Hi Tom, Working on my harry potter game is giving me a whole library of functions to do things. It may be soon that I will be able to turn out Windows versions of many of my DOS games quickly. It only took me 4 days to do Super Dog's bone hunt since it was based on the Quidddich level of Sarah, and I was able to use the Crystal voice files that I was removing from Sarah too. With the GMA game engine now able to use SAPI text, like in the Lone Wolf game, this would make game development even faster. So I am holding off releasing my DOS games as freeware until I try to convert a few first. smiles, Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] old games > Hi, Phil. > How about releasing your dos games as freeware or as shareware? There > are still computers out there able of playing the old dos games. > For example, I still have my old laptop I used in college which was made > in the late 90's. It has Windows 98 on it, is a p166, and the only > reason I keep that latptop around is to play allot of my old Win 95 and > Win 98 games that no longer run in Windows XP. > Another type of system you may not be aware of is the hard core people > who use Linux can run many dos games via dos emulation. It is a pain, > but playing old dos games in Linux is possible. > I do understand your desire to take them off the market, stop supporting > them, and move to Windows. However, if you released them as freeware > without support I think some folks would still get a kick out of them. I > always like demo of Red Dragon Kickboxing, Panzers in North Africa were > ok, and some of those dos games would be alright for some folks. > > > Phil Vlasak wrote: >> Hi Ari, >> Our DOS games went the way of DOS itself. >> I may get one request a year for someone wanting an old DOS game of ours. >> The trouble is that it takes a lot of computer knowledge to play them on >> today's computers and it would take more effort than it is worth to keep >> supporting them. >> With the capabilities of Window and DirectX, new windows versions of >> those >> old games would be much better. >> But I don't have the time to convert all of them. >> I hope to do some in the next few years. >> Phil >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
