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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on March 05, 2017, 11:59:27 AM
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Yee-Haw! Thanks to Abandonware, I found the old game, "Lost Dutchman Mine" I used to love playing it on my old Atari, to the point of looking around and realizing it was 0100.
I had completely forgotten the actual name of the game after all these years, but was directed to Abandonware via a story I was reading (already knew about the site and have had Wing Commander loaded in DOSbox for a while) and ran into the game while browsing. The title smacked me in the face and I am now spending a rainy morning happily playing away. :)
Except for I just now heard the funeral dirge that indicates I died while typing this because I put the game in the background and forgot to pause it. Dangit. Now I'm off to fish and pan for gold so I can eat and afford to buy another pistol and some tools to go mining.
Oh yeah, link in case anyone is interested:
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/lost-dutchman-mine-p0#download
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Awesome! And I hate you.
I've been wanting to get the Command and Conquer series and now I can.
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You can only partially hate me. I forgot who, but one of these other jackasses around here turned me onto D-Fend Reloaded and DOSbox some time ago. :laugh:
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You can only partially hate me. I forgot who, but one of these other jackasses around here turned me onto D-Fend Reloaded and DOSbox some time ago. :laugh:
You're off the hook. Doesn't work on my PC. =(
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You're off the hook. Doesn't work on my PC. =(
What are you using to run it?
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I tried running it in the inbrowser emulator. Loads up to the point where it asks what color source you want to run -- VGA, EGA, etc. -- and freezes there. No input accepted, no way to move it forward.
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What are you using to run it?
Win10 on both.
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I tried running it in the inbrowser emulator. Loads up to the point where it asks what color source you want to run -- VGA, EGA, etc. -- and freezes there. No input accepted, no way to move it forward.
Yeah, I can't run in browsers either.
DOSbox / D-Fend reloaded seem to be the only reliable way to run these games close to how they originally worked. Plus you then have the option of saving long-ass games on the virtual disk.
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Win10 on both.
But in the browser or in DOSbox?
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But in the browser or in DOSbox?
Download. Can't run install. Haven't tried DOSbox.
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I only briefly looked at all of this. Is Dosbox a download, or what?
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I only briefly looked at all of this. Is Dosbox a download, or what?
Yeah. The easy way to do it is to use D-Fend Reloaded. DOSbox itself can be a little complicated to install and tweak. D-Fend is a GUI that basically sets it up with decent parameters and makes it easy to import and launch DOS programs into the emulator.
http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/