[Zomb's Lair - Reviving Old Classics]

20 minutes ago, guineu said:

@plutonick, what I do after torrenting the games from Archive.org, which already puts the cover images with the installer, is to manually copy the description into a txt file and keep everything in an external hard drive.

This is what I am going to do in the future as well, but I am going to have to keep both the installer and the installed instance on my HDD... ok, who am I kidding, the collector in me is forcing me to do this anyway...

[Zomb's Lair - Reviving Old Classics]

Zomb, I've been thinking about it last night. May I suggest you also include a small readme within each installer detailing some game specific nuisances like the one in Blade Runner? I can't be the only one that barely skims the site prior to downloading the game. And there are times that I dont install it straight away, forgetting the instructions posted on the site (and there might be people that get the file from other means. I for one, plan to copy them to a usb and give them it to my childhood friends that used to play those games together.

I don't mean to criticize or anything. I am grateful to all your hardwork and since English is not my first language I hope my proposals are not coming across as whinning   Thanks for your efforts! 

[Zomb's Lair - Reviving Old Classics]

Blade Runner: Ah dammit, I remember reading this on the site yesterday now that you mention it!
Dark Seed 2: Didn't cross my mind. Will do it and report back if it doesn't fix it.

Thanks for the help.

[Zomb's Lair - Reviving Old Classics]

I just installed the Darkseed collection. Darkseed 1 runs flawless so far. Darkseed 2 has stuttering sound for me (running either dosbox.exe or dosbox64.exe (or even just using the shortcut).
Am I doing something wrong?


Update:
I also tried running bladerunner (win7 64). It keeps crashing no matter which exe I try. I tried them all actually. Also there is a readme in there that is hard to decypher.
"Just copy the two files in your Blade Runner game directory to patch the game for modern CPUs!

Big thanks to Aqrit's ddraw-Wrapper - http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html - which makes this possible!

Blade Runner Installer (C) 2012 by www.replaying.de (Mr.Blade)"

But I am not sure which two files it means (supposing it's not a leftover file).

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The suspense is killing me

[ExoDOS Import]

3 hours ago, eXo said:

1. Fallout is in the RPG pack. It was a DOS game, look again.  Fallout 2 was not a DOS game, but it wasn't a Win3X game either. It was a Win9x game. SO that one is not in my packs.

2. You'd have to take the MS-DOS.xml from my set and the one from your current install and merge them together. But that would still lead to duplicates, as every game you have is in my sets as well (unless you have some obscure foreign language games that I opted to leave out). To eliminate duplicates, you would have to delete the game entry from my set and then add the entry from your set. I suppose I would tackle that by making/printing a list of games you have and then deleting all of those entries out of my MS-DOS.xml file, and then merging them. To merge them isn't difficult. Just watch out not to mess up the xml headr and footer.

 

1. I was talking about Fallout 2 (but miss typed). I wasn't aware it was a win95 game though.
2. Thanks for the clarification. Don't really care about duplicates. I will sort them out later.

 

[ExoDOS Import]

Thanks for this EXO!

I have two questions, I am sure they have been answered before, but I tried reading all the pages and came up with nothing...

1. Why is Fallout not included in any EXOpacks? I know it's not a dos game, but I couldn't find it in Win3 pack either.
2. I already have a small MSDOS collection on LB. How should I import the exo-Launchbox version to my existing one without messing files? Can you point me to a guide? I found some posts, but those where (i think) specifically for importing the new pack to old EXOpacks.

Thanks a lot.