On Aug 30, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: You need a DOS box of some sort or another for Betrayal—the CD version had a Windows loader of some kind built in. As a Mac guy I found the whole thing very annoying. They decided there wasn’t enough of a Window market so they built it for DOS, and by the time it shipped, Windows was all over the place. You had to buy a nine disc game and take forever to load it, then for many people the configuration to get it to run screwed things up. They used expanded memory instead of extended, you had to turn off a couple of things,etc. For Return you need to be able to run older Windows games.
BTW, it’s “free” on a technicality because people uploaded it and at some point someone who held rights said,”We don’t care, we’ll consider it a promotion,” which means even though the license is still in force, my partner Steve and I haven’t see a dime out of either game since 2001. So it goes in the game business. Anyway, if you can get it to run, have fun. I thought it was a pretty cool game. Best, R.E.F. On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Milan Husak <[email protected]> wrote: > But to be fair you should also know that you can download it for free almost > everywhere: > http://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?gid=MTQ5NA== > ... > Not sure if the old version of the game will run on new systems though. > > > MH > > ---------- Původní zpráva ---------- > Od: Earl Borah <[email protected]> > Komu: feistfans-l <[email protected]> > Datum: 29. 8. 2014 23:30:38 > Předmět: Kronder games on sale > > > For folks who've been on the list a while, this is old news that crops up > about twice a year - feel free to ignore this. If you're new, or missed > earlier deals, I thought I'd pass it on. > > The site gog.com sells legal copies of various computer games, including old > games configured to run on modern OS's. This weekend they're having a sale > that includes Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor, You can buy both for > under $5 US combined (and they sell world-wide, so if you're not in the US > you may still be able to purchase). They're guaranteed to run on Windows XP, > Vista, Windows 7 (toying with picking them up and trying them under Windows > 8, though I own original signed CD-ROMs of each). > > The games came first - Krondor: The Betrayal is based on the game, expanding > on what happened, and other books in the Krondor series fill in around the > story. > > BaK is often considered one of the best games of it's kind of all time, even > by people with no other interest in Ray's books. Return to Krondor is > entirely different, not quite as good in the gameplay department, but still a > lot of fun. > > Betrayal at Krondor is bundled with Betrayal at Antara, built on the same > engine but unrelated to Midkemia - and apparently broken, with a bug that > causes it to crash. Betrayal at Krondor is worth the price by itself, though, > so I'd just skip Antara entirely. > > I get nothing from the sale of these games - Ray may still get a few pennies, > I don't know (and I'm not asking). > = Raymond Feist [email protected]
