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# I can't play it with sound either :(
Probably because the height of technology back then was a 16-bit soundblaster. The music works though, oddly enough. Just not the sounds/voices :(
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 20:40, archived)
# yeah it`ll be using old DOS drivers that Windows won`t emulate
you might have a bit of luck using something like vmware and running e.g. win98 inside it
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 20:43, archived)
# nah fuck it
I have an older machine in the workshop, with dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 on it... do bloody rightly :-)

I'll leave the new boy to its GTA SA and battlefield 2 etc..

:-)
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 20:46, archived)
# I seem to remember there being a website somewhere
that allowed you to play old Lucasarts games somehow - using Virtual Scumm or something.. i think...

there's a link and info here, also info on BASS - possibly the best game in the world - ever.

www.dot-totally.co.uk/beneath-a-steel-sky/

www.scummvm.org/downloads.php
(SquidHead, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 20:47, archived)
# I actually loved "The Dig" but nodbody else sround here did...
bastards...

good game, and nice music....

/clicks link, downloads bass and promptly dissapears to play...
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 20:52, archived)
# I
did !
bloody loved those landscapes.
(SquidHead, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 20:53, archived)