Author Topic: I found some of my 'old' computer games... but I can't play them (Read 466 times)

Preon1 · « **on:** August 03, 2004, 12:51:05 PM »

In the process of helping my Mom move, I came across a container filled with some of my favorite games as a child. Spectre, Space Quest, Syndicate, Populous, Red Baron (and a few more that I don't really remember). Unfortunately, they're coded for the Apple IIe or one of the early Macs, so I can't play them on my PC. Aside from finding a 12 year old mac to reinstall these games to play them again, is there any way to play them on my PC?

WinXP
P4 2.4 GHz
120 gb HD
512 mb ram
Radeon 9600
SB Audigy

P.S.
The more I think of Syndicate, the more I think of how AWESOME that game would be repackaged with today's technology. Talk about a BRUTAL shooter!

CyranoAH · « **Reply #1 on:** August 03, 2004, 01:09:25 PM »

Find a good emulator... if there's one...

mietla · « **Reply #2 on:** August 03, 2004, 01:57:17 PM »

Virtual PC and WMware work pretty well.

Sceadu · « **Reply #3 on:** August 04, 2004, 07:38:29 AM »

A lot of good emulators. Just do a search using "emulator Mac Apple II games" and something should pop. I still play some old Atari 800 games I found on the internet using a pretty good emulator. Nothing beats M.U.L.E. and Archon and some of the early EA games before they turned into the great Satan of the gaming industry.

slimm50 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 04, 2004, 08:40:32 AM »

SYNDICATE. Oooh. I used to love that game.

Saintaw · « **Reply #5 on:** August 04, 2004, 09:19:51 AM »

Am still trying to find a way to make i688-HK run on XP... if anyone has a clue... plz share it

straffo · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2004, 09:31:16 AM »

try this : http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~nstevens/patches/rw688dlls.zip

and look here : http://207.44.164.159/subsim_files/patches.html#688

si tu est vraiment couillu essaye : http://www.esub2.com/esub2/accueil.html

dommage il n'y a plus d'incription possible

par contre ça :http://www.scs-dangerouswaters.com/index.html
Ca va me faire replonger

Angus · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2004, 10:47:02 AM »

How about old DOS games on modern PC's?
Red Baron, Aces over The Pacific, Civilization, Silent Service.......etc....etc....????????

Ohio330 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 04, 2004, 11:26:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Angus
How about old DOS games on modern PC's?
Red Baron, Aces over The Pacific, Civilization, Silent Service.......etc....etc....????????

Not sure if this would work, but for the Dos games..
right click on the icon for the game, and in the properties
section there should be something asking you if you
want to run it in win95 mode, dos mode etc.

Sceadu · « **Reply #9 on:** August 04, 2004, 05:29:49 PM »

A problem with a lot of the old DOS games is that they used the cpu speed to control game speed.

I found this article on how to run the old DOS game Silent Hunter by SSI. The information should work for Silent Service as well.
http://www.subsowespac.org/sh_xp/silent_hunterxp.shtml

Oh, even better! I found an underdogs article (the-underdogs.org is your friend!) that explains how to get old DOS games to work in XP. http://www.the-underdogs.org/guidedos.php

vorticon · « **Reply #10 on:** August 04, 2004, 08:51:19 PM »

for dos games it often works to set it to win 95 and put all the memory things to auto...if that doesnt work try dosbox...

old windows games are a pain in the ass, if you dont have a old computer that can play them or a duel boot setup with win98 you have little to no chance of getting them to run

Saintaw · « **Reply #11 on:** August 06, 2004, 12:41:12 AM »

'Dangerous waters' looks cool (IF they don't make this an arcade ....), with that and SH3 ... I should get my hands busy and my feet wet this year

brendo · « **Reply #12 on:** August 06, 2004, 07:17:48 AM »

Preon, those games sound like they are from the Amiga.

Did your old computer look like this?

Preon1 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2004, 09:22:14 AM »

HA! That one has a mouse. I just used the arrow keys, but yeah... That looks real familiar. Did some serious quest games on that pos (space quest 1-???, police quest 1-???).

Preon1 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2004, 09:26:55 AM »

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Originally posted by slimm50
SYNDICATE. Oooh. I used to love that game.

Slimm, you agree that it would be a kick bellybutton squad based shooter? 4 cybernetic superhuman mob agents walking the streets, fearing no rule of law, converting innocent civilians into mindless automatons, and prosecuting the ultimate world wide gang war. [shudder] Sounds delicious.