30,000 Karma to the person who can help me figure out how to play old games on my computer

[nefertiti]

Don't laugh, ok? I know -

I want to play "The Pandora Directive" again. Yeah yeah, I've googled it and you know what? Might as well be latin. I need someone to find one of those sites that tells you how to play games like this on newer OS and essentially walk me through it like I'm a six year old or rewrite the directions in such a manner that I can actually follow. 30,000 K upon successful loading up of the game.

 

[jh1]

Don't laugh, ok? I know -

I want to play "The Pandora Directive" again. Yeah yeah, I've googled it and you know what? Might as well be latin. I need someone to find one of those sites that tells you how to play games like this on newer OS and essentially walk me through it like I'm a six year old or rewrite the directions in such a manner that I can actually follow. 30,000 K upon successful loading up of the game.

What system / OS was the game built for? This shits easy, you just need the right emulator. Do you have the media? Diskettes? CDs? ROM Pack for Nintendo. Need some details here, cause I don't know what the fuck 'The Pandora Directive' is.

I can play all the old nintendo, atari, name you system here on my computer. But I don't - games get on my nerves.

 

[nefertiti]

What system / OS was the game built for? This shits easy, you just need the right emulator. Do you have the media? Diskettes? CDs? ROM Pack for Nintendo. Need some details here, cause I don't know what the fuck 'The Pandora Directive' is.

I can play all the old nintendo, atari, name you system here on my computer. But I don't - games get on my nerves.

It's one of the adventure games from the period back when I was in HS and using live actors and such was a big thing. I believe It was meant to work on Windows 95. I have the CDs still.

System requirements listed on the games page:

System Requirements



486/66 MHz CPU (Pentium® recommended)
Windows 95 or DOS 6.0 or later
8 MB RAM installed (16 MB recommended)
Sound board (supports all major boards)
2X CD-ROM (4X recommended)
20 MB available hard disk space (30 MB recommended)
Keyboard/mouse/speakers

 

[jh1]

It's one of the adventure games from the period back when I was in HS and using live actors and such was a big thing. I believe It was meant to work on Windows 95. I have the CDs still.

System requirements listed on the games page:

System Requirements



486/66 MHz CPU (Pentium® recommended)
Windows 95 or DOS 6.0 or later
8 MB RAM installed (16 MB recommended)
Sound board (supports all major boards)
2X CD-ROM (4X recommended)
20 MB available hard disk space (30 MB recommended)
Keyboard/mouse/speakers

So what OS are you on today?


When you try to load it what happens?

 

[Raptorex]

I'm JH1 and I have magical powers.

 

[jh1]

I've used DOS Box for emulating certain things, but never games - however it's specifically built to emulate DOS for games.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1

Worth a try, there are a million other DOS emulators out there for this type of thing to, but I always go to sourceforge first. You'd want to download the version for Windows, I'll assume, and then load your game on top of the DOS emulator.

That *SHOULD* work... prolly some tricky tweaking shiat to get things 100%.

If you can make an ISO of the CD and get it to me, I can get it running and let you know what it takes. LOL...

 

[Raptorex]

 

[jh1]

http://p083.ezboard.com/The-Pandora...murphy17995frm4.showMessage?topicID=325.topic


Here's a tutorial on how to get it to run on Win XP, which I am guesing you may be running - this would be WITHOUT emulation.


The Pandora Directive on Windows XP full tutorial
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Alright, after studying everything i now have everything and it works. This is a sheet that explains in one thread how to make tex work. evrything is summed up to make it easier.

