We were thousands of nostalgic gamers wanting to reconnect with the games of our past, and the games we had missed the first time around. Well, there was a rapidly growing community of people who definitely cared. So, how was one supposed to play Master of Magic anymore? Most people would probably shrug and say “ you just don’t, who cares”. Digital distribution was not even a concept, Steam didn’t exist. At the time, GOG.com did not exist of course. The games were made available for free, but they were also not available for purchase. So, that’s not legal then, is it? Well, it was definitely one of those grey area that the internet is so good at uncovering and exploiting. The term was coined online and meant to describe games that were no longer distributed, whose publisher had disappeared or that were old enough that no one apart from their original fans even remembered them. The site offered free downloads of old PC games.
But, have a strange suspicion the TEX Murphy games will need it as well.In the late 90s, when internet became ubiquitous in our homes, I discovered a little abandonware website called Home of the Underdogs. So far this is the only game (to my knowledge) in my GoG collection that requires it. Little disappointed another program has to be " maintained" to minimize security exploits, but the game seems worthwhile enough to keep it around. Some of options were quite amusing, especially antennae movement, but guess that was limitations of consumer PCs and high-end ones at the time. Been playing for about thirty minutes and all videos and gameplay seems to be displaying as it should. Selecting the Install Quicktime option did the trick. I don't know if they rely on the systems capability to decode the movies, but if so, you might need Quicktime or something similar.Īs I've posted before, I don't have Quicktime installed right now (but VLC media player) and the in-game movies are playing.Īnyway, before trying something complicated, I'd just install the QT version that comes with the game and see if it works.
GOG uses a separate launcher to start it and it comes with a file called qthook.dll and quicktime.qts, which seem to handle the movie playback. The game is indeed modified to run on modern systems. DeMignon: With "out-of-the-box" I meant the GOG version -)
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