OT - Good old games site

[Macclan5]

Edit Update:

https://www.gog.com/

I was referring to Good Old Games.com of GOG dot com...

Now I look closely they may not be one and the same. In fact it is NOT the same...

GOG.com is what I am referring to.

[Rising-Sun]

ORIGINAL: Franciscus

ORIGINAL: RisingSun

There are two games I couldn't find, one is Birthright and the second is Destiny (old strategy game).

Btw they upgrade it to Win7, Win7 is bad. Hopefully they have it compatible with XP and Win10. You can run the game as admin and under XP though.

Birthright ?

I found it:
http://www.old-games.com/download/6057/ ... s-alliance

Regards

Cool, I will have to check that out.

geofflambert, that errors is related to DirectX. So you will need to find the right version for that to work.

ORIGINAL: IdahoNYer

Here's what I've got running so far in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier:

101st Airborne - seems to run fine, but no manual so I'm lost as how to play.
Combat Mission 2 - runs OK, seems a bit sluggish though
Birth of the Federation - runs fine
Kingmaker - runs fine (loved the old Avalon Hill Kingmaker and this does seem like a pretty good transition...)
Western Front - runs fine
50 Mission Crush - Need to still fiddling with graphics - black aircraft icon on black terrain doesn't work.

Have plenty more to check out - subscribed for 30 days.

Most of these games I've had in the past, but haven't been able to play with changes to Windows over the years. Nice to seem them again!

That Birth of Federation is a good popular game, if you like Star Trek. I still have it on CD as well Birthright. But, Birthright wont install unless I made a WinXP OS drive.

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

Edit Update:

https://www.gog.com/

I was referring to Good Old Games.com of GOG dot com...

Now I look closely they may not be one and the same. In fact it is NOT the same...

GOG.com is what I am referring to.

Gog is a good site, but you have to pay for it. I got some good games included the Falcon Series, love that Falcon 3.0 and 4.0.

[Macclan5]

True Rising... ....my comments were about paying for it..

I was stunned to see "old games.com" comparatively. Very interesting.

GOG is 'inexpensive' by most standards I would say; especially if you wait for a sale. Its also DRM (digital rights management) free which makes its library of games superior to Steam for example (opinion). In fact there are some games that cross over both sites I believe but I have never done the analysis.

This other site is equally impressive albiet I can only imagine what Civilization 2 or Warlords 3 will look like on my 5 year old rig...

Hurt eyes may be a classic AE forumite understatement [8D]

[Lecivius]

IDC, but do you need to pay for access to this site? GOG you need to buy the games. I'm just curious about how this site works.

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Oops, nm, just answered my own question [:D]

[YaroslavUSSR]

ORIGINAL: IdahoNYer

As I said in my original post - couldn't get Fighting Steel to work....let us know if you get it going!

Now Fighting Steel is supported by NWS team, the creators of Steam and Iron naval simulator of the dreadnought era.
Links: navalwarfare. net, nws-online. proboards. com/ thread/ 17/ fighting-steel-project
Sorry, I'm not allowed to post normal links.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's the detail page of the download. Why does it say 7-zip? I have 7-zip, do I need to unzip the file? Pay no heed to that woman in the background.

Reminds me of that old (word meaning black people) spiritual by Louis Armstrong:

Well, Helloooo, Halley
This is Louis, Halley
Its so nice to see your ***** where they belong!

[geofflambert]

BBfanboy, I like you a lot, I'm not sure whether you should edit out your post or not. When in doubt, edit it out.

[szmike]

Those old games made me think, are there any strategy games with ASCII graphics, Dwarf Fortress style?

[KenchiSulla]

It has the original warcraft games [8D]

[dr.hal]

I'm a bit confused as to what they have done to these games to make the workable on more recent operating systems (I have windows 7 Pro). I For example I have the original Silent Hunter, I also have Silent Hunter 2, 3 and 4. I can get none of them to work on my current Windows computer. When I got back to the publisher of the games, they tell me that they can not support games on my system and that there is nothing they can do (yet I KNOW others with a similar operating system do have the games running). SO my question is has this site done something to the game code to allow it to operate on more recent operating systems (as they say in their link at the bottom of the page)??? Hal

[geofflambert]

Silent Hunter. If I can't get Fighting Steel to work but I can get Silent Hunter, kiss a couple of hours a day bye-bye.

That gives me an idea for a game. Call it Silent Steel. In it you try to sink ships by dropping iron balls on them from zeppelins.

[Lokasenna]

d3drm.dll almost certainly refers to "Digital Rights Management"...

[geofflambert]

Here's my logo

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's my logo

No, this is your logo.

[Rising-Sun]

You might want to be careful downloading from that site and some games may or may not work. It seem they have special program as d3drm.dll is one of them. So there no telling what going on in that library.

I haven't download anything and did some research how others react to it...
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 055AADy3X4

There are some mention that need to activate something in order to play later on, so dunno how long it will last. So I don't believe in this craps, that is free, something is fishy here. Imagine if they want to scan your hardrives once they get your location where your pc is. Yes some may work, and something may sneak in your pc too.

Have any of you have a strong anti-virus tools or to detect them? Might want to check your pc after downloading it, even nothing, it may do the tricks once you activate that game or specific games. Who knows.

Saw one review that you have pay something for it and they got screwed or it is a scam. So it is free, then what? After reading about four random pages that people been downloading and playing from that site, it goes up and down and there no telling if they have any skills on detecting any threats from those programs.

So be careful out there guys. Hard to believe something like this can be free, probably blackmails.

[geofflambert]

It's not free, you have to make a donation to download something at a reasonable speed. Similar to some porn sites. I never go to any of those of course. Just gorn sites.

[scout1]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's my logo

No, this is your logo.

No, the Airlander 10 is Gorn's logo


And the story behind it .... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 21452.html

[Barny23]

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 995f963ab4
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James McQuellin replied on June 21, 2011See post history






Hi Hana,




D3DRM.DLL is Direct3D Retained Mode, an older graphics display technology from 1997 that was removed from Windows 7 and Vista. However you can download the file here. When you download the File, try putting it in the game directories for both games eg. " C:\Program Files\*Game1* ( its hard to be specific about this because you have not mentioned the games you are tying to play). Give that a go and get back to me on how you went.
Barny

[Rising-Sun]

Figured it has something to do with DirectX, but still some may or may not work on your pc.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: scout1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's my logo

No, this is your logo.

No, the Airlander 10 is Gorn's logo


And the story behind it .... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 21452.html

OMG. That is way too sexual for this forum. But as long as we're on that subject, I do like most what I call "puffies". That thing kicks ass.