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Posted September 07, 2012
So I dug up some of my old LA retail games and found out that some of my favorites don't work on new systems and I wasn't able to fix them. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, Star Wars Episode I: Racer and my favorite Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, none of them work on my system and searching the net I found out no way to fix them and from what I gather Shadows of the Empire was made to work with Voodo video cards and none(few?) of the new nvidea video cards are able to render the game properly.

Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
Posted September 07, 2012
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NightK: So I dug up some of my old LA retail games and found out that some of my favorites don't work on new systems and I wasn't able to fix them. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, Star Wars Episode I: Racer and my favorite Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, none of them work on my system and searching the net I found out no way to fix them and from what I gather Shadows of the Empire was made to work with Voodo video cards and none(few?) of the new nvidea video cards are able to render the game properly.

Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
Have you tried nGLIDE?
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
IIRC something GOG released recently came bundled with it, can't remember what it was off hand now though...
Posted September 07, 2012
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NightK: So I dug up some of my old LA retail games and found out that some of my favorites don't work on new systems and I wasn't able to fix them. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, Star Wars Episode I: Racer and my favorite Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, none of them work on my system and searching the net I found out no way to fix them and from what I gather Shadows of the Empire was made to work with Voodo video cards and none(few?) of the new nvidea video cards are able to render the game properly.

Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
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Fever_Discordia: Have you tried nGLIDE?
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
IIRC something GOG released recently came bundled with it, can't remember what it was off hand now though...
No I haven't, but I will! Your post made me very happy :D
Posted September 07, 2012
Thread title had me excited for a moment!
Posted September 07, 2012
Yeah, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine doesn't work either... even the N64 version has no workable ROM.

Early Windows games are definitely the hardest to run today, until we get a DosBox equivalent for Windows 3.1 and 95.
Posted September 08, 2012
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NightK: So I dug up some of my old LA retail games and found out that some of my favorites don't work on new systems and I wasn't able to fix them. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, Star Wars Episode I: Racer and my favorite Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, none of them work on my system and searching the net I found out no way to fix them and from what I gather Shadows of the Empire was made to work with Voodo video cards and none(few?) of the new nvidea video cards are able to render the game properly.

Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
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Fever_Discordia: Have you tried nGLIDE?
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
IIRC something GOG released recently came bundled with it, can't remember what it was off hand now though...
I tried but it seems the problem resides on it being a DX5 game so nglide is nto the solution...
Posted September 08, 2012
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NightK: So I dug up some of my old LA retail games and found out that some of my favorites don't work on new systems and I wasn't able to fix them. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, Star Wars Episode I: Racer and my favorite Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, none of them work on my system and searching the net I found out no way to fix them and from what I gather Shadows of the Empire was made to work with Voodo video cards and none(few?) of the new nvidea video cards are able to render the game properly.

Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
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Fever_Discordia: Have you tried nGLIDE?
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
IIRC something GOG released recently came bundled with it, can't remember what it was off hand now though...
Tomb Raider 1+2+3(for Tomb Raider 1), Ultima IX, and Pandemonium! use Nglide wrappers
Posted September 08, 2012
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NightK: Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
Someone from the GOG staff mentioned in an interview on the DosBox page that early Windows 95 games are the hardest to fix, but at least he didn't say "impossible". So who knows...
Posted September 08, 2012
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NightK: Given this situation and in the possibility that gog would be given permission to sell their games, do you think GoG would be able to fix the games?
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F4LL0UT: Someone from the GOG staff mentioned in an interview on the DosBox page that early Windows 95 games are the hardest to fix, but at least he didn't say "impossible". So who knows...
But do those dosbox games require directx 5 or less compatible video cards?
Posted September 08, 2012
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NightK: But do those dosbox games require directx 5 or less compatible video cards?
Seeing how DirectX is a Windows-only technology, no. No DOS games would use DirectX. Perhaps strange video cards, but I believe DOSBox should be capable of handling such cases.
Posted September 08, 2012
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NightK:
What problem do you experience with Rogue Squadron 3D (other than just not working)? I have that one, too, but haven't tried it since getting a Windows 7 machine. I might try to install it soon and see what happens.
Posted September 09, 2012
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adambiser: What problem do you experience with Rogue Squadron 3D (other than just not working)? I have that one, too, but haven't tried it since getting a Windows 7 machine. I might try to install it soon and see what happens.
I've searched a bit more and Rogue Squadron runs on windows 7 and even windows 8 if you manage to install it but there are tutorials for that too.
Posted September 09, 2012
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NightK: But do those dosbox games require directx 5 or less compatible video cards?
These games have nothing (or at least very little) to do with DOS, it was just a statement in an interview that can be found on the DosBox page. It's in the second post on the news page.
Posted September 09, 2012
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NightK: But do those dosbox games require directx 5 or less compatible video cards?
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F4LL0UT: These games have nothing (or at least very little) to do with DOS, it was just a statement in an interview that can be found on the DosBox page. It's in the second post on the news page.
What I meant by saying that was that the issues with dosbox games were different from DX5 games not working on DX11 video cards and hence harder to fix.
Posted September 09, 2012
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NightK: What I meant by saying that was that the issues with dosbox games were different from DX5 games not working on DX11 video cards and hence harder to fix.
What I meant to say was that he refers to early Windows 95 games as the hardest (except Windows 3.1 games which are a different story). This implies that games of the DX5 era probably aren't quite as hard to fix as those and that they probably can think of ways to fix them.
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