29th July 2004, 12:21 PM
Lots of useful bits there, though I just tinkered with Win98's various configeration files to get a lot of games working. Wing Commander 4 is still giving me problems though...
About timing issues. Honestly, aside from running the first 3 KQ games in "very fast" mode (which will KILL you), the timing always worked just fine. I just ran the games in "fast" mode which was more than enough for pretty much anything I needed.
Actually, yes come to think of it, KQ1's SCI engine remake DID have bluringly fast credits. Just the credits themselves mind you. All other parts of the game ran at just the right pace, including the music during the credits, but yeah the credits themselves were pretty much unreadable. I slowed them down by accessing the in-game menu, but yeah it is a glitch. It's just not one I really care too much about :D.
Now this general midi support, yeah that'd do it well. I'll need to try that for WC4 some time. Ah, retro gaming... Sure is hard getting everything running well on today's machines...
(On another note, all the KQ games I have run just fine in my tweaked up Win98 SE OS.)
About timing issues. Honestly, aside from running the first 3 KQ games in "very fast" mode (which will KILL you), the timing always worked just fine. I just ran the games in "fast" mode which was more than enough for pretty much anything I needed.
Actually, yes come to think of it, KQ1's SCI engine remake DID have bluringly fast credits. Just the credits themselves mind you. All other parts of the game ran at just the right pace, including the music during the credits, but yeah the credits themselves were pretty much unreadable. I slowed them down by accessing the in-game menu, but yeah it is a glitch. It's just not one I really care too much about :D.
Now this general midi support, yeah that'd do it well. I'll need to try that for WC4 some time. Ah, retro gaming... Sure is hard getting everything running well on today's machines...
(On another note, all the KQ games I have run just fine in my tweaked up Win98 SE OS.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)