Unofficial Tex Murphy

I just went through Tex Murphy Overseer recentnly to see what the minimum possible score you could complete the game with on Entertainment mode was without using hints was and have gotten 962 using various exploits. If anyone thinks they can beat me be my guest I will post a solution shortly.

Sounds like fun. If I ever get TMO working on my XP, I'll take you up on that.

Is it really that hard to run older games on XP?

Bjyman wrote:Is it really that hard to run older games on XP?

If by hard you mean: you want to grab Gate's head and ram it through a pane of glass out of frustration... then yes, it is hard.

-Cub. =o)

That's why I'm hesitant to move from Windows 98.

Bjyman wrote:That's why I'm hesitant to move from Windows 98.

The move from 98 to XP is no doubt a wise choice... for pretty much everything except old school gaming.

But the old saying goes, if it's not broken, don't fix it. Then again, after using XP I could never go back (I would probably lose 200% productivity, becuase you don't realise how good a new OS is until you try going back to an older version, in this case XP > 98).

-Cub. =o)

if only we could rewrite the old engine...

Doesn't XP mean "X-treme Pandora?"

lol
"extremely poor..."

apart from that it realy sux we can't play tex murphy games easily under XP it will probably be worst under vista.

Plus i kinda mind access software about oversser cause i, bought all tex murphy games since UAKM because they were really great....
But overseer deceived me in that i could not finish the game because it would keep crashing at the time.
I know it's their whole fault. they had to rush... but still it sucks...
I'd like to rewrite the engine for windows NT with DirectX so we can play them easily under modern OSes. But they would have to release the source code, or that would be both illegal and too much work...
So...

I'd like to hear AC about?
At leat to know, can he, can't he? why? is he willing to or not? why?

Last I tried Overseer ran just fine in XP (apart from the error messages you just ignore). Both the DVD and CD versions. I did hade a couple of crashes, but changing resolution and changing between hardware and software renderer solved that. But results can of course differ between hardware.

zarathoustra wrote: apart from that it realy sux we can't play tex murphy games easily under XP it will probably be worst under vista.

I don't have a real problem running the Tex games on XP, but you are 100% about it being worse on Vista!!!!! Well, at least it is on the Vista Beta 2. I attended a Microsoft TechNet Event where I was given a DVD of Windows Vista Beta 2 (evaluation copy). From a business stand point it's great, but as far as running older games, well, forget it. Oh, they will run, but it is going to take a lot of tweaking and lots and lots of patients.

Nilo

I got a kick out of this Vista demo:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fV1kqthZf2g

For the most part, Overseer works just fine for me on XP. FOr Pandora and UAKM I've been able to get them to run under DOSBox (although they run a touch slow).

MikeRicksecker wrote: FOr Pandora and UAKM I've been able to get them to run under DOSBox (although they run a touch slow).

On the latest version of Dosbox you should set core to "dynamic" and cycles to "auto." It works great. If it weren't for Dosbox I would still be using my old 486 (which I still have lying around).

David

Where do you do this?

Bests, Rockefeller