![]() ![]() Perhaps games that the originals needed compatibility mode have some other type of patching, that is much more complex.Īs I see it, games fall into one of three categories. I suspect it is easy enough to add a call function to a game that simply brings a file that instructs compatibility mode initiation. GOG seems to handle all the tech support, but I don't know if they ever kick problems back to the publisher, or if some publishers have a trouble shooting black list, ie: "Don't contact us about anything in our catalogue prior to 2003". Some games were so loved that there are one or more patches to get them on modern systems created and distributed either in packs or as text and instructions freely. I got some of those $5 dos or barely above games in mind. I can imagine a huge company wouldn't want to devote resources to patching an old game from its archive, especially if it is only going to sell for a few bucks. Apparently even the installers format/protocol used by many of my 98 games are seen as a security risk, and can't seem to be made to run with any manual override I can find. Windows 7 seems to have much less luck than win XP, and Win 10 Rejects almost everything, even stuff that didn't need compatibility mode in 7 64bit. I used to run a 64bit XP, and it handled most of my 98 games fine, but occasionally it would cause a problem other XP systems did not have. Some Win98 games install just fine, and some need compatibility mode's help even at that stage, then getting them to run in 64bit may again need or not need assistance to the code. I have had some software that would run a scan and if it wasn't windows 98 Second Edition (First Edition would not fool it) then it would abort the install. Company was folded without sale, and the former owner is content to let the game be lost to time, not wanting to be bothered about it, or anything else they programmed 20 years ago. This has almost completely killed my hope that it will ever arrive here as it is basically the definition of abandonware. ![]() So much so, that they disabled their contact info to stop getting messages about it. Recently I tried to find out what happened to the developer of another of my childhood games, and found that the CEO/programmer doesn't want to think about any of their old software from their previous company. The game is apparently far more popular than I thought if multiple people have decided to write their own compatibility patches, that or a coding professor somewhere liked the game and assigned the patch as extra credit. With a newer computer I again tried to install the game, having lost my notes, I tried looking it up and found that now there are multiple tutorials on getting the game to run on modern pc's if you have an old disk, and they had different steps/different numbers of files to edit/create, and different code. I had to edit a file or two in notepad, and create a pair of. At the time there was only one site that had patched for the game to run on a 64bit OS. I know you have got in game car police mod because thats the only way he could be there.Or your on multiplayer.A long time ago, when Windows 7 was the latest thing, I tried to play one of my favorite windows 95 childhood games, Sega's "Bug!" with the Jack in the Box case, and found out that it would close the menu window, to open the game window, causing the computer to drop out of compatibility mode and crash the game. I Tried the In game car police mod and the game messed up What window and computer have you got Audi Forever? But i was wrong because all the multiplayer fix is adding parked cars and barges. I think you can get multiplayer fix for this. On XP u need a xp patch, on ME it should also work fine and it should work on 2000 as well. Hey grides can you tell me where to get the patch? ![]() It didn't work! It keeps crashing back to the desktop! ![]() After that rename your game folder to what ever you like and that is all you need to do. Put the CD in to the computer then go to my computer right click on Midtown Madness 2 and click on open then right click on the game folder and click copy and paste it where ever you want it onces thats done download a speed boost from Īnd once thats done copy the speed boost in to the game folder and you have a free game. ![]()
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