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jasonred79

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Oubliette
« on: February 22, 2010, 05:53:57 pm »
The game that kicked off LCS.
But...
I can't get it to run on this version of windows!
Any suggestions?
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fenrif

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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 05:56:13 pm »
What is it? Whats LCS? What version of windows?
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Wiles

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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 06:00:34 pm »
Quote from: fenrif on February 22, 2010, 05:56:13 pm
What is it? Whats LCS? What version of windows?

LCS is Liberal Crime Squad, another Bay12 game that is now maintained by Jonathan Fox. You can find it in the curses subforum, it's a great game! Oubliette I believe is the game that inspired it.
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jasonred79

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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2010, 06:02:17 pm »
Correct wiles. Now, anyone know how to get oubliette to run on windows?
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Wiles

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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2010, 06:09:30 pm »
Have you tried DOSbox?
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Stargrasper

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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2010, 11:54:24 pm »
I'm not familiar with the title, but since it's implied to be a DOS title, I feel obligated to mention VDM Sound.  Another DOS emulator, like DOSbox, but much lighter weight, because it only emulates sound hardware and lets Windows handle the rest.  Use it if DOSbox gives you trouble or is too slow or something of that nature.
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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2010, 07:42:22 am »
Oubliette is too old to need sound help.  If it has any sound at all, which I don't remember it having, it would have been PC speaker sound.

Old game is old.

DOSbox is the answer.
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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2010, 10:47:45 am »
I'll DL dosbox and give it a try then. Thanks.
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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2010, 05:30:20 pm »
Quote from: Sowelu on February 23, 2010, 07:42:22 am
Oubliette is too old to need sound help.  If it has any sound at all, which I don't remember it having, it would have been PC speaker sound.

Old game is old.

DOSbox is the answer.

Your assumptions are inaccurate...or at least misleading.  DOSbox and VDM Sound both are quite capable of sound support.  The difference is that DOSbox emulates an entire DOS machine, that is, all of the hardware...whereas VDM Sound emulates only the sound hardware...it leaves everything else to Windows software.  This makes it far lighter weight and faster.  It's good for machines that don't handle DOSbox well (believe it or not, that does happen...emulators are FAR more resource intensive than whatever it is that they're emulating).  DOSbox is an excellent system, but it isn't the end-all.  Just keep alternatives in mind if DOSbox decides to be argumentative.
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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2010, 05:59:44 pm »
Oubliette is a text game from 1983, dosbox performance won't be an issue. The trick will rather be in keeping it slow enough. The better alternative after dosbox would in this case be to find the C64 version of Oubliette and run it in a C64 emulator.
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jasonred79

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Re: Oubliette
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2010, 06:29:13 am »
dosbox worked. Thanks guys.
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