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Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
from the games i own from the current 3dr store These game run in windows 7 x64.
Duke Nukum Duke Nukem II ROTT Cosmo Commander Keen 1-5 Balls of Steel The GOG.com games install but do not regester as msnd spec to the games explored so the cover art is broken but the titles do all play. DNMP will by default auto install in to the games folder a a legacy title without boxart as it did in vista. The 3dr store files do not include the GDF files needed to load in to that folder.
Last edited by Jeffpiatt; 11-06-2009 at 05:08 PM.
Reason: add title
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3D Realms Staff
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
What? My install files were tested in Windows 7, and didn't have a problem.
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
I believe he is referring to the Windows Games Explorer (?).
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
I meant the Games folder as Microsoft now calls it. the games work but windows will only auto load DNMP in to the folder. BOS should load but does not show up as a legacy windows game the dosbox based ones will not be inserted to to windows only seeing dosbox.exe.
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
That wasn't part of the spec when I remastered them for Windows. I just needed to create icons, and make sure they ran, which they did. As for interfacing with something like "Windows Games Explorer".. Didn't have time (nor the inclination) to learn how to do that.
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
was not complaining about that since i can build the dll files. Myself but i wanted others to know that windows has no way of figuring out what dos games with dosbox running all windows will see is dosbox.exe not dosbox.exe running wolf3d.exe. I persionally blame micorsoft for sticking the tool to build them in the directx sdk rather then the windows one. The function is very reliant on developers actually using it. gog.com did not support it to the spec with the early titles and now seem to be working on fixing the installs to work right with windows. all of the gog games i have lost the box art.
Last edited by Jeffpiatt; 11-11-2009 at 01:54 PM.
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Last edited by rich4421972; 12-17-2010 at 12:58 AM.
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
I use dos box with Norton commander 4 to run all my dos games I mean there dos programs why would you want them to show up in the windows games folder
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
dosbox consiters the folder you mount to be the c: drive that is to preserve compatbilty between the program and how it wants to see the drive.
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Re: Apogee 3dr games in Windows 7
DOSBox really helps. Especially for XP and Vista. I recommend it. But it would be cool to like port the DOS games of Apogee to Windows 7.
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