my two cents: the reviews forum sucks ass (Moved to Ramble)

[A Black Falcon]

Beneath a Steel Sky -- It's not the best adventure game ever, but it's good, and there aren't that many futuristic/cyberworld adventures out there... but it's free, which makes it better. :) And it actually is good... the main annoyances come from the fact that you can be killed (kind of like a Sierra adventure game -- though some of them are very, very obvious. I mean, what SHOULD the game do if you walk up to a nuclear reactor and open the protection doors?) and the kind of annoying 'online world' segment. Don't let that stop you from getting it, though. Overall, it's quite a good game that'd be worth it had I payed for it, much less for free. Anyone who likes Sierra or Lucasarts adventure games will love it.

Flight of the Amazon Queen... not the worst game ever, but let's just say that I wouldn't have wanted to pay for it. :)

Oh and, yes it really is just XP that has those sound issues... Without true DOS anywhere to be found in it, the DOS drivers don't do jack. That's most of the reason I have 98 installed as an alternate OS on startup. The rest is that there are even a few really old windows games that won't operate correctly in XP (mainly Sierra).

I'd probably want to do the same, because XP DOS emulation just isn't good enough, and stuff like VDMSound, DOSBox, and SCUMMVM can't do everything... (such as the WINDOWS games that XP isn't compatible with... sure, they don't all work in 98/ME either (if it's a speed/power problem), but some do!)

Oh and, actually I have ONE other Lucasarts game, that Indianna Jones one. Unfortunatly, I can't find it. That's it though...

There are two Indy adventure games, DJ. :) The first one, which is based on one of the movies, and is alright, and the second one, Fate of Atlantis, which is really, really awesome (especially on CD...).

At any rate, what I'd really like is to find the Windows version of The Dig somewheres... Well, I'm not in a rush or anything when it runs fine as is, but still...

I don't think there is one... or rather, if there is one I've never heard of it.