This tutorial is made for running The Pandora Directive work under windows XP with VDMsound

STEP 1:
First of edit the sounds.ini to:

sound inf:

[DIGI_BOARDS]
1) Sound Blaster 1.0 = 0xe000,0,1,1
2) Sound Blaster Pro = 0xe001,3,2,1
3) Sound Blaster 16 = 0xe018,3,3,1
4) Sound Blaster AWE32 = 0xe018,3,5,1
5) Microsoft Sound System {Microsoft Sound Sys} = 0xe00e,3,6,1
6) Ensoniq Soundscape = 0xe020,3,7,1
7) Pro AudioSpectrum = 0xe005,1,8,1
Pro AudioSpectrum 16 {Pro AudioSpect 16} = 0xe006,3,9,1
9) Adlib Gold = 0xe008,3,11,1
10) ESS AudioDrive = 0xe01c,3,18,1
11) Gravis Ultrasound = 0xe025,2,19,1
12) Gravis Ultrasound Max = 0xe029,2,20,1
13) Roland RAP-10 = 0xe022,2,17,1
14) Sound Galaxy Nova16 = 0xe00e,3,21,1
15) SB 1.0 (No Verify) = 0xe000,0,1,1,1
16) SB Pro (No Verify) = 0xe001,1,2,1,1

STEP 2:
next edit config.ini to:

[DIGI_CONFIG]
BoardNum=2
IoAddr=0x220
DMA=1
Int=5
Volume=97
ReverseStereo=No

[MIDI_CONFIG]
BoardNum=12
IoAddr=0x330
DigiDrums=No
Volume=100

[SYSTEM]
LastPlayer=KENNETH
Pass=1
ChainInt8=Yes
ChainInt1C=Yes
WinMemReserve=0
Label=PANDORA

STEP 3:
now edit tex4.exe:

Get a editor for .exe files (HEX editor):

www.kibria.de/frhed.html

now modify offset 0x000BFB1C or 0x000BFAE4

and just change that from CLI (FA) to NOP (90)

STEP 4:
Download VMDsound (ntvdm.cjb.net/)

Get VDMlaunchpad and the latest version of VDMsound

to make a VDMshortcut, right-click for the drop menu and click on run with vdmsound

STEP 5:
on the VDMsound shortcut enable with MIDI emulation General MIDI (GM) or GS

on the VDMsound shortcut goto advanced and then:

goto compatibility:

turn on:

give it some XMS memory (16384kb)
enable DOSX
enable MSCDEX

keep ems, vesa, low level network support disabled

goto performance:

set on try to reduce CPU:

and set it to low usage

goto soundblaster:

enable soundblaster emulation
port: 220, IRQ: 5, 8-bit DMA: 1, 16-bit DMA: 5
dev: directsound

goto adlib:

enable adlib (FM) emulation
port: 388, 11025 hz
dev: directsound

goto MIDI:

enable MIDI (MPU-401) emulation
port: 330, IRQ: 2
sysex indic: scroll lock
dev: microsoft midi mapping

finally, goto Pandora.bat and enable compatiblity for windows 95 with no visual effects and 640x480

I hope this one helps some people better. Ive sent the last week searching trough threads i just hope this makes it faster.

I got this information from all this experts and if you still cant figure it out goto:

vogons.zetafleet.com/show...genumber=2

Good luck all, for every pc its different i just hope this helps!

 

[nefertiti]

I've used DOS Box for emulating certain things, but never games - however it's specifically built to emulate DOS for games.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1

Worth a try, there are a million other DOS emulators out there for this type of thing to, but I always go to sourceforge first. You'd want to download the version for Windows, I'll assume, and then load your game on top of the DOS emulator.

That *SHOULD* work... prolly some tricky tweaking shiat to get things 100%.

If you can make an ISO of the CD and get it to me, I can get it running and let you know what it takes. LOL...

I haven't tried it yet on the computer I just got a couple of months ago, so I don't remember what happens. Lemme try and install it now and see what it does.

I remember something about the dos box but I also remember it being really complicated (in the directions I saw).

What is an ISO?

 

[jh1]

I haven't tried it yet on the computer I just got a couple of months ago, so I don't remember what happens. Lemme try and install it now and see what it does.

I remember something about the dos box but I also remember it being really complicated (in the directions I saw).

What is an ISO?

An 'IMAGE' of the CD that I could download... you need an ISO creator.. If you get to that point download ISO Recorder v3: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/download/ISORecorderV3RC1x86.zip

Who's the now, bish?