing Civ2, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Front Page Sports Football/Baseball, but I doubt any of these would work (I've used Doxbox for FPS Football and it's ok).
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05-05-2013, 05:13 PM
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Gog.com
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05-05-2013, 05:15 PM
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05-05-2013, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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GoG has the HoMM series up to the 5th one. There is a 6th one out now. The 3rd one, considered the best, can be bought for $9.99.
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05-05-2013, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The Dirty
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That looks better, the other one was on some UBI site or something. Do these run well on newer machines?
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05-05-2013, 05:32 PM
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Yep. They are listed as working on XP-Win 8.
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05-05-2013, 06:03 PM
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Any DOS games come with a preconfigured DOSBox launcher, any other games often have fixes to run on newer systems. Games should list what operating systems they work with on the store page. If there's a common issue with a game not working properly there is usually info on it and fixes in the gog forums. Last edited by mckerney : 05-05-2013 at 06:04 PM. |
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05-05-2013, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
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I bought the M&M pack about a year ago. MMVI works fine, I haven't tried the other ones, but I haven't heard of any issues.
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05-05-2013, 07:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Melbourne, FL
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If you've never played it and like Civilisation - try and get hold of a copy of 'Master of Magic' ... its basically Civilisation but with spells and a fantasy theme ... was awesome, its one of the few Dos games I still go back to sporadically*.
*The computer AI is unfortunately a tad restricted, so you might have to setup some 'house rules' once you get the hang of things .... but apart from that its still amazing. |
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05-05-2013, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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I loved Master of Magic.
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05-05-2013, 09:32 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Funny you guys mention gog.com.
They are having a 60% off sale on EA games. This includes Alpha Centuari. And Ultima and wing commander.
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05-06-2013, 11:17 AM
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i just bought Alpha Centauri last week...download process was no problem...the only thing about GoG that i would mention is, the site is located somewhere in Eastern Europe, so my Check Card actually didnt work, and my bank fraud alert called me to make sure i wanted the transaction |
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