The Town of Odyssey

Chandler wrote:

Anna><> wrote:

LizzieG wrote: Let's see... there was also the amazing Rollercoaster Tycoon

I loved Rollercoaster Tycoon! I like that one rollercoaster that you could make faster and shoot people into the lake and drown them.

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Sounds like a Communist plot.

David O wrote:

KODY 105 wrote:

LizzieG wrote:

Sherlock wrote:I remember Gizmos and Gadgets! Also some other game - I think it was called Troggle Trouble? And, of course, the ever popular Oregon Trail!

So much love for Gizmos and Gadgets! No one ever knows what it is when I mention it. It was one of my favorite games growing up. Sadly, I can't get it to work on either of our Windows XPs. (Any tips?)

Try DosBox. It's a free download-- just search for it. Try abandonware or DOS game sites. Supposedly DosBox will allow an old DOS game to work properly, but I haven't gotten it working for me yet. But G&G works for me without it...

I echo the usage of dosbox. It's an excellent dos emulator which I have on two of my PCs, as well as on my Wii.

To run a game, you first need to mount the drive the game is on using the following command:

At the command prompt type "mount c c:\****"
**** = the name of the folder where you have your games stored. For easiest access, place your dos games in a folder in the root directory.
Then just type in the name of the executable program you use to run the game (be sure to include .exe at the end of the game's name.) Type dir/w to get a list of all the files in the your current directory, if you aren't sure of the exact filename.

For a more thorough tutorial, try this handy link!

The MIDI driver for your sound card could not be found. Make sure that the correct sound card drivers are installed before restarting Gizmos & Gadges! Consult your sound card's documentation for additional information.

LizzieG wrote:Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego? is another fun one, and I was a fan of Oregon Trail, the fourth edition... even though the main map/journey screen never worked, and I had to stare into blackness while listening to my partners complain that they didn't have enough fresh vegetables, or to my wagon crossing a river and wondering if we were going to make it. I purchased the fifth edition a year or so ago, but it just isn't the same since you don't get to pick/interact with your trailmates.

Sherlock wrote:Finally, the grand trio of SIM Farm, SIM Ant, and SIM City were at the top of the list of some of my most-played PC games.

LizzieG wrote:I (used to) play it on a CD, and I can't figure out how to find the executable file with that. Here's the error message I've been getting that has prevented me from playing it:

The MIDI driver for your sound card could not be found. Make sure that the correct sound card drivers are installed before restarting Gizmos & Gadges! Consult your sound card's documentation for additional information.

Some guy on Amazon wrote:This has to be one of the hardest Win95 games to get to work under WinXP.
I did it on two different systems and had an extra twist on the second system.

First, I have not been able to get it to work running the ssgwin32.exe in the installed \Tclwin\ssgwincd directory.

Put the CD in the drive and find the ssgwincd.exe in the ssgwincd directory.
Right click on this file and select Properties and then the Compatibility tab. At a minimum, check the "Run in 256 colors" and "Run in 640x480 screen resolution" and select OK. I would go ahead and select "Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows 95" for good measure, but at least one of my tests seemed to indicate this is not absolutely necessary.

Now you are ready to try and run this executable. You will still get
a MIDI error in a window titled "The Learning Company", so don't panic: "The MIDI driver for your sound card could not be found. Make sure that the current sound card drivers are installed before restarting Gizmos & Gadgets! Consult you sound card is documentation for additional protection."

Just click the "Exit" button and it may play OK.

If not, then maybe you will get a window titled "Error" with the message "Error with WaveMixOpenWave". This is what afflicted my second system I tried. To fix this, find and rename the wavemix.ini file (i.e. wavemix.ini.bak) - mine was in \WINDOWS and rename the wavemix.dll (i.e. wavemix.dll.bak) - mine was in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. Keep in mind that may affect other existing programs, so you may want to make note of this for the future so you could reinstate these.

Then reboot your system and try running the ssgwincd.exe in the ssgwincd directory that we fixed earlier.

Good luck!

Taq wrote:

Sherlock wrote:Finally, the grand trio of SIM Farm, SIM Ant, and SIM City were at the top of the list of some of my most-played PC games.

Sherlock wrote:

LizzieG wrote:Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego? is another fun one, and I was a fan of Oregon Trail, the fourth edition... even though the main map/journey screen never worked, and I had to stare into blackness while listening to my partners complain that they didn't have enough fresh vegetables, or to my wagon crossing a river and wondering if we were going to make it. I purchased the fifth edition a year or so ago, but it just isn't the same since you don't get to pick/interact with your trailmates.

There were so many good ones!

I was intentionally omitting games that we had on the Mac at the time, but Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? was one of them. Unfortunately, when we got the game I was like, 8 and some of the geography bits were too complicated.

I also really enjoyed Battle Chess (another Mac game - Mac games used to be ridiculously expensive, so we only owned about 3). My absolute favorite, however, was Odell Down Under though in retrospect, all you did was move up the fish food chain through creative eating choices.

Finally, the grand trio of SIM Farm, SIM Ant, and SIM City were at the top of the list of some of my most-played PC games.

redcanadian87 wrote:I'm definitely a PC user. I thought at one point that I might like to try a mac, but that was way back in the day.

I um... think it is interesting that thought this thread is for the discussion of the use of PCs, it would seem that at least half or more of the talk is about a specific use of PCs... such as gaming.

With that point noted:

I was a big Oregon trail fan... I had II, and got to play III at a friend's house for a while. That and Amazon trail. (again... I had II and played III at my cousin's house) I also spent many hours playing the Yukon trail. That was a really fun one... braving the cold... searching for gold...

oh oh... one last one... SIM FARM!!!! That one was probably my favorite. But who can blame me... I grew up on a farm... so...

I need to try and find those game CDs when I go up to Canada next.

Anna><> wrote:

Chandler wrote:

Anna><> wrote:

LizzieG wrote: Let's see... there was also the amazing Rollercoaster Tycoon

I loved Rollercoaster Tycoon! I like that one rollercoaster that you could make faster and shoot people into the lake and drown them.

...



Sounds like a Communist plot.

It does... but at least I was civil and entertained them with clowns before their dooms.

rickyderocher wrote:

Anna><> wrote:

Chandler wrote:

Anna><> wrote:

LizzieG wrote: Let's see... there was also the amazing Rollercoaster Tycoon

I loved Rollercoaster Tycoon! I like that one rollercoaster that you could make faster and shoot people into the lake and drown them.

...



Sounds like a Communist plot.

It does... but at least I was civil and entertained them with clowns before their dooms.

The Theme Park of Doom!

Anna><> wrote:I know eh!
I just reinstalled RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on my computer yesterday and I love it! And I haven't killed anyone yet. Except my PC is being a retard and that's the only disc it'll install. All my other games work on my brothers but not mine. Dumb PC's. I need a new one, or maybe a mac.

David O wrote:I just installed SimGolf on my computer yesterday. I didn't like it that much when i first got it, but I'm glad I decided to give it another chance - it's really fun! Yay for the union of Sid Meier and Will Wright!

Anna><> wrote:I know eh!
I just reinstalled RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on my computer yesterday and I love it! And I haven't killed anyone yet. Except my PC is being a retard and that's the only disc it'll install. All my other games work on my brothers but not mine. Dumb PC's. I need a new one, or maybe a mac.

Although ironically if you were to get a mac you wouldn't be able to play RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 unless you were launching Windows Bootcamp, as RCT2 was only made for windows.

Ingress Neverwhere wrote:I'm definitely a PC. In fact I just "graduated" from a desktop to a laptop over the weekend. My family also recently got a Macbook with my dad's frequent flier miles to more or less replaced the family PC downstairs. But I like my PC a lot better.

Not to mention, Windows Vista isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Though I ought to invest in one of those "Vista for Dummies" books...

-Kim

Pseudonym wrote:

Ingress Neverwhere wrote:I'm definitely a PC. In fact I just "graduated" from a desktop to a laptop over the weekend. My family also recently got a Macbook with my dad's frequent flier miles to more or less replaced the family PC downstairs. But I like my PC a lot better.

Not to mention, Windows Vista isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Though I ought to invest in one of those "Vista for Dummies" books...

-Kim

Vista problems were waaay too exaggerated, honestly. I haven't had any issues with my PC since I got it.

*loves PCs*